Poor management with low standards for everything - Electrical Apprentice Rostek Employee Review

-Aggresive & hostile HR leads to poor employee sentiment and outlook with the company -Poor scheduling to employees (weekly schedules often tell you that you are on a site 2h away out of nowhere, when asking management about it, they’ll realise it’s wrong, so it leads to a lot of confusion) -No lodge/travel money paid -Lack of qualified supervisors (most sites have 5-10 1st year apprentices working under just ONE qualified electrician/supervisor. This results in near-zero supervision, which means very little is learned and there isn’t a high standard of work to look up to, just your fellow novice peers) -No company pension scheme (none is available to staff, but when it was years ago, there was no employer contribution/match) -Extremely stingy spending This is one of the biggest cons to the company (alongside the dire lack of qualified electricians/supervisors/management) Materials needed for the job will need to be bought almost every day, as the company will not green light larger orders for things like cable and disposable things like zip ties, screws, washers, etc. Constantly running out of them after ordering the bare minimum results in jobs being delayed constantly. One site has 1 ladder between I believe 8 electricians… when all of the work to be done is on ceiling level…. They also do not offer any tools for the job, which puts all of the pressure on the apprentices on ~€9/hr to somehow buy the >€300 power tools mandatory for the jobs completion ! -Extremely poor staff retention rate (90%+ of employees are 1st yr apprentices who are hired for the sole factor that they are cheaper than qualified or motivated staff, resulting in said employees leaving the company as soon as they have a chance with any other company -No interview process means there is no standard for employees hired. If you apply, you WILL get the job. Some sort of filtration process for suitable and competent apprentices is direly needed, as MANY of the apprentices are consistently failing their college phases as they are not cognitively or academically capable of the job. This is not meant as offence to said apprentices, but what does it say about the company when 50% of apprentices taken on with the company end up with their plans of becoming an electrician abruptly cut short when they are incapable of making it through the first of 3 college phases. Hiring intelligent, baseline educated and somewhat critically thinking staff is non compromisable.