Don't do it. - Operations Technician Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
Sep 17, 2024
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Pros

Pay and benefits are the only pros.

Cons

Physically demanding, will beat down your body. Insane amount of mandatory overtime. No work life balance. Management is clueless because they were promoted by being buddies of the Ops Manager instead of based off their resume and work history. Employees that are buddies with the Ops Manager will be protected even if they deserved to be terminated. Anyone who speaks up will be targeted and eventually terminated. Ops Manager should have been fired years ago for inappropriate relationship with employee, which was covered up for him tbe same way he covers up for his buddies. Favoritism that starts with the Ops Manager trickles down and only Employees in the buddy system get special function jobs and the best work assignments for higher productivity. NST time will be approved for some people but not others, Favoritism rooted.

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Cons

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Pros

A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

Cons

Working with marketing was challenging at times. We would regularly receive big requests a day before they needed something. This would pose a challenge when you had other priorities to attend to. The pay was average. I do think it could have been slightly higher for all of the job responsibilities given to the chemists in my group specifically. The workload was overwhelming at times.

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