Everything. Supervisor wanted to work for amazon but settled by treating the workers at highridge poorly.
The company used to care about its employees, before the current ceo whenever there was a financial crisis upper management took paycuts to keep everyone employed. Now if their profit numbers are a little bit off they will fire 7 people on the same day and replace them with contract workers but claim it was due to "performance issues" to avoid lawsuits. No one is falling for that though as firing 7 people on the very same day for "performance" while having contract workers come in immediately after. Its not subtle. This was A WEEK after complaining they got low trust scores on an employee survey and promised they would do better
Another one of their plans for increasing profits when they are down is firing more people while getting rid of their roles, then having workers there learn 3 more job functions while paying less for their original function than other companies. Yes this also includes a 0% raise for working more functions. However if you mess up they will gladly take away your yearly raise. No rewards for working most jobs in the facility but punishments are definitely there. But if they ever need another facility open or their numbers up, mandatory weekends will be a thing, or in case of when we had to open their facility for them, 2 full 12 hours a day weeks with 0 days off (yes 14 consecutive 12 hour work days with no vacation time allowed so they didn't have to hire people to set up their facility for them). They expect top professional skills for basic functions with low pay compared to the competition.
Cameras are everywhere and management and the supervisors make it 60% of their job to make sure you are not doing anything they dont want you to, instead of doing the common sense thing and just investigating anyone with low numbers which are in the system. Its really bad for morale. One time the water was completely off at the memphis facility and we were forced to work for about 6 hours with non functioning bathrooms until the manager finally let us go, probably realizing it was likely illegal to do so.
The culture is also pretty bad. People are constantly trying to get others in trouble to deflect anytime they do, snacks arent allowed because people (exactly who you'd think would do this) kept taking all the snacks for lunch and home etc. Managers going "i havent seen you do anything wrong but someone said" is not a rarity. We had a reward system that awarded employees with top numbers or that were recognized by their co workers, but that was taken away due to some people complaining about unfairness. So now they have nothing. The contract workers leave the bathrooms in a disgusting state every hour and they only have 1 janitor as they refused to give another top performing janitor a pay raise for cleaning a bigger facility. Also current hr will try to withhold your full pay if you leave if adp didnt register your floating holidays usage despite not using your full pto. Have to nickle and dime workers for company profit after all
Again with the new owners and ceo job security and loyalty to its employees is non existent. Most employees are now trying to leave due to this. If you apply, expect to be paid for your basic job functions slightly lower than other companies due to the high benefits, but also be expected to learn and perform 4 other roles at no additional pay while mastering your craft, for again, no additional pay. As soon as i switched jobs I quickly learned NONE of these issues had to exist and no one had to put up with it.
Theres a reason this company has a HUGE turnover rate for office workers, engineers, and basic workers like inspectors, packages etc. Almost no one who I knew when I started working their remained and I had to meet essentially 3 different teams of engineers and 3 different hr managers.
Avoid this company like the plague unless your only other option is Smith and nephew, medtronic or amazon. Besides, the company that bought zimvie out and turned it into highridge is likely trying to just make it look profitable in order to sell it ASAP. They are getting rid of vital roles like gage calibration an forcing everyone to basically work any and all roles to save money. Its making the job functions and flow awful but getting them some cash they wanted which only looks good on paper for a potential buyer that doesnt know much about whats actually going on at the facility or doesnt mind quickly putting its own workers in or hiring a lot of people back to fill those slots.