CoorsTek reviews

lack of management, work excess hours

Management is a joke. They won't listen to employees, so instead of taking advice from employees that have been doing the work for the better half of a decade or longer, they'll put all faith into incompetent managers and engineers, and fail to complete the project. They'd rather fail than admit that anybody beneath them has a good idea. I actually brought up an idea that sat for five years until actually being utilized (obviously because somebody else brought it up), and in the meantime, cost the company hundreds in thousands of lost material per year. Christmas time isn't Christmas time at CoorsTek - Vista; it's layoff time. I'm not kidding. Every single layoff is right before Christmas break and / or immediately after Christmas break (usually temps and permanents, respectively). I was one of the ones that had gotten laid off right after coming back from Christmas shutdown, but that was when we were still BAE Systems, and they brought me back on right when work picked up. CoorsTek? If you're laid off, they will call you back as a temp, even if you have been there 12 years, and they will NOT hire you back on until six months and one day from your layoff date, which just so happens to start your seniority from 0. Wait another year for your 401(k) and go from 3-5 weeks of vacation a year right back to 2. I have several words to explain this type of behavior, but Glass Door won't allow most of them, so I will list greedy, dishonorable, selfish, shallow, soulless, and weak to get you an idea. They only care about what you know in the department you currently work in come review time. That means if you are intelligent, versatile, and can learn a job quickly, they will train you in several departments, and pay you less money than the guy that only knows one single department. They asked me to move from 2nd shift to 1st shift to train for yet another department to cover for a guy leaving for a month on vacation. I didn't ask for more money, and I didn't fight them on it. I took it and hoped that maybe this time, things would be different. Their response? They took away my shift differential, so I lost $30 to help the company out ... apparently John Coors is really hard up on the money. Speaking of John Coors, he inherited the position he is at, so it goes without saying that he is arrogant, at best. He actually had the audacity at a meeting to suggest that if we made a process improvement that was accepted, we would get "big bucks". Turns out big bucks to him is $25. Come on man ... an idea that can pocket you thousands and you insult us with $25? Like I should be thrilled? It was at that point I started keeping ideas to myself. I'll be blunt. I was terminated for poor performance, but there are two reasons behind that. For one, I completely stopped caring about the company and was there for the paycheck, and two, the closer I got to finishing my Bachelor's, the harder it became to pretend that I did care. 7.5 years down the drain, and I spent the first 2 years showing what I was capable of, then 2 more years hoping things would get better, 1.5 years denying that I was getting screwed, and the final 2 years just there for the paycheck. Honestly, getting fired was the best thing they ever did to me. I got my 401(k) and unemployment, found a job that was willing to work with me being so close to done with school 3 months later, finished school, and am actually starting a software engineering job with a company in San Diego that has a 99.9999% chance of treating their employees better than CoorsTek. If you are thinking of leaving your current job to apply here, I got one last thing to say. Ever hear the phrase "the grass ain't greener on the other side"? Forget grass ... they have sagebrush, cacti, sharp rocks, scorpions, and rattlesnakes.