Your firm has hired a new HR advisor from Pembina (M.S.) If you interact with her as an employee, ensure everything is in writing. In person? record the conversation on your phone. Speaking to her on a cellphone? Download a call recording app and record everything. This is from the Pembina layoff page. The items marked with a ** occurred under her watch as HR business partner of Technical Services Unit. Watch your backs!!
** HR shaming a woman for going on maternity leave
** HR shaming a male for taking paternity leave
** Team giving the cold shoulder and shaming a woman for getting pregnant
** A manager telling their team that a male within the group who requested to take paternity leave would now be passed over for all future promotions if he took the leave
** An internal debate within a BU about hiring a black man for a managerial role
** Guilting employees for taking disability leave and then laying them off
Delusional culture that guilts 10s of hours of weekly unpaid overtime from staff
** Questionable conduct within Human Resources
Cronyism with internal promotions and external hires. Want to be hired at Pembina? Go drink or play golf with a Pembina manager. Competence and experience not required
Nepotism with summer student hires
** Internal culture that is based on vindictiveness and fear. Never question the cult. Fall in line soldiers and obey your masters and sycophant HR
A culture where the abuse of alcohol is not only tolerated but celebrated
** Alright, here is another terrible one for the list. When all of the Covid stuff
kicked off and we started to work from home, a former colleague of mine started to experience symptoms of the virus. The team was texting this person checking in but when they talked to management, the only thing they were asked was "who were you last in contact with at the office" and "let us know when you are able to get back to work". Nothing about their health. The manager told them that HR and the company "nurse" would reach out to them to check-in but that never happened. Was chatting with them a few months ago and they said that after that went down, they had their resume open on one screen while working, and that Pembina paid for them to find another job. The response was very Pembina-like.
** Pembina is the only company I worked for in my career where if a quality person and decent performer accepted a position at another company, no one openly celebrated them or looked inward as to why they left. As soon as the person had one foot out the door, they were criticized and their contributions minimized. Stockholm syndrome sunk in. People need to accept that these cultural issues are tolerated from the top down and there isn't anyone high level in the executive "pipeline" under Mick who have an appetite for changing these things. As long paycheques are cashed and the shareholder is looked after, who cares. I'm curious so see how far behind the eight ball Pembina will be in 5 years.
** I'll add something that still makes me angry to this day. I was hired at Pembina in 2014 and sometime in 2015 there was a female on our team in her late twenties who was going through an obvious challenging time with her mental health and was struggling. It was heartbreaking seeing it take place from the sidelines, and I genuinely wondered if she would even be in the office the next day or if she took her own life. I remember seeing our HR business partner visit the office of our manager to obviously discuss options about the situation. A day or two later after that visit, the manager took her office away, assigned it to someone else, and increased her workload and field visits.. to obviously make her resign and rid the company of any liability. Another note to the story: This is the same team that debated hiring a black man to replace said manager. It's all true and disgusting.