Pros
Close to home, benefits, "OK" pay.
Cons
Work 1 year to get 1 week vacation. 3+ years 2 weeks vacation. Never home and when you are home you are in a bad mood and exhausted both mentally and physically. Pay is based on testing and management "sign offs" for completing said tests/ skill blocks. And the people who design the test just copy and paste the Information from the manuals. 95% of them are not even half qualified to bag groceries let alone "train" and they collect top pay per hour to do ABSOLUTELY nothing. The whole system is designed to keep you making a certain amount of money, usually sickly low for the headache, for an extended period of time. If you are a decent, knowledgeable mechanic you will be used to max while others (unskilled employees who cant repair anything, ones who do not work as a team, people who lay out of work constantly, people who make excuses for not doing work, etc.)due the bare minimum and get by. The thing with this is, besides the obvious detrimental low moral it causes is that...If you and maybe one other guy are the only ones getting things done and babysitting the others (which you are not being paid for) you WILL NOT have time to go test and complete the seemingly never ending list of what you are suppose to do to get the tests taken to get the skill blocks signed off for. Also, its at the managements discretion to whether they sign you off or not, which they hate to do and constantly make excuses not to, which in turn, keeps you at the same pay with more and more responsibilities and headache for YEARS! There is no hope for moving up unless you are in the "click", usually family...which family working under family is against policy but the rules only apply to some...If you do not know someone higher up or are related to someone higher up, you are out of luck no matter how hard you work, no matter how good your attendance is, no matter how good your leadership skills are, no matter your qualifications. Upper management treats everyone like they are nothing more than a number and 100% disposable. While you are working yourself to death, they are backstabbing you and coming up with new rules by the day to hinder you and bring down your morale...meanwhile, they sit back and collect $80k a year aside from what they steal, and yeah I've seen them steal by the thousands. Generators, tractors, power tools, welders, entire ac units....bought with company cards, delivered to supply, loaded into a good ole boys truck, and drove out the back gate...while you struggle to feed your family and maintain a decent home life they are living it up, and take every opportunity to show you (not the theft of course, that's hidden but they don't realize that not everyone is their friend and not everyone has their morals). And if you're thinking that I should tell someone...That's a surefire, definite way to get fired, they will get you. I've seen it over and over again. This place is by far the most twisted, corrupt place I've ever seen. Work here long enough....you'll see.
