Alcoa reviews

Lack of trust and respect on both sides of has led to a culture of micromanagement where the experience of senior operators is regularly ignored. Short term view for cash has let the place run down to a poor standard with no real preventative maintenance anymore and band-aid fixes are the norm. Quality etc... we sell an inferior product at premium prices and i wonder if our customers really know what they are getting. Despite the company policy on safety production is always the first priority. Recent employment has gone almost solely to family and friends of managers with many not suited to blue collar/ shift work and placing extra pressure on teams. Many who made it through the last round of redundancies are now wishing they hadn't. Only see things getting worse.

Bad management and no support from HR which is unusual because HR is normally the group to go to for help, coaching, and support to help people succeed. Dictator style upper management that feels this is the way to treat people. Salary employees have been there so long they feel this is ok. Some know its not right but are afraid to say or do anything for fear of losing their job. They're just hoping the next senior manager will be better and so on after that. Not so in today's professional world. Also not a good place for a woman to work and advance or be treated as a professional. No support at all. It's really sad because the plant has some many opportunities for improvement, they just don't follow up or allow you to do them. They say they do but in reality they don't. Not a good environment to work in. You feel like you can do such much to help make a difference and you can't. So many employees that have left there for the reasons above are so much happier and are doing so much better. It truly is a man's world here which is very sad.