Disorganized management, horrific compensation plan, high turnover - Parts Sales Cummins Employee Review

2.0
Sep 13, 2012
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Pros

Some nice people work here. About 500 total employees. They treat their employees well in terms of HR, safety rewards, etc. Nice facilities at the Memphis Support Center and in Kenner, LA.

Cons

Atrocious compensation plan for anyone involved in parts and equipment sales. Make it sound like you can earn a good living then you realize it's all slanted in their favor and boobytrapped so you keep losing bonus money. Service tech wage is decent but they keep hiring folks for 2 to 3 months then firing them if they don't learn fast enough even though this is a difficult industry and it takes time to adjust. Bad management vs. employee relations at branches. They are experts at hiring with big promises, followed by reality setting in, follwed by employees leaving. In the end, management doesn't make needed changes because they are cowardly and like the comfort of the status quo. One time there was an employee meeting with the company president, Ben Strafuss, and all the employees were very upset with him because none of the fax machines worked and there were many many problems at the branch. He promised us it would get fixed and a year later, nothing. Management does a lot of listening to employees then turns around and takes absolutely no action. I think it's because upper management is retiring in a few years and just wants to cash out.

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Cons

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Pros

You get paid for doing OT on weekends at the plant I work at now If you are in a shift that has less staffing you might earn more money on weekends as you will not have anyone to rotate with or less people to rotate with I am happy to have a manager who understands I have a lot of work pressure

Cons

If you are in a shift that has less staffing you will have a lot of work to do. For me the con is lots of work pressure in the shift I work. I think I do the work of atleast 2 people and sometimes even more. First shift will have people to rotate on weekends. Unfortunately 2nd shift doesn't have people to rotate with. We end up working every weekend but have same number of vacation days. People in 2nd can get there vacation days used up before other shifts. But still I would say its a good company considering I work in a manufacturing facility.

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