ADP / IT Worker job review

Employer Services is just one of several divisions of ADP. The other divisions might treat you better. Maybe another group would respect your seniority. Or maybe it's you.

sounds really nasty...and that they video -tape what you do on your desk is simply ridiculous.

I'd never work in a group that was videotaped. Sounds like something that should have come up during the offer process. Maybe he works with payroll info. I know other groups at ADP aren't treated like that.

They didn't tell me I would get this kind of mistreatment when I signed on. They added all those factors later. Unfortunately we had so many abusers, and they were caught red-handed, that it made it bad for the rest of us and the controls were clamped on. But what can you expect when you have to hire people with such low pay and have poor managers who keep a blind eye on some workers? Of course you won't get the cream of the crop when that happens. I tried hard for ADP. I literally saved the division several million dollars with my clever tricks and my efforts to raise flags before audits and to fix problems before they arose. There were miracles I pulled off that I'm certain few others in this world could pull off, such as salvaging a crashed MS SQL Server 6.5 database because Microsoft no longer provided support and yet the management refused to get off of it, or writing a script that connected old systems with new so that we could stay afloat and never miss a transaction for three years, or building alarms that would let us know when something happened. But they kept piling on hat after hat upon my head, and giving me incompetent staff to work with. When they pushed me to the brink of disaster, I about wrecked my car driving home at some ungodly hour, driving in the opposite lane before I woke up. I finally said enough was enough and walked out. The company proved too incompetent to realize the value in me, even if explained. They tried to introduce merit pay programs, but they were quickly muffled by the top brass above them. Meanwhile, you'd hear how the guy 2 levels higher than you just purchased a small island in the Bahamas, a large yacht, and had a TV room in his house so large it had raised platform seating in it like a small theater. And this was the same millionaire guy who tried to punish a team in a meeting, raised his voice to the point of spitting when he talked, who threw an eraser at a whiteboard and walked out at the end. And all he had to do in that particular meeting was hire some additional staff to do some more quality control on reports, rather than shouting at the overworked people there. If anyone should have been fired, it should have been the guy throwing the eraser at the whiteboard, not the other way around. The stress, low pay, lack of trust, and lack of sufficient staff were just too much. The sales team were piling on clients without adequate backing from the backend. In the end, I built my own company, and I made more in the first 6 months of it than my entire salary from the time I worked at ADP. They lost a lot of talent when I walked out. I really feel the stock should be downgraded because they've got incompetent people at the helm. They need more staff, better staff, and more trust in the workplace. They need to issue merit pay and really mean it. I predict ADP to implode in the next few months in their quarterly financials because of stupid mistakes in their operations. You can't keep stressing people to the brink of disaster and expect that everything will continue to run smoothly. I literally almost died trying to save that sinking ship, and I'm glad I got out before it was too late. Working from home now, my children see me so much more and it's like a breath of new life for me. However, now I have to literally sing for my own supper, and it's tough, but thank goodness my talent and determination are keeping this family afloat very well.

Wow, that group SUCKS. You're better off on your own. FYI: All divisions in ADP have merit pay programs. If your group was not getting theirs, it was management at fault.

"But what can you expect when you have to hire people with such low pay and have poor managers who keep a blind eye on some workers?" That comment was spot on, when they're basically telling you that they don't expect much from you, signaled by their low pay, then the result is that they don't give much back to you.