Everything else. Absolutely no training or formalized onboarding relating to job function. The culture is terrible. Senior leadership consists of old friends and people who have been there for 30+ years. Clueless to any progress in tech or business. Culture on the production floor is just as bad if not worse. High school-style drama with snobby and/or immature people. Management lacks either the skill or the willpower to manage their employees’ behavior. Want to change something for the better? Have a new idea? Forget about it, no one will deviate from the same series of button-pressing that they’ve been doing since the 90s. Most of the people in “office” job functions were equally unwelcoming if not flat-out rude if, god forbid, you ask them a question. Based on what job functions they hire for and push to succeed, they don’t even know what they actually need to improve. You don’t need 6 different old guys walking spouting “lean” buzzwords. You need people who understand and can control a production line, have the vision to move towards the future, and the management skills to motivate teams. But, to be fair, some of those teams may be hopeless. It’s hard to take pride in your work in this environment. Hey, at least there’s those t-shirts.
