Applied Composites reviews

Work life balance in the first year could be better. While opportunities for advancement are there, patience is required.

I have been with this company for over a year now, and while I do generally enjoy my day to day, I have become so frustrated with my management that I am posting this just hoping a higher up sees it and actually hears what I'm trying to say. The company credo is a lie. Things are often far behind schedule, forcing the entire shop floor to push through extremely low quality parts. A month or so ago, employees from the shop floor where having one-on-one meetings with Leigh Sargent's current group of henchman, the first shift laminate lead specifically told people on his shift that "some things need to be kept in house". The same shift lead is responsible for a significant amount of scrap, and has been training his employees incorrect corner cutting processes, followed closely by his making excuses and talking himself out of owning up to his mistakes. The second shift lead had a bad habit of not being in the room when you needed him. I believe, though, that the second shift lead is the only qualified manager who knows what he is talking about and cares about the job (at least his crew). Promotions are non existent unless you manage to be in the right place at the right time and you are a straight white male. Raises are small and seldom handed out, and when they are, it is on a favoritism basis. 'Company costs' are sited as the reason for being unable to keep up with rising cost of living. Everyone I work with is living paycheck to paycheck unless they are able to work at least an entire shift of overtime a week (which was recently impossible; overtime was shut down because of lack of work). Sexism is a daily occurrence. Snide comments (heard by management, ignored) about female bodies, chatty women ( women being told not to work near one other while a group of men stand in a group for LITERAL hours ON THE CLOCK while working slowly, if at all. A female coworker was passed up for the lead position, even though she had been with the company longer, had a lower scrap rate through her career, is currently in school for engineering, and had been proven to be a more effective trainer and leader. Have seen a male coworker touching women without their permission (rubbing backs, 'fixing' articles of clothing on women he had never spoken a word to) all while he was on the clock and in a part of the building he wasn't even supposed to be in for any reason. Racism is absolutely another daily occurrence. We recently had a black woman walk out because a white female coworker had a noose hung in her toolbox, and after it was reported to HR, the white woman was not reprimanded further than being told to remove to noose. Now that the black coworker has left, the noose is hanging right back where it was, proudly. A man with two engineering degrees is working a cut table making only slightly more than me while we have engineers making over $100,000 who copy and paste incorrect processes into important paperwork and refuse to make necessary changes if it includes them leaving their cubical. Of course, this can't be said for all, there are at least two that really do all they can. As we often hear in company meetings, the numbers speak for themselves. We have employees who will milk a part for all its worth, spend entire days to do a part that should have been done in a few hours, day in and day out, and no one cares. People that consistently ignore processes, put inspector stamps on parts that they have not even glanced at, spend more of the day walking table to table gossiping, and NO ON CARES. No one can afford to care because our turnover rate is horrendous. People start this job and either realize they have entered a mess and leave right away, or stay until they can find something better. If you are planning on working here, buyer beware.