Working at Paccar Parts is like reliving high school except it's a job. You are either part of the "cool kids club" and with membership receive lavish public attention in all employee meetings, raises, bonuses, perks etc..., or you are literally cast out into the street. Managers will make statements to you in front of others like "You are part of the family" but act in a more hostile and childish manner towards you in private. The hard truth is that members of the management team at Paccar Parts really don't like one another or work well together. It's a safe assumption based on observation that managers including members of the SLT do not want to work for Paccar Parts but they are too vested in service time or too scared to jump ship and work somewhere else. Instead, they look for someone (preferably a new hire) to pass on blame as to why their division/work group is not performing. Management rolls out the red carpet for interns by giving them unlimited access to company parties, Mariner games and access to site leadership such as one on one meetings with the division president and directors. Regular Full Time Employees who are actually hired to do a specific job and hit payroll, not so much.
Employees with seniority are basically allowed to do whatever they want (poor attendance, poor attitude, poor work performance, etc..) but new hires are told without provocation that they are lucky to be here and to sit down and shut up.
There is no room for new ideas, different concepts or incorporating best practices from other companies or industries. You do as you are told, or else.. because as my former manager told me "I could have hired someone else for your role here."
