I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service. I extensively reviewed the rules and reworded my comments and they were removed yet again. My points were fully factually true and were not anything too untoward pay raises were promised to members of a new team, they never materialized, most team members left. For what it's worth, Path Forward IT is not a great place to work.
Flexibility works one way there. You can arrive any time before 8 and leave any time after 6. Let me guess, he laughed when he said it like he was super funny, too, right? Like when I used to ask one former boss which of the ten tasks he'd just assigned to me was highest priority he'd say, "yes! I like severity as a sorting mechanism too, which is 3 dimensions of data then. Let me guess It's not just time to leave the company; you need to leave the whole area as well. I worked in an area where the nearest competition was hundreds of miles away.
When the engineering staff would question upper management and HR during annual meetings about competitive wages they would always state that we were extremely competitive for our location. After working there for nearly a decade and a half I moved to another state, about miles away and my pay nearly doubled.
Doing my exit interview I stated that the reason I was leaving was because management had this goofy view of the world and it was the reason why we struggled finding talent. They felt that because there was no physical competition in the area they could pay a fraction of what their competitors in the field pay and still retain talent. You can only move up a level if you have 1 or fewer "needs improvements" while the managers were told that all employees should have no less than 2 "needs improvements" as they should have things to work on over the coming year.
Most people I talked to about that whole situation would offer the "well why didn't you just move" advice not understanding that the pay was just enough to pay for room and board, college loans, and then choose to put the last few dollars into a k or into savings to escape that job.
