Be ready for overtime! - Anonymous employee Southwire Employee Review

4.0
Feb 23, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Southwire can be an amazing company to work for. Great pay (I make $23/hr with only a high school diploma.) I take home about $700/week after tax, 401k, insurance, ect. The Richards family (whom own Southwire) are great people. The readily reinvest in the company and they are growing the Carrollton GA area. Their business strategies are buy, buy, buy! They buy all of their competition I.E. Coleman Cable. There opportunities are their, but you have to be willing to marry the company if you're going to advance.

Cons

Depending on your plant location you can have amazing managment or horrible managment. That alone is the difference between your job being gravy, or being miserable. I have worked 12/hr/day/ 7/week for a very long time because management refused to fill open positions. I understand that they are trying to avoid layoffs, but we can't be expected to work constantly. The 14 on 1 off rule is BS.

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Okay pay for the area.

Cons

Previous management made poor hiring decisions and micromanaged the facility. Morale lowered less got done, with horrible favoritism. Certain employees were allowed to work 12 hour days while others were told there was no overtime. Employees who should have been terminated for sexual harassment were promoted to supervisors. Supervisors dated employees they supervised and were kept around instead of fired when caught. Watched employees do less and less, management finally left and better management came in only for the facility to be shut down after being in the area for 50 years. No real reason given other than spreading our work to other facilities. I worked there for 15 years and watched the company go continuously downhill under previous management only for the manager to leave after wrecking the culture and the corporate to shut us down soon after.

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