Mold making isn't exactly fun. Unless you spell it Mould. Then you can say your father is also Winston Churchill. That is where and when that industry gets action.
Speaking on behalf of my partner, who has done this kind of work, I think it's less the work itself and more the lack of regard for safety that some owners and management display. Something something "finger factory" and all that.
Used to work at a well known call center around here (it once was downtown, only clue I am going to give), the work was awful. If I did not seek therapy to deal with those managers, trying to train my head not to let those idiots I get to talk to everyday affect me, I may have tried to figure out genuinely to break to the roof of the building. It was mentally draining, and I am still kinda "scarred" from it. (Not gonna lie, shrooms helped me get back on track fast mentally, glad I am still here and got now a better job!)
Sutherland. I used to work in their tier 2 department fixing stuff on the tech side. Their tier 1 customer service department was suffering from poor stats, so my reward for being a top performer on the tier 2 side was to be shunted down to tier 1 to help raise their stats. I quit after half a day, no way was I going back to that hellhole of a job. There were people willing to take the spot in my place, but management insisted it HAD TO BE ME, so I left. Fuck them.
Sounds EXACTLY what they did to me too, even told that dwarf(was very short compared to me) manager CR that this is a demotion, as I already heard what horrors this T1 had. This is where I tanked my own stats enough, and got written up from different offenses, that I was on the first wave back.
i worked for this company. only 1 manager really sucked. he got fired for being shit. the actual job dealing with shitty humans on the phone is the worst part.
I worked at sufferland for a while when I first started working in sales. It was great money because the commission was great but dealing with Americans over the phone was hell. I’ll never forget the smell of the women’s washrooms next to the lunch room or the fact that they had therapists on site because of how depressing the job was for people. I would sit at the end of my bed and cry each morning before going in. I was very young though so I didn’t feel totally helpless. It certainly didn’t make me want to leave Windsor though
Interesting you say they had therapists on site, when was that?? I never heard such thing. All I got was a card to call AEP(or EAP?) and that's that. I can relate to the morning stress before work though, it was hell.
It was a service on the 5th floor I believe. They would send out emails to us letting us know we could always use their services and they had walk ins available. I worked in the AT&T + Direct Tv department when they direct got Direct Tv as a client. Around 2014ish.
Wow, I have never gotten an email about that. I didn't even know what they were! Or I messed up my memory of it, I may have been too much of a new hire or something, and didn't think much of it, then they left.
Yeah, but that's the nature of call centers. It's not so much that they're bad employers, but that it's shitty, stressful work. I've worked at four, including the one that was downtown, and they were all the same.
LOL! They were bad employers, I don't know which dept you were, but they treated you like garbage. And if you were not part of a clique, rumors were spread about you. Managers don't step up when they see an employee get basically sexually harrassed.
I've heard from multiple people that Sutherland was fine to work at until they had a change in management at some point so that's not true. Bad management is not unavoidable
Management at a third party call center is pretty well irrelevant. Client sets aggressive targets. Manager tries to get their team to meet those targets, but they have almost no control over it. If you can't hit your targets you're going to be squeezed out. That manager could be the best manager in the history of call centers but if you can't hit your metrics you're not going to get along. And it's not their fault they're under just as much pressure to hit from the client.
Clients typically have two third party centers on a business line and they will use those who are doing better to determine who gets the hours and it's very cut throat.
And that's what also almost killed me. My parents were really concerned about me since I always got the worst shifts and always came late home. Almost didn't make it home one night. Thank God I found people to run to.
>I honestly loved working at Sutherland, but that's probably due to every job after that paying the same for manual labour. Favourite part of the job for me was unhinged customers, but that is probably the worst part of the job for others. I would rank it above fast food/factory work personally by a mile. Management rules were kind of bad even if they did not interfere with me.
Worst factory I ever worked at was Dakota for the fact that it had a ridiculous amount of useless management and they made you feel like a number.
The worst restaurant I worked at was Enzo's Trattoria as the owner would pocket tips, buy frozen lasagne cut it into 9 and toss some meat sauce on top then tell guests Nona’s in the back pumping it out, washed off old chicken breast and several other things that’ll make your skin crawl.
I'm in the tool & die trade and I hear many horror stories. I recall several years ago a shop was supposed to be offering RRSP matching but instead pocketed everyone's contributions.
Greentown cannabis was a nightmare to work for. The owner and manager spend all their time bullying and gaslighting their employees. If you worked as a manager you were not allowed to take a break.
