Diseased Company - Designer Tradavo Employee Review

Apart from addressing this post, I am very proud and excited to state that the Company is a member in good standing in the community, continually wins performance awards, participates readily in charitable events, fosters a feeling of engagement and participation, promotes readily from within and is well regarded by customers, partners and employees. It’s important to note that most of our employees aren’t posting here – but are enjoying the benefits of working for a good Company and serving our customers as they have for our nearly ten years in business. We are not perfect. We look for genuine suggestions on how we can improve, we consider all contributions very seriously and we often take decisive action. Unfortunately, no such constructive suggestions are found in many of these posts. In our experience, real positive change comes from direct and frequent dialog, over time, with respect and consideration all around. In response to this specific post, although I am aggrieved at these allegations, I am grateful for the opportunity to address them and to expose the inherent dishonesty in each. Countering these deep mistruths in a public forum isn’t preferable – but we are left with no choice. When our integrity and values are disparaged indiscriminately and without foundation, we must set the record straight using every means at our disposal. In short, these are obscene fabrications from whole cloth. It’s incumbent upon us to address the community at large -- current, prospective and future employees: We have hard evidence, available to the community on request for each of these following statements we now present. Medical benefits have been in place since the day we made the commitment to provide them. Medical insurance cards (not insurance coverage, as claimed) were delayed for five weeks, through no fault of the Company. We communicated several times in excruciating detail – via e-mail, to the group and in one-on-one meetings, that coverage was indeed in place and had been since the announced date. This was an inconvenience caused by our insurance company and our broker, but there was absolutely no lapse in coverage whatsoever. Furthermore, the Company paid for ALL medical coverage for ALL enrolled employees for that first month as a ‘make good’ for an error on the part of our insurer and broker in not delivering the insurance cards on a timely basis. That means all employees and families received 100% free medical coverage – with no employee contribution for the first month. I truly find it hard to believe that there is any criticism to be leveled at all. The facts were simply misrepresented by the poster with intent to do harm. Additionally, the Company went well beyond obligations and expectations to compensate employees for an error on the part of the insurance company and broker, even though employees suffered NO interruption in coverage whatsoever. I call that “real concern” -- as did most employees. We offer full 100% employer paid dental, vision, long and short term disability and basic life insurance for employees – putting us in the top decile or higher of contribution to employee health benefits for companies our size. Second, it’s not that racism cannot exist here, but suffice it to say that due to the racial and demographic makeup of the Company employee base, the specific allegation simply could never have happened. We have a diverse populace of 40 full-time employees, with professional women and protected groups outnumbering white males by a good majority. The alleged ridicule of numerous “black women in the office” could not have occurred within the last three years. If the poster saw evidence of racism against a fellow employee or anyone else in the workplace and said nothing about it to anyone until now, this could make the poster complicit, in direct violation of our policy. Lastly, the Company is financially sound. We judiciously manage our payables to vendors, just as our customers judiciously manage their payables to us. Absolutely normal, prudent business practices. We would like to thank the alleged former employee, as we did learn something very important from this post: It is critical to ascertain the emotional health of prospective employees during the hiring process – and afterwards throughout the tenure of our employment. We need to more carefully screen for individuals with a propensity for overt fabrication and callous rendering of malicious harm to others. The poster attempted to harm the Company at large, as well as former peers and colleagues with a full, scarcely disguised intent to damage our collective ability to succeed. Hiring is a challenge -- and we need to get better, as evidenced by the post. For this reason, we are immediately enlisting support from HR professionals to help us further develop our screening processes – there is absolutely no place here for malicious individuals. Thank you.