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Southland Industries

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cant trust your hands in management not a place for long term work for IT - Information Technology Southland Industries Employee Review

1.0
Mar 21, 2019
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Pros

food friendly divisional vibe breakfast and lunch events

Cons

cant trust managements choices and favoritism. Working in the IT department as a contractor has you isolated from being recognized and appreciated as a regular employee. If you do excellent work and you are not favored your hard work will go un recognized and acknowledge. But if you make a mistake you will be penalized much harsher than any FTE. High turnover rate within IT, Dont plan on this being a permanent job as contractors are often disposed of on a routine schedule. The divide between corporate and division is scary and you are at fault for this. The lack of inexperience and unknown policies make this place a sinking ship that continues to sink. Company values don't exist especially when nobody from management or upper management in corporate follow the meaningless posters bullet points. No advancement opportunities you are simply a placeholder for the next person

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Southland Industries Response
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Thank you for your review. At Southland, we promote formal and informal communication among project teams, managers and employees (regardless of employment status) regarding, but not limited to, job expectations, internal opportunities, cross-functional intersections and team collaboration . We depend on employees to share feedback with Managers, who in turn are expected to listen and be a change agent if necessary. Southland expects all employees have excellent representation of our People core value. If you would like to further discuss your experience at Southland, please feel free to contact me. -- Linda Smart, CIO

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

7-12s, a few good people.

Cons

Supervisor stood and wouldn’t let us leave till exactly 12:00 and wanted us back with tools in our hands at the exact second lunch was over. Management made bad decisions and had to stand on man lift handrails to WALK on pipe with nothing below us. Too cheap to rent a crane needed to make lifts with telehandler at max capacity and max radius. Had 300 people on site and a lunch tent built to hold 50 which is fine but prohibited any food or drink inside the building. Had to take lunch outside in the sun without shade in the Texas summer. No ice to keep water cool, wouldn’t buy even a tarp or umbrella while working on the roof with white vinyl reflecting light back up at you. This was a union job and this is single-handedly the worst experience I’ve ever had. Started non union and was treated worse on this job than on any other job in my 20 year career. Get this they fired a dead guy. Never even bothered to check on him or call his family. Man died in an accident and obviously didn’t show for 2 days. Called the hall to find a replacement and found out he had died. Tore up the paperwork and changed his status to hide that they’d fired him. Some of the most incompetent leadership (calling them that is a joke) I’ve ever seen.

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