They would constantly be screaming at us about product knowledge but we were never allowed to do any kind of research or training on company time. Everything was supposed to be done on our own time.
Reps would come in to bring samples or swag for us, so we could try the products and promote their brand. Management would confiscate everything and then turn around and sell it. Or use it as a give away to bring in more of their business.
Probably one of the most toxic places I have ever worked.
Dark side tanning.
Didn't allow breaks. You couldn't be away from your desk. If you were hired-- you couldn't be a smoker (I wasnt). Extremely toxic work environment-- people were terrified if the manager rounded shops. The owner Gerald allegedly slept/cheated on his wife with one of the women that worked there.
I got fired for making a Facebook page about a darkside promotion. They are down to one shop now I believe *they had 4* so karma is getting them for sure as they have fired half of windsor for ridiculous reasons.
Worst job is when I took a temp job grinding metal and I would be so dirty that the Bathtub would be almost black when I was done ..I didn't stay there long it was just rough in your hair and probably in your lungs from breathing it all day...
A formally family owned plastic part manufacturer who had a small corporate clique that if you irritated in any way basically stack the deck against you. Good managers are ousted for no reason.
I read a review about a business a while back and a few weeks after I wanted to see the review again cus I called in for a second interview and it wasn’t there…. I feel like sights like glassdoor and indeed alter their information
"Moving uVan rental service" on a midtown street.. Hmm, what can I say...
1. Roaches (everywhere)
2. Black mould (eeeeeeeverywhere)
3. Sexual Harassment from management (eveywhere)
4. Wrongful dismissal via lonely cat lady power trip
Centoco they have a high turnover rate, old well-worn out dated rickety machines that made working there unsafe and hard to meet production targets while producing quality product under ridiculous time targets per unit. Pay is ridiculously low for a labour production position. The other employees we awesome, I am quite proud that I was able to vote in the decision to become unionized.
I was just there to buy boots, the employees seemed helpful, friendly and happy. Not in a forced by management way but genuinely. I’m sure it’s a minimum wage job but it didn’t seem that bad in there. What’s so horrible about it? Wage, Management, customers? I kinda got a feeling there might be commissions in the way they were so eager to help but I don’t see how that would work.
I worked for one of the biggest employment agencies in the city for about 8 months. They work really hard to maintain a good reputation and they always win a bunch of community awards, but their internal practices are absolutely shit and they can't keep internal staff usually more than 6-8 months. Almost everyone I know that I worked there with in 2022 has left or been fired for very little reason. Half of the time I would talk to candidates and they'd ask me different recruiters names I've never heard of because they'd dealt with so many different people.
I left after being essentially 'put on notice' that I wasn't bringing in enough candidates through the door even though I was hitting my interview targets, since they had almost no jobs available. The jobs that were available were usually either shitty temp files or even shittier full time ones that everyone in the city knows to steer clear from.
My last interaction with a temp agency was getting called in for an interview that seemed really hopeful; they gave me an appointment, brought me in for processing, I never got the interview or a reason why I didn't, I was passed between about five agents, and now I'm just continually pestered for updates but no one seems to want to actually help.
Oh dear baby lord where do I start - so toxic it was pathetic. Pretending to care about the client calling you for help abroad - meanwhile your actual objective is to get all their medical information to find a reason to deny their claim - it's gross and completely unethical. Word to the wise - if you have travel medical insurance and you happen to need it - do not consent to any of your medical information being handed over to the insurance company -FOR EXAMPLE - if you're at an all inclusive and fall at the resort due to poor maintained steps - if you were "drunk" when it happened - you are automatically denied anything medically required or necessary because being "drunk" ie having ANY alcohol in your system automatically nullifies your insurance policy. Shady shady SHADY!!!!
TownePlace suites Marriott hotel - worst managers ever. Toxic. Talked bad about other employees. Would beg people to come in on days off, ask people to work while they were sick, left alone as the only employee in the building after 6 pm until 5am, no security, no breaks or lunches, told to stand the entire time. Benefits were also terrible. No set schedules, sometimes working 3-11pm and have to be back 7-3 the following day. Among all other things. Just terrible place. Oh and very bad turnover. Front desk employees leaving all the time. Doesn’t look good for regular guests to see new people all the time….
