Endless growing pains - Electronics Assembler I Banner Engineering Employee Review

2.0
20 July 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are some of the best people I've worked with 2nd shift 4 day work week

Cons

Ideas and suggestions often get ignored. Company restructuring means constant change and new management. A Lack of opportunities to move to and learn other lines. You're often just stuck in one place doing the same thing. Lack of communication between shifts makes work frustrating. First shift often jumps to conclusions and makes assumptions which leads to miscommunication and frustration. Switched to a pay for performance model instead of promotions despite not having a realistic way to measure individual employee performance and growth. Tasks that require specialized training earn you a pay differential. However if you are tasked with performing multiple specialized jobs, the differentials don't add up meaning you won't get paid for all of the work you do. I was told just to pick the higher paying differential because it was "not possible" to change the system to allow you to earn both. Lack of thought put into employee reviews. A serious lack of thought and value put into training. Anyone can train anyone to do anything even if you've only been there for a couple months which often leads to incorrect procedures being followed and lots of mistakes.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

-Air conditioned building. -Computer chairs to sit in during work.

Cons

-Upper management and above is abysmal. I had 6 managers over the course of 3 years of working there. "Organizational change ups", firings and just walking out, seem to happen routinely due to the rot at the top. -Management outright lied about co-workers and my performance in our yearly reviews as an excuse to deem our positions as obsolete and then the company laid us off. -Lots of detrimental policies for lower level employees including the "pay differentials" and will gladly underpay mid level employees while consistently stacking more responsibilities on you. -Non-first shift employees are consistently ignored and disregarded despite most of them having longer tenure then the revolving door of employees on 1st shift. -Company leadership likes to demand mandatory overtime for Electronic Assemblers way too often resulting in slumps of work where they'll "offer" unpaid time off. -Company is also hyper reactive and volatile when trying to meet demand. Including laying off the majority of a third shift when work got slow, to then mass hiring for all shifts nearly doubling low level employees including a weekend shift about a year after cutting the 3rd shift, that has now been dwindled back down to similar employment levels only 8 months later.

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