The 11 worst companies to work for

These businesses don't want employees; they want slaves. They have the same mentality as a plantation overseer, and their compensation is directly tied to how much labor they can squeeze out of every employee. No human being should work for minimum wage, except for the very young starting out in life. Hard work teaches people the value of a dollar. What I find most tragic is all of the elderly workers that you see in these jobs. Can you imagine being in your mid to late 60's and grinding out 8 hour shifts for 300$ a week. Welcome to the modern corporate workplace america. Enslaving your fellow man is not a good course of action, but these overseers don't seem to know or care about that.

Henry Ford said he wanted his employees to be able to afford the products they made, and his philosophy was instrumental to reinforcing the middle class. Now we have gangsters who got away with stealing 11T$ from middle class homeowners. Wow. The hubris on these people is stunning. They are obviously not God fearing people, are they?

Macy's is a good employer. I have worked for Macy's 3 separate times; and I earned a living wage, plus benefits, and commissions. Now you will work for your money, the hours are long; but they have a full menu of benefits, and the pay is OK if you sell. That is the key. You really have to push the merchandise out the door, and make all of your sales goals; but if you are an experienced beauty professional or manager you can earn 35 to 50k depending on your counter; not including a very generous gratis of luxury products. Saks pays well too.

I would urge any beauty professional to avoid Lord & Taylor(an absolute sweatshop, I have seen them fire people and throw them out of the building in the middle of the day) and Nordstrom, who has gorgeous merchandise; but actively defrauds employment candidates and will waste months of your time with lies; it is a Swedish plantation that has been sued thousands of times. It also takes them eons to pay bonuses that are a promised part of compensation; and they work sales associates like stock mules, uncompensated with overtime. Don't waste your time interviewing; it takes 2 to 3 months during which you will be lied to at least 6 times. They su*k

The only way to really create wealth is through entrepreneurship. As long as you are working for others, in the modern corporate rule, you will be exploited and taken advantage of.

My job at Home Depot proved one thing to me. Honesty and hard work , combined with a spotless attendance record mean nothing if you don't kiss butt and pretend you love to play all their silly games.

People arn't upset because their lazy. their upset that they can't plan to attend their sons ballgame because their schedule is different every week. They can't go to church because corp. america don't want the other guy to make that extra dime while they close a couple hours on Sunday.

The issue for most is that their employers want to govern every aspect of their life. In theory, a free country would allow you free expression. Don't say or do anything that does not agree with company policy. Even if you are sitting at home with freinds. If word gets back to the job, you get fired.

Apparently since corporate America is a non-government entity, they don't have to respect your constitutional rights if those rigts interfere with company policies or doctrine.

And they want you to think this is still a free country???  If you remain politically correct in every respect you might get by. However don't express any personal opinions.

People are upset that the job they had 20 years ago paid double what they earn today, and their expenses are triple. What will big business do when there is no place left to find cheap labor? Expect a world wide depression.

One last comment related to free speech. I once had an HR rep. at HD tell me I had no right to discuss any topic at work that did not relate to directly to performing my job.

Enough food for thought. I'm done telling my side. Just for reference for those with thumbs down. I personally spent over 20 years in management. You don't have to abuse people just because you can.

I won't be back this time so good luck to all of you on both sides of coin.

Most  companies in trouble are lead by the C.E.O. that are driven by bottom line dollars and will give up any thing to reduce cost and increase profits. This effect the most value asset of the company which is employees. When the employees suffer low wage and demoralize there a feeling that is the company does't care about us,why should we care about them. As they meet the the customers every day this attitude is pass foward. Then one day the top management wonder why we have atrocious customer service and bottom line in the downward mode.

NOT surprised about Radioschlock.....

Worked for them two years, one as a manager.  As manager I regularly worked 75 - 85 hours a week with NO OVERTIME pay. (and no I was not included in the class action law suit either)  After a year of working as manager I had earned a whopping $19K.  Shame on ME for letting them SCREW me.

My DM was an arrogant a$$.  I never felt so USED and ABUSED in my life.  Pay for everyone on the floor was lousy and turnover was rampant.  Inventory was done by hand and secondary employees were kept to a minimum.  Huge profits all went to the top.  What little that was offered as "spiffs" was done so grudgingly at best"

Sometime after I left the CEO was retired with a "GOLDEN HANDSHAKE" after starting, closing and writing off $111 million in failed ventures. 

Oh yes, and don't forget this is the company that hired a fraud for a CEO and then gave him a million dollars to "walk away".

I won't cry when this brick and mortar ripoff closes the doors forever.  Just sorry that it can't take the crooked management down with them!