Toxic working environment due to clueless owner who should have retired years ago - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Steeler

The owner/CEO is utterly out of touch with the times and, just as often, reality. His main managerial strategy boils down to utilizing magical/wishful-thinking to drive company decisions and arrogantly refusing to take "it doesn't work that way" as an acceptable answer; then blaming others' supposed incompetence/laziness for the inevitable aftermath. He is often dismissive or condescending towards expert staff on subjects he has zero clue about, and has a long history of treating company employees as servants, instead of as co-workers. His business practices are, and have been for years, the most widely cited reason of companies who staunchly refuse to do business with Steeler - which, in turn, makes it all the tougher for branch managers and salesmen to cultivate new clients and, month after month, to meet often unrealistic sales quotas. For all of these reasons and more, there is a high turn-over rate of personnel; from the lowest machine worker, on through a prior general manager, and even, most recently, the HR manager. The COO, the owner's son, wears too many hats to be able to manage the company effectively and is, while a decent man to work for, unfortunately, too much of a penny-pinching coward to stand up to his father in order to fix what's already broken culturally, or in many cases, even physically. While one feels for the guy, the company has suffered for years due to his lack of positive leadership and a demonstrated inability to push needed changes or improvements. At present, the owner is knee-deep in a personal feud with his local housing authority and refuses to understand why he can't arbitrarily draft company personnel, or misappropriate company resources/assets, to assist him in his personal vendettas. Nowadays, he's supposedly semi-retired. But Steeler is the cash cow he uses to finance his private island and 'rich guy' persona/lifestyle. The problem is that he doesn't trust anyone, so he can't keep his fingers out of company business. Steer clear if you value your sanity.