Pros
Great hours. A lot of great people on the plant floor.
Cons
This place is extremely strict. Every workplace has rules, but at Guardian every rule is enforced. If you work on the plant no phones, no food and no drinks with the exception of water,but it has to be the water bottle they give you and it has to have your name on it and don't just write it on it, it has to be a printed strip. If you get in as part of management, or as an engineer, good luck you'll need it. Your experience will be irrelevant because absolutely nothing gets done unless Steve (the owner) approves of it personally. The good news is you'll probably get fired within the first few months over something that isn't your fault anyway. To say the owner micromanages the entire company is an understatement. Even the vice president has to wait for approval over the simplest decisions. Can't even decide to extend overtime on Saturday without explicit permission from Steve. Makes you wonder what's going to happen to the company the day Steve retired. The plant relies significantly on undocumented workers who can't really fight for their rights, and the Union rarely gets anything done, so the company runs over the employees as it pleases. Also, the one foreman they have speaks about 4 words of English and only uses them to make excuses and bad mouth the company. Last but not least, don't think it's a coincidence that the two 5-stars reviews posted were given on the same day. That alone should tell you something about this place.
