Unstable Role, Aggressive vibe, Low Pay, and toxic environment - Power Systems Engineer BBA inc. Employee Review

pay hours location work study options company phone

long hours commute limited upper level advancement

None that I can think of.

Pressure to bill every hour. Management would tell us to 'add' time to discuss 'safety' and joked, "Who would question that billing time?" Sending reports to a secretary to review, then having to answer questions form a technically illiterate person, then filling out a form that said the review step was completed. Then having another review with an engineer and completing another form that this was also completed. This was part of their ISO 9000 Policy. All this time to the client. While secretaries were entrusted with reviewing reports, engineers were tasked with filling out time sheets with multiple sub codes for billable time, travel time, meals, car rental, gas for car rental, parking, etc. And billing that time to the client vs. having a secretary do that at lower rate. The company computer system crashed due to an IT and no work could be done for over an hour. Management debated and then ordered everyone to charge their time to whatever project they were working on at the time. Secretaries would also book you two weeks on the road at a time and 3 out of four weeks for months on end. Agreements with managers to control travel to certain percentages were ignored. Overall, I felt I was ripping off every client I worked with.