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Toxic Workplace - Warehouse Worker SIM International Employee Review

2.0
20 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to gain knowledge of film and television lighting and grip equipment. Holiday break.

Cons

Promotion of sociopaths that undermine the value of a hardworking warehouse team. Management that has constantly changing demands, that is not open to employee feedback, employee questions, and some can buck their highly touted process while others are excoriated for it. Unequal disciplinary mechanism that is inconsistent, does not take into account circumstance i.e. disability/mental health, and is deployed to correct workplace issues in an unequal fashion that factors in favoritism over actual investigation that considers ethics. Regular teasing, bullying, and harassment props things mentioned. Low pay. Company will not issue references, as either a punishment or retention tactic or a management policy out of the 1980s. I could not get a straight answer on why they practice this. A structure that fragments like workers into different departments that ultimately wind up in competition rather than collaboration. This quality ties in to the favouritism mentioned before, and fosters a culture of backstabbing, that leads to paranoia, mistrust, and hand-wringing explanations as to why the existence if a horrible culture persists. There are many more bad things about this company, however, I think the qualities mentioned, give a good insight into how all of these negative attributes are interelated, and reflect a management culture that does not care about their frontline workers.

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5.0
30 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people Great work/life balance

Cons

Nothing negative to say about Sim

3.0
9 Sept 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

SIM is a great starting point for someone wanting to break in the industry and learn. You will get to work with the latest and greatest gear. Benefits are some of the best, but compensation for the skills and knowledge you must know compared to the clients you serve is not so great. Co-workers are awesome to work with across all offices.

Cons

SIM is not what it use to be. With the change in CEO and upper management in conjunction with the failed merger with Panavision/Saban, it has spiraled down mostly for camera department. Most people in upper management that actually care for the company and wellbeing has left over the past three years. Other departments seems to be doing okay. I enjoyed the time while I was there and appreciated every moment. At the end of the day, SIM is now strictly a corporate culture with investors/executives that are making hard number decisions with zero to little knowledge of the heart of the industry and pawning its operating decisions to its lower management and hoping for the best. I don't blame them, they do what they can only do for the company, protect its investment. Just disappointed at how the current and last CEO and investors/board has handled the company's direction leading to a major downsizing. My guess is that this company is prepping to sell and not to grow. My advice to someone looking to work for SIM, network and learn what you can with your time there from some of the best people in the industry, then look for better opportunities elsewhere when you've hit your plateau.

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