Pros
Pros: You have a job. The benefits are okay. Step-Progression. A lot of the people are great to work with. Some of the hardest working people though few.
Cons
Hyper-Management of people from the office. The illusion that things are smooth when higher-ups show up. Lack of safety until someone is injured (our location has had several major accidents). Management are as you will notice all related or married to someone’s sibling or family member. Promotions are clearly given to family or friends. When this was taken notice by someone above our facility all they did was shuffle management around to hide this fact. There are more “bosses” than workers. Favoritism plays a massive part as well. Some employees can be late constantly while others are punished. They use a point based system that is worked around by favorites or family. If someone from Hitachi pulled the time cards and their adjustments they would have to fire a lot of people over this. Lack of proper training and time put into making new employees comfortable with their workloads (new employees are generally only hired when business is over-bearing leaving no time to accurately and effectively train individuals). Lay-offs happen to newer employees who work over people who have been there longer and work less (favoritism plays a part). Benefit costs doubled this year as we were told they wouldn’t be going up with the Hitachi take-over. Management spends more time selecting out employees to hamper while being busy with politics (quite literally). Favoritism of one shift over the other. Lack of training of safety equipment. Old equipment that needs replaced. Going up the chain to get something done about it will do you no good. The company has prioritized redoing offices while their labor force is using hand me down tools and equipment. Not enough expense is spent on replacing old machinery, tools, storage areas, pavement/ concrete in the work environment, and this company does not even provide tape-measurers (something you will use constantly and replace). Low vacation accruals unless you work there into retirement. Non-competitive wages for the area. Median point for raises is what surrounding facilities start out as. Lack of respect and guidance for younger laborers (labor is a slowing economic environment you’d think people willing to work hard would be treated better). I have watch many of the hardest workers just leave over the work place politics, lies about changing shifts or just walked out because they were newer because demand slowed, and absolute favoritism for family or family friends. Very limited potential for advancement. No real programs to train people for advancement or training people within for office work, bare minimum offerings to help employees earn an outside education that could expand their needed positions, and the company is neither prepared or talking about state minimum wage soon approaching most of their employees wages over the next year or so while not competing for laborers in the current surrounding markets. Unrealistic work flow at times. Expectations that over-time leaves you little to no notice it is needed (you will work weekends even if you find out Friday though they are supposed to inform you on Wednesday). Chemical exposure occurs regularly (not all employees exposed are properly equipped).