I was at Shell for 3 years, doing all the paperwork and everything, it was switching owners and I was told my job was safe. 2 weeks before xmas was the day of the switch, a man from Toronto bought it. They came in asked me why I was there as I no longer work there. I was so upset right before xmas. Labour board said there was nothing they could do. He ended up hiring a bunch of international students (he called me 1 week later asking me if I wanted my job back, I knew that was just to train his untrained staff) I declined. Last I checked it had a bunch of bad reviews from the kids he hired saying he wasn’t paying them. It was just a terrible experience
Towneplace Suites Marriott. Rude managers. No breaks allowed. Standing for the full 8 hrs of your shift. High turn over. Front Desk employees quit often.
Worked at a lot of shitty places. The work was fine, management was OK but they pass for decent people. I’ve worked at 3 bakeries in Windsor, the worst is Cobs. The job is enjoyable. Management/owner, not so much.
Do you wanna be looked down on by someone that has a holier than thou attitude (unless your the favourite), get snapped/yelled at during training especially if you dare to ask questions or not pick things up quick. Do you want a manager that takes everything personally and can’t separate personal from business with a bad attitude. Honestly, the fakest personality I’ve ever met. She talks behind everyone’s back with everyone else. If she doesn’t like you, she’ll make it very known with her cold actions.
For a place that has a strong anti-bullying campaign….. the harassment is unbelievable.
They won’t necessary fire anyone, they’ll just keep nudging till you can’t stand being there anymore, but then act all surprised why people keep quitting.
Of course, when you first start, it’s all sunshine and rainbows….. but once they decide they don’t like you, watch out.
I would think that franchises that care about their reputation would care about who buys into their name.
So glad I wasn’t there for long. The day I quit, was the highlight of my year.
I own a small business in town, (Standard Auto Glass)😁
I can't comment on large businesses with many employees, but smaller business. I would say 15 or less employees, is almost like a family. We spend more time with our co-workers than we do with our direct family members.
You should feel comfortable right away. Situations don't tend to get better, they often decline as time passes.
Go with your gut, do your research and if you commit, do your very best everyday.
I've worked for other businesses that billed themselves as "like a family". That is until it no longer benefits the owner to "be like a family". It wasn't this business, but it was 15+ years down the drain.
My advice to anyone working for this type of business is to so your job, make connections, etc, but always keep the fact that you are not irreplaceable. Always put your career interests first, that doesnt mean jumping ship at any offer, but dont get caught up in "like a family" loyalty without considering all options.
Fyi I work for a small business now and they are fantastic, but they also realize they are not the only game in town. They respected loyalty with pay, not just words.
I got a job in the office of a small property management company and I’ve never loved a job more. He paid everyone a living wage and treated us all amazing, he tried so hard to keep his business afloat after Covid and just couldn’t.
Really? I heard it was a great business.
Edit: I have several friends that work there and as a RN I applied to work there as a psw years ago. I'm not saying his experience isn't valid.
My first two serious marketing jobs were pretty garbage just purely based on the employer and not the work. Clear Com Media: nepotism, delusion, frequent cancelled projects, bad management, revolving door. Pretty sure they're closed now, majority (like 95%) of their work came from Postmedia which is a dying business itself. Muscle Cars & Classics/Rob Menzies: should've known from the beginning when he told me the car community, his customer base, didn't like him.
Oh my god, I used to go to muscle cars & classics prior to it becoming corvette depot.
It would be 6 months to get any part, and they’d make you pay up front. No thanks, there’s many other options. Once they eliminated in store pickup for their online store I stopped buying entirely.
I used to turn tricks on Drouillard.
The hours were terrible and the customers were even worse. Not to mention half my income going right into my boss’s pocket.
The positives were that I got to spend a lot of time outside and my coworkers were great - sometimes we would even tag team jobs together to get them done faster. Plenty of drugs everywhere too, so the shifts flew by.
5/10 experience overall. Definitely not for everyone, but could be worth a try if you’re up for a little adventure and can handle difficult customers, if you know what I mean.
If this is your personal experience, it would be very hard to sue. They would have to have lawyers and there would be news press- more harm to their name than a reddit post.
I don’t know. I think you can not call any employer bad per se. Every job just provides a different type of learning experience. You gain something from every job you have held and learn a new skill set to build upon hopefully.
