Pros
-Sometimes you get free snacks and drinks when the vending machine guy leaves out the past-expiration items. -One of the employees has a candy bowl that she replenishes occasionally. Update: I was just informed that the woman who occasionally left candy has retired. There is no more candy. Redact this "pro". -They genuinely have good engagement with the community and younger generation in an attempt to develop future machinists. I would say class leading.
Cons
-Toxic work environment, both figuratively and possibly literally. The building itself is dilapidated to put it kindly. The roof would leak badly over the receiving area where raw materials were stored, and where IT would store computer parts. Is there mold issues? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure they don't either. I never saw or heard of anyone looking for mold in the leaking areas, or saw a mold remediation team. I'm not suggesting that a workplace needs beauty to have brawn, this place just happens to have neither. -The cube spaces for quality were deplorable. Cracked/unlevel floors, exposed beams, loose and missing tiles. My literal first day in a new cube, I stood up and went to sit back down in my chair and smashed into the ground because the chair rolled 3 feet behind me while I stood for 10 seconds. The bathrooms smelled bad and missing tiles were covered with duct tape. -HR is a joke, well, not all of them. But the head of the snake has a very short and condescending demeanor that is VERY less than desirable. However, she is a great salesperson -There were employees with extremely bad attitudes that would *literally* walk around in slippers and cut off t-shirts on the production floor. -MRB was a mess. The entire QMS should have had "under construction" tape around it. -Management was a constant game of musical chairs of people quitting and other people internally sliding across positions. -An employee in the Quality Department was *somehow* emailed a list of the entire departments salaries by an upper level manager, and subsequently quit. You can imagine how that turned out. -Pay was much below market value in the area. -No bonuses. -Standard 2% raises were commonplace. -Company outings were legitimately nonexistent. -PTO/sick time was (much) below average. -We got a rubber (made in china) cord organizer(?) and a stress ball shaped like a submarine for "employee appreciation day" which HR preceded by making a huge deal out of the event, mentioning that there will be "gifts". I NOW work 8 minutes from GSM with the same exact title, making literally a 50% higher salary and considerably better benefits that are both high tech and very low deductibles. A 401k with a free 3% donation given by the company PLUS an additional 4% match to employee contribution. A handsome annual bonus (starting at 10% of salary based on a 50/50 split of company/employee performance). Great raises that cover both cost of living increases (inflation) and performance based raises. PTO that includes 3 weeks of vacation, 56 hours of sick pay, 11 holidays and 3 floating holidays. Fathers get 6 weeks of PAID paternity leave, mothers get 12 weeks of PAID maternity leave. A Morale and Culture Team that organizes GREAT company outings bi-yearly and coordinates food trucks weekly in the summer. Again, the last paragraph was not benefits of GSM. But rather contrasting benefits of a company literally eight minutes away in a similar DoD subcontracting sector. I'm sure that someone from GSM will reply to this saying that my facts are incorrect, or that company morale is actually "great". It isn't. As an employee it was easy to have a "finger on the pulse" of the morale, because there was none.