1. Health benefits are ridiculous. If your spouse is offered health insurance through their employer and you elect to carry them, not only do you pay the employee + spouse price, you also pay an additional $50 per pay period.
2. “Management” is useless. Save for a newer Sr. Production Manager who is well intended, the others are at best figure heads or useful idiots, mostly the latter. I call them professional delegators. Their only existence is predicated on delegating responsibility, not authority. As a buy-product of this they establish barriers to accomplishing your team’s tasks rather than aiding in removal of barriers. Additionally, they threaten to get things accomplished because they lack the talent and skills necessary to motivate and influence. Their over emotional, angry, uncontrollable head-shaking and thoughtless reactions are comedy gold. They also delegate their teams to pick up the slack for other departments’ shortcomings under the guise of “teamwork”. Not realizing that team work is about support not doing someone else’s job because that person is lazy or incompetent. They refuse to maintain accountability and act accordingly. So plan on being assigned responsibilities (with no authority) well outside of your function with the extra hours that are required to succeed. On a final note, I’d love to see these “managers” assigned the role of squad leader or fire team leader in combat. They’d either have to be carried off the field while sobbing or would eventually get fragged.
3. Dysfunction of epic proportions. There are no established roles or responsibilities. Everyone constantly runs around in reactionary mode with little to no direction other than hip-fired assumptions. The company freely admits they don’t have the human capital to process demand (clear sign of poor planning and scheduling). So instead of load leveling and establishing a recovery plan based on data they just proceed, threaten and watch the now spun up circus run, twirl and flail about until the shift ends in product failure or numerous safety “incidents”. But hey, you’ll get to witness a weekly influx of warm bodies. They’re mission? To shrug their shoulders as the delegators freak out and run around like unhinged emotional children until a king or queen delegator volunteers their team to work unGodly hours to take up the slack with no expressed gratitude, recognition of hours worked or realization of ever decreasing morale. Perplexingly, the delegator will not adjust their hours accordingly to their team, and will instead stroll in at their normal time and exit at the conclusion of their 8 hrs.
4. Maximum inefficiency is prevalent. It’s ironic that a company whose product is based on reducing waste is so successful at generating waste. Instead of optimizing employee time they demand adherence to overly complex , cumbersome, antiquated and unnecessary methods. They espouse the desire to “improve” but when the time comes to execute there’s always some excuse (even when you present data and a solution). They’d rather “their people” (they see them as possessions to serve at their whim rather than an extension of their team) toil and suffer under the unnecessary constraints of their making. The ultimate result is over processing, unnecessary motion, rework and underutilization of talent. If you decide to work here, leave your creativity and innovation in your locker when you swap to your steel toes as I’m sure the delegators know not what these mysterious words/ideas are.