Pros
free food sometimes, I have honestly no other pros for this company
Cons
I don’t even know how or where to begin with this company. I was employed here for 9 months in the quality control department and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this was the worst job experience I have ever had. Flipping burgers and serving fries would have been a better experience. First of all, if you have a life, this place is not for you. Be prepared to work 60+ hour work weeks and mandatory overtime on the weekends. I don’t mind coming in a little early and staying a little later but this was ridiculous. People would get in at 7AM and not leave until 11PM or midnight. About 5 months into me getting hired, they brought on a second shift. This was a completely bizarre move because things did not change for any of us on first shift. We continued to work our insane amount of hours. What’s even worse is that the managers and the president of the company see nothing wrong with their employees working 16 hour days. Also if you have to leave at 5 for any reason, be prepared for your manager to give you an attitude. I had to ask permission to leave one night at 9 PM! Never mind the fact that I had been there since 7AM that morning. Everyone is treated like a robot at Abstrax. The managers think that their employees live, eat and breathe Abstrax. Good luck if you have a significant other or children, you will never see them. Abstrax is run like high school. You get written up if you make the smallest mistake, um really? Am I going to get detention next? You cannot have your cell phones out on your desks and if one goes off accidentally, it’s as if the world is coming to an end. Also you are not allowed to talk to any of your co-workers unless it has to do with work and if your manager hears you talking about the weather or something besides mortgages and tax liens, he or she would actually tell you to “settle down.” They ended up disabling our access to the inter office messaging system because they thought we were abusing it. Naturally, the managers could still use it. I thought I left high school 8 years ago, but clearly I was wrong. The managers love bombarding their employees with emails. We would get 20+ emails a day reminding us to do certain files. Another chunk of the emails would pertain to production. There would be a certain number of files that you would have to complete and if you could not get that number done, you would be in constant fear of getting fired. The managers would expect your work to be perfect and if there were mistakes, then you would face consequences, such as getting a written warning. We were told that if we got 3 of these “warnings”, then we would be fired. Personally, I got written up 4 times for small, stupid things and I still was not fired. The last straw for me was when my whole team was told that we had to come in on a Saturday and do 30 files. It did not matter if it took us 3 hours or 9 hours, 30 files had to get done. I ended up quitting a few days later. The real kicker for me was that when I told the operations manager that I didn’t think the job was working out for me and I was going to be quitting, she didn’t say more than a few words to me. After all the long hours and dedication that I put in, she couldn’t even muster up a “good luck in the future” or “I’m sorry things didn’t work out.” She pretty much told me to pack up my things and get out. This was unbelievably rude and juvenile. Abstrax is just another company where employees are nothing but numbers and if you choose to leave or you get fired; you are totally replaceable. All they care about is making money and being the biggest and the best and they don’t care who they have to step on in order to achieve that goal. Now that the “Abstrax experience” is over, I can take comfort in the fact that any job I have in the future will be a far cry from that dump. I know people are afraid of unemployment, but please stay far away from this company. Nobody deserves to be treated with such disrespect and put up with the amount of garbage that this company dishes out.