sheet metal work - Fabricator Trayer Engineering Employee Review

If management exists it does a good job of staying hidden. Construction documents are either out of date or none existent requiring asking questions a must but always be prepared for responses like "good question" or negativity. There is metal sitting everywhere with no organization and more is ordered every day but nothing is ever organized. Workers often use 2 to 3 hours a night seeking parts to complete jobs. Training is none existent with even engineers explaining that they were never told anything just sat down in front of a desk and told to do work with an explanation being given at weekly meetings when they are accused of not working. Because of all this it creates a very toxic work culture where working as slow as possible doing as little work as possible seems to be encouraged so long as you compliment the right person's shoes. Often important jobs are left untouched until the day before they ship but everyone decides to leave early leaving the last person still in the building to quickly try to finish the job. Quality suffers from the fact that new hires are brought in constantly and fired in as little as two weeks. Constantly bringing in new people with no training and no documents to construct projects obviously hurts moral as well but don't mention these things to anyone in upper management. A welder was fired for merely pointing out a different technique. They offer full benefits but these things are required by the city of San Francisco and management has constantly stated they are seeking to sell the building and move to a facility somewhere else in the bay. (goodbye full benefits) If all of that is not enough to convince you this place is not worth working at the pay checks come late regularly with them even bouncing. It was later revealed that Trayer owed the contract company money and was waiting for order payments to cover the wages. Safety is my last point but certainly the most important. in three months 2 fingers were broken and several hands have been sliced open. Squeezing your way past stacked up pointed freshly cut sheet metal with draws sticking up is so common that it is never surprising to have to do. Stacked up in aisles and in work areas as more metal is constantly bought, cut and left in aisles. Nothing like finishing a mandatory 12 hour day and having your pants ripped open by sharp steel that has no place to go. Cut my legs on my way out before.