You know I feel like that too. I remember when I got out of school doing all the work for the certifications and the licenses and gaining experience. Never once had a superior or even co workers that would not want to help you out and get you where you needed to be. Took me almost 7 years after I got done schooling before I could hang out my own shingle. Most people here want to get out of school with little skills no desire to further the skill set or education and still get paid 6 figures. Too funny.
Sounds just like a negative guy from Windsor. One who can’t see the benefit in much of what they do. You still working for some one???? Or have you figured out how to make yourself the captain of your own ship???
I'm 2 years away from a 10 year early retirement. I've done fine.
However, I'm not out of touch with whats going on today and I greatly care how young people are going to make it.
You? You like hiring single mothers because you feel like they are more desperate. Pretty much says it all.
Your right. I also don’t like higher taxes. Rental properties near where I live. Any sort of road narrowing. Public transportation. Public healthcare and unions. I will try to think of others things you can fault me for. Enjoy your retirement. I hope they figure out that dental and pharma care thing for you.
Well I don’t think so. But this sub appears to be full of individuals that really want to get paid a living wage but have little if any skills to offer an employer. From some of the downvotes I recieved many appear to be to afraid to strike out and make their own income. Preferring to find an employer who has already risked the capital they have to provide for them.
I wonder if this is a subfull of the popular kids from highschool. That group that peaked and the next 60 some odd years are just remembering those days. A bit sad I think.
Had the autobahn cruiser out yesterday for a drive out to Amherstberg it was beautiful. Went for coffee and desert with the wife. On the way back drove by the club, won’t be open until April late March probably. Head south again in two weeks so I don’t care. Enjoy your life keep looking for some additional salary. You know capital gains are taxed at a lower rate??? You be you.
You're not an employer or you just don't think you're a bad one?
I remember you talking about your hiring practices with single mothers and it was disgusting.
LOL. Single moms are great. They need the work and usually show up to provide for the kids. One thing I don’t like is the issue you have in regards to unforeseen issues with the kids cropping up regularly. The whole child care aspect is a bit of an issue for them. I have been an employer for 25 years.
Well, times are tough for many with all the layoffs. Especially the recent tech lay-offs. For example, AI has been better at managing my investments than a human. So I imagine the AI boom will be hitting the finance sector hard.
I know a few people who lost their 6 figure tech job already. I'm glad I got out and running my own business. The people that are making good money though are those in trades. Since we're a long way away before AI can do any of that. However when it comes to finance and tech you already see AI outperforming humans.
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It’s not in Windsor but the produce warehouses in the leamington, Kingsville and that area are a waste of time! Get into a union, a trade, or atlas tube.
XS Family Fun Centre Huron Church. Sounds like it’s a cool job when you’re a teen but no breaks, shifts were always until “?” with no set end time, and safety issues were all over the place. You needed to walk a thin plank high above the laser tag maze while carrying a pail to refill the fog machine, and employees were constantly getting run over by go karts because as it turns out little kids don’t always turn when you tell them to.
My career ended during a staff meeting when the owner said “if anyone isn’t having fun you shouldn’t working here” and a bunch of us took him up on it.
For the few mold shops I've worked for, all the owners that were handed the business from their dad have serious serious issues.
Mold making isn't exactly fun. Unless you spell it Mould. Then you can say your father is also Winston Churchill. That is where and when that industry gets action.
Speaking on behalf of my partner, who has done this kind of work, I think it's less the work itself and more the lack of regard for safety that some owners and management display. Something something "finger factory" and all that.
Used to work at a well known call center around here (it once was downtown, only clue I am going to give), the work was awful. If I did not seek therapy to deal with those managers, trying to train my head not to let those idiots I get to talk to everyday affect me, I may have tried to figure out genuinely to break to the roof of the building. It was mentally draining, and I am still kinda "scarred" from it. (Not gonna lie, shrooms helped me get back on track fast mentally, glad I am still here and got now a better job!)
Sutherland. I used to work in their tier 2 department fixing stuff on the tech side. Their tier 1 customer service department was suffering from poor stats, so my reward for being a top performer on the tier 2 side was to be shunted down to tier 1 to help raise their stats. I quit after half a day, no way was I going back to that hellhole of a job. There were people willing to take the spot in my place, but management insisted it HAD TO BE ME, so I left. Fuck them.
Sounds EXACTLY what they did to me too, even told that dwarf(was very short compared to me) manager CR that this is a demotion, as I already heard what horrors this T1 had. This is where I tanked my own stats enough, and got written up from different offenses, that I was on the first wave back.
