TERRIBLE WORKPLACE!!!! - Anonymous employee Northern Air Systems Employee Review

Flexible, good people to work with

Can be overwhelming at times with deadlines

The people you work with out on the floor are usually cool and it's easier to connect with the people that you suffer with. There is also pretty good healthcare, but the owner will remind you every year how much money he spends so you can have good healthcare

Where do we start... If you're not a brown-nosing loyalist to the owner of the company then you're not very well liked amongst the people at the top. They've chased out so many HR directors out of the building because they wanted to make changes for the better, but recently they found one that will narc on you any opportunity they have to upper management. The foreman out on the floor used to be a huge drug addict, now he's so self-righteous and thinks everyone is below him because he got himself a measly middle management position. He's also a highly insecure person and promotes a toxic work environment; the control and power makes him feel good about himself. The owner's wife over sees the money in the company, so obviously there is zero interest in giving the employees liveable wages. The less money they pay employees, the more money her and her husband get to keep. The owner of the company kept it open and running during Covid, in which time he received a 1.3 million dollar PPP Loan from the Federal Government, none of the employees saw a dime of it. Instead, he built a house down in Florida with it. If you need to take time off for any reason, you're a major inconvenience to them. There is zero work/life balance here. If you have to call in or leave early because life happens, then you're put on the bad list, and the foreman will give you dirty looks and a silent treatment when you're back at work next. They lock the doors between the floor workers and the office workers, so if you need to talk to HR or anyone else in any office, then you need to be escorted. We recently celebrated (The First Ever Person to Retire from Northern Air). We've had more people pass away while employed here than we've had people actually retire from this company, which shows how much they truly care about employee success. As I look for jobs elsewhere, I'm starting to learn that NAS never actually teaches proper vocational skills to find a job outside of the company. If you ever work here, prepare to work a lot of OT to make ends meet and they will gaslight you into thinking you're not a good employee, instead of them facing the facts that they aren't a good company to work for.