Hammerton reviews

There's a general disregard for employee and public safety by company executives here. This has resulted in many potentially fatal product failures that would be completely preventable if they weren't so careless in their day to day operations. Executives push for reckless design and production rates that have amounted to an excessive number of serious safety issues. A forklift rolling out of the back of a truck is just one example, a 1000 Lb fixture falling from the ceiling because of extremely lax/nonexistent design safety standards/training is yet another. It's a revolving door for all depts., including HR. I worked here less than 3 years and in that time the company had four different HR executives; gross mismanagement of employee benefits and payroll were the results. I found so many issues with my paychecks and benefits. Executives are very dismissive about legitimate payroll/benefits/safety concerns. It's ridiculous that something so routine gets messed up so regularly here. Nepotism is rampant. Executives regularly shoehorn their family and friends, who are completely unqualified, into departments that they don't belong in (putting marketing student into engineering department). Then they complain when those departments can't meet their outrageous throughput expectations. They tell you that you have to win the race but they give you a jalopy to drive. Just as you would expect, familial favoritism and drama severely impact company operations but the execs here just keep doing it. Disregard for employee health/safety. Executives unnecessarily traveled to a global COVID hotspot at the height of the pandemic to explore outsourcing American jobs to Mexico. I was told by an executive that they seldom wore masks and typically met with others in confined spaces. They apparently contracted the virus, promptly returned to the office without quarantining, and likely caused an outbreak within the company. The company's COVID response was abysmal and a clear demonstration of their willingness to sacrifice employee health just to make a buck for themselves. Virtually no WFH accommodations were provided for my teams despite the acquisition of a hefty PPP loan. Additionally they seem to think that safety, in a manufacturing facility with so much dangerous equipment, is a part time job. They only occasionally have a safety manager on staff; usually that position is employed part-time and on contract. They have full-time safety problem that they won’t commit appropriate resources to. Executives here obtain and use confidential and proprietary information from competitors without permission and then fire employees for refusing to violate the law. The totally unethical business practices of this company are disgusting and the closer to working with executives that you get, the more revolting the behavior you'll see from them.

There are growing pains with fast growth, but they were actively trying to ease those pains to keep things running smoothly.