I get several emails a week about various jobs. I ignore most. Sometimes I inquire to see what they're offering. Today, I got the absolute worst benefits package I've ever seen.
Here are the highlights:
40 hours combined vacation and sick leave per year, but you only get that after working 2000 hours.
6 paid federal holidays, but only after you work 1500 hours.
401k, but your match is discretionary at the end of the year, and you can only sign up quarterly.
If there's a healthcare level below “bronze”, they have it. It's basically junk insurance. Bonus: it starts the first of the month AFTER your first 45 days, so if you have regular prescriptions, too bad, so sad.
Everything about this screams “we can't keep people and we don't know why”.
I was able to get them to raise their hourly offer to within striking distance of what I would take ( a 50% increase over their initial offer, I might add), but one look at their benefits tells me that the owners are greedy bastards who are only looking for bodies to fill seats and could care less about their employees. They definitely aren't looking for top talent. I sincerely hope that their company collapses under it's own exploitation.