This job will break you. - Loader Ply Gem Employee Review

1.0
May 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are all decent guys who all pull their weight, shift leader works as hard and as late as his crew, breaks strictly enforced, good PPE (personal protective equipment), regular safety meetings.

Cons

Horrible pay, terrible hours. If you work on the shipping side as a picker or loader, this job is BRUTAL. Constant injuries, extremely heavy windows and doors, and while you have PPE, most of the carts have broken brakes, creating an extremely dangerous situation. The shift is supposed to be 8 hours, but since there's no graveyard shift for the shipping department, swing shift doubles as grave. What this means to you, prospective employee, is that you'll go in at 2:30pm and come off shift sometime between 2am and 4am. Yeah. On average, you'll be working around 12 - 14 hours per shift. Then you'll get to get on the road in that condition. I never ONCE worked a shift where I got to go home at 11pm. The nature of the job and the brutal hours are nowhere NEAR comparable to the pay rate. Trust me, this job is NOT worth the pay or the long term damage to your body.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Apr 9, 2025
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Pros

The pay is pretty great. Your fellow employees are super diverse and it allows you to learn a lot about people of all cultures and walks of life.

Cons

You will be overworked and under valued. Depending on their relationship, leads and supervisors will absolutely talk about the employees in inappropriate ways. You will be treated with respect to your face unless you advocate for yourself. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there are cliques within leadership and generally they have very unfortunate views on people who were not born in the US regardless of their work ethic. If you excell at your job, you will be recognized and praised some days and scolded other days for not taking on the work of three different people. Some individuals don't actually care about the job and are just there for a paycheck. Safety is regarded as important in theory but not in reality. Quality is deemed as important, but in reality no one cares. Work-life balance is actually non-existent, no matter how much they claim otherwise.

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