Toxic Culture due to poor leadership and sales decline - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Veritiv

Very toxic and "blaming" culture. Upper management does not engage with or listen to anyone other than direct reports. Constant change of strategy, management and priorities. I had 2 bosses that reported to 3 different direct reports to CEO in two years following merger. Distribution is pretty simple concept but current management doesn't seem to be able to grasp the concept. Too often any sale was more important than selling what was in warehouse causing inefficiencies. Also appears to be a push to reduce inventory, including high volume items, causing stock outs To many middle management and not enough actual producers ( sales, customer service, etc.). Since merger synergies have not materialized as promised to Wall Street, as well as decreasing sales YOY, the only way to make numbers look halfway decent is to get rid of human capital. Many of the pre-merger employees with skills with decent, and justifiable, salaries were either run off or let go for younger, lower wage employees. Training was very poor.