Steady job with never ending mandatory 6 day weeks. - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

2.0
May 10, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Benefits are good, decent Medical, Dental, and Vision. - Has profit sharing and Pays tuition - Pay is decent once at full pay. Takes about 2-3 years after being hired on to hit full pay of the position you work in. - Thanks to the insane turnover rate, if you manage to stick through it and get hired in, its very easy to sign for a better job within the company without having to worry about a whole lot of competition for the position.

Cons

- Always understaffed. Very slow at filling empty jobs. - Mandatory 6 day weeks, every week. (Been working every saturday for over 2 years in a row now) - Subpar free saturday lunches as compensation for mandatory saturdays. - Hiring is very inconsistent, some temps get hired on immediately while others get hired on multiple months later. - Now does direct hire and hires people before hiring all the temps who came in first. - You are a number that needs to make a number. - Turnover is so high that temps with no more than a month or 2 of experience are being stuck training new people when they themselves dont know the job. - They created a Weekend Shift with the sole purpose of eliminating mandatory saturdays for the week shift. Well, the week shift is still working multiple saturdays every month. - They will tell employees what the paygrades pay if you ask, but do everything in their power to hide that information. HR will not print the whole paygrade scale out and make them visible to all the workers. You have to ask. Very shady. - 2nd Shift is lacking any real leadership. Hardly any supervisors. The supervisors that do work on 2nd shift are almost always never here. - Been a few instances where the workplace offers extremely subpar gift(s)/perks to convince people not to use their vacation days during certain months. - Little to no recognition to any of the workers that have stayed working here for the 2+ years of mandatory saturdays, (Covid did the opposite to this place, when covid hit, demand skyrocketted uncontrollably) - It has been stated multiple times by the company that overtime pay is our reward for all the mandatory overtime and that they dont feel they need to offer anything more. - Trainers are offered a measly 50 cent raise per hour and end up not only training someone but getting pulled away from training to pick up the slack elsewhere while the untrained worker is left alone. - Work is very anal about bell to bell. They expect you to be in your work area ready to work 2 minutes before your break is over. So they are stealing about 6 minutes of your total break time per day. - They have a cafeteria, but its poorly positioned in the factory. Depending where you work, it can take upwards of 3 minutes of your break time just to walk to it. Since you have to get back to your work area before break is over, 2/5ths of your break is spent just walking to and from the cafeteria! Breaks are 15 minutes.

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