Broken Promises - Management Fives Employee Review

1.0
28 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Parent company has good benefits, pay was competitive for the area. Most workforce is genuine and wants to do a good job.

Cons

CEO who hired me turned around and quit and I later heard many horror stories about how he handled personnel and customers. This same individual offered to interview me for a position where he was going while he was still on Fives' payroll and told me he didn't know he was leaving when he hired me. At that point in time it dawned on me I had made a huge mistake in joining this company. This left me in a bind, because the picture he painted for career growth was therefore totally uncertain. This division is incredibly disorganized from management to the shop floor. Major quality issues which the staples of management dismiss as "one customer specific" despite having empirical data to the contrary. The facts never seemed to matter because they make up their minds without the data (or even involving you for that matter) and dismiss what you say as non-factual. Not even FEA data seemed to be adequate for them. What amazed me most was watching how they justified their decisions and then turning around and blaming a specific customer or job site for their own product issues. Any suggestion I made was thwarted by senior level management, 2/3 of which had either no engineering and/or industry experience. Fuzzy math at best. Poor treatment of people, condescending attitudes by people who have worked here and nowhere else in any other city and/or any other industry. This place was by far the most disorganized company I have ever worked at in my 30 years in industry. The whole picture sums up to then result in a bunch of people coming to work, and simply putting in their time to collect a paycheck...but nobody is really motivated to get anything done, or do anything extra. It's not a plan for success and not how someone like me, who is driven to excel, wants to work. It should not be tolerated.

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Fives Response
7y
Thank you for your feedback. We regret you had a negative experience while working at Fives during a senior leadership transition. At Fives, we value our employees in all of our organizations and continually focus on providing an encouraging work environment for everyone. As our business evolves and improves, we are experiencing the results of a new forward-thinking direction, inspiring and achieving sustainable results for employees and their work areas. Fives Intralogistics technologies, through our talented employees, has achieved an extensive history of successes, delivering innovative solutions for the material handling industry, proactively developing unique turnkey advancements, addressing the market’s future needs and requirements. With continuous improvement as a priority in all areas, we are continually evolving and growing as a group, and within our markets.

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