Terrible - Paper Machine Operator Georgia-Pacific Employee Review

1.0
28 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

It’s a job. They’ll at least give you a paycheck. It can buy you enough time to barely get by while you work your fingers to the bone to claw your way out of that company and into something that’s actually going to benefit your life.

Cons

Greedy. Don’t care about their employees. Pay is terrible. Benefits are a joke because Koch owns all those companies too so they’re really the only ones benefiting. There’s absolutely zero organization. Everyone who has any kind of power including “senior” operators all have some kind of god complex. They think that because they didn’t have the ambition to actually make something of themselves and are too stupid to be anything more than a mill rat, that it gives them the right to no longer work, take naps, watch movies, and sport events, and make the newer guys do everything. Even when things go wrong and you have no idea what to do, they don’t care. As long as they don’t have to get up, the whole place could burn down around them.

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5.0
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Pros

Good pay, good benefits, stable job

Cons

Lots of travel, very corporate

2.0
7 Jul 2026
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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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