audio visual technician

audio visual engineer

inside sales account executive

programmer

outside sales representative

Daly Computers, Inc.

I really enjoyed my time working there. I chose to go to work every day, work hard, and make myself a powerful force. I was rewarded for that, and along the way I made fantastic friends, learned a lot, and gained some good experience. However, there are a few cons. If you’re a very liberal-minded person, you’ll fit right in there and see these as pros. You are always being surveilled. Cameras everywhere, not just for building security, and we were told this. Tracking badges, “to find you in case of a building fire.” Company intranet, complete with internal social media platform that we were “encouraged” to use. Company payroll app tracks location if you enable it. VACCINE REQUIREMENT. If you don’t plan on getting the vaccine, don’t bother. Apparently companies can tell you what to do to your body outside of work now, or else you’re let go. Maintain a 6 foot social distance and wear a mask at ALL TIMES… unless you’re certain people/groups, then do whatever you want. On top of all that, vaccine propaganda everywhere. HR there (or anywhere really) is really just a wart on the buttcheek of the company. Never gave me a direct issue, but they did tell us in an email that “if you don’t get the vaccine, you are part of the problem.” But that’s how it goes with tech companies. On top of vaccine propaganda, mandatory diversity training, as well as Ted talks like “how to be a better ally in the workplace” which is of course Marxist principles. After talking to all the differently-raced people in my group, we all agree that all that is pointless. But if you love looking at people FIRST for their race or physical qualities, then you’ll probably enjoy that stuff. Seem to be a little inconsistent with who they keep on and why. An individual lasted for months and months after innumerable offenses before finally getting let go. Some individuals got let go on day two for minor offenses.

Beyond those cons, I enjoyed my immediate department, immediate leadership, workflow, day-to-day, etc. was a fun place despite the above mentioned. Show up to work every day on time, focus on work, be nice and helpful to people, and you’ll do fine there. There are some excellent human beings that work there at all levels, and there are some less savory types as well.

The company in general is a dysfunctional mess. If you have to work there, avoid Operations like the plague. They provide minimal training, because everyone is so busy they can hardly spare the time, and the manager (or managers when I worked there—they had two managers for eight employees) can hardly spare a minute to assign you work. We lost 3 interns/temps in as many months because they were all frustrated about having nothing to do but organize files and sit at their desk. And if they don't quit, I've seen other employees be fired for poor performance after months of them not getting proper training. They basically expect you to figure things out for yourself after the first week.

They have remote work options, but are very paranoid about how much you're allowed to do it. Several employees have been fired in the last few years just for working remotely too often (though they'll ask in-office employees to report on your performance leading up to it to build a case against you. I was once asked to report on a remote worker's hourly activities).

The managers themselves do little outside of attending meetings and creating spreadsheets. If you take PTO, it's considered your responsibility to make sure someone will be there to cover your work and send them reminders of when you'll be out. The managers don't even provide performance reviews anymore.

The only silver lining to the experience is the coworkers. Most of them are pretty friendly and just trying to endure the chaos. If you have to take the job, just use it as resume padding and make minimal effort, because they will squeeze you for all you have if they can.

Day to day- 
Traveling between customer locations. The work itself is not hard, but there isn't much variety to what you are doing. Sometimes you have a work area where you wont be bothered, most of the time you are out in the open somewhere working.

Learned- 
Learn on the job from very knowledge coworkers or from the mistakes of the not so smart ones.

Management- 
Often times there is a lack of proper communication between upper management and the regular employees. Some of the decisions being made don't have the employees in mind.

Culture-
Most workers are good workers but some ruin it for all by stealing time or doing something to get everyone in trouble.

Hardest part-
Having to deal with the same problems over and over and not be able to give a resolution.

Enjoyable part-
One nice thing about working for Daly is that they will pay for you to take certification exams. The only stipulation to this is that if you leave prior to 1 year after they get you the voucher you have to pay the pro-rated amount for the cost of the test.

The worst place I've ever had the misfortune to work. No Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in spite of being in business for decades. Terrible atmosphere and management with constant gaslighting from managers and co-workers (for example being told you weren't told to do something in a particular way when you were, which is further exacerbated by the lack of SOPs and constant change in work procedures), a culture of suspiciousness (always taking the worst possible interpretation of everything anyone says or does), completely unrealistic expectations for how quickly people should learn things (especially given how things change literally almost daily and always by the whims of management). Additionally, there is no room for advancement here as it is an old boys and girls club, with management made up almost entirely of long-term employees who have been there since the start in most cases. High turnover rate as well, and with good reason. Avoid working here at all costs if at all possible.

The managers show a lack of concern for employees; i.e. implimenting a mandatory 2 hour overtime during the summer, bathrooms unmaintained, lunch room not clean/sanitary. Employees in production are treated unfairly for how little the pay is. We are not taught necessary measures on how to fix problems and rely heavily on others to solve  said problems for us. With how little we are allowed to know, we are supposed to complete a minimum of 2 orders; an order normally consists of around 40 systems; and be started on the third, which is impossible. Your concerns feel barely heard, probably even ignored. There might be a sense of favoritism and/or sexism in the Production department, which often goes acted on. HR seemingly gives hand slaps, and write offs for longer term employees. 

TLDR: this is not the best job, good starting point for I.T., but not a long term job.

My day is basically spent on the road traveling between customer locations. The work itself is not hard, but there isn't much variety to what you are doing. Working with the customers is probably the best part of the job, making connections.

The nice thing about working for Daly is that they will pay for you to take certification exams. The only stipulation to this is that if you leave prior to 1 year after they get you the voucher you have to pay the pro-rated amount for the cost of the test. 

As far as bad notes go, I believe that often times there is a lock of proper communication between upper management and the regular employees. I also feel that some of the decisions being made are driving employees away. The benefits are only alright, and the pay as a technician is below what you would make elsewhere, but its a place to get your foot in the door for the IT industry.

At Daly computers you are expected to be a Computer Tech/Installer which on average makes ~$20 hour in most workplaces but at Daly you get $9-$13 per hour. My hours couldve gone from 6:30am-5pm or 12:30pm-12am. The people in the workplace are okay depending on which team you are working with, and really the only benefit I obtained was getting free certifications from them. Other than that, management is pretty awful, projects are put on hold and you tend to switch projects often and if you aren't a company driver, you will be forced to drive your personal vehicle for under state minimum mileage expense. The only good thing about this job was unlimited overtime but if you were getting paid what you should be, you wouldn't need it nor would they let the unlimited overtime happen.

Most of the time work was pretty straight foward, come in do your job get out.  However time mismanagement caused a severe time crunch and I ended up having to work over 80 hours one week and when my internship was over they did not see this committment of time as proof of value.   ALso I know from other employees who work there that advancement is nigh impossible and if it happens then your work goes up not equal to your raise in position and currency.  Lastly, there is an air of perfection there which means if you do one bad thing thats all they remember and when you leave there is a severe lack of response on the part of your previous employer.

It starts with moving computers in bulk onto benches for system image. You will learn the process on how things operate with in the warehouse like how to enter ghost environment to create system image or installing programs onto laptops. The management are concise. The co-workers are friendly. Hardest part is moving the computers in bulk. The enjoyable part is the breaks that are giving.

It is a cold and unfriendly work environment. If you enjoy spending 8 hours around people who blatantly don't like anyone outside of their in group, this is the job for you. Management is very lazy and leans on the side of favoritism rather than looking at the work that an individual achieves. Training is near non-existent, although they will claim to champion training and cross training. They expect you to learn it on your own rather than providing it, while never stating that fact.

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