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Poor work life balance, cost of healthcare. - Maintenance Technician International Paper Employee Review

1.0
Jul 31, 2022
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Pros

If you like overtime and physically working your life away on your feet for up to 12hrs/6days a week this is it. There are some very talented people here.

Cons

Revolving door of employees quitting or getting fired. Extremely loud and hot environment, frequent injuries and over micromanaged. Supervisors and management nearly constantly looking over your shoulders waiting for your task to be completed to give you another one. Work schedule is too demanding for somewhat of a life outside of work. Terrible vacation policy. Extremely expensive and weak union contract. Little to no training. Can be frustrating because the efficient good workers get grinded for more and more work, and the “lazy ones” are not held accountable for doing VERY little. People age very quickly working here.

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5.0
Dec 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great co-workers/environment Easy work for outstanding pay Great schedule that is set for a year and allows 1 full week off every 4 weeks.

Cons

Can be extremely dirty. A bad day with plugs can be very physically demanding.

1.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits were fairly decent when I was there. PTO was pretty generous. Pay was decent enough, along with a Bonus at certain pay levels. Many of the people I worked with there were outstanding - although, most of them are gone now. They did retain a few subject matter experts, most have left or leaving - but I guess it's a possible pro they might not cut your entire department..

Cons

The Cons are the new 'wonder boy' CEO. This puts most of the 'Pros' here on shaky ground. The new CEO - Andy Silvernail, is a ruthless cost cutter. I would expect as/if the stock continues to drop - other benefits, people, or pay will be gouged - like they did the entire IT department. Andy was making big stock promises when he started up, but it was clear from the start, his only concern was the stock price. I still talk to some people they did retain or forced over ("rebadged" - such a terribly soulless word for it) to the new MSP. Every single one of them is at their wit's end. They are hemorrhaging what's left of IT in the company and all of the deep knowledge with them. It WAS a great place to work - now they report working 60+ hours a week trying to make up for the incompetence of the new MSP. At least one of them told me that he has dealt with more downtime and high priority problems in the last couple months, than the previous 15 years there. So if you are considering a job in IT at this company - in any capacity, expect to work long hours with no real path or possibility for advancement.

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