General Dynamics Bath Iron Works reviews

Decades old and outdated technology, and the modern programs it does use are shoehorned to fit with the old ways, severely stunting their efficacy. Executives have old, fixed mindsets and are unwilling - or unable - to change. Terrible relationships between the unions and management. Awful morale, and low trust. A managerial unwillingness to hire enough office people to actually support the manufacturing side. A complete and utter lack of training. The only reason this zombie of a company continues to persist is because 1) the Navy hasn't found a better shipyard *yet*, and 2) our senators understand the vital importance the shipyard has to the state economy and will funnel money our way any opportunity they get.

For years now the benefits package for salaried employees has been slowly eroding. Aside from the 401k match of 6%, union employee benefits are far better. Better insurance with lower premiums, bigger bonuses, more vacation time, better overtime pay to name a few. A salaried position used to be something to aspire to but no more. General dynamics knows that they can steal benefits with impunity so they do just that. As a result they’ve been losing the best and brightest who can take their skills elsewhere. One example - as a salaried employee exempt from overtime you could work 12 hours on a given day, 4 of which would be uncompensated, but if you punched in 1 second past the start of your “core hours” you would have to use 1/10 hour of sick time or vacation time to cover it. Actually typing that out makes it sound even more ludicrous.