patient care coordinator

team leader

software engineer

replenishment associate

preschool teacher

The-Vgm-Group,-Inc

The inconsistency and awfulness of my experience here at this company I could write a book!
First, total toxic work environment!!
FYI-trainers,managers and leads listen up!  If you’re not going to help the new employees be successful in their position because you are too busy playing musical chairs to get into another position and climbing the corporate ladder, then at least put actual step by step instructions from start to finish in the training manual, just fill the manual up with a variety of different dummy scenarios a PCC may encounter and how to handle them, then allow some hands on training while still in training for newbies to get more familiar and comfortable with the system, so they won’t be flying blind once out of training. Not all of the coworkers were jerks- mainly just the narcissistic mgr and his gaslighting cohorts. (leads and supervisor) were a complete joke!! No real assistance from mgrs or leads but yet they would watch you like a hawk and then complain about what you did wrong as though you had such a thorough in-depth training and you should know it all by now, attitude! The gaslighting lead/ supervisor would schedule a meeting to point out everything you did incorrectly but offer no real solutions and indirectly hint at termination? I knew it was time to discontinue with this company, when a few times I became physically ill thinking about clocking in! Not worth the mental stress.


My leadership team was the biggest group of gas lighters I've ever known. Expected me to do much more than any human is capable of and when it (obviously) didn't get done, I was then told (among many other things that slowed me down more) that I had to write down everything I did, every minute of my time, so they could review it and look for what might be slowing me down. Hello! Writing everything down is definitely going to slow me down - even more. They just set me up for failure. I actually enjoyed the work and had no problems performing the duties within normal amounts. But they just kept piling more and more on, which literally made it impossible to get through my pipeline on a daily basis. So, during team meetings, etc. leadership would tell us all to reach out for help when needed. Then when I would ask for help, they'd tell me that leadership was stretched too thin and I need to figure out how to deal with it on my own. Also, when someone on the team was absent, they expected the rest of us to complete, not only our own huge pipelines, but also, the pipelines of whomever was missing. Oh, and when I missed one day, my pipeline didn't get finished, so leadership gave me QPIs for each file not touched. I was out sick! It was ridiculous. Someday, I hope they figure out that they're expecting too much and then it would actually be a nice job. 

The good:
ESOP is great (only if you plan to retire there)
Benefits aren't bad
You'll work with some of the most caring and passionate people you'll ever meet. 

The bad:
The rest of it. Pay is abysmal, hours are long, and you'll work with managers who are as incompetent as they are full of themselves. You'll find yourself working long after you were supposed to clock out and manager went home, feeling overwhelmed and stressed out because of the workload they keep piling on. And if you ever say anything about the workload, you can bet your manager will hold it against you. 

They're proud of their culture, but it's fake. It's a drumbeat you'll keep hearing from the top that nobody besides the execs believe in. Maybe if they actually cared about the people who do the work, they'd understand that the tanking job satisfaction can't be solved by hollow phrases and ping pong tables.

They laid off a bunch of people and stopped raises when the pandemic hit in 2020, then bragged about having their best year yet months later. That's how much they value their workers.

Overall impression is of immature high-school environment.  Getting #1 workplace in Iowa is mostly due to how hard they push employees to rate things well in that survey.

IT has grown fast and is poorly managed and personality driven.  If one of the "boys" has an idea or product they want to pursue, then hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent only to finally come to the realization they wasted everybody's time.
  
Specifically, Corporate Development has very good developers who have to deal with the manager's ill-conceived and gamified performance metric.  Sets developer against developer for sprint points.  Scrum processes are mostly bypassed in favor of whatever makes the manager look good. 

Whatever you do, do NOT try to point out the problems to this insecure manager.

Management is very poorly informed / trained to deal with common neuro-diversity.

History of firing high salaried people in order to hire on just out of school talent.

We are just going to hit key factors. Pay is low. Lunch is unpaid so to "make up" for that you work 8 1/2 hours. There is an overly-strict point system in place for taking (unpaid) days off of work and frankly, it doesn't make sense for how small the warehouse is and how low the pay scale is. Trying to be like Target while having a fraction of the employees and pay is on the ridiculous side of things. (No wonder the turnover rate is high.) Workplace culture is weird and uncomfortable. Also, you will probably get sick here more than anywhere else because you are touching everything someone else is touching all day long. The work itself is abysmal and boring. All in all, just pick a more stable and better paying job. Just need to pay some bills for a couple months? Go for it. 

VGM is a great company for the most part. The management is horrible and if you don't fit in you might as well forget moving forward. They don't treat you all the same. They love to be in cliques so if you are part of it you are if not forget ever going somewhere. They constantly are changing people around so you have no sense of direction. Co-workers seem to run the company. The pay is horrible for the work you are expected to do and don't like to have to pay out overtime. You are expected to let them compare you to others. 
You were forced to do something you don't feel comfortable with even when the CEO says you don't. They don't take you serious if you go above management heads. Its all who you know in this company

If you're OK with everyone in the company being afraid of your CEO, having your VPs dropping the F bomb way too much and thinking it's "cool", working under a manager who makes no attempt to understand what his/her staff is doing, yet is the first to throw them under the bus, then VGM Group is for you. They like to flaunt their culture and mission statement values to reel you in, but it's gone in the day-to-day work. When COVID hit, so many co-workers were cut immediately without warning and with zero compensation. We all thought VGM would be better than that. It's ALL about the bottom line. There are better places to work in the Cedar Valley. Don't fall for VGM Group. 

I was employed at VGM for only 3 weeks when I was given a $300 bonus check from the company owner in person. I thought that was pretty nice! Of course, it was Christmas time, and thus the reason for the bonus. I was able to work with women around my age and I kept busy performing a variety of tasks, which I enjoyed immensely! However, I was very disappointed when my assignment ended earlier than promised, and, when I learned that it was a temp position and not a permanent one, as I was lead to believe.

Nice offered a job at VGM I was super excited to start working there. I felt the training was poorly done, 2 weeks went by and I personally was not ready to be out on the floor. I didn’t feel like I knew what I was doing and when I would try and figure it out I was told to ask questions, that wouldn’t be a problem if there was someone to ask and if the answer was the same for everyone. After almost 2 months of not getting the help I needed to be successful I ended up having to quit. 

There is a high turnover because the pay is not competitive of most places in the area. 

There is not any training. We have been trying to get processes written out but things change monthly so there is really no point to write it out. Growth was too quick so everything is broken. Trying to expect the staffing to remain the same or less even though the business has grown. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Patient care coordinator 3 salaries reported	$17.67 per hour
Team leader 3 salaries reported	$44,500 per year
Software engineer 3 salaries reported	$63,333 per year
Replenishment associate 2 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Preschool teacher 1 salary reported	$15.63 per hour

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