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Wrongfully terminated - Maintenance Technician International Paper Employee Review

1.0
13 Feb 2022
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Pros

Pay is great, and some hourly employees are great folks.

Cons

Management sucks. Particularly the management. I worked 8 days in a row 12 he says. I was averaging 55 hrs a week not because I asked for it but because they were short handed. I had a dental surgery on a day I was not scheduled to work. My boss called and asked if I could work on that night( my surgery in the morning). I said I could and started getting ready however I was told that you should always get a lot of sleep before surgery. Now with that in mind I was suppose to get off at 7 am and had surgery at 8:30am. So I called my boss and told him he said well work untill 3 am I never said yes. I worked 3 days after that and was supposed to be off for 3 days. But they fired an employee so he asked me to work I said yes. Friday a supervisor seen I was vomiting and wanted to send me home. I text my boss told him that a supervisor was sending me home because I was vomiting but I didn't want to go because I was scared it would be held against me. I never heard back so I went home. Saturday I was sick and Sunday on the way to work about 15 min before shift start my boss finally text me back( after I had called and text all day seeing I were suppose to work) telling me no not tonight. The next day I was called and fired for the dentist thing. This was a week after that had happened and I had worked days before that.

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5.0
11 Dec 2025
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Pros

Great co-workers/environment Easy work for outstanding pay Great schedule that is set for a year and allows 1 full week off every 4 weeks.

Cons

Can be extremely dirty. A bad day with plugs can be very physically demanding.

1.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits were fairly decent when I was there. PTO was pretty generous. Pay was decent enough, along with a Bonus at certain pay levels. Many of the people I worked with there were outstanding - although, most of them are gone now. They did retain a few subject matter experts, most have left or leaving - but I guess it's a possible pro they might not cut your entire department..

Cons

The Cons are the new 'wonder boy' CEO. This puts most of the 'Pros' here on shaky ground. The new CEO - Andy Silvernail, is a ruthless cost cutter. I would expect as/if the stock continues to drop - other benefits, people, or pay will be gouged - like they did the entire IT department. Andy was making big stock promises when he started up, but it was clear from the start, his only concern was the stock price. I still talk to some people they did retain or forced over ("rebadged" - such a terribly soulless word for it) to the new MSP. Every single one of them is at their wit's end. They are hemorrhaging what's left of IT in the company and all of the deep knowledge with them. It WAS a great place to work - now they report working 60+ hours a week trying to make up for the incompetence of the new MSP. At least one of them told me that he has dealt with more downtime and high priority problems in the last couple months, than the previous 15 years there. So if you are considering a job in IT at this company - in any capacity, expect to work long hours with no real path or possibility for advancement.

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