The schedule comes out weekly. If your area is slow, or work isn't needed for whatever reason, you won't get any hours. No hours = no paycheck. There is also an off-season where most of the work you tend to get as an assembler grinds to a halt, so again, no work = no pay for a few months.
- The higher-ups can tend to be boneheaded because they only care about the team's bottom line and your productivity. There's no guarantee that they know the day-to-day of an assembler and the gig is such a revolving door of people, that they can be very impersonal and hard to work for and with.
- The way the bonuses are structured is idiotic.
Because the hours can be so spotty, if you need to go through the government for any benefits (no judgment), it can get tedious. You could be hired full-time but may work 18 hours some weeks, and you could be making $X on paper, but with bonuses and reimbursements, your take-home is $Y, but the people you have to go through don't understand that.