Employment Length Means Nothing - Recensione dipendente - Warehouse Associate presso Signature Hardware

I was there nine years in Receiving in the warehouse, five of which were under the previous owners who ran the business like a family. I felt appreciated. I felt excited to move the company forward because we would get quarterly profit-sharing bonuses if we worked hard enough. And we did. We used to get a Christmas bonus of $125. We used to have a Holiday party every year at a golf country club that the owners would treat the employees to, open bar. One year we didn’t really qualify for the profit sharing for Q4, so Mike Butler, the owner, gave everyone $2000 to their 401k. They were generous owners and I felt like we were all working together. Then Ferguson bought the company. And all of that has gone away. Now, all supervisors and management that were there during the the 5 years I worked there before being bought out have been fired or let go. Now it’s a cold, lifeless corporate company. They don’t care about you. You’re just a worker. Ferguson doesn’t know what any of the employees have done with the company before they got there. Length of time working there means nothing to them. I was on a medical leave of absence for 6 months going through chemotherapy for stage 3 melanoma. After 6 of the worst months of my life, I finally came back to my friends at work. But my body was still incredibly weak. So I’m recovering my strength to be the worker I once was before the cancer. Then, after 6 months of slowly gaining my strength back, they laid off me and 5 or 6 other people. Apparently a company that makes billions of dollars can’t afford to use some of their saved cash to keep employees employed while profits go down some. No, to them, profits must always go up, all year every year without fail, so if it looks like there might be a recession or lower profits, they preemptively fire a bunch of people to make sure their numbers still look good if the recession hits. It won’t look like they got affected so hard because they fired a lot of employees to have some more cash on the books when bad quarters come along. It’s disgraceful. They do not care about you as a human being. You are negative dollars on their balance sheet. Maybe because I had serious cancer, they wanted to save a lot of money on me in case I got majorly sick in the future. They can’t afford to help a very sick employee pay for his medical bills until he retires in 28 years. I’m pretty sure they did the math when they picked me as one of the people fired. So yeah, I don’t recommend this company. It’s a shell of its former self. You are expendable, they will never fight to help you, and they only care about money. If you want to find a job where you can make a career out of working for a company and working there until you retire I would not count on it. I would look somewhere else.