1. CEO – ‘Sales Team get out there and sell, we are going to have a great trip to Mexico next year for those of you who win.’
a. Two day later 77 people were laid off
2. Integration team – How/why are some of these people selected?
a. Just because they have been at Univar the longest, having the loudest voice or knowing buzz words, does not translate into doing things correctly. Again, upper management having NO CLUE what is really transpiring in the branches (this includes some GM’s as well).
3. KPI’s – GIVE ME A BREAK! These are laughable, what are they actually measured against? Where is this data pulling from? Better question, is this data…..CORRECT?
a. Do we even have a Quality department that is devoted to quality? What is quality to Univar other than a mission statement we can pull out and show to our customers?
b. Univar KPI’s – Transportation, Supply Chain, Customer Service. All of this can be manipulated to fall onto another department. They are meaningless, can’t even be measured accurately.
4. Shipping – Our huge investment that can’t capture all of our expenses. Oh, that shipment has known extra charges? Yeah, we can’t capture that (it’s a known issue) there isn’t anything we can do about it at this time (2 years later).
5. Moving up – Can you move up, yes. Do you have to be in an inner circle, yes. Can your manager block you, yes. Does that happen often, yes.
6. Middle Management – People voluntarily leave companies for pay and because of their managers, plain and simple. Do you think that upon our exit interviews we are going to burn a bridge and state how awful they were?
a. Be mindful of which departments have an uptick of departures, ethics calls, etc.
7. Upper Management – ‘If they don’t get all of it done, they are out the door’. Hmm wonder where Middle Management learned this behavior from?
a. A max exodus from one department and you then promote them to another, how do you think that won’t happen again? Is Univar really behind this type of behavior?
b. I remember a two day seminar we aren’t supposed to speak of any longer called, The Value of the Person. Looks like that ideology flew right out the window and why, because now our CEO, President, VP’s and Board feel like we should be ruled with a Stalin like regime?
8. No laughing at Univar – I remember when I started here we not only worked hard but we laughed, genuinely looked forward to going to work. There may not be crying in baseball, but there will be at Univar.
