Pros
The onboarding with HR went extremely well. Pay was great along with the benefits. There was unlimited overtime as long as you did not exceed 10 hours a day. It was toasty in the winter. There was really no dress code but appropriate clothing was required. Most employees were nice and helpful. The breaks were welcomed and the cleanliness of the facility was outstanding but that's about it.
Cons
I was officially hired and signed on to be in assembly working Sun-Wed 5am-3:30pm. Upon my first day, I was immediately placed in shipping on a Mon-Fri schedule to "help" but ended up being stuck there for my entire tenure. I expressed my frustrations constantly in a professional manner to my supervisor who kept telling me to stick it out because they were short handed and I had to ask them numerous times to switch my schedule to which they eventually complied. There was never a day that I can remember that went smooth. Supervisors were swapped on a bi-monthly basis. We were always short on help, out of packing supplies, waiting on boxes, waiting on materials to pack, waiting for fork drivers to move supplies/packages, waiting on material to be inspected, always waiting on something out of our control. It was mass chaos between team leads and supervisors daily. Most of management was petty and would report everything no matter what and you would never know that you even did anything even if you truely had no idea what you were doing was wrong in the first place because they would never address you but hold it against you, if that makes any sense. I never missed a day, was never late, never had an accident or incident, did whatever they said without hesitation, worked voluntary overtime on my off days and yet was constantly being reminded that management was watching me. It felt more like forced labor than a job let alone a career . Upon my very first performance review, I was demoralized and nothing positive was brought up. The turn over rate was tremendous. There was no culture and it was a zero tolerance atmosphere. When you enter the doors to this building you better have your clear safety glasses on, be clocked in no more than 5 minutes before start and if you are even 0.01 seconds late, you have to call in to a special number or you will be excused and you cannot stop working until the internal clock hits your break/quitting times and don't even think about lagging behind when coming back from break. It was extremely hot and dry in the summer due to the powder coating line and in the winter they almost never plowed the parking lot that was dimly lit by lights on the building and it was always a struggle to park and enter the building in the dark. It was the dustiest place that I have ever worked due to the fact there was no ventilation and they had an entire team of people grinding and sanding metal pieces literally all day every day. Mandatory overtime was almost guaranteed every other week and it was always on a Saturday. The only time that I ever called off was 2 days in a row for a family emergency and upon my return, I was pulled into an impromptu meeting in the break room with about 5 superiors where I was told that I would be working Mon-Fri sanding metal from the laser cutter to which I promptly declined stating that it was a demotion, took a bow and bid adieu to the room while walking backwards to the exit and never looked back. HR responded by reaching out with an exit package that afternoon and when confronted with my experience and action, told me that I should have brought everything to their attention a lot sooner (like they didn't know what was happenening) and that by walking out I ultimately quit and they would never hire me back (as if I would ever want to step foot on their property again...)