Terrible management in Vancouver Office - Low salaries - Anonymous employee BBA inc. Employee Review

2.0
Oct 3, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

friendly environment, flexible schedule, no real management >> no real supervision! you can go to work and do nothing for weeks without anybody even noticing you! , 37.5 hours work a week

Cons

- they suffer seriously from lack of management at least in their Vancouver office ; although they have been around for almost 10yeras in vancouver, but still no management structure has formed there. the company in general does not have a proper structure - salaries are low. all you get is your base salary nothing added to it. oh there is a yearly bonus of $400 tho! - french(Quebecois) people run the company, including the vancouver office, who are biased to a good extent against non-french people. if you want to progress in your career and are not from Quebec and dont speak French, do not waste your time! they would keep you as a worker bee forever while you can watch your Quebecois fellows grow - they literally use their vancouver office to catch projects for their office in Quebec. not much to do and learn in the vancouver office

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Pros

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Cons

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.

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