Pluspunten
If you’re a history buff and want to experience a corporate ’70’s job, sign the dotted line, sell your soul and get started! Or if you're a new starter looking for a quick fix for 2 years, come in, keep your head down, get some experience and get out. Apparently it looks good on your resume. The customers that can actually identify the hard workers in the business and develop a good relationship with them. They could see my value and continuously thanked me for my hard work. My boss never could. The gate you use to exit is pretty good too. Serotonin hits immediately upon driving down that road, away from the business at full throttle everyday. You’ll hear burnouts out the front all afternoon in support of this. As a 20-something year old, you'll run rings around the supervisors and be finished your work by lunch time. They’ll know how quickly and efficiently you can work but still force you to hang around for 8 hours a day. They’re more than happy to pay you to twiddle your thumbs at a desk. That might be a positive for some?
Minpunten
Staff retention is atrocious, particularly among those under the age of 30. They'll throw a morning tea for completing your 6 month probation and deliver a special certificate for making it to one year. If that's not red flag, I don't know what is. Oh, and they will set you up with all the facilities to work remotely but if you ever dare to ask, they’ll look at you like you sacrificed their firstborn. Despite my best efforts to contribute to the business' performance and introduce some 21st Century ideas, I was continuously silenced by long-term employees that have become so complacent they make politicians look like hard workers. You'll be gaslit and have your ability questioned consistently by some of the most manipulative liars you've ever met because they've been in the business for 3 decades and are desperate to protect their lethargic jobs. I was promised a rapidly expanding career with a salary to match but, they failed several years in a row to match industry standard increases/keep up with the CPI whilst boasting record profits. They'll try to entice you with perks like quarterly bonuses and a 14% superannuation contribution but, don't be fooled! The 11% of $80k you could be earning somewhere else is still more than the 14% of $55k you’ll get here. In order to even get the 14% promised you’ll be forced to open an account with the most geriatric, out-of-touch super fund available in Australia. They won’t pay the higher rate into your preferred fund. I’m sure that’s illegal but, somebody else can fact-check that. Regional KPI's are pushed so hard inline with discretionary bonus schemes that supervisors are too concerned with their little silo of the business to actually provide a service to the customers keeping them employed. Branch managers protect their bottom line like their life depends on it. Inside a billion dollar company? Clown behaviour. Any attempt to pick up the work they're leaving behind and build a relationship with ‘their’ customers will be seen as a personal attack, followed by a vicious return-serve about how you're 'undermining their position and setting them up for failure.' Meanwhile, you're actually just trying to provide a service for the customer on the other end of the line that's screaming at you. The culture Lysaght was historically known for is dwindling at a rapid rate. Probably because of the ageing workforce that passionately keeps alive some of the most archaic ideas I have ever seen in my career. That on top of playing corporate monopoly with double-digit IQ supervisors and managers with drastically inflated ideas of themselves, is simply not worth it. If you’re happy working for a company for 30 years before seeing a promotion, taking home an appalling salary whilst you do it, you know what to do.