Now that my guy is no longer with Motorola, I can air how crummy they treat their employees. Since there is so much to tell, I will just zero in on the super shitty stuff.... 1) Be part of a 4 man team that is responsible for 8 cell sites for the Nextel system and try to cover all 8 sites while each site has about 3 or 4 people sitting on their butts in Schaumberg giving orders with no clue as to what is happening in the real world. Work a 16 to 18 hour day and then plan on a phone call about 4:56PM with new problems - you see, Schaumberg is an hour behind the east coast and these dolts wait till the end of their day and then go - Oops! need to order someone to do something today - should have called earlier but better get it done before I go home. 2) Continually change the insurance coverage so no one knows what kind of coverage they have or which Dr. they see. Even the home office can't answer questions on the coverage cause they don't know either. 3) Cover only 90 day supplies of pills by mail order only - never mind that all doctors will only write a script for 30 days at a time. That's one way to get out of paying for medication. 3) Structure an annual review policy that demands that at least 20% of employees be designated 'needs improvement' or worse. Then place an east coast iDEN group under a west coast boss who never EVER made it to Florida to meet the people. Come review time give all the east coast people bad reviews. Why? 'Because I know my people, but don't know anything about yours so mine got good reviews'. Boy, that sits well with a group of guys that work 7 days a week just to keep up with the work load. Good for morale too - especially when it's time for annual bonuses and they get nothing for beating their brains out. 4)Set up the most convoluted computer system and demand that everyone use it for email, time sheets etc. Then, do not allow the service techs to know what the install techs did (for security reasons. That way, every one can pass the buck, no one knows where the problem is and human resources can send out nasty emails when time sheets are not timely, or email (delivered 3 days after sent) is not responded to. 5) After a 40 + year employee is given a shitty review, and his direct boss and then, his boss' boss argue on the employees behalf, DEMOTE the boss and FIRE the boss' boss because they stood up for their employee. Threaten the employee with 'indirect' discharge (this close to retirement) if he does not sign a paper indicating he agrees with his poor review and SALARY cut. 6) Since Nextel is the main customer of the iDEN group, Motorola installs equipment for Nextel's switches. Parts will be ordered, arrive and be signed for by people unknown at the cell site docks. Al of a sudden, no one knows where the parts are, or who the person was that signed for them - but it's Motorolas fault. Or, the guys are assured that the Nextel techs have installed all they have to do prior to Motorola installing the guts of a new switch. They arrive at 11:00PM to do an all nighter only to find out that Nextel has done nothing in preparation. The next day who is being screamed at? The Motorola guys, for not treating the 'customer' (Nextel) properly. 7) Give a 40 year employee a catalog of the cheapest gifts imaginable to choose from for their anniversary. (Vacuum cleaners? $100 plastic cameras?) 8) At 45 years of employment, give the employee an acrillic 'brick' with their name on it instead of the cash that that damned thing cost. Fly departmental heads down at the last minute to the tune of several thousand dollars plus hotel rooms to present the 'brick'. 9) At retirement, don't even offer to host a party for the soon to be retiree - instead, let his immediate boss pay for everything. (Which his boss did and had been planning for over a year. It was a great party!) Give the 47 year employee 4 $100 gift cards and that's it from Motorola. Then screw up his pension so that it takes 5 (yes thAT'S fivE) MONTHS TO GET HIS FIRST CHECK. 10) AND THIS ONE IS MY FAVORITE! Take away all company cars from the employees that haul parts, cable reels, switch parts etc. and tell all employees that from now on they will use their own cars and Motorola will reimburse them .45 a mile at 80% of usage. The car MUST BE LESS than 5 years old, MUST get at least 30 miles to the gallon, MUST not cost more than a certain amount or there will be no reimbursement. How's that for caring for the employee! And the above is only the tip of the iceberg. Motorola made each department a 'business' unto itself - thus each department is only responsible for for its costs - so they will put the shaft to all other departments to save money within their own group. This results in little to NO cooperation between parts, service, warehouse, office etc. and, makes it impossible to trace parts or orders. And while the guys struggle with 12 and 18 hours days 6 days a week to keep up with the work, memos came out from Chris Galvin, telling everyone how important it was to spend time with family like he does every weekend. Motorola sucks!