International Paper reviews

Company is an old company in an old industry and hasn't had to change much over the years. Entrenched unions in most locations - some locations with better relationships and some locations horrid. Leadership near the top of the organization (like EHS leadership) are way overkill on micromanaging lower-level leaders. Ability of lower leaders to tailor processes to their facilities so they actually work is stifled. So much paperwork and redundant effort to meet corporate requirements that it's hard to actually meet the spoken expectation of being on the floor with your people. Real expectations vs imaginary expectations. Work/life balance is horrid in many locations. Salaried employees get paid based on 49hr work weeks, but are often expected to work 6-7 days a week in practice - averaging 60-80hrs in many positions. Often-times hourly work the same, but even overtime pay comes at a cost to their personal lives - voluntary or not. The older-in-age management often have antiquated expectations of work-ethic where your work is your #1 loyalty and you will come in in the middle of the night and every weekend if we tell you to. This has had a widespread effect on company-wide culture. This will not work with younger generations in future decades - company needs to adapt to the times if they want to be successful.

Discrimination, minimalization, mismanagement of resources, devaluation as a human if not on lead team, group think, people allowed to pretend to shoot you in hallway after saying " now you have a target on your head" and HR said, " what do you want me to do about it?"