Management has no idea whats going on down on the factory floor, after banning headphones for safety/productivity reason (the only serious accident since I've worked here involved an office worker not wearing headphones and we have done record numbers in production since I started 2+ years ago) they have also banned the watching of news in the break room due to the controversial riots in Baltimore. As a result moral is at an all time low and anyone with the ability to leave either already has or is planing a move in the near future.
After taking a system of production that worked well for a very long time and breaking that job in to 3 separate jobs we are now producing the same amounts as before but using more people to do it. They also rotate you through all 3 jobs so you never know what you will be doing on a given week.
All pride in ones work is gone due to very low moral, people are disengaged and unhappy at work and the product suffers as a result.
No room for advancement, a lot of internal job postings already have people in mind or are given out based on nepotism. I'm not saying I'm a genius or anything but I feel like I have more skills to offer the company then what I currently do. I have found almost no traction when applying for different positions and have been actively discouraged from applying to others.
Wages do not keep up with cost of living/inflation despite record profits. The minimum wage in Minnesota will go to $9/hr starting this August up from $6.15/hr when I started at Uponor. Despite being a hard worker and scoring well on my annual reviews my raises are in the 1.5%-3% range despite a net sales increase of 26% and operating profit increase of 10% for the whole company with North America's figures being even higher. Pretty hard to swallow a small raise when they are building a new $18 million building right next door.
