R.R. Donnelley reviews

Terrible management, no respect of employees, just a number.

This is in regards to specific experience as an entry level employee (material handler or rolltender). The pay is horrible. In Illinois you can expect to come in at $10 an hour. You can expect to maybe receive somewhere between 20-33 cents in raises per year until you cap out as a material handler just under $13 an hour. When considering a promotion, the weight of factors that the promotion rely on is attendance. They care almost nothing about how competent you are at RRD as long as you show up and don't hurt yourself. They seem to still think it's the 1980s and that this is a desirable job that demands the highest level of skill. That, or they merely want to suck as much out of you as they can for as little cost to them as possible. When you become a rolltender (or other promoted position), there's a 2.5 year journeyman process where there is about two weeks worth of laughable training and then you're on your own. Unfortunately for you, they won't begin paying an actual rolltender wage (about $14.50 to start, capped around $17.50) until after that 2.5 year period. So, if you enjoy taking on a larger workload and more responsibility for about 30 cents more an hour -- go for it. The pay is ridiculously low. You can expect to be substantially below the median wage of US earners. You can expect to be about 50% lower than the mean wage of US workers. If you want periods of time where you're working 12-hour days for 3, 4, or 5 days in a row in literally scorching conditions (I've measured 122 degrees on the third deck of a press), then again, go for it. The turnover because of the aforementioned conditions is just crazy. You have new people training other new people when neither really know what they're doing. This in turn creates much higher rates of lost productivity because very few people on the press actually know what they're doing. In response to that, the people who do know what's going on (namely the pressman, assistant, and rolltender) end up despising these new hires because they constantly have to walk them around so they do their job for them. Most of them time they're also unwilling to help new hires as well because they know they'll be gone within a few weeks time as well.