Pros
Great field employees and coworkers.
Kontras
Too many to list but here are a few: - George Oliver's Tyco-ization of JCI as a whole. This is the blueprint of how to ruin a company from the top down. - Centralization - horrible, confusing internal processes put in place to make it easy on incompetent Centralized teams all under the guise of being compliant to to some unseen corporate ruleset. You waste time and money trying to get simple tasks accomplished and at the end of the day leave frustrated and degraded. - Silo Management structure has created a bloated management team full of managers managing managers managing managers while you can't hire people to service customers and don't know who to go to to get things fixed because none of them have any real authority to do anything. - "I don't care, it's not my job" culture of demoralized employees. - Short sighted focus that continues to attempt to show a profit at the employees expense. One example, the 401k matching distribution is now once a year, at the end of the year, in a lump sum payment instead of every pay period. So the company gets to keep your matching dollars and they make the interest on it. If you leave the company before then, they keep the matching funds you have gained all year! - Confusing compensation and bonus plans. - Not paying bonuses that you have earned or greatly reducing them if you do pay anything - Delayed Merit increases on salary. Stop trying to show a profit at the expense of your employees. Its degrading and continues to cause bad feelings toward the company.
