Shareholders first, people dead last! - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij MetLife

The bottom line is more important than people, that includes its employees and customers. Shareholder satisfaction drives business, which leads to insane cuts and increased employee dissatisfaction. They've cut the IT dept, for example, to such levels that only very senior management get the support that every employee deserves--a 1-3 day turnaround for basic basic IT support. In this cost-cutting-you're-lucky-you-have-a-job environment, employees feel like they have to work on their time offs and while on vacation and put in 60-75 hour weeks; some a lot more. While these cuts are going on, management of course, lives high off the hog. Management is unproductive. They start lots of initiatives that go nowhere. They are poor communicators. I suspect they communicate with employees via email because they're too embarrassed to lie to us to our faces. Most discouraging though is that they let go excellent/productive people or pass them over for promotion in favor of less competent people that they, management, likes.