No raises. You’ll go 5 years without a raise if you don’t get noisy. Then you’ll get a whopping .50 increase!
Horrible medical coverage that employees pay the most of the cost of anyway, but have no options on what plan to choose. They have only one plan and you can either accept it or not. The plan is not a good plan. High out of pocket and deductible costs.
Lowest wage pay scale. Bottom of the barrel here folks.
You have to work 10-12 hours to get paid for 8 hours. You are forced to drive all over the state to a job site. But you only get paid for time at the job site. You eat all hours in traffic to and from the job. Anywhere from 2-6 hours of your personal time, just to get paid for 8, lost to traffic conditions. Dinners get cold gentlemen.
Your breaks and lunch times are also based upon arrival to job site. Meaning you can go up to 6 hours before you get lunch. Consider this before leaving the house.
There’s a zero tolerance for overtime here. You’re forced to put down 8 hour day even if you work or are on site longer. If you work longer on a given day, you’re forced to a short Friday so you don’t go over 40 hours.
No holiday pay. Forced days off and no pay. You get no options to work on forced days off. No holiday pay. No chance to make up lost wages and time.
No Christmas bonuses. No job bonuses. No profit sharing. Just annual announcements on how wonderful and profitable the company is and has grown from the previous years. But they’ll hand out a few hundred dollars to the commoners during the company catered luncheon in a degrading lottery process via raffle tickets.
You have to watch your pay stubs. There’s continuous discrepancies in the deductions and there’s many occasions they are in error. Every year you will owe the state of Oregon in taxes. Every single year.
Negativity of office staff and warehouse workers is deflating. Terrible atmosphere among the peers in house. You’ll get run down from everything from not having shoe covers on when going into the office or requesting specialty tools to properly perform a job. You’ll be called names, yelled at, talked down to in a degrading manner and there’s sarcastic crappy attitudes a plenty. Enjoy!
You have to provide your own tools. This company expects you to buy and provide all tools in order to perform your job. So be prepared to pay out of pocket for the many tools you’ll burn through, destroy and break in order to add to the company profits. You get no tool allowance. Your tools get run down and broken and you will not be compensated.
You buy your own work clothes, boots, safety gear and equipment. There’s no allowance or any help in covering these expenses. But they’ll sell you company swag, such as work shirts, hoodies, jackets, hats and beenies! Nothing like profiting off of your employees!
There’s no real chance to grow here. Your responsibilities will definitely increase but you’ll not be compensated for it. Be prepared to be a superintendent getting paid like a 3rd year apprentice in the union.
