There's not a lot of good about Primient. It's fast rotation, three days on nights, three off, three on days and so on. It's 4a to 4p or 4p to 4a. Hourly employees do not get holiday pay for any holidays and no overtime pay on holidays. If you work Christmas Eve or Day you get a comp day. You do get one floating holiday a year. Benefits are average and high deductible. It's managed by an outdated management system called LMS. Basically, it's supposed to promote adult, clear, and concise communication between employees and allow the operators to feel more invested in the process. It's none of that anymore. Harassment is inherent to the facility. Employees use harassment as leverage against other employees and HR allows it. Everything from the top down is toxic. In recent years, it's been a struggle to keep new employees that make around $40 an hour. That should be an indicator that there are some real issues around there. There is absolutely no training regiment. You have 90 days to learn your basic operator. Then, your team will have a tribunal and they will ask over a hundred questions over a few hours. These are very complex job areas to learn, usually 9 to 12 months just to competently run an area. You basically start out with an experienced operator for 27 days and then they throw you to the wolves. In order to advance in the area, you have to go in front another peer tribunal involving a hundred questions or so, that takes hours to complete. Some teams will not help you with training at all. They will allow you to sink and they'll just hire another victim from the hiring pool. The first day you start, your teammates will start compiling information to possibly use against you at later time. Under LMS, every one of those teammates have an impact on disciplining all of the other teammates on that specific team. For about the last year, alcohol and drug abuse has become more common within the hourly employee base. There are teams in the Brefinery that drink during work hours. Employees using drugs during work hours. Leadership keeps the LMS system alive only because it can be used to benefit specific people or it can be weaponized. It's really a pressure cooker waiting to blow. To sum it up, the Lafayette plant just leaves a lot to be desired at every level. After awhile you'll figure out, the money isn't worth the misery.
