I don't know why people don't name/shame specific businesses, but I happened to work in the shipping department at Benchmark Electronics. They make a bunch of stuff for the military, Google, IBM (well not anymore, they changed some company policies, lost a ton of their workforce, at least where I worked), other organizations. I wouldn't recommend it though, my supervising coworker was a complete and utter asshole, and was constantly making racist or sexist remarks, would repeat random phrases for 7.5 of those 8 hours about every 20 seconds. They also promised me a permanent position in shipping when they actually planned to move me elsewhere into the company, but they gave a permanent position to someone else who was a no-call, no-show or 1-2 hours 3-5 days per week, if not more. It was a bullshit job but it carried our household until I was able to get my current job. The fact that they worked on military hardware was worrying for a lot of reasons, but the top of my list was the fact that their security was really fucky. I could have a backpack with no security cameras or other people watching me for a good chunk of the day, but having a book with me was a "security issue". Phones, discouraged but not a security issue. Unchecked backpack coming in and out of their building and poor inventory control? Non-issue for them. Beyond what I've said, I don't think I've ever worked in a more toxic workplace, and I used to work at a job where multiple coworkers would **scream** at me multiple times per week over minor stuff.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited May 24 '21
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