Lack of communication between leadership, support staff and production associates. There's top down information relayed from literally the top of the company, several levels down to floor associates - this information, while transparent, has no bearing on what our jobs entail and we have virtually no input into the situation. Meanwhile, things will change abruptly on the production floor with no word from people responsible for process changes.
Little shift to shift accountability. Getting solid information between shifts can be a hassle, and often results in surprise quality issues due to either neglect of specific information or a complete lack of it. There seems to be no solving it, because it happens on all three shifts and we can't just have people doing their jobs.
We've been told our hourly pay can't increase unless we're willing to tolerate layoffs - the way it was worded was "keeping with our core values."
Toxic work environment. In line career progression is mostly a people game, with more politics than aptitude. Granted, you need to know what you're doing, but in general if you know the right people and are willing to learn a job, you're more likely to get the position/promotion. This is normalized as "it's like this at any company you'd work for." Hypertherm isn't any company. It's supposed to be better than that.
Weaponized vulnerability. If you have a performance area you need to work on, you will be thrown into a figurative furnace of it. Making parts with bad holes? You're checking every hole on each part. Have a hard time keeping calm when you're yelled at? Get yelled at more, then get yelled at for not keeping calm.
