After a management change at the Brighton facility, it went from a one happy family to a place not many people wanted to work at anymore. This was solely a diversity and inclusion move and they hired a plant manager based on gender versus qualifications. I question the entire managements of Metro Water Recovery ability to manage. They hire way too many people and break down jobs into smaller and smaller roles due to the fact that they cannot manage a workforce properly. The managment's philosophy is if it isn't working we will just hire more people and make up new positions. It makes for a boring day for anyone that likes to keep busy or is ambitious. Ambition is actually looked down upon. I think this is due to it making more work for the management team, they seem they would rather be in meetings that they conveniently always schedule during lunch so they can have the company buy them lunch. The place does have great potential. It actually pays decent for the area, although I think the Denver area wage is way low for the area and even the nation as a whole. I went to the Midwest and got a 35% wage increase and the houses are a third of the price. Safety is also very scary there. They do not have to follow OSHA guidelines due to being a government job. I refused to do something unsafe and got reprimanded for it. They even wrote it up in my yearly review as being insubordinate. I never had a boss every question me for feeling uncomfortable in doing something as an electrician and asking to do it more safely. This was an issue with not being able to tie grounds to a transformer so instead the Electrical Planner told me to just touch the 4160 volt bus with a ground and that was good enough. I never worked on medium voltage equipment in my life without it being grounded and it being part of the LOTO. I would have been fired any other place I worked for working on it undgrounded. I value my life more than getting something done on time.
