Spectrum Control reviews about "upper management"

Horrible Company! Very bad benefits, policies, upper management and HR. If you disagree with HR you are targeted for termination. You need to follow their rules and not speak up. I seen 3 Managers quit and walk out during the work day. I seen operators terminated for the slightest reasons. Their Customers are canceling their sales orders, On Time Delivery is very bad, worst turn over I've ever seen in a company. Fake 5 star review ratings from sly HR.

Upper Management. Corporate accountants not paying vendors so parts are received late, causing bad on time delivery rates.

This company has been merged, bought, and sold at least a half dozen times. The old guard of the workforce are stubborn and antagonize other employees, but they are kept on as the only ones who know how to operate the absolutely neolithic technology kept around the facility. The turnover is bad and the middle and upper management turnover is even worse.

upper management was disconnected from the actual working of the shop

Wages are low. Benefits are expensive with little coverage. The right to terminate workers at will is rubbed in your face daily. No room for advancement unless you are favored by management. Favored workers will be promoted reguardles of their ability or experience to preform the tasks. Favored workers are able to target workers in any way they desire. Upper management is heavy with big salaries. Raises are low and scarce. API does not pay their bills and are mainly on a cash only basis with venders. HR is totally out to make the workers miserable. They will target people with lies and deceit in order to prove that they can. HR does not offer any assistance with information but are willing and to burn you if you do not follow the policies that they make up as they go.

the down side of API is that upper management is destroying this company with all the six figure salaries. the old adage is to many chiefs and not enough indians .

If I can give footnotes to this I will try. But I want to express this fairly from the few years I worked with this company and explain it now that I have no ties to them beyond I'm glad they gave me paychecks and we parted ways. Api is a mix of Old and New, and the main problem is that the older generation demands change, gets it, and fights it. There were dozens upon dozens of employees that came and went during my breif time and they all struggled from the same issues through multiple departments. There was almost no training, no support, and management did not have a set plan for them to execute on. There is a vast issue with training from upper management to the every day floor employee. I expressed my concerns with this after about 6 months and essentially it was discarded. API hires many bright individuals that do not stay for the simple fact someone 20 years older then them will not help them build any sort of foundation to be a successful employee. The benefits are probably the worst Ive ever had. Base pay is acceptable, but 10 years from now I imagine it wouldnt have changed much. The culture is very simple at its core, the top 5-20% of the company will hire, not train, use new employees up till there is nothing left, then cut them lose to hire the next batch of young hard workers and repeat the process. Most employees will stay for anywhere between a week to a year. By the month mark for alot of new employees I have spoke to between all departments at multiple locations, they do not have the resources, support or time to do their job on something at a presentable level. Many new employees understand they are set up to fail and leave. I went 6 months + at one point without having my manager speak a single word to me directly. I was then reviewed and my marks were all "needs improvement" He invested no time into me since that review and I was not supported during that time to find any sort of success. I envision thats what the rest of the company feels from turnover and word of mouth.

Upper management Middle management Engineers still wet behind the ears.. they’re not engineers they’re just draughtsman playing with a drawing package. Yet they still make mistakes. Massive divide between upstairs and downstairs. Management bully the shop floor with everything, yet the shop floor get them out of trouble every time. HR won’t get involved unless there is a real is that shows they’re no good at what they do. They just cover up and stick with management. You have to literally kick certain people up the bottom to do anything.