NIKE reviews

you have to fit with this specific culture. straight talking is frowned upon and diplomacy is favored. people are very nice, but they will not tell you in a straightforward way if you are off track - the emphasis on diplomacy means that it is tough to know where you stand. if you want to progress within the company there is very little balance and a lot of time away from home. nike is the priority and there is very little room for anything else in your life. i left a few years ago but there were not a lot of women in senior management. even though i believe that entry level starts out at 50/50 in terms of ratio men to women, the highest levels of senior leadership weren't over 25%. the dropoff is concerning. i don't know if that has changed since i left though. overall, it seemed that if you were in with the powers that be, then you were set, seemingly regardless of your actual contributions. if you were not in favor with the right people, your work didn't matter. also people changed jobs so frequently, it seemed that if you are concerned about making long term decisions it might not be helpful to your career. or alternatively, you were likely to end up holding a role and cleaning up for someone who made short sighted decisions that made them look good, but then the next person had to clean up and the next person didn't look so good because the bad decision maker was already on to a bigger job.

Management is terrible, pay is terrible, work is menial and unfulfilling. The supervisors don't follow up with line worker requests and don't communicate with leads. As a result of this, they end up mixing orders and the lines suffer because of it. Managers will constantly remind line workers to let them know if something is wrong with a machine, and when something is wrong they tell them to just wait and bear with it until a break-time when they are willing to shut off a line to fix it. There are multiple occasions I can remember when someone mentioned something wrong with a part and they told them to wait til break, when the parts gave out the lines ended up going down for 2-6 hours. Supervisors often forget things that they tell people they will do, and as a result the communication is poor. For instance, I was supposed to get reviewed after my first-third-and sixth month of employment so I could see what areas I was doing well in and what areas I could improve on, but I never saw those. Even after asking my supervisor the answer was always, "yeah we'll get to that soon." The work is horribly inefficient, and if there are any solutions to speeding up the process that cost anything, the requests will get denied. This and there are plenty of "quality of life" changes to the lines that are plain out stupid, a waste of company resources, and a waste of time. There was a day when my line was down and I had nothing to do, so a coworker and I spent 3 hours putting colored duct tape onto a table. This of course was a better alternative to just sitting there, as our line manager told us to not leave the area because we would be up and running soon. To continue on the lack of efficiency, there is also incredible amounts of bias. I hope you don't plan on getting promoted because unless you know the Supervisors personally, you're going to have to work there for a long time to get one. Since promotions are time based, it's only about how long you've worked there, not how good of a worker you are. Along with this, supervisors will promote people for no reason other than the fact that they know them. If you need a job, Air MI is an okay place to work, but ultimately I just wouldn't apply. It's a waste of time, the people you work with have no plans of going anywhere, for a manufacturing location they pay worse than any others in the area, and to top it off management doesn't care about you at all.