Disgraceful company run by disgraceful people - Anonymous employee QA Employee Review

1.0
20 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amazing opportunities for progression if you're the type of person who will blindly follow orders. Most of the senior managers are so weak that anyone with the gumption to question authority will be sacked for some fabricated reason or left to rot in a dead end job. Don't let having self respect get in the way of your career. Tell them you actually love being micro-managed and that you get a real kick out of even the most arbitrary of KPI's. You won't be the only desperate sycophant so you'll have to keep an eye out for any opportunity to screw over fellow colleagues. A little trick which will set you apart from some of your less ambitious co-workers is to enter in to a romantic relationship with a manager, you'll be on the fast track in no time.

Cons

If you're not a soulless drone then there are quite a lot but I'll just touch on a few of my favourites as it's getting late and I have to return to this hell hole in the morning. QA are awful at communicating anything, whether it's something minor or a major change within the business the information will trickle down slowly, sometimes never reaching certain members of staff. Those members of staff will then be blamed for not knowing about the change. Blatant favouritism exists within a number of offices and there also seems to be a bias towards certain offices compared with others. QA pretends to be about educating people and helping them take the first steps in their dream careers etc. In reality they are a faceless corporation who only care about making more money for the shareholders. Everyday behind the scenes someone will be devising a new way to make your job harder just so they can increase profit margins by the smallest fractions, although if rumours are to be believed the business is in trouble and every little counts. All the people you like will leave.

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QA Response
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Hi there, I have to admit that I found this review personally very challenging to read and respond to. As a manager who was based out of the Slough office until very recently I am really upset to hear that there was a colleague I shared the office with that felt so down and demotivated but didn’t feel they could approach senior management to discuss it directly. I have spent time investigating Slough office conduct since this review was posted. I challenged Slough senior managers – going through each of the key points in this review to understand what they could be referring to and if they were aware of any issues. I have also spoken to our People Director to correlate your points to any potential HR grievances or issues that may have been raised to her team. There is no correlation. There are no reports of favoritism or known knowledge of it happening. Now, a fact that I am not disputing – is that we have a member of QA staff that feels so down and demotivated that they feel compelled to write a review such as this. That is not good and it is clear to anyone reading it that you are not happy. Something must not be right at work that is contributing to that unhappiness. I think it is worth adding at this point that our People team are always available to staff – providing the option to address concerns formally or informally, whichever you would prefer. This is to ensure that when dealing with issues employees don’t ever feel pitted against management when they want to address an issue. I would urge you to get in touch with a member of the People team directly if you believe there are real examples of favoritism or bias. We want to help and to address the problems you are having. With regards to communications – I hear you. We need to be doing more here and will be. We have already introduced new mechanisms to be able to better communicate with staff (internal video updates, new and improved staff magazine and internal staff comms roadshows). I encourage you to engage with these communications and let me know if there is more we could be doing on this.

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