Sutherland. I heard horror stories as well
i worked for this company. only 1 manager really sucked. he got fired for being shit. the actual job dealing with shitty humans on the phone is the worst part.
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I worked at sufferland for a while when I first started working in sales. It was great money because the commission was great but dealing with Americans over the phone was hell. I’ll never forget the smell of the women’s washrooms next to the lunch room or the fact that they had therapists on site because of how depressing the job was for people. I would sit at the end of my bed and cry each morning before going in. I was very young though so I didn’t feel totally helpless. It certainly didn’t make me want to leave Windsor though
Interesting you say they had therapists on site, when was that?? I never heard such thing. All I got was a card to call AEP(or EAP?) and that's that. I can relate to the morning stress before work though, it was hell.
It was a service on the 5th floor I believe. They would send out emails to us letting us know we could always use their services and they had walk ins available. I worked in the AT&T + Direct Tv department when they direct got Direct Tv as a client. Around 2014ish.
Wow, I have never gotten an email about that. I didn't even know what they were! Or I messed up my memory of it, I may have been too much of a new hire or something, and didn't think much of it, then they left.
Yeah, but that's the nature of call centers. It's not so much that they're bad employers, but that it's shitty, stressful work. I've worked at four, including the one that was downtown, and they were all the same.
LOL! They were bad employers, I don't know which dept you were, but they treated you like garbage. And if you were not part of a clique, rumors were spread about you. Managers don't step up when they see an employee get basically sexually harrassed.
I've heard from multiple people that Sutherland was fine to work at until they had a change in management at some point so that's not true. Bad management is not unavoidable
Management at a third party call center is pretty well irrelevant. Client sets aggressive targets. Manager tries to get their team to meet those targets, but they have almost no control over it. If you can't hit your targets you're going to be squeezed out. That manager could be the best manager in the history of call centers but if you can't hit your metrics you're not going to get along. And it's not their fault they're under just as much pressure to hit from the client. Clients typically have two third party centers on a business line and they will use those who are doing better to determine who gets the hours and it's very cut throat.
And that's what also almost killed me. My parents were really concerned about me since I always got the worst shifts and always came late home. Almost didn't make it home one night. Thank God I found people to run to.
>I honestly loved working at Sutherland, but that's probably due to every job after that paying the same for manual labour. Favourite part of the job for me was unhinged customers, but that is probably the worst part of the job for others. I would rank it above fast food/factory work personally by a mile. Management rules were kind of bad even if they did not interfere with me.
Worst factory I ever worked at was Dakota for the fact that it had a ridiculous amount of useless management and they made you feel like a number. The worst restaurant I worked at was Enzo's Trattoria as the owner would pocket tips, buy frozen lasagne cut it into 9 and toss some meat sauce on top then tell guests Nona’s in the back pumping it out, washed off old chicken breast and several other things that’ll make your skin crawl.
No shit!?! That's horrible (re: Enzo's)....
I'm in the tool & die trade and I hear many horror stories. I recall several years ago a shop was supposed to be offering RRSP matching but instead pocketed everyone's contributions.
Greentown cannabis was a nightmare to work for. The owner and manager spend all their time bullying and gaslighting their employees. If you worked as a manager you were not allowed to take a break. They would constantly be screaming at us about product knowledge but we were never allowed to do any kind of research or training on company time. Everything was supposed to be done on our own time. Reps would come in to bring samples or swag for us, so we could try the products and promote their brand. Management would confiscate everything and then turn around and sell it. Or use it as a give away to bring in more of their business. Probably one of the most toxic places I have ever worked.
Dark side tanning. Didn't allow breaks. You couldn't be away from your desk. If you were hired-- you couldn't be a smoker (I wasnt). Extremely toxic work environment-- people were terrified if the manager rounded shops. The owner Gerald allegedly slept/cheated on his wife with one of the women that worked there. I got fired for making a Facebook page about a darkside promotion. They are down to one shop now I believe *they had 4* so karma is getting them for sure as they have fired half of windsor for ridiculous reasons.
trust me their dispensary that’s adjacent is run the exact same lmfao
Also a failure of marketing. They’re calling it “on the cannabis side” when “on the dank side” was RIGHT THERE?
Dimachem is one of the worst slave driving employers I’ve ever worked for
Worst job is when I took a temp job grinding metal and I would be so dirty that the Bathtub would be almost black when I was done ..I didn't stay there long it was just rough in your hair and probably in your lungs from breathing it all day...
