Senority is the only thing that matters, not skill or work ethic - Assembly Line Worker Emerson Employee Review

3.0
6 Mar 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Well, it does pay and there aren't too many pros. My advice is keep applying to find what you really want.

Cons

The only thing that matters in order to advance is senority. It doesn't matter what skills you have or what you can bring to the table, just how long you've been there. The people that are lazy as heck have been there for 10 years making teir 1 pay while the guys that have only been there 2 years bust their butt and pull others weight get the low end of the stick.

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Pros

Great work - life balance

Cons

limited growth opportunities unless willing to relocate

2.0
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Pros

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

Cons

(1) RIF based on tenure, not performance. HR is too powerful a department, and everyone fears it. (2) Tenure made you lazy, killed creativity, initiative, and promoted a "yes" culture. (3) During COVID layoffs, CEO pay went from $3.7 million to $15.x million, while employees endured 25% furloughs for 3 months, and management 10% reduction in pay for 6 months - explain how that is reasonable. (4) CEO declared DEI as the way forward for career mobility, and a lot of young, promising talent walked out the door, including DEI-qualified minorities. (5) I was one of those minorities.

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