Former Employee - Product Support, Field Service Sales in Los Angeles, CA (US)
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I worked at Thermotron full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
the management said it was Ok to lie cheat steal embezzle and defraud the customer and your co worker's because "everyone is a manager " and the managers backstabber the employee's, embezzling is encouraged, a few hundred a week is OK, because field sales and service is an expense, and stealing and lying binds the thermotron "team" together,
Cons
Who will hear things like "i heard about you" meaning it's bad, or "somebody said this or that about you-- BUT -- didn't believe it, and i lied for you, the management LOVES to dig 4 dirt on everyone, and they protect the liars, and deceivers, -- people say -- let me talk to them and get close so we can find out what is "really-going-on", expect everyone to be dishonest and lie to you-- as the motto is it dosen't mat… Show More
Advice to Management
the employee'e in the remote office's last about a year, the management gets them to distrust each outer and call them up whan they have dirt, and reward the employee, by telling them to work some overtime as a reward, and keep an eye out, for problems with the attitude of the co worker they just defrauded
yes – at thermotron it’s “REQUIRED” to prove you are a sociopath
california former employee
This management team not only kept the employees uninformed, and misinformed, but they kept each other misinformed,
just tell me the good things happening (or the potential dirt on the underlings) I don’t want to hear about problems.
The alcoholic salesman once painted a story that dramatized this distortion.
If for instance a salesman was with as customer and jumped into their lap, kissed them on the lips shit all over themselves and the customer.
By the time the story was filtered to the president it could likely be changed to “
Well the salesman had some Mexican food for lunch and it gave him gas; when he was with the customer he farted a couple times.
It was necessary to learn the skill of
1…”memo documentation” ( at one point this escalated to something akin to memo wars) this manager became a habitual liar and denied anything and everything; it became necessary to document events to anticipate his lack of support in the effort minimize future problems.
As stat ed above it became necessary to write memo’s to document any type of problem.
This manager who was in a different office instead of keeping (remote) employees better informed, covertly told his (cronies) accomplice’s to let him know if a memo’s were being sent. Of course !!
Ah yes, your humble narrator went out to California on a Pilgrimage. Searching for holy cities, magicians, wild women, and new flavors of the “Wow “Vibes.
California, the Golden State.
At the time, it sort of seemed like an omen. Intuition told me that I would find ” Truth “ in California.
Nobody dies of old age there. Everyone dies prematurely on the highways, and you never know when,
Any minute of any hour some brake lights could blink, tires squeal, and the semi on your rear bumper flattens you into a gruesome road-kill in two seconds flat. It could happen tonight. You live like a hunted beast.
RAZOR-SHARP-ALERT!!!!
Everyone has their day to die on the thruway bleeding, you get your own honorary traffic jam as gawkers creep by admiring your splashed guts. And the traffic jam blocks the ambulance two miles back.
Everyone is famous for
a half an hour.
It’s like a bizarre pagan sacrifice to the Goddess of Asphalt.
No one escapes the hot black alter!
My dashboard was a good luck temple …. four inches deep in St. Christopher statues, rabbit’s feet, four leaf clovers, spirit whistles, eagle feathers, glass pyramids, magic crystals, satchels of voodoo herbs, and photos of Jesus Christ, Budda, Confucius, and Ollie North.
YOU NEED more than AAA.
California the land of promise. As i drove along those roads I saw it for what it was …….
” THE TRUTH “
” Pou-Fu Loves Sally ”
“Iluminado + Sally ”
” Abdulla Owns Sally “
The thugs hang out every where.
Nubile wenches. Boom boxes, Budweiser,
and Zig-Zag bomers. Litter everywhere..
Yes, the couple years I spent in California……thinking that this was ” IT ” was as much fun as an …………incurable case of
jumbo Ho Chi Mihn crab lice.
Did I find the Truth??
Boy, did I !!!
I cruised right by
the bright red signs.
WRONG WAY: DO NOT ENTER.
All caution to the wind.
The Management method employed was to
1…erode the employees confidence in their work;
2…find some petty reason or fault, real or imaginary,
3… create situations where the employee may have to lie.
4…Put them under pressure so they would fail
5.. then management could supposedly
“COVER FOR THEM”.
6…This provided justification for the employee to LIE FOR The Manager;
This effort was to keep the employees:
7…confused and there for under control,
8…and with the group lying for the Manager “it was a Good day 4 him
training is how to be a psychopath– Greogoy V Johnson was the pet of thomas bannach– who bragged it was ok to defraud your co workers– Hil sybesma– said he had the same moral character– and stealing was not bad– it was working the system
thermotron former employee
document.write(today_string()); Monday, Mar 3, 2008 Posted on Sun, May. 27, 2007 A job lost and perspective gained MIKE DRUMMOND
Kevin Holt of Gastonia bears little likeness to the chiseled warriors depicted in Army posters.
He’s 41, heavyset and has a habit of pushing his eyeglasses to the bridge of his nose.
He’s a citizen-soldier.
The former sailor enlisted in the National Guard in July 2004 as a way to supplement his income and heed a call to service.
Last summer, between supervising a chow line at Camp Speicher outside Tikrit, Iraq, and running food convoys, Holt sat at dusty computer keyboards, hunting and pecking the answers to his online college course. He hoped a business degree would help him land a job.
Thermotron Industries, based in Holland, Mich., fired Holt in April 2005, near the height of the Bush administration’s call-up of National Guard members and just a week after Holt told the company he was being deployed to Iraq.
Holt serviced Thermotron’s environmental test chambers, which expose electronics and other devices to temperature extremes. He covered a patch of the Southeast for the privately held, mid-sized company, making about $54,000 a year.
Holt says Thermotron accused him of trying to bill the company for Yellow Pages advertising he had ordered for his side repair business. BellSouth had mailed the bill to Thermotron by mistake, an error
Holt said his boss had resolved more than eight months before. The married father of two worked seven years for Thermotron, which has a growing defense-contract business. T
he termination was an about-face for a company that two months before firing him had given Holt another glowing annual evaluation.