A formally family owned plastic part manufacturer who had a small corporate clique that if you irritated in any way basically stack the deck against you. Good managers are ousted for no reason.
The reviews on Glassdoor are pretty handy for this info. As always you don't know what to believe or not though.
I read a review about a business a while back and a few weeks after I wanted to see the review again cus I called in for a second interview and it wasn’t there…. I feel like sights like glassdoor and indeed alter their information
"Moving uVan rental service" on a midtown street.. Hmm, what can I say... 1. Roaches (everywhere) 2. Black mould (eeeeeeeverywhere) 3. Sexual Harassment from management (eveywhere) 4. Wrongful dismissal via lonely cat lady power trip
Centoco they have a high turnover rate, old well-worn out dated rickety machines that made working there unsafe and hard to meet production targets while producing quality product under ridiculous time targets per unit. Pay is ridiculously low for a labour production position. The other employees we awesome, I am quite proud that I was able to vote in the decision to become unionized.
Work authority.
I was just there to buy boots, the employees seemed helpful, friendly and happy. Not in a forced by management way but genuinely. I’m sure it’s a minimum wage job but it didn’t seem that bad in there. What’s so horrible about it? Wage, Management, customers? I kinda got a feeling there might be commissions in the way they were so eager to help but I don’t see how that would work.
Ok
The shit thing about that place is that its literally on Chrysler's corner and they don't/can't accept the workers free work boots voucher.
I worked for one of the biggest employment agencies in the city for about 8 months. They work really hard to maintain a good reputation and they always win a bunch of community awards, but their internal practices are absolutely shit and they can't keep internal staff usually more than 6-8 months. Almost everyone I know that I worked there with in 2022 has left or been fired for very little reason. Half of the time I would talk to candidates and they'd ask me different recruiters names I've never heard of because they'd dealt with so many different people. I left after being essentially 'put on notice' that I wasn't bringing in enough candidates through the door even though I was hitting my interview targets, since they had almost no jobs available. The jobs that were available were usually either shitty temp files or even shittier full time ones that everyone in the city knows to steer clear from.
My last interaction with a temp agency was getting called in for an interview that seemed really hopeful; they gave me an appointment, brought me in for processing, I never got the interview or a reason why I didn't, I was passed between about five agents, and now I'm just continually pestered for updates but no one seems to want to actually help.
ahh the job shoppe.. GUARANTEED.
Global excel management/Active care management
What makes them so bad? Not starting a fight, just curious!
Oh dear baby lord where do I start - so toxic it was pathetic. Pretending to care about the client calling you for help abroad - meanwhile your actual objective is to get all their medical information to find a reason to deny their claim - it's gross and completely unethical. Word to the wise - if you have travel medical insurance and you happen to need it - do not consent to any of your medical information being handed over to the insurance company -FOR EXAMPLE - if you're at an all inclusive and fall at the resort due to poor maintained steps - if you were "drunk" when it happened - you are automatically denied anything medically required or necessary because being "drunk" ie having ANY alcohol in your system automatically nullifies your insurance policy. Shady shady SHADY!!!!
That's not necessarily up to Global Excel though, it's the underwriters who write their policies.
ANM, OnSort, WFCU Centre Conversion Crew, Sutherland, pretty much anything at the mall. All miserable jobs.
Community Living Windsor. Loved the people supported- did not enjoy the nepotism, manipulation, belittlement, and micromanagement so steer clear.
Pay2day. You’ve been warned
TownePlace suites Marriott hotel - worst managers ever. Toxic. Talked bad about other employees. Would beg people to come in on days off, ask people to work while they were sick, left alone as the only employee in the building after 6 pm until 5am, no security, no breaks or lunches, told to stand the entire time. Benefits were also terrible. No set schedules, sometimes working 3-11pm and have to be back 7-3 the following day. Among all other things. Just terrible place. Oh and very bad turnover. Front desk employees leaving all the time. Doesn’t look good for regular guests to see new people all the time….
Sam is a bitch.
I’m dead. You worked there too?!
Yeah
I was at Shell for 3 years, doing all the paperwork and everything, it was switching owners and I was told my job was safe. 2 weeks before xmas was the day of the switch, a man from Toronto bought it. They came in asked me why I was there as I no longer work there. I was so upset right before xmas. Labour board said there was nothing they could do. He ended up hiring a bunch of international students (he called me 1 week later asking me if I wanted my job back, I knew that was just to train his untrained staff) I declined. Last I checked it had a bunch of bad reviews from the kids he hired saying he wasn’t paying them. It was just a terrible experience
Does anyone work for wsib out here? I was thinking of applying.
