As the headline says, they'll try to stop you from leaving by suing your potential employers.
Uline culture:
- 5 days a week in office, formal wear (men -> ties, women -> skirts even in winter)
- Women get dress checked more than men (discriminatory).
- Quotas on promotions
- HR, IT Executive Admins play favorites by enforcing rules for who they want in IT
- HAVE to be clocked in for 9 hours a day -> 45 hour work weeks
- PTO days count as 8 hours. For every day you take PTO you have to make up 1 hour. Penalty for taking PTO it seems. (not sure it's legal, certainly unethical)
- Lots of politics, especially for an IT and tech departments. You can work really hard and not get a promotion because of this.
- Please look at the other reviews for what Uline 'small quirks' are.
Uline says if you don't like the 'family', you can leave. But that's also a lie.
As you read above, the 'quirks' that Uline has pushed many people to look elsewhere. Another company, let's call it company A, in Winter of 2023 - 2024, took our best developers and more. Company A offered what Uline cannot - Uline (mid-level) software developers were being interviewed & hired for Senior positions at Company A. This could have been preventable if there weren't quotas on promotions, no favoritism and cultural improvements.
Instead of Uline using this as opportunity to fix their culture, they decided to sue! Company A had to immediately stop hiring anybody from Uline and sabotaged many careers in IT, preventing them from going to the next step.
Besides that, Uline IT executive admin and HR are also a big part of what make it a horrible experience. They have favorites, enforce rules for who they don't like and let it slide for those they do like. If you decide to leave your cube and take a mental break on a couch, IT Executive Admin WILL keep track of that and use it against you, and inform HR or your manager. This include personals calls, conversations outside of the cubes, etc. Want to report them? Uline hates IT and will side with managers, HR, and ITExecutive admin. This is why it's crucial to have individuals of integrity in those positions, which is not the case, especially for IT Executive Admin that sits amongst us.