Smeco Reviews

Upper management is so scared of political correctness, that the company as a whole suffers for it. Coupling this with far-reaching employee policies, productivity is severely hampered. The union is structured so that incompetent employess are rewarded the same as great employees. The biggest blow to all employees is taking away the pension, which is the biggest reason to work here versus somewhere else with higher pay.

Management left something to be desired. Directors were under Managers and so one... is was just a mess of a corporate hierarchy that didn't make any sense. The department I worked for had it's hands tied because our boss had zero back-bone to stand up for us. We were hit by a lot of buses due to that! The CIO was a relic from Verizon and tried to use a flawed and failed strategy in his management of IT people. He did very well with Call Center and should have just stuck with that instead of ruining IT infrastructure. I came to Southern Maryland because I thought it would be a "good old boy, no BS" atmosphere. Instead, it was easily twice the red tape of other places I've worked and that held us back from getting things done and/or done correctly. Programmer Analyst couldn't program and procurement people didn't learn and weren't required to learn about the products they were ordering on a daily basis, one program manager didn't know how to turn his PC on or use Windows. AT ALL... the list goes on and on.