Working at Harte-Hanks — Reviews by Employees

this is just about one of the most normal jobs i've ever worked at. so boring. office politics was nasty, but if you can play it here you can play it anywhere.

Pay: Pay seemed to match up with industry averages
Respect: The head of my department could never look up from the ground when passing me in the halls. And this was a small department. The one exception was the day I was laid off. I always said "Hello" anyways. Other than that, you really had to kiss ass to get promoted. Among co-workers there was a general respect but management really showed a lack of respect.
Benefits: They were OK, but as time went on they got worse and worse.
Job Security: The management had no strategic vision and would change organizational structure on what seemed like a monthly basis. Whatever was the flavor of the month that protected management jobs was the structure.
Work Life Balance: This wasn't really too bad but working there was bad on the morale. I know a lot of people that regularly complained about working every weekend but did it anyways.
Career Potential/Growth: HH offered no training and like I mentioned above, the organizational structure shifting with the wind so it was very hard to define a career ladder .
Location: Nondescript industrial office park off the highway in Pflugerville.
Co-worker Competence: There were a lot of really competent and good people there that were beaten down by the incompetence of management
Work Environment: Very conservative and uninspiring. The times they attempted to inject any sort of fun into the environment were usually very lame.

I HATE THESE PEOPLE!! If you have any pride in your work no need to apply. The will take it from you and make you hate every inch of that life sucking place.

Crap pay, normal bennies. job is high pressure but pretty easy. Work a shift and go home. No career ops but it is a job.

HH President and Officers have gone berzerk. They cut staff to the point where there aren't any of us left to finish-up. They manipulate bonuses and pay so as to give shareholders a bigger bite of the profits (senior mgmt being some of the biggest shareholders). They don't embrace the correct technologies and for a supposd technology company,that's real bad. We know that the UK have got a brilliant system but mgmt just want to destroy it because it's not invented here. Politics abound and there's more empire building and a#@*-licking than DC. They're clearly looking to make the company look real profitable so they can sell it on for a quick buck but any buyer worth his salt wouldn't touch it with a pike-end. Just look at the share price - it used to be near $30 and now it's almost pennies - think that proves my point. G.S. has completely lost the plot as he goes around screaming at people to shape up or ship out and fires anyone who appears to get it wrong even if they didn't. D.LG. has just about the worst man mgmt skills possible - how he got where he is we just don't know. He stays there coz he licks things just like most of his underlings. If L.F. at the top doesn't get to grips with this soon the whole lot is just going to implode and it'll be worthless.

Heartless-Hanks.

A company that is

entrenched in an anitiquated business model

with no moral compass,

and a broken infrastructure

The best are all gone.

Bar none, the worst company I have ever worked for. I could go on but one needs only to read the comments above. They ignore your pto requests. The pay sucks and the political games abound. If management likes a person they will put them into an easier que or put them on " lead time" so they don't have to take difficult calls, if they don't like you, Heaven help you. Whats worse is that managemtn knows they can treat people badly and it doesn't matter because jobs are scarce in this economy.

How to put this delicately, it just really sucked. You had people in charge of departments, who really haven't a clue as to how that department runs. When they did ask questions on how things worked, they would get the operators input, then turn to the outside technicians who work on the equipment and ask if the operator was correct in their statement. They are notorious for assigning new job titles without proper compensation, then they would state that your job title hadn't changed if you requested a raise, but you are still responsible for your departmen. I was told that I should have asked for more money when my division was taken over, I had stated that my job description had changed since the take over, and that anyone who did my job would have been given a significant raise due to the fact I was just an operator when the take over happened. I left there as the head of black and white print, but I was the lowest paid in that department. I asked why, I was told because it wasn't an oficial title, but if anything went wrong in my department, I would be held responsible and I had to figure out how to fix it. When I told my higher up that I felt like a joke, and that I would like a raise, I was told that there wasn't anymoney to give and to deal with it. I then gave my higher up two options, give me a raise or lay me off. Apparently he felt that things could run smoother without me( but from what I hear they are having a hell of a time figuring out my old position). So now I am here letting prospective employees know that this company *SUCKS*! I also have better health benefits now that I'm unemployed, my copays are lower, and it covers more medications.

It' simple really. Management's arrogance! Great Intentions but a horrible follow through. No pat on the back for a job well done, just a slap in the face for doing something wrong with little to no help as far as equipment or physical help. To many outdated software issue's as well a machines used by Fred and Barney themselves. Loyalty means nothing. Just run!

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