Low Trust Environment, Low Raises, Closed Door Policy, No Signature Authority, Bureaucracy - Director, Contracts Benchmark Electronics Employee Review

1) Received temp pay cut due to COVID. No raise or review for 2 years due to COVID. IRA matching was cut. Once everything was reinstated, received a 2% raise, which covered more than 2 years. Lass than 1% raise per year. 2) I was not allowed to discuss issues with my next higher supervisor without initial discussion with my direct supervisor, even to get advise on how to approach my boss. Direct retribution was made when I did try to discuss issues with higher level above my boss. Based on this, I was unable to even discuss my leaving the company with my next level of supervision. I have never worked in such a closed door policy. 3) No signature authority for contracts people, for even a typo. All Typo contract corrections require sign off of minn 5 people and signed by the GM of the site. Greatest waste of time I have seen in over 30 years of work. I had much more authority in my first Contracts position out of college, then they let me have with 35 years of A&D experience, including, almost 20 years as a Director. 4) The bureaucracy is staggering and no trust in the company (evidence from no signature authority). They have an admin that tracks every email ever sent to any customer as you need to copy legal on EVERY email sent. Legal is doing this type of tracking work as they have trouble handling the normal work in a timely manner. 5) Not invented here attitude to changes to policies. The will not change polices unless they have affected themselves and do not rely on the recommendations of their employees. 6) Once I had issues with my direct boss and brought them to the attention of management. My direct supervisor advised me that I could not elevate issues to them again and this higher level manager never asked me again how the issue was going with my direct boss. Many people within the department are not happy working with this supervisor, however, everyone knows that when the issue is raised to his boss, nothing will be done and retribution will be upon you, so they keep quiet.