Terrible company to work for and bank with - Anonymous employee GTE Financial Employee Review

1.0
13 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

PTO was the only positive

Cons

Everything. This is a toxic and horrible place to work. Their business practices are shady and corrupt. They claim to care about their members but they only care about getting their money. I witnessed first hand several shady practices and dealings. There is no work life balance and no concern for employees. The Executive Management team is horrible and turned into a fraternity rather than a member focused management team.

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GTE Financial Response
8y
We appreciate your review of your time here at GTE Financial, and we are sorry to hear you were unhappy with the management team. Your feedback is valuable to us and we do agree with your comment that we offer a very generous Paid Time Off and Compensation & Benefits package! We are a leading employer in the Tampa Bay market with minimum starting salary of $15 and 4 weeks paid time off in your first year! So our standards are pretty high and we only attract and retain the top talent in the market! We are constantly striving to improve our workplace culture and make GTE a premier place to work and are proud to be recognized by our employees as a Top Work Places in 2017 in Tampa Bay! GTE provides quarterly reviews to assess the performance of each of our employees. We also provide our employees with annual employee surveys to better understand the ways we can continue to train and coach our employees to be the very best. It is unfortunate that you did not raise any of the concerns you mention in your review while you were employed with the company. We wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors, and appreciate your contributions while you were employed at GTE.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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GTE Financial Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with GTE during your short tenure with us. We conduct regular compensation surveys to ensure we remain competitive with our compensation practices in all of our markets. We pride ourselves on our community involvement and as a Not for Profit, this is reflective in our daily values to the community. Our attendance policy addresses and supports employees to ensure they can achieve a work life balance while addressing those that experience schedule deviations. We pride ourselves on the employee satisfaction surveys which are also reflected in the years of service that our employees give to the GTE Family. That is why GTE has been voted a Best Place to Work in not only local but National surveys.
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