Laclede Gas Company Reviews

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harsh weather and work cond. little chance for advancement.

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Middle management takes advantage of naive and ambitious employees. Most of the best employees leave sooner or later because they take advantage of their best employees repeatedly. The only way to advance is not through hard work but by being tied into their network of friends outside of work. If you're perceived as smarter than them forget it as they will promote someone who is dumb and they can control or someone outside that won't be a threat to them.

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Environment sucks the life out of you

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Upper management could do better

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Less than impressive management staff. Under qualified, micromanagers, untrusting of employees. High turn over. Not much room for growth or upward advancement. Lack of diversity. Poor work life balance... anything else? Would not recommend.

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A lot of CONS in term of management. We have managers that wants to chime in even they don't know what is the project for. End up of wasting time. Not efficient managers. They should listen to us (developer or IT). Managers should not do micro. Trust your employee. They should focus on being a effective manager. Managers should be sent to training on how to properly manage instead of going to tech training because that's a BIG NO and a good leader is a good listener and not just keep talk and talk. A lot of manager on a single project which makes the project delayed and complex. Politics is everywhere but this group is very obvious. It's always a one sided opinion, On my profession,I know what I'm doing and that's my expertise. Managers always does micromanage and will waste time and sometimes project will be put in queue or sometimes just dropped. We're not an effective team. I want to quit but I will give a chance to my manager. As an employee on my level, we're the one who do the actual job and do the walk not just talk. When we're on the training, we're distracted because we still need to do some of the task. It's a waste of going to a training if this is what they're always doing because we're not focus. My manager is nice but my manager has a very poor management skills. I've been in an industry for more than 10 years but my manager is not a very effective manager and need to be retrain. VP should listen to the people who actually does the work. It's unfair because we can't do feedback to our manager because manager don't easy accept negative feedback unlike me, I am willing to accept any negative feedback because that's a challenge. As what I said, it's a one sided opinion., only manager can review their member. We're like a minion. I hate it personally the way my manager treat us and I feel sorry to my team member as well. I love the vision of the company and I'm very loyal to my company but this is the only way I can shout my feedback because they will probably make an action after this. A real manager should be certified with at least a PMP because that what really a real manager should have. Because having a PMP will make them understood about being an effective manager. Stop politics and silos. What's the use of our new building and workspace if silos still exist. Some of the individual were afraid to share their knowledge because maybe they're afraid that they may lose their job. Again STOP IT. Where is the team work? We should be helping each other and stop back stabbing.

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The negations with the company and the union has been and will continue to go downhill. Loosing more benefits, sick time, holidays, ect. Some management is very disrespectful to employees

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non really, this company is awesome, i hope they expand more

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Focus has shifted from safety to profit and growth. Laclede no longer appreciates the knowledge and skills of its employees. Work is being moved to outsource agencies in other states. Compensation and benefits are being reduced to improve bottom line. Mandatory overtime eliminates work/life balance. Quality and customer service are lip service. Customers are outraged.

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Bad management, low pay, combative environment, no room for positive advancement (although people do get feed up and quit often so that will open positions you probably wouldn't want to move into), This company holds a monopoly in their industry so they have no motivation to do the right thing. If it makes them more $$$ they'll do it no matter how bad it screws over customers and employees.