Pyramid Scheme - Network Engineer Ascension Employee Review

1.0
May 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers at former Wheaton Franciscan ministry were always great.

Cons

Ascension is fooling Nuns into giving up their non-profit healthcare organizations (for free) faster than they can assimilate them into their archaic IT infrastructure. Everything is money driven which doesn't feel like the mission of a non-profit catholic healthcare org. The moral compass of leadership was revealed when they threatened to shut down St. Joseph's hospital until the public cried out. Management was constantly driving home the fact that Ascension, as a whole, was off budget by $100 million. Even though AIS was in the black our cell phone stipend was taken away and they enforced a hiring/promotion freeze. I would bet that raises this year were nothing to write home about. Lots of sunshine meetings to try and raise morale and the level of brown nosing in the meetings was nauseating. Coupled with doom and gloom meetings to make sure we are all aware why we probably wont be getting raises flatlined my trust in leadership. They call their standards "Gold Standards".... gross....

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Cons

Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.

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