<p>Dish is so disfunctional, I had 8 VPs in 10 years. Finally, I was set free from there when my boss fired me using totally bogus reasons. They fought me getting unemployment (they lost. I got it.) A year later, almost to the day! he himself was fired and 20% of the department staff was “laid off.” A week later his boss was fired.</p>
<ol>
<li>Dish Network</li>
<li>Dillard’s</li>
<li>Radio Shack</li>
<li>Hertz</li>
<li>Office Max</li>
<li>Sears</li>
<li>Robert Half Int’l</li>
<li>Hewlett-Packard</li>
<li>Rite Aid</li>
<li>Gamestop</li>
<li>Bank of New York Mellon</li>
</ol>
<p>Some I can understand (We’ve discussed Sears’ problems), but I’m surprised by Dillards, my favorite store. Most of the clerks I deal with have been there for years.</p>
<p>I worked at a place that was named a top employer in the area. Maybe it was, but it sure wasn’t in my office. Often, a bad department-head can make a great place miserable … and sometimes a bad place is great if the immediate work environment is not impacted by what is going on elsewhere in the company.</p>
<p>6 of top 10 are retailers, with most being ‘also rans’ in the industry. Low pay, lousy hours & benefits - not hard to see why they show up. </p>
<p>Dillard’s has dysfuntional management and ownership. There’s 2 classes of stock with the Dillard’s family having all voting control.</p>
<p>PS - I once worked for a company that consistently makes it on the top places for women, etc. You would have never been able to see that in our investment team, which was 80% male and no females with direct reports. Going on materity leave meant you stalled your career.</p>
<p>DISH got slammed mainly because of the reviews by call center and service level employees. Reviews from the corporate HQ aren’t nearly as bad, although the part about it being hard to advance is true in many departments.</p>
<p>I applied for a senior attorney position a number of years ago with a company I’ll describe to you as a major low-end retail company with HQ in Arkansas that competes with Target. After I sent my resume, an attorney from their HQ called me because he had seen my resume, had lived not too far from where I lived in Dallas and was calling to tell me that under no circumstances should I consider coming to work there because it was so terrible! I’ve never had THAT happen before!</p>
<p>Well, I worked in corporate for a decade at Dish and can tell you – it’s really bad there. But there’s no doubt, the call centers at Dish are the pits. I can’t believe they weren’t unionized yet - total exploitation.</p>
<p>LOL…DD would not find this surprising. She has been working at Sears for 2.5 years. Still at minimum wage. Her co-workers call-out and no-show on a regular basis and still stay employed. They don’t care about anything except how many credit card apps they can talk their customers into filling out. D gets dragged into the office and spoken to regularly for her credit app numbers being low even though her attendance and customer service are exemplary.</p>
<p>^^ Could be. I know people who work at HP but they’re all engineers and I haven’t heard of many major issues other than the layoffs HP has had which of course can certainly have a major impact on attitude towards the company.</p>
<p>An even better form of vindication: I lost my job when my employer merged with anther company and it was decided that the young male who had my equivalent position in the other company was a better choice for the job at the newly merged entity than my older, female self. The whole transaction was ill-conceived and a product of management ego, and within two years the place had gone bankrupt, was liquidated, and everyone was on the street, including Mr. Young Male. Sweet, very sweet.</p>
<p>Not surprised at Sears. One of my sisters works in a division there as an accountant and with a BS in accounting and eight years in this position, she makes barely $10/hr. The stupid rules and regulations she has to follow are ridiculous. She’s an exempt (salaried) employee and has to punch a time clock. The place does not treat people as professionals.</p>
<p>I’m surprised that Walmart isn’t on the list. Low wages and cutting full-time workers’ hours (to avoid giving benefits), not paying for overtime worked, refusing to allow meal breaks, forcing employees to work off the clock, inadequate health care options, hiring undocumented workers, firing employees who get sick or file workers comp, discrimination against women, child labor violations, retaliation against whistleblowers, and on and on.</p>
<p>katliamom, I can only imagine how you feel! When I left my last job, it was after having four bosses in 16 months, two of them abusive. I had been the third person in my job in four years. I am patiently waiting for my last boss there to implode. The company itself makes excellent products and is extremely successful; it’s only my little corner of the universe that is so dysfunctional.</p>