I will try make a factual list:
- You have 10 minutes a day for a comfort breaks, this is the only time other than 20 minutes break and 45 minutes lunch you can use for non work activities, eg bathroom breaks, smoking, tea, coffee (This doesn't matter to me, but is a problem for many people)
- Treatment of sick employees is really bad, bordering on negligence in some cases. Forcing employees to come in with the threat of occurrences, which limits progression opportunities. I've seen many people come in to work, that really shouldn't have been there, because they're scared to get occurrences. Also Vhi don't accept their own online doctor service sick certs. They also have no respect for your privacy as they won't accept sick certs stating "medical illness", you have to get a cert that states the illness and even if they did accept the cert stating medical illness they would just force you to tell them why you were off under the pretence of wanting to "help" you. They harass people that are out to come back early. The "nurse" is there not for your wellbeing, but to force you to come back early.
- No flexibility, if you can't swop shifts with a colleague it's your problem. No work life balance, booking days off is a nightmare.
- Any "training" after the initial induction is just a tick box exercise to cover themselves, whether you understand or not is irrelevant.
- Progression opportunities, there are many, but seems like you have to befriend the right people and sometimes it looks like people are preselected and the selection process is only a formality.
- They have a rotational system to work in different sections so you can "learn more", but in reality this only keeps you consistently under pressure, you gain no valuable skills and they get cheap labour as they don't have to pay people in certain sections more.
- Planning and communication seem haphazard, they are good at communicating long term strategy, but implementation is often a mess and the staff often normal staff have to just adapt and suffer through it. You are bombarded with irrelevant emails, and often this leads to missing important information. There's also an internal wiki system where you can look up information, and you are often told "it's on wiki", but you might as well be telling someone to find the short needle in a truck load of normal needles.
- A large part of your performance measurement is based on observes, which is very subjective and based on your TL you could easily pass or fail.
- High pressure environment with little to support. (Most TL's try their best, but they can only do so much, as they also have too many other responsibilities.)
