Vantaggi
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Svantaggi
When first recruited for this remote position with Bergelectric "National Division" I flat out turned it down. As a Master Electrician in California with more than 30 years of experience, Berg Electric's reputation proceeded itself. I truly wish I had listened to that experienced voice. I re-entered the conversation the following day, mainly based on the great selling job of their recruiter and I took the job. I asked extremely detailed questions about the progress of the project I was being assigned to before making my decision. The answers I received to my inquiries turned out to be a cover for what they didn't want to say. I was told that this project site had seven projects and it wasn't determined which project I would be on. But all of them were past the specific "stage of construction" I questioned so deeply. My first day....my first week went by without anybody other than the Executive Secretary speaking to me even though I was hired to run nearly $100 million of work. The second week my boss introduced himself to me but gave me no guidance on or access to the files I needed access to. Access to the files came in week four, two weeks after I was on the job site. Guidance never came. Plumbing issues in the trailer were given greater priority than the fact that the premier project on the jobsite was 12 weeks behind schedule. All other projects onsite were on schedule and had 7-12 people in their trailer working. 12 weeks behind, we had two and the new hire went to a working full project trailer and not the one with no support. I asked for and actually demanded support and got a toilet semi-fixed. In more than 40 professional years, I had never seen this level of absolute professional neglect. Berg is a culture. If you are a forward-moving individual with progress in mind, you will not fit in here. If you are an individual that enjoys the nothingness of inaction, this is your place. In all of my years of electrical experience, the people I meet who have worked at Berg fit into two basic categories. Those that worked there for a short period of time and even after thirty or forty years, can't stop talking about the complete idiocy of the Berg policies. And those who have and still work there because the nothingness of no action sings to them. The field.....the field laughs at Berg management and with just cause.