Pros
Decent benefits. Close to my house.
Cons
You come in with a positive attitude and you come out bitter in life. Management is out of touch and creates a toxic environment for the floor workers. You're not valued based on your work ethic, and their said "raise" is a slap to your face. Favoritism and politics are rampant in this company, whether you work hard or knowledgeable about your job, it doesn't matter. The only way to advance to this company is by licking their boots and I refuse to do that, because I was raised better than that. Floor workers, especially those who has been in the company for more than 10 years, they think they run the place and they know better than everyone else. They're rude to the new people and they make you feel like you're below them. Stamping department leads have minimal and to a degree, non-existent knowledge how to even run machines. Training is not that great either. They're expecting operators to train the newer people, when you have a training department for that, and they tell you that you're training them wrong. The biggest one here is management with their watchful eye and cannot differentiate the quality vs quantity. They're making you feel guilty for machines not running because of quality issues, but they don't care, as long as we're making numbers, quality goes out the window. But when it gets recalled, just guess who they blame? You know management will never throw themselves under the bus, because they're not leaders. They're there to feel important. Bosses do not care about their employees. They changed Stamping Dept work hours to give us a chance to "advance", and guess what? The work hour change was a year ago, and since then, the turnover rate increased after that. The operators calls out a lot more, they're more frustrated, more tired, because 8 hours is not even enough to meet their sky high demands, but they are so proud to announce how much money they saved and made. The best we got are leftover cookies and pizza. Night shift always get the end of the stick l, because apparently, we don't do anything.