Safety Net reviews

Excessive Over-Monitoring: There are security cameras watching all activity in both offices, which are then broadcast to each other. Individuals have their productivity/activity aggressively measured and judged against an ocean of metrics which they must collect and report on to management. Harmful Workloads, Mandatory Overtime: Safety Net has ridiculously high expectations of the workloads the team should be capable of handling. On top of the excessive amount of work throughout the day is the imposition of mandatory overtime. Obviously, this practice disrupts work-life balance and negatively impacts employee well-being. Many employees are hired in as interns and then brought in as full time employees. While this is commendable for providing opportunity, this also means they are easily exploited due to having no reference to what a healthy workload looks like. This company is a meat grinder. If you do not quit in 6 months, you will be stuck here for years as you will be too exhausted to find another job. Changes in Financial Transparency: The entire team is extremely concerned about the recent removal of the open-book finances policy. The owners used to pride themselves about their transparent approach to finances. However in light of recent changes they seem happy to keep us in the dark about the specific details of company finances and decision-making. Some financial metrics will apparently continue to be published during monthly company huddles. However, I expect transparency to continue to degrade every year. Elimination of Gain Share Program: A major disappointment is the removal of the gain-share program, announced in a company meeting just before Christmas. This program had been suspended for the previous couple of years due to lack of profitability. Now that profits have improved, it's been formally removed. It looks like the owners would rather enjoy the branding that comes with giving those additional profits to charity than sharing it with the employees who brought them success. "Employee-Centered" Culture: During the hiring process, Safety Net will brand itself on it's "employee-centered culture." This promise feels like marketing more than reality. Employees are overworked, underpaid, and now without any of the previous financial transparency and gain share benefits we were initially promised. A new hire's PTO plan is 15 days, with sick days and vacation days pooled together. If you work for the company for 10 years or so, you will eventually earn an amount of PTO that is considered standard at most any other white-collar company. Also expect to be working the day before and after holidays such as Christmas.

The one and two star reviews are spot on. Poor leadership at the highest level, unrealistic expectations, micro-management and just a daily grind is what you can expect if you take a position with us. We have a very unique way of making a difficult job that much more challenging. Safetynet is probably the cheapest company I have ever worked for also. Below industry standard pay, expect to wait a year before any retirement matching kicks in (probably because most new hires don't make it that long), any gift cards or work anniversary spiffs will be taxed as income and my personal favorite, our profit sharing bonuses called "gain share" have been suspended for the last 2 years because apparently we aren't profitable enough, despite the cost of our services being one of the highest (if not the highest) in the state of Michigan. You will be expected to work the occasional evening and weekend (which you won't be told during the interview process) due to other departments falling behind on their tasks because there isn't adequate support for the workloads they have, or to work on projects that "Senior Leadership" deems unworthy enough to do during normal work week hours. As of lately, higher paying positions are being replaced with lower paying positions and part-time interns despite the job duties and responsibilities remaining the same. As others have stated in their reviews, you will be required to sign a 2 year non-compete agreement if you decide to join our company and we will try to enforce it regardless if you eventually quit or are fired. And we have fired people with no warning whatsoever. It actually pains me to write this review because there are some really great people I work with. This review is no reflection on them. They are in the same boat I am, stuck until something better comes along. It's just unfortunate that many of these issues can be resolved fairly easily with some additional investment in resources, but that would mean leadership would have to take hit to the overall revenue numbers and they just aren't willing to do so. As soon as I can find another position I will be resigning if I am not let go first for some unspecified, unjustified reason.