Pros
I have worked a few other assembly line jobs at other companies in the past and those other companies lay people off with no warning. Daikin actually works hard to keep people on the line and not send them home except as a last resort and to a minimum. They keep you working as best they can for as long and often as possible. So that's good. Really nice fellow employees. Managers are very helpful. If you have a strong work ethic and don't need to be micromanaged about breaks/lunches, keeping the line moving by doing your small part and staying at your post even when the line is down because of waiting on parts, then you will do very well here. Management will then love you and you should stay to apply for a perm position after 90 days because you're the kind of person they hire to be perm, seriously. Your fellow contractors have a baby mindset. But if you think the world owes you a paycheck, well good luck with life. Even McDonalds won't put up with that. Daikin promotes about 1/3 of its 3000 contractors into permanent Daikin employees yearly (regardless of employment agency) with pay raise in the first year, earned annual raise, 2 weeks paid vacation and health benefits. Effex pay is low but has paid vacation and benefits and if you stay 90 days or more you can then apply for a perm position. Your choices are materials dept with the various vehicles driven inside the warehouse, assembly line jobs, copper or coil dept jobs, management positions (they advertise job openings. Ex: they actually do need more team leads which is decent position).
Cons
If you want to go from your staffing agency to perm employee with Daikin, it will take about a year. But you can keep applying until you are approved and try other better-paying contract jobs in the meantime after your first 90 days. You can't call the office for help regardless of which client you work for. You can only get help on the client site, in person and when someone is available to help you. These HR reps work long rotating hours and I always see someone new because they move them from site to site. I hear them talk and they are clearly tired and overworked (12-15+ hr shifts), but a few of them are nice. Effex has a hidden HR office where they work in the back of the building and it's not easy to find. They are very helpful but often not available depending on who is there and what time of day/night you need help as their office is staffed 24/7 which is good since I can't call anyone for help except the auto attendance line. The same is true with the client. You work Mon-Sat and you are off on Sunday at about 60 hours a week with unpaid lunches. It's a few months before you get paid holidays but you will get some holidays off regardless. You have no life. I'm sorry, but hey, like any assembly line job, sometimes your line is sent home an hour or more early. It's a mostly a rare occasion, but it's ok because you average about 60 hours a week as a Full-Time contractor or Daikin employee. (57 paid hours, unpaid lunches) Give people more than 24 hrs notice on whether or not they will be working on Saturdays. They did improve in this area after a while. It appeared that middle and upper management were not communicating this info often or fast enough to allow more work/life balance for their contractors/employees. The turn over rate after 3 days of paid training is hilarious. There were 200 people when I started. I never saw any of them within my first week. The job itself is light to medium labor. It's not bad, but it is a warm environment and is hard repetitive work - it's an assembly line. That's it.