Venyu Reviews

Got acquired by another company.

The moment I started there, my training wasn't done properly, as they rushed me through it because they were so short staffed. So I spent my entire time working there apparently entering information incorrectly into the system for my daily tasks, so that the system had tracked none of those tasks under my name. That's not my fault. That's poor training. Then, after a year of this, one of the very many managers (entirely too many chiefs in this place, all telling you to do something different) I was offered a new position with higher pay in backups and restores. I was offered $40K a year to do this job and this job alone. They offered this position to three of us, and we were supposed to get several months to train for this before starting the position. Well, the other two guys got replacements in the NOC, so they were able to spend all of their time in quiet back room studying how to do data backups and restores. Meanwhile, they didn't get me a replacement, so right up until the moment it was time to start the new job, I had exactly zero training on it. I was thrown to the wolves. Not only did I not get the $40K a year, got $35K a year instead, but they also fired the company working their security for the entire building, and put the three of us doing that as well. Excuse me, but I did NOT hire on to a data center as an IT professional to work security, you insufferable nut jobs. So then, I was training by myself on data backups and recoveries, WHILE dealing with customers for backups on the phone and over remote desktop, WHILE also monitoring the cameras for the entire building, and having to make rounds (walk the entire data center building) every hour on the hour, all for less money than I was initially offered. Do you know how embarrassing it is to have to tell a customer on the phone that you need to call them back so you can go deal with a security issue (some homeless guy pounding on the glass doors out front) because your company fired their security team and put their IT guys in charge of security? What a farce. So, after doing more work for less money, doing the job of several people, all without any proper training, luckily no major security issues happened, because I had no clue how to deal with any of those emergency systems. No one properly taught me or any of us how to go about dealing with any of those systems. Eventually, they had to let me go. I just could not deal with working at that place anymore, but I wasn't about to quit. I'm not a quitter. They screwed me over time and again, and from what I hear from a very many people, they continue to do so to this day. Venyu is a terrible place to work, and from what I've heard from many friends and former coworkers, is that they've either fired or in similar situations to mine, forced at least a dozen people to quit over the last 10 years. They refused a couple maternity and paternity leave, and fired them because of it. They fired another good friend of mine recently as well, and his review is also here. Apparently, the NOC is supposed to have 8 monitors, but they're down to 4 people rotating 24/7/375, because they don't know how to treat their employees.