I/N TEK - KOTE once innovative, now on borrowed time - Operations ArcelorMittal Employee Review

Building/ equipment in disrepair. Roofs leak and tarps go up to catch water. Equipment never maintained, only “band aided” back together to hopefully work until the next shift gets it to break down. Safety is a joke. Just do it take a risk to hurry and get it done. If someone gets hurt management tries to blame the employee- THEN they add a hundred gates, locks, safeties, e stops etc. things only get done when someone gets hurt, or a machine won’t run. Schedules are a nightmare. Choice of 2 types of 7 day schedules. Very little time off ever. Covering vacations and all the too many “short term disabilities” keep you at work for weeks at a time. Forget ever having a real life. Oh ArcelorMittal will answer that this is a 24 hr plant 365 days a year and sometimes you may have to work out of your schedule. You will always have to. Same people constantly call off same people are out every year on short term disability. It’s a zoo. ArcelorMittal “helps” by having us attend useless meetings and “classes” that require us to be there EVEN MORE THSN WE ALREADY ARE! You live there. People are a mix of nice , helpful, people but every area has at least one weed, the one troublemaker that wants to make your life miserable. It’s like prison, day after day same bs that never gets better. They claim to have no foreman and we are “self directed “ that was the case in the 90’s now it’s turning into a traditional steel mill. Operators just get blamed for all failures now.