This company has a lot of potential but a long way to go before it is realized. - Machinist Avalign Technologies Employee Review

This company has a lot of potential but a long way to go before it is realized. Their policies change on a weekly basis and depending on who you ask you will receive a different answer. For example, for some people on some weeks it is allowed to take vacation on a week you are mandated, and some times you will get a point. Some parts of the buildings (bathrooms, break room) will be lucky to be cleaned once a week. The floor level management is the absolute worst I have ever seen, there is absolutely no professionalism. Talking about previous drug addictions, private personal matters, and sexual proclivities is the norm here. I wouldn't trust anything I tell them to not be told to nearly every employee here, they need immediate HR reprimanding or even better complete replacement. The benefits are sorely lacking in some areas. Similar businesses in the area offer the same amount of vacation from day 1 as Avalign offers after 15 years of employment. The attendance system is designed to get you to use up your limited vacation time if you are sick or you'll get a point which takes an entire calender year to roll off. So take your pick, use your scarce vacation time or risk getting fired. Being sick for a week is half way to being fired by their point system. Employee morale here is almost constantly low, due in part to a disorganized system. Tablets were recently added to all the machines to watch work habits, pair this with low morale, nearly unattainable goals set in place by management, a lack of decent vacation time, and nonstop mandatory overtime; this place is a ticking time bomb for a union to come in and organize. There is very little trust towards upper management due to these things. They held an employee survey and then quickly swept the results under the rug.