Kerkering Barberio & Co Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – Good opportunity. Good location. Donuts, bagels on friday. Nice people to work with. Birthday cake once a month.

Cons – See ratings. Also, employee of the month is not based on performance, but on popularity.

Advice to Senior Management – Pretend like you care about your employees. It will make them more loyal and more productive.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – It provides a pay check. The benefits are good. For the most part, the office conditions are safe and nice. They are successful in hiring good workers and good people.

Cons – I felt like I was misled as to what my opportunities would be. The style of communication in our department was very lacking. If you are considering a position with KB in a supervisory role, ask to speak to members of the team you would be overseeing. This provides an opportunity to hear their specific concerns and may give you some clues as to issues and challenges, if any, they are facing.

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest about what you want from a prospective employee. Consider patterns that may be developing within certain departments, especially as it effects retention of talented staff

Current Employee – been working at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – My Team, Location, Co-workers, most all employees speak to each othe when you pass in the hallways with the exception of a couple. It's a great place to work with the exception of a couple of sink holes. Tax Season is fun, everybody is running around, coming in at all hours and leaving at all hours of the night. It's like we never close. It's like a factory around here, every printer and copier going and the clicking on keyboards, people laughing, people asking questions, people running in the hallways. It really fun to get hit in the head with the restroom door as it's a revolving door.

Cons – There is no place to lay your head for 15-30 minutes during tax season when you get really tired and just need a break or if you have a headache or stomach ache and just need to lie down for a few minutes. It is amazing what that would do for us. We wouldn' t need to go home and waste a half a day.

You are micromanaged, watched constantly especially your time card, emails, and when you come and go. Why do some employees get Fridays off and some do not? Some ask for it off and are denied. Is this Favoritism again. You ask and just get a stare. Can someone please answer this question? Can we honesty here please?

I do agree with other postings that Favoritism is big in this Firm not only toward employees, but Shareholders as well with regard to Senior Management. Some employees but their butts and will do whatever you ask them to do, go above and beyond and other only do exactly what they are supposed to do. Does the good ever show on your performan evaluation, NO. It always seems to be the bad. Is this because they don't want to give you a raise. You always know the ones that are not afraid to stay a minute after 4:30. The unappreciated will not say anything until they tell you they are leaving KB.

Advice to Senior Management – You get to a point where no one saids anything because they feel why bother, it's not going to do any good. KBers have felt this way for a few years now, along with some shareholders. You always have to pinpoint the problem but you don't always like where it is pinpointed to.

You can see you have a problem here and it is your choice to fix it or just let it go. Something is wrong if your Tax Managers are very unhappy, you have to make employees shareholders in order to keep them or bring new ones in as shareholders just to get them to come to KB. Very, very sad, when like another employee said in another posting, that KB could be a place where everybody wants to work; where there would never be any openings, there would be a waiting list to get a job here. Wouldn't that be great? That would be a proud place to work wouldn't it?

We can't even send out an email to everyone at KB, but you can send out one to all of us and tell us to "vote". Is this a Dictatorship?

The bottom line is, you ask one person and they speak out of their mouth and then you ask another and they speak out of their ass. Sorry about that Analogy but that is the best way to put it. Everybody gets a different answer when asked the same question. It just depends on who you are and what salary they decide to give you, sometimes it matters how long you have been here, depends on who you ask and sometimes it just depends on if they like you. Check out the salary on this site, you have an assistant making more than an accountant. Wonder who that is? Oh, but it can't be because she's been here for a long time or is it a new assistant that just got hired and salaries are up humm depends on if you spoke with the mouth or the ass.

Very sad situation and it doesn't have to be. I pray that the shareholders take charge before none of us have a job. 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." God Bless.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – Great opportunities available for those out of undergraduate accounting

