Pros
Not many, and really there are none
Cons
If you're looking for a company where your hard work and dedication will pay off, this is certainly not the company for that. Be prepared to have your job constantly threatened by having it "outsourced" if you don't meet the unrealistic quotas that are set (this was overheard several times in the past few weeks). This company has the mentality that attitudes will change with new "managers"... Well, guess what? Attitudes at this company have changed because morale is down to the point where employees don't care anymore. When you take care of your employees, they will take care of your business. However, a certain manager has been heard on several occasions to demean and disrespect their department and to use fear and intimidation instead of encouragement and guidance. "A bad manager can take a good staff and destroy it, causing the best employees to flee and the remainder to lose all motivation." This company also has this cool thing where if you do good work, you get to do other people's work as well. But you won't get appreciation for it nor will you get credit. The new managers will try to take all the credit. Also, they have perfectly well-abled employees that have been employed with the company for years, that should be promoted to lead positions. Instead, they hire external candidates to fill the positions and the current employees are asked to train and support them. If you're looking for upward mobility in this company, you're looking at the wrong company. You can be sure that a new employee will be given a higher position and more pay. As Richard Bronson said, "Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don't want to." Certain so-called managers that are in charge of 2-3 departments fail to recognize the talent they have on their team and are surprised when the talented employees leave for better opportunities, which just goes to show how clueless management is about the departments they are in charge of. The only thing management has done is create more procedures that do nothing but burden their departments with unnecessary work. And then this manager will walk around trying to be the boss of other departments and act like they have all the answers. Instead of trying to run other departments, this manager should really look into how hard their departments are working: they are drowning in work and and trying to keep up with unnecessary policies. When employees speak their minds about their tasks, a great leader will engage in conversation and try to find solutions for their team: An insecure and fearful manager will throw out words like "insubordination". Guess what kind of managers are hired here at Schaerer? Also, management shouldn't email their team and say that they are lazy and not working. I think John C. Maxwell summarizes this pretty well: "Insecure leaders never develop people. They replace them." The company had previously claimed that they were a paperless company: from the stacks of paper that have been been piling up recently from several departments, it is far from being paperless. They also claimed the open-floor concept would be beneficial and would promote teamwork. However, if you have a question for someone in another department, you are not allowed to ask them. You first have to go to your manager so that they can go to the other department manager and then they will ask the question and relay the answer back to your manager and then pass it on to you. Efficient, right? Also, because of this open-floor plan, you hear every argument between employees and managers and you can hear when someone is getting reprimanded... Even from across the building. All these things are why turnover is extremely high at this company. Negative reviews on this company are completely accurate. The positive reviews are written by new employees who were asked several times to write a review of how great the company is. It's quite comical that they cherry-pick new employees to write reviews, but are afraid to ask seasoned employees to do the same.
