AVW Telav Reviews

Pros

great benefits for little cost, fun working environment, opportunity to learn other aspects of the a/v industry from co-workers, newer equipment, job stability is good if you enjoy the work, compensation for infringement of personal life.

Cons

older infrastructure for operations software, hours are very inconsistent, not possible to nurture a personal life due to schedule only being posted on a weekly basis.

Advice to Senior Management

please hire more people and give us less hours that are more consistent so that we can live our lives and not be completely burnt out and unable to function on our days off.

Pros

Might be able to get requested time off if it isnt too busy
a great place to learn how to work independantly.

Cons

Managment that does nothing but bully their employees
no life what so ever out side of work
bad shifting rotation

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your employees... the Emplyee moral issues are directly related to your managments intereactions with the union emplyees... the union is not evil it is only inplace vecause managemnt has mistreated its employees

Pros

Some Staff are very knowledgeable..
Creativity onsite is not condemned but necessary to complete whats needed to be done.
Travel opportunities.

Cons

Incompetent management that seem to be rewarded for a "job well done" but not willing to say good job or Thank you for your hard work.
Long hours are Mandatory, not optional, eg you can not just work a 8 hour day and go home.
The work vehicles are in poor condition and don't get fixed until they break down.
Labour is never sold as enough, and often too little to get the job done leading to bad employee moral.
Disconnect between head office and local branches exists quite a bit.
Even shows sold from other branches executed out of a different one than where the account executive is always problematic.
The inventory control system used is inefficient and dated.
During busy season 1 day off a week is to be expected not two.
Rate of pay for starting is often lower other jobs or other companies.
No training is provided on how to drive a Cube truck. Or A vehicle with only side mirrors.
Personal cellphones are not reimbursed at market rate for calls and cellular system used in branches is inefficient and often incoherent.

Advice to Senior Management

Ask the employees what they need whats working whats not, as well as what they think are problems. Stop assuming your idea that you've concocted while sitting at your desk works for everyone or every branch.
Put middle management staff through management training.

Pros

Well i guess i could find a few reasons to work for Telav. I guess there is the fact we get to play with big toys everyday. and there is some flexability in the shifting. there are temporary summer seasonal lay offs so if you was 2 months paid off on EI. the workplace is unionized so there are fewer fears of managememnt trying to bully you into doing something that feels wrong.

Cons

Poor Managment causes a poor work environment where everyone tries to pass the buck. there is no mid level managment direction and absolutly no follow up on employee concerns as they relate to employee moral. The managment unit continues to alow people with very poor performance to continue to be employed while letting the good employees walk away and will not look at the internal problems that are causing people to talk away

Advice to Senior Management

What are you doing? There is no supervision of your midlevel managers? you need to figure out a direction you want to go in and show the leadership to get there

Pros

AWV Telav is worth working at because the job is easy. At my position as a Computer Technician, I was required to assist presenters and speakers in transferring their presentations to the computer network. In doing this, the system was very simple to understand, requiring speakers and presenters to make sure that the files worked on the computer. Thus I found the job very easy. Another good thing about the job was the people were very nice. Working at AVW Telav is still a corporate world, but it is nevertheless working with good employees that are kind and good to work with.

Cons

AVW Telav is not worth working at because it is often too easy. The position I was employed at was Computer Technician and I was required to assist speakers in uploading their files to the computer system. However it was a very simple system of plugging in a Universal Serial Bus key into a computer and then uploading it to a special folder. Speakers thus figured out how to do this themselves rather quickly and my job was essentially non-existent. I therefore found this job unrewarding in the sense that there were not many duties. However you can look at the best reasons to work there for the upsides.

Advice to Senior Management

Enjoyed working here.