Poor management, no work-life balance - Senior Graphic Designer GEODIS Employee Review

1.0
Mar 30, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

International environment and big office

Cons

I am writing this comment based on my girlfriend's experience, who is Thai and culturally reluctant to complain to superiors. Her manager was using an authoritative management style, giving orders, constantly criticising the results, and talking a lot behind people's back. She was pressured to work overtime on a daily basis, including weekends. Her holiday requests were repeatedly rejected, and then lost at the end of the year. On multiple occasions she was pressured to go to the office when she was seriously sick, even though she offered to complete her work from home. She requested 5 days (4 months in advance) for a vacation abroad, and was offered to take 2 days instead. No actual reason or explanation. She quit, her manager asked her to work until the last day, promising that the remaining holidays would be paid. They were not. Double standards, the same manager was taking long holidays, and worked remotely on a regular basis. They also "hired" a relative of somebody in the head office to join the team, with no relevant work experience (violation of the Thai labour laws). Their salary was way over the local standards, and they were allowed to work remotely from Pattaya, while the rest of the staff had strict onsite work policy.

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5.0
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Pros

Good pay and plenty of hours. Room to move up quickly.

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

You will meet some of the best people here and can learn the basics of being a freight broker if this is the career path you choose.

Cons

eadership is deeply ineffective and lacks even a basic understanding of how to run a successful business. There is a clear disconnect between management and the sales team, with decisions being made in a vacuum that ignore real operational and customer-facing challenges. While leadership claims to prioritize operations, execution is consistently poor and performance continues to decline. There is also a noticeable lack of accountability and consistency across the organization. Processes are not enforced equally, and favoritism impacts outcomes—particularly when it comes to freight handling. If you are not running TM freight, your shipments are treated as a lower priority and handled with significantly less care, which ultimately reflects poorly on both employees and the company as a whole. Overall, the environment is disorganized, leadership is out of touch, and there is little confidence that meaningful improvements will be made

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