Great colleagues in a small company, but limited skills transfer - Intern Weber Display & Packaging Employee Review

Great people to work with,

Plant can get hot/cold in summer/winter.

Great medical although company is constantly trying to change in their benefit. Pay is decent Union job. IF you get into the union the people you work with can be some of the greatest I have known. But that’s a big if you make it in (See cons list below) If you truly don’t mind the cons list below this can be a good place to work and make a life long career path. It was and could be a great company with so much potential. With an owner who genuinely seems to care sometimes.

So this list is only for transparency reasons. A true look into a company’s pros and cons before going into a job here. I apologize ahead of time for the long text below I tried adding paragraphs but I guess glass door doesn’t save.itYou will have absolutely no home work life. They schedule you OT the day before so you don’t know your schedule till you go in the day before. For huge stretches of time they expect you to work 10 hours a day during the week.( tried to have the ability to make it 12. But by the Grace of god the union stopped that) plus 6-8 hours every Saturday for months on end. Then act like we should be grateful for being able to work so much. Then after around 6 months to a year of these 6 days a week and not caring or listening. Senior workers started leaving and allot of others threatening to leave. Took all that to finally get scared enough to “gift” us one Saturday a month back. Called it Weber day. So while taking one of the only two days we have to our family away, tried to gift us one day a week back and make it seem like they are doing us a favor and we should be grateful for even that. Which most are lies to front the door including supervisors about the amount of Saturdays we work. I personally was told they were rare. Just to work almost the next 8 months straight all Saturdays. I know supervisors were told the same just to be able to pay them less just to make them work every Saturday also. The point system is a joke. 1 point per call out. Takes 90 days to loose one point or yearly anniversary. Drs notes don’t stop them. They use to fire you at 11 points but now it is on a tiered system. Fired at 4 points for your first 2 years. 9 for people over 4-5 years. But you can go negative two points so they effectively just made it to where you start off with 2 points from day one. New employees are treated very poorly. I honestly believe they are constantly pushed to breaking points to make sure you are willing to put up with anything they will do to you. While all union employees gets one 35 minute break per shift. Anyone on probation gets only 20 minutes per shift. Even during the summer in extreme heat hand feeding or stacking. Pay is okay but once awarded a job such as stacker or operator they only give you 50 cent raises per month from base pay till you reach the cap out. They have a massive turn around rate. Which they hide in the use of temp agencies. Which they are also known throughout to be a bad place to work. The understanding here is you have 90 days of probation to learn the machine you are on. From the front to the back entirely. No matter your experience you have to be able to fully operate the machine and prove it on your qualification week or else you are fired. Which most machines in this plant are hard to learn under the best circumstances. But you might not spend your days on any given machine. You start off on one for your first week then then next 2 weeks you’reon a different machine. Then back to the original for a couple days or weeks then thrown over to another one for however long. Just to be dumbfounded as to why you don’t know how to operate the machine yet. Supervisors are honestly good guys but under extreme stress from management above them. Upper management tries to squeeze every bit of the the union they can to benefit only them. They try to divide to shifts so there are no communication between them. Got so bad back in about 2018 or so we actually voted for a strike because they were so unwilling to break on some pretty basic things we were asking for. Just to be demanding so much for themselves which was honestly a smack in the face to us all to even ask for a lot of it. Then when the owner found out that we were going to strike, went up on in front of everyone and cried to us about how he didn’t understand what they were asking us for and to just please reconsider. Whole sob story. Even though right before he was acting all high and sure of himself before the vote happened. Fortunately for him but unfortunately for us. It worked because the strike was canceled and contract went through with minor changes in our benefit. I could honestly go on for absolutely hours but i won’t. Look at what is written here and just imagine more. Beware of this place. If you don’t believe me ask someone who has worked there before. There are a lot. Ask them if this review is true. I can guarantee you. Almost everyone will agree to the truth and honesty of this list.