Out of touch management. High turnover - Anonymous employee Metalex Employee Review

1.0
16 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Mid level employees are great people. Good company benefits. Centrally located. Nice view of a lake. Close to downtown a Libertyville

Cons

Horrible communication. If at all. No training of new opportunity employees. No processes in place. You are basically set up to fail from the day you are hired. High employee turnover. 49 to 52% in the past year. Upper management has been turned over at least once in the last nine months. No raises. Some long time employees (over 30 years)are lazy and make excuses not to work. Yet you can’t get rid of them? OTD is at 40%. Losing customers daily. Management is out of touch with employees and reality. Financially struggling is apparent. Material challenges due to unpaid invoices. Mexico facility is not being run by management at all. Lost its largest customer. Remove the cancers amongst yourselves. Get ride of your upper management and start over. Your current management Team as of 5-17-2018 is not going to save your business. Stop firing the people who work hard and remove the 30 year tenured lazy customer service people. Maybe you should start listening to the managers closer to the workers and trust them to make employee decisions. PARKING is a Nightmare! Worst company I have ever worked for.

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Pros

Flexible Friendly environment Mentor and Manager willing to make you learn

Cons

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2.0
29 Nov 2018
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Pros

Good customer base, decent ERP system, most employees good to work with, decent benefits.

Cons

High turnover and the resulting chaos when a brain-drain happens; counting hourly employees, it was 74%. Every office or professional-level employee departure seemed to effect only reactive moves. Where was the strategy to stop the bleeding? Poor communication from upper management, particularly on the plant consolidation in 2017. Metalex culture seems to have been, and was being, developed over time from the cumulative traits of the employees, and not as designed or defined by upper management or reflecting the stated corporate culture. There was no apparent short-term or long-term strategy, other than to make the monthly and quarterly numbers. Unless it wasn't communicated...strategy deployment, what's that?

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