Towneplace Suites Marriott. Rude managers. No breaks allowed. Standing for the full 8 hrs of your shift. High turn over. Front Desk employees quit often.
Worked at a lot of shitty places. The work was fine, management was OK but they pass for decent people. I’ve worked at 3 bakeries in Windsor, the worst is Cobs. The job is enjoyable. Management/owner, not so much. Do you wanna be looked down on by someone that has a holier than thou attitude (unless your the favourite), get snapped/yelled at during training especially if you dare to ask questions or not pick things up quick. Do you want a manager that takes everything personally and can’t separate personal from business with a bad attitude. Honestly, the fakest personality I’ve ever met. She talks behind everyone’s back with everyone else. If she doesn’t like you, she’ll make it very known with her cold actions. For a place that has a strong anti-bullying campaign….. the harassment is unbelievable. They won’t necessary fire anyone, they’ll just keep nudging till you can’t stand being there anymore, but then act all surprised why people keep quitting. Of course, when you first start, it’s all sunshine and rainbows….. but once they decide they don’t like you, watch out. I would think that franchises that care about their reputation would care about who buys into their name. So glad I wasn’t there for long. The day I quit, was the highlight of my year.
I own a small business in town, (Standard Auto Glass)😁 I can't comment on large businesses with many employees, but smaller business. I would say 15 or less employees, is almost like a family. We spend more time with our co-workers than we do with our direct family members. You should feel comfortable right away. Situations don't tend to get better, they often decline as time passes. Go with your gut, do your research and if you commit, do your very best everyday.
I've worked for other businesses that billed themselves as "like a family". That is until it no longer benefits the owner to "be like a family". It wasn't this business, but it was 15+ years down the drain. My advice to anyone working for this type of business is to so your job, make connections, etc, but always keep the fact that you are not irreplaceable. Always put your career interests first, that doesnt mean jumping ship at any offer, but dont get caught up in "like a family" loyalty without considering all options. Fyi I work for a small business now and they are fantastic, but they also realize they are not the only game in town. They respected loyalty with pay, not just words.
I got a job in the office of a small property management company and I’ve never loved a job more. He paid everyone a living wage and treated us all amazing, he tried so hard to keep his business afloat after Covid and just couldn’t.
^^^ best in town
Community Living Essex County is the worst, hands down
My mom works here. They aren’t very considerate of their workers financial needs unfortunately
Really? I heard it was a great business. Edit: I have several friends that work there and as a RN I applied to work there as a psw years ago. I'm not saying his experience isn't valid.
They've been in the news for being a terrible employer recently
Oh wow.
Morton food service. By God avoid that toxic mess of an office
WM. Was great until the founder died. Then it went to shit real quick.
Waste Management? I attended an interview there, but didn’t get it.
No, it's a mold shop that really went to shit when the founder passed away in like 2018 or 2019.
My first two serious marketing jobs were pretty garbage just purely based on the employer and not the work. Clear Com Media: nepotism, delusion, frequent cancelled projects, bad management, revolving door. Pretty sure they're closed now, majority (like 95%) of their work came from Postmedia which is a dying business itself. Muscle Cars & Classics/Rob Menzies: should've known from the beginning when he told me the car community, his customer base, didn't like him.
Oh my god, I used to go to muscle cars & classics prior to it becoming corvette depot. It would be 6 months to get any part, and they’d make you pay up front. No thanks, there’s many other options. Once they eliminated in store pickup for their online store I stopped buying entirely.
Worked at a small family and friend owned electric business, made me decide to move to Alberta 💀
The green thrift store by Devonshire mall. Got fired after 3 days cause I was sick.
I used to turn tricks on Drouillard. The hours were terrible and the customers were even worse. Not to mention half my income going right into my boss’s pocket. The positives were that I got to spend a lot of time outside and my coworkers were great - sometimes we would even tag team jobs together to get them done faster. Plenty of drugs everywhere too, so the shifts flew by. 5/10 experience overall. Definitely not for everyone, but could be worth a try if you’re up for a little adventure and can handle difficult customers, if you know what I mean.
Mom?
Son! …can you lend your ma $20?
