Wasted talent, poor upper management - Shipping/Loader Georgia-Pacific Employee Review

1.0
15 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Overtime is usually freely available for those that need it...even when you don't want it.

Cons

In my experience the upper management in this company are incompetent. I saw people with a long history on the floor that knew the best ways to keep the plant running get their advice ignored in favor of new college graduates the company would hire. I saw multiple ethical issues arise within upper management as well, too numerous to list in this review. The one that I will always remember is a manager that would leave the plant during night shift to go out to eat and gamble at the casino down the road from us. When other managers were confronted with this they would simply reply that they knew and would handle it. Of course in the entire time I was there this never happened.

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Cons

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Pros

Talented and hardworking electricians, operators, mechanics, and plant personnel. Interesting automation and controls work with opportunities to solve challenging technical problems. Significant autonomy at the local level when responding to production issues. Good compensation and benefits. Corporate engineering resources are knowledgeable and generally willing to help.

Cons

Expectations and priorities frequently changed without corresponding adjustments to workload. Performance feedback lacked important operational context, such as competing priorities, project reassignment, and resource constraints. Communication tended to favor frequent meetings over clear written expectations. Accommodation requests and communication support were difficult to navigate and lacked a clear process. Single-engineer staffing model creates a challenging environment for vacations, medical appointments, training, and long-term sustainability. Heavy emphasis on immediate deliverables can make long-term engineering work and root-cause analysis difficult.

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