Pros
- Early finish on Fridays - 37.5 hours a week - Holidays could be good if you've got a young family as they're planned holidays by management around school holidays usually. - Weekly wages are nice - 6am - 2pm shifts - Regular overtime - Easy work - Good colleagues are great.
Cons
- Poor wages - No difference between wages of unskilled and qualified work - Poor bonus schemes (regularly not paid) - Poor incentive to work overtime - Management will threaten you to make you work over / make your work miserable in return - Never incentivised to go above and beyond. Often expected to work like this regularly when you do them a favour. - Staff closely guard their overtime and won't share. - Management play favourites. - Health and safety risks. - Will happily work the staff to death given the chance. - Pay rises aren't in keeping with inflation and are well under average for skilled workers. - Bonus schemes are regularly fiddled. - Pressure from from management after their failings. - Poorly managed and often big orders are late and forgotten about. - Corner cutting. - Penny pinching at your expense. - Reluctancy to train staff and invest in their own future. - Won't invest in equipment. - Management will happily throw you under the bus if it means they can get ahead/avoid blame. - Management have been known to send components without testing and blame a department if they get any send backs. - Management will cut corners compromising safety in persuit of profits. - Safety measures are poorly implemented to save money. - Workplace breaks many health and safety rules. But, won't admit to these failings and poor working conditions. If any visits are scheduled will try and hides these. - Hiding poor components from customers and even their own chairman. - Place held together with duct tape and faulty equipment repaired well past end of life. - Shop floor morale is at an all time low because of treatment by higher ups and wages. - Expected to work to unrealistic standards - Management regularly will recruit family and friends into senior positions and pay handsome packages to unqualified staff that do not have a clue what they're doing. - Aren't willing to promote staff that have proven themselves due to fear they won't get the same volume of work out. - Management willingness to blame workers for their failings leading to being reprimanded/punished of issues you wasn't aware existed until getting called into an office. - Multiple instances of bullying - Management gossip among themselves instead of asking the source - Can't book holidays yourself. They're "planned shutdowns" that fall around school times. Typically a minimum of 1 floating day and a maximum of 8 floating days given a year. Floating days approved at management's discretion. - Scrutinised for taking sick days and quizzed upon returning. Have to give a reason. - Older workforce have lost their pensions twice in court cases after the chairman essentially took the money. - Many accidents where the business will drag out legal proceedings and have been known to not pay bonuses I'm the meantime to these staff as you've got a case against them. - Depending where you work you'll be pestered regularly. - Expected to work unsafely, willingly to turn a blind eye to unsafe work if it helps production.
