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Acist - Weirdest Company Ever!
 Written by Jus on 05/25/2014WYZ was the weirdest company I ever worked at hands down. Even the way they did payroll was weird. What really hurts about all of this is that I thought I was being picky and sat thru multiple interviews to get the position. At no point did I ever see any obvious red flags come up. Just SOME of the issues at WYZ:1. My boss. Although, I hated to call him that, because I actually would have preferred a 13-year-old to him, because at least a 13-year-old I could have bribed with candy. I have to admit I felt frustrated with my position from pretty much day one. I strongly feel like I was treated like damaged goods as soon as I walked thru the door. My boss was so rude to me right off the bat, I can't get over it to this day. I don't feel I was given even half a chance to fit in or succeed. My boss threw me under the bus on multiple occasions. I heard and saw him do so. I turned around once, and he was actually making a face at me, and not in a joking or harmless way. It was more like a 13-year-old sticking his tongue at you, with full anger and insult intended. He has pretty much been doing this or similar since day one. To say I felt like a scapegoat pretty much the entire time I was there, is an understatement. After I saw him repeatedly bend over backwards for men and refer to his female boss openly and in an angry way, as a be-atch, I began to wonder if he wasn't just a woman hater. I found out several months after I left that this was probably true, as at that time, a couple of guys (hopefully my former boss was one of them), got turned in for swearing (or ___?), and everyone at WYZ had to watch a harassment video. I'm sure that accomplished nothing there, though. HR was in on some of the nasty business going on. 2. Someone in HR Admin. was a horrible, horrible gossip. It wasn't unusual for several others at the company to know who was getting let go AND why long before the actual person was called in and walked out the door. THEN, it was not even uncommon for people to openly talk about this with each other as soon as so-and-so was walked out. Confidentiality or even the pretense of it did not exist. Along with this, at least one of the HR people who had been there a while had a bus load of favorites whom all got whatever they wanted and could do whatever they wanted, with absolutely no repercussions. Two hour lunches, fine for them. Anyone else do anything like that, they'd get threatened or even canned. This HR person repeatedly put her favorites or her favorites' favorites in charge of things, even if it meant promoting them over someone who was more deserving. AND, at least half of these people were seemingly incompetent, if not down right cruel. One of her favorites, literally acted like a little princess and would chastise people for any little thing she thought they did wrong right in front of others, no questions asked. Me, I'd help people if they were not understanding something. This princess, on the other hand, would go for the jugular. Most horrible about all of this--I felt had to keep quiet, as these were people who I'd be dependent on for a job reference if I ever left, and no sooner than I arrived, was I already starting to formulate an exit plan! 3. In reference to training at this company, there was none. My training consisted of me getting signed up to read and get quizzed on several SOPs. That was it. My boss never sat down with me for training at all. Both my boss and my "trainer" had been in their positions for years. Neither one wanted to give up any control, and neither really budged much to make room for someone new; got the feeling I was supposed to do whatever I was handed versus be a part of anything. They just continued to do what they had always done, like I wasn't there, for the most part. There was nothing even remotely concrete written down about how to do my job, and so many inconsistencies with it. I felt like I worked so hard to learn my job pretty much on my own due to the complete lack of training materials and limited support, and all I got to show for it was little more than wayward glances. The first 3-4 months I was just in shock. I could not believe that I wound up in such a horrible situation after seemingly being so careful about selecting the position. There were issues at my previous position, but they were not THAT bad compared to WYZ. The first 3-4 months at WYZ, there was nothing going on at all to help me feel good about much of anything--no real support whatsoever--nothing from my boss, that's for sure. Why the heck would WYZ expect anyone to stay in that situation?! BUT, I can honestly say some of the nicest guys I ever worked with were at Acist. Some of the nice engineers there were my saving grace. Truth be told, my self-esteem took a huge hit from all of this. In a few months, I went from being optimistic about my future and settling in to a nice work-community to thinking I'll be lucky if I didn't wind up losing my home, or marriage, or working at a bar. A hard lesson learned. Probably the biggest lesson I learned is if you have a good boss (and I had a great boss at my former job), you are better off staying at your position regardless of what other negativities may be going on. AND, I know the above sounds like bitter grapes and terribly biased, but I found out after I left that others felt similarily!Add a Reply     
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