Cons – - Long work hours which are expected but don't complain about our overtime. Does management need to justify their positions?
- Poor pay - Again, does management need something to do - try a tax return during tax season
- Very poor performance evaluations - afraid you may have to pay more
 - Firing procedures
- Promotions aren't based on work, but your relationship with management
- Management team is too focused on themselves no focus on employees that actually deliver and are loyal
- Lack of communication between the Management and the staff except when they have to at staff meetings
- Not enough recognition paid to staff members who are actually doing most of the work.
- "Employees first" is a joke - politics and how much more can I kiss your butt are a lot more important than employees.
- Having unrealistic chargeable hours target and have to put in much face time to make an impression.
- Not having a great support system except sometimes your fellow employees
- HR is not helpful no effort put forth. What HR many ask?
- Certain confidential personal issues recently have been carelessly mentioned outside the source sworn the secrecy
- Popularity contest, no tangible benchmarks for promotion.
- No politeness how rude are you walking down the hall? Owner has to ask HR? What BS. We did go to college to learn initials.
- Must be your own cheerleader to get ahead - management is too busy trying to get themselves noticed & to find fault in employees rather than pull the good out in them. Put your time in, you don't have enough billable time, saw you in the hallway talking, left a cup in the sink, came in 5 mins late, took 35 mins for lunch, went to the bathroom during business hours, didn't put it on my calendar, forgot to log off, billed to the wrong account, talks too much, talks to loud, took a piece of candy, what time are you coming back, who's covering for you, wore something someone didn't like, didn't wear enough, didn't work enough, worked too much overtime, sent an email to everyone in the firm not approved, on the internet too much, said something someone didn't like. Are we kids here?
- Death by meetings unbelievable
- Risk adverse culture
- Lack of accountability in some groups
- Not a results oriented culture very unhealthy environment for self esteem

Advice to Senior Management – Give real bonuses and you will retain top talent.
Continue to keep your eyes on the long term strategic visions.
Listen to the empoyee

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – Bagels on Fridays...and anything that involves food around here.

Cons – depending upon your status within the firm - you don't get treated fairly. It's very Management oriented - although we are told that it's b/c of ALL staff members that we, as a firm, succeed, but that's all talk. The actions from Management at the firm say otherwise to certain staff - and appreciation from Management is bare minimum around here - but I guess it's all in who you work for.

Advice to Senior Management – You need to start showing appreciation to ALL of your staff at the firm - don't dedicate it to just particular staff. You say our business status in the community is due to the hard work from ALL staff, well show them you appreciate them! And don't walk by someone in the hallway and ignore them or give a half-hearted "Hello", regardless of how often you've spoken to that person in the past!! Our "original" partners have set the standards of how ALL shareholders should treat employees at the firm. It's sad to see that only a choice few shareholders follow suit. And this place needs to stop catering so much to JUST the shareholders!! They're not the only voices of the firm - although I understand theirs is the only one that is heard. And how we can keep employees here that, in my opinion and many others, are a waste of space - is it not obvious to you that we have people here who should've been fired YEARS ago?? Why is it that most everyone else sees that but you?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – Double Monitors, Personal Scanners at your desk, some team members, flexibility, downtown location

Cons – Long hours, but not unusual from a public accounting firm

Advice to Senior Management – There will never be another shareholder like him. Not once could you pass him in the hallway or by his office without him speaking to you and calling you by name. He calls everyone by name and this made your day. He is one amazing man and it is too bad he is no longer involved in the decision making at Kerkering Barberio. When he comes in now, everyone always ask him when he is coming back full time. That would be wonderful. There is possibly another shareholder presently that could come close if he would just acknowledge people, instead of walking down the hallway checking his BlackBerry or on the phone all the time. Staff moral is down and it starts from the top and trickles downwards. It will begin to show as people start to leave. They say it’s a Buyer’s market but is it an Employer’s market? When the economy was great and we were continuously hiring, at high wages, we had a hard time hiring. Just something to ponder.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – Co-workers, largest CPA firm in the area, location in downtown Sarasota

Cons – Owners are not involved in Management. Bad bad mistake! The way the company is run is a disgrace to Mr. Barberio's name. Favoritism is so obvious. The olden days we would go to a partner and BAM problem taken care of now it depends on who you are. We had a problem with our paycheck, we went to Bern, taken care of. Now, the person that supposedly does them never shows up and we are lucky if we get the stub before the money is deposited.

Advice to Senior Management – When employees are happy so are the clients. Owners need to be more involved in the daily decisions. Owners need to speak to employees when they pass them in the hallway. Employees need a person to whom they can go to and talk with about a problem, one they can trust and get feedback and advise. It is sad that KB has gone down hill in the past 8 years. Owners listen to your employees, they are your eyes and ears. BEST PLACES TO WORK - BIG JOKE!

Current Employee – been working at Kerkering Barberio & Co

Pros – my coworkers, large firm, downtown sarasota

Cons – different personalities, you never know what awaits you, you can tell who the pets are. Management is not fair with all. Some work their butts off and some don't do "nothing" right in front of their eys and they do nothing. Long and loyal employees get treated like crap.

Advice to Senior Management – Better take a long good look and listen. Employees are not happy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend