Overall this is an awful company to work for and it has many bad managers. - Manager Amcor Employee Review

2.0
Mar 24, 2014
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Pros

This company was expanding and the work seemed interesting, hence I was attracted to take a job there. The work was not bad, as there was a lot of it and you can get a decent exposure to their customers and vendors. An employee can make a meaningful impact in the area of their work with some restrictions and headaches. They are pretty safety conscious in the production facilities. The workers are nice and put up with a lot of negatives.

Cons

The managers were the worst I have seen anywhere and they kept getting worse. I am referring to mid level managers, directors and VPs. It was probably coming from the very top. This has become a sweat shop. Like one of the reviewers said, they will use you like a tool, dry you out and then discard you. There is a history of overworking employees, burning them out and showing them the door, especially if they are into their late thirties. I heard it was not like that many years ago. One of the managers I had to work with was almost always incorrect and obviously lacked experience or education. I have heard and seen weird things from other departments too. I have heard a manager in a different department kept surrounding himself with all women workers and promoted only women. That has got to be a violation of the company's ethics policy. Some of the employees that could afford to leave have left. They keep rotating or firing the sales leads very frequently (less than 2 years). They replaced one joker in my department with another joker as a manager. Sadly the company is headed in the wrong direction. They pay bonuses in October or at the end of September so it is harder for employees to move if they choose another job during the summer. You will witness an ever increasing aggressive cost cutting almost mindlessly. You will end up working three or four jobs in one and will get paid for one. There are almost no opportunities for growth even for deserving employees. It felt like a sweat shop that was run by deplorable managers.

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Pros

Easthampton, MA facility. Default overtime built into the first week of your rotation. Big on safety. Descent training. Mostly a low skill job, but they do a good job training. If you can walk and sign your name, no education, they'll hire you. Pay is mediocre $21 / hour compared to other manufacturing jobs in Western Massachusetts. Friendly coworkers.

Cons

Panama Schedule 12 hours overnights 7pm-7am gives a lot of time off, but hard to adjust to and your first day off is a waste as your body tries to reset to daylight hours. Impacts your health physiologically and mentally and hurts social relationships. One week you work 60 hours and the next 24. The worst is doing 36 hours over three nights. Management does not care about burnout and when it happens, they blame staff for not knowing how to deal with it. Management has no concerns about staff work / life balance. Stand for 12 hours. First 90 days you get penalized for taking time off. No sick or personal time until after 90 days. Plant shut downs during holidays is nice, but you don't get paid so your paycheck suffers. There's no employee wellness program. If you like to think and feel like you're making a difference in society, this is not the job for you. You'll feel frustrated and mentally bored. Feel like you're a cog in the corporate wheel. Can't listen to music via ear buds, which would help time go by. To be expected babysitting a machine due to safety, but it's the principle. 12 hours is ROUGH with limited mental stimulation. If you have a college degree they usually won't hire you. They mostly hire people with nothing more than a high school diploma and sometimes not even that, so the people you work with aren't cream of the crop. Latest thing is hiring immigrants because nobody wants to work at Easthampton. Amcor claims they hire top notch people. I beg to differ. They could legit automate 90% of operations using robots. Bulk of what people do is babysit the machine they're assigned to. Low skill, but management drums it up it's higher skilled because they give you a ruler and protractor to do periodic product quality control checks. Easthampton MA facility is struggling financially and that comes from someone connected to corporate management. Staff morale is low. Nobody loves their job. Lifers I think this is all they have to work based on a limited skill set. Working overnight you will gain weight.

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