Pros
The company had a strong forward order book which offered a near certain guarantee of future work for model life with low risk of redundancy. Some excellent supervisors, senior supervisors and departmental managers who although have to deal with tough situations are fair and very good at how they deal with those situations. Opportunity to progress throughout the business for those who are willing to put the time and effort in to get themselves noticed.
Cons
It is a very toxic environment which is pushed through all levels of the business from directors and senior management level. Heavy involvement from senior management throughout any disciplinary process with decisions to dismiss/stand down from positions before a formal investigation has been performed and pressure out onto the person investigating to deliver that verdict in fear of being singled out or targeted for not following that instruction. A strong culture of blame and fear throughout the plant. Overtime is enforced on staff with threats to discipline staff who don’t work enough overtime. Staff have asked what is described as ‘a reasonable amount of overtime required’ is with the only response being whatever is required, and no figure as to how many hours that is. The redundancy process is corrupt due to a set criteria meaning there is an imbalance to objective and subjective criteria. Names are picked before scores are set and subjective criteria altered to make the numbers fit.