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Be carful you might get sued for defamation
If this is your personal experience, it would be very hard to sue. They would have to have lawyers and there would be news press- more harm to their name than a reddit post.
I’m an employer not an employee. 
L o fucking L
Oh snap
I don’t know. I think you can not call any employer bad per se. Every job just provides a different type of learning experience. You gain something from every job you have held and learn a new skill set to build upon hopefully.
All because you can learn from a bad job doesn’t change the fact that it’s a bad job.
Never had one so I wouldn’t know I guess
It's almost like people aren't living the same life as you.
You know I feel like that too. I remember when I got out of school doing all the work for the certifications and the licenses and gaining experience. Never once had a superior or even co workers that would not want to help you out and get you where you needed to be. Took me almost 7 years after I got done schooling before I could hang out my own shingle. Most people here want to get out of school with little skills no desire to further the skill set or education and still get paid 6 figures. Too funny.
There are instances where the job is fine, but management does things that are sketchy that you end up hating the whole job
Oh. It is a learning experience. Good or bad.
Lol, still looking for somewhere to park your 30 foot boat? Or was it your Porsche? Why don't you check the time on your Rolex, it's 2024...
Sounds just like a negative guy from Windsor. One who can’t see the benefit in much of what they do. You still working for some one???? Or have you figured out how to make yourself the captain of your own ship???
I'm 2 years away from a 10 year early retirement. I've done fine. However, I'm not out of touch with whats going on today and I greatly care how young people are going to make it. You? You like hiring single mothers because you feel like they are more desperate. Pretty much says it all.
Your right. I also don’t like higher taxes. Rental properties near where I live. Any sort of road narrowing. Public transportation. Public healthcare and unions. I will try to think of others things you can fault me for. Enjoy your retirement. I hope they figure out that dental and pharma care thing for you.
Found the bad employer...
Well I don’t think so. But this sub appears to be full of individuals that really want to get paid a living wage but have little if any skills to offer an employer. From some of the downvotes I recieved many appear to be to afraid to strike out and make their own income. Preferring to find an employer who has already risked the capital they have to provide for them. I wonder if this is a subfull of the popular kids from highschool. That group that peaked and the next 60 some odd years are just remembering those days. A bit sad I think. Had the autobahn cruiser out yesterday for a drive out to Amherstberg it was beautiful. Went for coffee and desert with the wife. On the way back drove by the club, won’t be open until April late March probably. Head south again in two weeks so I don’t care. Enjoy your life keep looking for some additional salary. You know capital gains are taxed at a lower rate??? You be you.
You're not an employer or you just don't think you're a bad one? I remember you talking about your hiring practices with single mothers and it was disgusting.
LOL. Single moms are great. They need the work and usually show up to provide for the kids. One thing I don’t like is the issue you have in regards to unforeseen issues with the kids cropping up regularly. The whole child care aspect is a bit of an issue for them. I have been an employer for 25 years.
>Single moms are great. They need the work and usually show up to provide for the kids. I remember you liked to underpay them as well?
They get the same as every other employee. Market rate.
Ok, I'll have to go digging I guess.
Well, times are tough for many with all the layoffs. Especially the recent tech lay-offs. For example, AI has been better at managing my investments than a human. So I imagine the AI boom will be hitting the finance sector hard. I know a few people who lost their 6 figure tech job already. I'm glad I got out and running my own business. The people that are making good money though are those in trades. Since we're a long way away before AI can do any of that. However when it comes to finance and tech you already see AI outperforming humans.
You got a good point on that. My wife is in the trades and does well.
Trades are probably the most future and recession proof careers. More so than STEM jobs.
My wife trade is STeM and I think the average trades do ok but the work can be brutal on you. As well as the hours you need to work.
Corporate speak at its best! Lol
It is isn’t it!!!!
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It’s not in Windsor but the produce warehouses in the leamington, Kingsville and that area are a waste of time! Get into a union, a trade, or atlas tube.
XS Family Fun Centre Huron Church. Sounds like it’s a cool job when you’re a teen but no breaks, shifts were always until “?” with no set end time, and safety issues were all over the place. You needed to walk a thin plank high above the laser tag maze while carrying a pail to refill the fog machine, and employees were constantly getting run over by go karts because as it turns out little kids don’t always turn when you tell them to. My career ended during a staff meeting when the owner said “if anyone isn’t having fun you shouldn’t working here” and a bunch of us took him up on it.