Poor leadership at the top has caused mass exodus - Sales Representative Brenntag Employee Review

1.0
Dec 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You don’t have to work. Will take them years to realize you aren’t doing anything based on new management direction to not travel or create expenses.

Cons

European leadership has put emphasis on specialties products with no guidance or action plans behind it. The plan is so chaotic many of the strong managers have left, causing weak leadership on the local level. They’re simultaneously firing people with 12 years experience with two weeks severance days ahead of Christmas, and also trying to hire people into positions they don’t need. Plans to break apart specialties and essentials Jan 1, with no action items given on how this will happen. No manager in North America believes this will succeed.

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5.0
Apr 15, 2026
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Pros

Remote work, decent pay, great team

Cons

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2.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Easy work, great co workers

Cons

Too many unnecessary office employees, and management. Driver facing cameras. Childish policies. A lot of brainstorming that mostly revolves around how to blame a driver or how to take money back out of drivers pockets in favor of paying people in the office whose jobs should be consolidated or replaced. They started paying more after Covid because their hand was forced, then the big minds got together and made new policies to take more than half of that money back from the driver and people who work overtime because clearly those people aren’t smart enough to figure that out and will just take it.

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