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A.W. Chesterton Company

Used to be a good company. Grandson has taken over the company and is totally useless. Upper executive is confrontational with each other and solely focused on their own personal agendas.

A bizarre madmen culture, where upper management is sleeping with employees and the "do what I say, not what I do" mantra is alive and well. 

Culture of covering each others backsides and paying off executive assistants with Chesterton incentive bucks. Need to point out that a certain female executive assistant is one of the biggest bullies in the company. If you're not her good side, you are screwed.

Distributors have the owners ear and wag this company. Products are out dated and we are trying to play catch up with the competition ( which is too late in the game).

Have lost some very good management and engineers in the last few years - people who actually cared about the company and spoke up. 

COO and VP of Global sales are a train wreck. The tension actually has resulted in good people around them leaving or being walked out the door.

HR and Finance are bloated cost centres. More resources need to be funnelled to engineering, production and sales.

As Kramer would say, "The share holders should sell while there is still some value in the company".

When management does not have the courage to stand up for their dedicated people in fairness and integrity, the trickle down effect can hurt.  It is hurting A.W. Chesterton now.  I am impressed by their knowledge and business and technical skills from the CEO to other management however, integrity should rule and their unfair firing of the manager who hired me a few weeks after my hire to support a political power play, spoke volumes.  I should have left right then back to my former employer who I loved.  After dedicating myself in spite of this disappointing loss  of my dedicated manager, after 14 months I was let go after neglect of my work and projects I brought in.  I learned a great lesson in going into a situation with wider eyes and reacting appropriately to such shenanigans.  I really admired the CEO, a great stand up guy and was sorely disappointed that he folded to his other managers to allow such a political power play to

Management is better than other locations, pay is fair and sometimes better than other locations, work is not stressful and possible to accomplish. They definitely make sure you are prepared and equipped to do the job and not overwhelmed/trained properly and are willing to listen to you and work with you as a person. The atmosphere amongst employees/morale is low. One manager in particular is known for causing the employees a bit of grief and is more on workers than other managers and is therefore disliked. They have newer technology for picking product where much of the product is in a large machine so that you don't have to walk up and down the aisles to pick much of it which makes any pickers jobs much easier. They've come up with numerous ways to make many different positions more efficient. 

I’m involve in provides all on-site technical support for fixed fee sealing device and reliability improvement corporate contracts including: inventory management, reliability analysis, sealing device upgrade management, pumping systems design and upgrade analysis recommendations on site. Also I responsible for on site meeting negotiated contract performance. On this position I work directly with plant personnel to target specific areas of rotating equipment improvement and I’m directly responsible for the implementation of those improvements. Additional responsibilities include: seal failure analysis, design, development and implementation of programs and systems to maximize customer plant efficiencies and provide customer support that meets/exceeds customer expectations.

I worked at Chesterton from 1991 to 2022 in various capacities to include VP & CFO, and recently consultant.  Chesterton believes in treating its employees as if they were family.  Benefits are very good.  I was given the responsibility to make company changing decisions to correct serious financial problems.  With support for the family owners, we turned the company into a much stronger, more competitive enterprise.  My most enjoyable part of my job was the satisfaction of seeing the company grow in a very competitive market.

Management has ignored the feed back from employees and failed to improve anything. This place has to be a front there's no way you can miss manage a company like this for this long. Leaky roof? We got it. Broken programs? You bet. How about tight tolerance machining with no climate control? We got that too. It feels like everyone has given up and we are just waiting for the doors to close. Benefits have done nothing but go down, health insurance pays for nothing, dental might as well not exist. Never received a bonus in my 12 years, got profit sharing to the 401k once. They're willing to invest 100k in a self driving cart for moving boxes that's been in use maybe 6 times but can't fix a leak. Place is a joke look elsewhere.

It is a good place to work, my days there a good and I have time to do my work. My days there are easy to handle and I can set my own schedule. Day to day I learn about test methods and how the material works. The management is easy to get along with and let's us set our own pace. The culture is good, sometimes there are strains but over all it is good. The hardest part of the job is trying to satisfy a customer, often they will ask things to be done over and over when they don't trust the data. The most enjoyable part is being able to set our own schedule and pace our work so not to be over burdened on one day.

Started out as a great place to work, but over the years, changes were made that adversely impacted the company and culture. It is now struggling to get back on track. The last few years have been difficult for employees left after layoffs a new system that brought more headaches than improvements. Support for teams is lacking and people seem to be getting burnt out. The work life balance is not great right now.

I hope that things do improve as the company gets back on its feet and headed in the right direction. Compensation and benefits offered are great.

I was in the position to help many people at work on a daily basis. I enjoyed the fact that every day would be different as I always needed to take care of new problems or issues. I never went into work and had the same day as before. People at the company were very supportive and understood if I couldn't get to their issues the same day. I never had a serious interaction with anyone. The employees were always friendly and never acted negatively.

My responsibility is that design fixture tool, testing parts, data analysis, writing test summary. I learned using SolidWorks deeply because of I used it almost everyday. My boss and co-works are very friendly, they always help me when I need. the hardest part of the job is that sometime I need to consider lots of different aspects during the fixture design process, such as clearance and squeeze calculation. This company is the best of job work/life balance place, during the lunch, my co-works and I play basketball to relax, and also make everybody get along with each others.

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