- The majority of the Lab Equipment in the Electrical Engineering lab was purchased in the 1970’s. In addition, there is no lab technician or lab manager to organize the lab and maintain the equipment due to budgetary reasons.
- Engineers are not given the authority to make decisions or address road blocks. However, Engineers are held responsible for the assigned task by management.
- Questionable practices in regard to charging of labor hours to government contracts.
- Management refuses to write trip reports or inform the engineers of changes that affect requirements, schedules, or budgets. Engineers must call the customer to determine what changes management has agreed too. In regard to this problem one co-worker pointed out the fact that if a manager does not write it down the manager cannot be held responsible.
- The small training budget is generally allocated to the recent college graduates. Long time employees in management positions will admit to never having completed a management training class. In addition, there is no budget or training program for mid level or senior level engineers.
- The work is mainly low technology. Challenging high tech work is subcontracted out.
- Insubordination issues by employees are not addressed by management in a timely manner.
- Unknowingly, two different groups of people will be assigned the same task by the same manager thus duplicating effort. The result is overcharging the customer and over running the project budget.
- Management ranks the employees. Rankings are generally dependent on management’s perception or familiarity with the employee as a result the employees at the bottom of the rankings are not necessarily the low performers. Low ranking employees are Involuntary terminated in staff reductions.
- Personal vehicles are routinely vandalized in the parking lot.
- Medical coverage is reduced by 10% on a yearly basis.
