Mandli Communications Reviews

Cons

Hard to watch the people that take advantage of the family owned company atmosphere. Self management and motivation to help the company succeed in more of the employees would be nice to see.

Cons

Some people didn't seem to get the vision or culture of the business. Every job will have its pros and cons. It just seemed as if Mandli Communications had some employees that could never be made happy. Sometimes this would lead to negative energy amongst the staff.

Cons

Ineffective management
Low pay
Repetitive and dull
Low skill acquisition
About every 2 weeks, the owner of the company essentially tells the reduction department that we're all going to be irrelevant in the near future- GREAT for morale

Cons

The problems start from the top. The owner is borderline sociopathic who directly affects each department in a negative way.

The Engineering team prepares the vehicles designated to collect data and are rushed out the door, sometimes correctly validated, to meet contractual deadlines. The vehicles systems fail often because the aren't calibrated/replaced/fixed properly.

That affects the Support Team by putting pressure to band-aid issues to get the vehicle back in operation.

That downtime from Support affects the Collection teams numbers and makes them replan the project.

Which then affects the Reduction team because if the vehicle isn't collecting data then they cannot process the data

Which then affects the Delivery Team because they have to then explain to the Project Managers and customers why we may not meet the deadline to deliver their data.( I feel bad for them, that department is ran pretty well actually.)

Technology Team is very knowledgeable as they should be but good luck getting any help from them. Due to being pulled in a million directions, software updates or other matters that they are needed for is pushed to the back burner. Or they just go play frisbee.

Good luck getting any help from the IT team as well. They are so backed up in trying to improve the network that you can't even get a mouse from them if yours goes bad.

Project Managers are underpaid and usually grumpy about it.

Marketing is a good department, the employees work hard but under compensated

Besides that lack of time management capabilities, it seems to be okay for employees in management positions to talk down and belittle other employees by calling them names, or using foul language in front of other employees because they think it's okay and nothing will happen to them because the culture in the office is a cesspool.

Since accountability for personnel in non entry level positions (or relatives to the owner, or the owner himself) is non existent, it's okay to fall asleep at your desk, come in hours late multiple times a week, every week, talk down on employees, make remarks that are textbook sexual harassment, play frisbee for 2-3 hours on the clock every Friday, and/or walk around with your shirt off around the office.

The owner is the decision maker for everything, which is okay, his company, his money, his rules. But when deadlines are set and decisions need to be made and the owner is out of the office at a conference, going for his daily run, someone should be able to make decisions on his behalf but since he has a clear lack of trust to his upper management staff those deadlines are often not met.

The environment is extremely judgemental and even though you're apart of a team, teamwork is non existent.

This may sound like a salty post but I'm not upset, these are just my observations. I enjoyed working there most of the time and probably put up with more things than most people would or should, frankly.

There are some very intelligent individuals there, not all of them are bad, some mean well, do well, and deserve to be rewarded but they haven't been compensated for their contributions. Which is one reason people quit.

Cons

-Pay is not the best

Cons

Sometimes there does not seem to be enough time in the day. Will continue to better manage time to optimize output

Cons

There are constant computer/server issues that provide daily frustration. The IT department is understaffed with no intention of hiring more, has poor leadership and is more interested in removing resources as basic as Excel to save a buck. The IT department's main objective is to penny pinch rather than provide support. The department is a joke and is a burden more than a resource to the company. The owner/CEO is a dreamer and it ain't lucrative and the company suffers from it. He pulls time from people in the Technology department to work on his dream projects that end up flopping and not selling, which prevents timely issue resolution on Production contract work. The mission statement literally says to give him an enjoyable experience. It's a joke here. Good people leave the company and their positions aren't replaced, requiring others to pick up the load. Management then bombards senior employees with work to compensate. In the realm of benefits, it falls short. They pull you in with company paid health benefits and you get little else. Here's an example, in lieu of a holiday party he buys everyone a movie ticket and you're required to use your vacation hours to attend the movie. You can't even drink the coffee there unless you join a 'coffee club' and pool your own money together. It's almost like an Office Space movie sequel.

Cons

Low pay
Little to No advancement
Incompetent human resources department

Cons

Unorganized management and poor interdepartmental communication

Cons

There is a culture of negativity among the other processors - not everyone, but enough to make it feel oppressive. The blame for this is most easily placed on management, but after a good bit of time here, I'm really not sure. People do a lot of judgment of their peers, and those that get promoted are often subject to gossip about their unworthiness based on that. Yes it would help if company paid more per hour, but the job market for recent grads sucks in Wisconsin and most other states, and they dont take the common route of limiting everyone to 32hrs so they don't have to pay health insurance. Management is opening to hearing you out if you feel you have something else to bring to the table at the company, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll get a promotion out of it, but some i never would have expected have been promoted. Fact is everyone is coming here with various levels of experience and skills and they don't all show just from doing the data processing. I think a lot of the negativity is because the company tends to promise everybody that with hard work theyll be promoted quickly, and that's objectively not the case. It takes more than that and i havent figured out the formula yet but i can say those that complain the most tend to be the ones that don't move up.