Major Overhaul Required - Lead Hand MasTec Employee Review

2.0
Feb 28, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pacer had some of the best workers I have had the pleasure to work with. Was a nice lead into the oil sands and pay was good as well as benefits.

Cons

Upper management needs a major house cleaning. There are a few that I would say are good but too many are complacent and "protected" by head office. There is a lot of family and friends hired which created a work environment where the good workers carried the lions share of the work and the lazy family and friends of management. Paychecks were consistently screwed up....you get paid eventually but frequently not on time or short on your hours. Departmentalization created an "us vs. them" mentality between departments which frequently lead to scheduling issues and additional work required by trades. Complaints from the prime contractors even reached the ears of the workers regarding certain project managers that they did not want on their projects but were there anyway and there would be no more work for Pacer. This created issues with work completion as workers realized lay offs were coming so they deliberately slow down. Seemed that the workers who continued to work hard and do their jobs are the first ones that got laid off so family and friends could drag out the paychecks.

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Pros

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Cons

We were sold off to them from Optimum. Quickly trying to become the worst company in America to work for. They took away our vacation. Our sick time. Our personal time. They took away holidays. Now they are saying that working a holiday is mandatory unless you asked it off 2 weeks before it (they gave notice of that less than a week before it). They monitor wherever you are, doing whatever, soon as that truck moves. You aren't allowed to backup. If you call in two times in a 90 day period, you're in trouble. If it gets to 8 times (the last call in continues it on) you're fired. They overwork you because they are "behind" and you're just expected to work later. We're expected to do more and for less. They even denied our merit raises saying they didn't believe in them. They don't care about your family and wanting to see them. To be able to spend time outside of work. DO NOT WORK FOR THIS COMPANY IF YOU CAN HELP IT!

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