Pros
- Somewhat consistent schedule - Decent benefits - Healthy safety culture - Yearly profit sharing check around Christmas
Cons
- Favoritism is rampant at this location. Management will frequently look the other way if they favor certain subordinates. Whether someone is being rude/hostile/inappropriate, it doesn't matter. If they like that person, they will disagree that it ever took place at all. I've been cussed out by someone and was told "that doesn't sound like something they would do." Avoid going to management with these issues. - Managment does not handle interpersonal conflict that affects production numbers. If the line slows down because someone is purposely not doing what they're expected to, they will just tell someone else to "help that area". Consequently, hard working associates get punished for their hard work by baby sitting people who choose not to work. This creates a great deal of passive aggressiveness between coworkers that never gets addressed. And when it *does*, associates are just told to "grow up" like they're children. - Management frequently moves people from one department to another without that person having any say in the matter. They also completely halted the ability to request a transfer to a different department. With the Production Manager going so far as to say "it's unreasonable to expect to transfer whenever people like for whatever reason." But they can do it whenever? - There is a VERY strict policy for associates that you are not even allowed to have a cell phone on your person while on the production floor for "saftey" reasons. If you are seen with a phone you are warned, then possibly written up, and even terminated in some cases. HOWEVER, if you are in management, engineering, quality, an intern, a random person on a tour of the production floor, then they absolutely don't care if you're on your phone. I have seen production supervisors playing mobile games at their desk, suits taking phone calls in the warehouse, interns showing each other pictures of the fish they caught over the weekend. Policies and rules are enforced only for people of less importance. Rules for thee, but not for me. - Injuries are improperly handled constantly. People that should be on weight restrictions get denied and end up reinjuring themselves. Associates have their FMLA claims denied constantly and many end up using all of their PTO and UTO to go to the doctor or just to stay home and rest. - Training has taken a nose dive. You get a week long crash course when you get hired and get let loose after that. It is extremely rare for current employees to receive training to brush up on safety, quality, or product knowledge. This leaves a TON of inconsistencies when navigating product defects and procedures.
