Georgia-Pacific reviews

Potential is rewarded and cultivated. Older mid-level employees don't seem to fit in the game plan. No pension-401k only. Bonus money for performance is part of the game plan, but rewards that I saw were pretty arbitrary and didn't amount to much. Job security is a problem-steady reorganizations leave a lot of people as odd men out, regardless of past performance. Cut first and hire later if you've over done it seems to be the general principle.

Georgia-Pacific, owned by Koch Industries, does not treat many of its employees in very honest, courteous, or ethical ways, in my opinion based on my experience there. I was in a group where it was widely believed that the new management of our department wanted us gone, but we were never told this, which would have been far more honorable. Some of us quit, some were let go, and some retired, but there was a feeling that we were being pushed out of the company, and many of the people who quit seemed to do so because they were being given unreasonable work assignments to accomplish. Another downside of working with the company is that I sensed we were always having to hide something - our company was reorganized at the end of 2006, and management was very strict about who could see the new structure. People in other departments were not allowed to see the new corporate structure, this level of secrecy was really unusual. One other thing - the one vice-president I encountered has a reputation for dishonesty, and that is something that he seemed to be able to do without consequence.