"How we do things at Tenaris" - Maintenance Technician Tenaris Employee Review

-Technical discussions held in Spanish often, impenetrable barrier to learning technical knowledge -Salary contracts with unspoken but expected overtime -Racist middle and upper management -Widespread inside conversations in Spanish about employees and their futures -Individual performance bonus system which makes the managers very much inhuman to their workers for a bigger bonus - A certain character whose first and last name start with the same letter will micromanage you for no reason other than to give himself and higher ups the appearance of making an effort and applying due vigor while this person has not a shred of understanding of soft power or effective management. He will barge into discussions and attempt to prove his validity by arguing over minutia or criticizing personal characteristics like weight. STAY AWAY FROM HIM. -If you are started in maintenance and not an ex-patriate from Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, or Brazil RUN AWAY!!! Don't get enamored by the starting pay, you only move up if you're a part of the "family" and even then its a very slow rise from there with high workload. This company will not match oil and gas industry pay but will expect undying loyalty to move even one rung up in the ladder. You will have to jump through several hoops to get anything done and when you ask why, the universal answer is "this is how we do things at Tenaris".