Disorganized Chaos, Neglect, Disrespect - Anonymous employee FNA Group Employee Review

Training, room for growth if you want to learn the buissness.

Health insurance could of been better.

There was lots of work, lots of projects, many moving parts. With busy days, time flew by regularly. The different product offerings were a sign of continuous growth.

There was literally only, somewhere between one and three hours total of any training on their system and the specific way that their MRP report was run. Tons of redundant information across multiple different reports. Constantly given projects with little to no information. The collaboration with other team members on said projects was lacking. When given certain product categories to order, there was no notification; it was literally like turning one responsible person's name off and another one on. You could inherit a complete pile of crap that was not managed properly or kept current, but because your name was on it now, it was your problem. You could be given a set of categories you were going to be responsible for, only for them to switch it up, and give you someone else's crap. I joined the company at a time when they hired another with my same title. They made this person's life a piece of cake, while giving me cast-off categories of TWO people, and despite it being handed over as garbage, it was my problem. All the categories that I was responsible for, had other people involved for providing information to me, related to dates, amounts, forecasts for ordering goods, and neither they, nor the quantities provided in the system were accurate. Jobs were opened by individuals "just to see what it would look like", to further throw a monkey wrench into things. But, if you ordered too much or too little, you were going to be crucified for it. Consistently piss-poor mechanical/engineering drawings, full of spelling, grammar, and unit of measure mistakes. God forbid you point that out to engineering and expect a timely reply or fix. As the voice and or face of the company with manufacturers or reps, that sort of thing is embarrassing. Certain management always seemed dumbfounded when asked questions from a supply chain or business standpoint, along with a deer in the headlights look. Despite all of this, I just put my head down and grinded. Never took a morning or afternoon break. Never took a lunch, just worked straight through, 9 hours a day grinding. The ONE time that I did take a lunch for a personal appointment, before taking it, at the time of request, I expressed that it may take over an hour. You would think, that having never taken one, that this one-time thing would be okay, but nonetheless, was interrogated as to why I returned "15" minutes late. I consistently asked, not one, but TWO managers if everything was alright, looking for feedback, whether positive or negative, just some sort of feedback, and was always told nothing was wrong. My acceptance of the role, was that I get two weeks of vacation, minimum, per year. Once January hit, I was entitled to that. Randomly, I was called to the conference room around 3PM on a Thursday afternoon, expecting it to be one of the usual urgent, critical situations, but no, I was being let go. Someone who grinded, didn't gossip, rarely took part in friendly chatter. One of the two managers had mentioned to me, that it took him a full 6 months, to completely be acclimated to his position and company, and what a coincidence, that my termination occur at exactly 6 months. I was told that it was nothing that I did or didn't do, but it was mentioned that they thought I would be more proactive. Managing the ordering of 4 to 5 categories, working with bills of material on new product development, engineering prototype builds, the small engine team, the new trailer build projects, and also having to help the cake eater with a commercial carpet cleaning machine project, while I have a goat rodeo going on, or the equivalent of trying to herd cats. I consistently delivered cost savings, and met deadlines as best as possible, given what I had to work with, 9 hours a day, but I'm not proactive? Not only was I terminated, but replaced by the person I took the place of when they retired, only they came back part-time, hourly, and they figured they could just cut my salary and slam them with all the work. I presented cost-saving initiatives to two senior vice presidents, and one of the owners, and the reactions were positive, do I don't get that either. Also, when January hit, and I received those two weeks of vacation, had I taken them any time between January and June when they threw me out in the street, I'd have been paid for those days. They did not pay me out on those vacation days, nor offer any severance. To add further insult, they tried to fight my unemployment claim.