A great place to work, considering you aren't trained for "better lines of employment" as I was.
Pros
Excellent heath insurance, one paid trip a year and decent rewards for punctuality (Gift Cards). The branch I worked for is currently running so you make $300 worth of gift cards if you go the entire year without lateness. Otherwise, it's $50 a quarter. One of their paid trips took the entire plant to a regional amusement park. Heath Insurance is important in this economy, and from what I've seen in my years in the Midwest this company's own is high tier (some may argue for obvious reasons). It will remain one of the biggest things I will miss about working there; as it had some of the best medical coverage in town.
Cons
Faulty machinery to work with most the time; full seven-day work-weeks (up to an entire month) depending on how badly a line does; unreasonable working conditions during the summer and excessive workload for some employees (such as myself). Some people pass out from heat exhaustion working here; as the temperature will be notably higher inside their factories than anywhere outside during the summer (up to 110 degrees in 2012). A "certain line" there will have you running the machine, checking it for glue, filling out scrap sheets and hoisting up to 90 lbs worth of automotive carpet to said machine for 8-12 hours a day--all without any immediate aid & air conditioning / heat during the winter. Add this to a job whose leaders demand a you to do all of this in the space of five minutes max before screaming, and it makes for a real physical and mental challenge.
