CalPortland reviews

3.7

74% would recommend to a friend

(159 total reviews)
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Allen Hamblen

82% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

CalPortland has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 159 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CalPortland employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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159 reviews
1.0
Jun 29, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good hourly pay. Materialistic safety rewards from incentive program. Safe plant operations. Get a burrito now and then during meetings and big jobs. Over all, good co-workers.

Cons

Major management favoritism to relatives, friends, and favorites for advancement, with experience ignored. Closed eyes to favorites behaviors, punishing hard workers with such statements, "if your not over 16 hours, fine". Includes employees lying, turning off phone while on call, hiding for hour or more before returning to plant, not directly going to jobs, and returning to plant yard and not reporting in. Safety of equipment, and down assigned equipment, awful. From 9 months down times, to ignored legal and safety requests. Neglected equipment write-ups (cry sheets) leading to dangerous results. Upper management contact is hid from employees. They will force you to far away locations, and pay you less. Safety and legal requests, research, training preparation, human resources are number of things they try to have you do on your time. Management quotes "we will look into it" . "we will get back to you about this", means ignored. They will put outside drivers in your hometown plant in front of you, including few year experienced drivers versus 10+ in seniority. They will take your plant work and give it to outside higher paid drivers/locations, forcing unemployment during winter.

2.0
May 10, 2018

I worked for TruckTrax which a sub company.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They paid well. Other than that my coworkers were all friendly.

Cons

Higher ups weren't transparent about what was happening in the company. Laid of lot's of people suddenly. Only couple people stayed, the CEO's son and one of the directors daughters.

1.0
Oct 7, 2017

Yard gopher

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not very many unless in management

Cons

Unsafe work environment, poorly maintained equipment. Not a family oriented company. Very long work hours with emphasis on getting job done no matter how unsafe for employees. Tolerated harassment of employees by management.

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