No overtime pay, unless it’s over 4 hours or more, and then you will get straight time. But your boss will want you there 10, 11 hours a day. So you will not be paid for those extra 2 or 3 hours. On shutdown day when you work over 4 hours, you will get 4 hours of straight time. This really sucks.
You will also be expected to answer your phone at 2am, leave your kids to come into work while they’re opening presents on Christmas morning, and respond to your crew calling you 24/7. You will not get paid for waking up to take a call or coaching your guys on how to do something over the phone.
You will be expected to excel, but will be given zero training. Zero. Just throw you to the wolves and expect you to figure out their system for payroll, writing work orders, ordering parts, creating POs, closing out PMs, etc. Their payroll system is quite literally from 1993, and the parts ordering system is down about 75% of the time. No one will help you learn. They figure if they had to struggle, you should too. If you mess these things up, you will be branded an idiot. You will have absolutely no onboarding. No tour, no introduction to your team, no classes on your process- nothing.
And they wonder why no one stays longer than 18 months.
The health insurance really sucks. It costs me 6k every January 1st to keep my family in health insurance.
The bonuses are hit or miss. You cannot depend on them. I got one that was 4k, but the rest have been only a few hundred dollars. HR will tell you they’re only paying you 95k or whatever but with your bonuses, it’ll be more like 110k. This is NOT true. Steel is cyclical and you cannot depend on a good bonus every quarter.
You will regret your decision in 3 months or less if you take a job here. Save your sanity and don’t waste your time- accept a role somewhere else.
