Pros
• It’s a job. You get a paycheck at the end of the week. • Gain some shop experience. • No drug testing. • 10K life insurance policy. [They do pay for that] • Three large pizzas & three 2 liters of soda every other Friday. [Whoopee….] Once you make it past your probation period. • 401K & they match up to 3% • Medical [expensive $50. a week for 1 person]
Cons
Oh, the stories I could tell; but I don’t want to waste my time writing about them & won’t waste your time reading it. I will sum it up with: “One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was to trust them, & put my career in their hands”. If you need more insight then continue & read below. I use this site to check out a lot of jobs/companies before I setup an interview or even accept an offer of employment. There was no review for CAMM so I am adding one. If only to warn you to stay away unless you are so desperate that this is the only work you can find. In which case take the job & keep looking. Unless you’re the type of person who settles for whatever life gives you. In that case you are a perfect match for this company. This is also my way of contributing & giving back to the other users of this site who have helped me by avoiding some otherwise costly mistakes. I had a job before I went to CAMM & if I knew what I know now I would have either stayed where I was or taken another offer. • This company’s philosophy: Everyone is expendable. The place is a revolving door. • Maximum 2 week vacation no matter how long you have been there. • No PTO [paid time off/sick days] • If you are sick they will call you & tell you to come in anyway. • No dental or vision • Poor air quality. [They have air filters over the booths, but the welders don’t turn them on] • Hot in the summer [No A/C] • No paid breaks. [Eat or smoke while you work] • Then they will tell you I don’t pay you to eat or smoke. • -$20.00 a week to get your uniform cleaned. [They will tell you that they pay for the uniforms, but won’t tell you that you pay to get them laundered] • They will promise you upward advancement & tuition reimbursement. [This is the carrot they dangle in front of you to keep you interested.] • If they tell you to come in pending some sort of emergency I.E. bad snow storm/hurricane. They will have you work & then send you home not paying you for the rest of the day. • Be prepared to be micromanaged to death. • Company executives flip-flop on their standards & expectations. One day it’s good enough. The next it’s not. • It could be literally two weeks before the major holiday season they will lay you off. • They have had people work right up to the end of their probation period only to fire/lay them off. You would think that maybe that person was a bad worker or something right? Wrong because they will call them back & ask them to come back to work for CAMM again. Resetting the probation period; just to screw them out of their benefits & save the company a couple dollars. • You won’t find this out for yourself till you start working there: Everyone who works their hates working for/at CAMM. With exception of course the upper management who happen to make the company the quagmire that it is. They [the employees] probably love the work that they do. It’s the upper management & how they treat their staff & choose to run the company that makes for this hostile environment. • They often hire college students just to exploit & pay them the bare minimum. Then fire them once the job is done. Usually telling them that they [CAMM] are slow or there was a problem with their [the students] work. Despite the fact, that all of the work done there is shoddy at best. Starting with upper management the bad work just trickles down from there. Quotes from upper management: We don’t know what it takes to run other companies, but we do know what it takes to run CAMM Metals, & here at CAMM we do it the CAMM Metals way. [Even if it’s backwards/wrong] We don’t acknowledge people’s good work only bad. [Literally that’s what I was told] All of the employees here [at CAMM] are a bunch of overpaid crybabies. You’re taking money out of my pocket. That’s my money. [As the manager pats his pocket] Lastly don’t fall for the line or angle they try to hook you with. “We like to create jobs for people”. [Yeah-right.] The guy had it right in my interview when he said “I want to make more money”. Then he was corrected by another senior executive & said “we like to create jobs”. The guy then retracted what he said & tried to do damage control. “Yes we do like to create jobs & it’s not all about the money”. I could go on but I hope you now have a good understanding of what you’re getting yourself into. I could go on but I hope you now have a good understanding of what you’re getting yourself into.
