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I worked as a “Channel Loyalty Representative”. - data entry.

I would receive orders (PO’s) and essentially convert that order into our Oracle System to send to the warehouse so they can fulfill shipments.

The job itself wasn’t difficult, and the workspace/workplace wasn’t bad either. They had a couple areas where you could eat, walk, shoot hoops, etc. 

On the surface, it seemed like a pretty simple easy job. 
-Office Job
-A/C & heat
-Easy on your body
-Can listen to music and be in your own world
-Steady hours
-Once you clock out, you don’t take work home with you

However, the job ended up being super disappointing. And in short, it’s due to 1. management and 2. dated and unrealistic procedures.. - you have to hit a certain “metric” to “hit production”. Production is measured everyday, and you’re expected to hit production everyday (obviously), and they’d average it out for the month (essentially)

Here’s the issue with “hitting production”.:

-Incoming PO’s are inconsistent. If no one is ordering products, YOU HAVE NO ORDERS TO ENTER, and therefore you will NOT HIT PRODUCTION.
-When you DO have orders, they’re randomized in the queue and so you may get a PO that has 20+ line items or 1. Obviously the 20 line order is more helpful for hitting production than the 1 line order. But you still have to enter it, right? Well there’s a lengthy process for the initial order itself (who’s PO is it, where is it going,  etc)  where you do that with a 20 line order as well, but you have multiple lines to enter to make it worth that initial info you have to add. Also some individuals would cherry pick orders and constantly throw the small orders back in the queue for someone else to grab. And so “team building” became more competitive and hostile than actually knocking out the queue as a team.
-The processes were terrible. When I first started, they used to have a UPC number you could enter and it would auto populate to the product desired. You could also enter a description and get to the right product as well. The issue is that some of the UPC’s would be incorrect and some of the descriptions would either add things like (escutcheons, trims or others) and so you’d be prone to errors simply just based on THEIR system having errors itself. But “you should catch it”. So then they moved everyone to a different program (3rd party site) that allowed you to really fine tune the order to make sure it was exactly what the customer ordered. Reduced errors by like 90% but each line item would take approximately 1-2 minutes to enter vs a 5 second UPC number. So production dropped by about 20-25%.
-Eventually we would also have to take time to highlight our PO’s and “proof” them by highlighting every line, and if we get an error back and NO highlights on our PO, we’d immediately be put on a PIP.
-Now I actually implemented a policy that almost guaranteed my team would hit production each and every day (or at least month) and that was by distributing at least 1-2 “large orders” in each persons queue per day which would allow people a guaranteed order with a decent amount of lines (pushing everyone to that daily number) and I even designed and implemented an excel spreadsheet for people to self check themselves to see “how many more items are needed to hit production” - allows you to get a gauge on where you stand during the day. (If you can relax a bit or you need to kick it in gear)
-I never got credit for these policies, management did. And if anything I eventually got treated poorly because other departments weren’t able to keep up with our pace and productions goals.

Which brings me to the big one: PIPS
-“Performance Improvement Plan”

If you get put on a PIP, just start looking for a new job because you’re probably going to get terminated in the short near future.

Again, if you don’t hit production, you’re placed on a PIP. 
If you have more than 2-3 errors for the month, you’re put on a PIP.
If you don’t do procedures “correctly” (to a tee) you get placed on a PIP. 
If you’re placed on a PIP, you have to correct those things within 2 months and then basically never slip up or fall back in order to “save your job”.

Managment basically does nothing besides hide in their office and socialize all day (or when they do decide to come out, they just nitpick and micromanage). Not helpful at all.

A typical day of work depends on your role. I will say that I have worked as both on floor production and in the office (current role). Both are great in my opinion and you will keep busy throughout your shift.

- While on the production floor, I learned how to work together with a team in a fast paced and competitive environment. The coworkers are friendly and welcoming and will teach you well.
- You can fairly quickly move up in the company if you're willing to put in the hard work. Since being at Allegion for a little over 5yrs now, I have worked my way up from a production line worker to a team leader and now to an EHS Technician.
- The workplace culture is very important in the company and we value work life balance as well as making everyone feel included. We have 8 Allegion Values we follow too!
- Like most companies, management can be a little unorganized at times. Everyone here does in fact care for their employees however, and does the best that they can given the situation(s) a hand.
- I would say the hardest part of the job would be the lack of proper training. This is a big area that needs to be updated and addressed for the company. It is a lot of tribal knowledge passed along and you are thrown into the fray a lot.
- The best part of the job is the constant growth you see within the company from fellow coworkers, whether that's personal or professional, you will always be learning something new and growing everyday!

Be Safe, Be Secure

Things seemed alright at first, they were cordial and at least initially seemed interested in my success. Over time though, they became increasingly erratic and unpredictable, and very poor at communicating their true expectations. 

They do not train you for a fraction of the e-mails you will receive, and still expect you to take a large portion of time to pester other people for help while still maintaining their ridiculous daily requirements.

If you work at four times the speed of everyone else, be prepared to be expected to do four times the work for little to no substantive compensation. If you're lucky, you will win a raffle for a paltry 30 dollar gift card.

I communicated with them frequently that their training was not enough, and that they needed someone to be personally dedicated to further training new hires as they went along, but they continued to appease or ignore me.

When I was let go, there was no written warning or anything concrete to give me an indication that something was wrong, or to give me some idea on how to improve. Instead they just had someone give me a call one morning and end it then. Do not expect any real notice before they drop you.

They also use a temp agency as an excuse to not give you any real benefits before being hired "for real" in a year or so, which is not even guaranteed.  Don't expect any vacation or health insurance until then, and they'll require doctors proof for sick days. 

All in all, do not trust their personable up front appearance. They will only consider advancing you if you do far more work than their supposed minimums, and with little compensation for it in the short term.

Used to be a really good place to work until 4-5 yrs ago and I really enjoyed my job(s) and the people. Now of the 3 jobs I've had over the past 20 plus yrs, this place is by far the worst ever!!!....Anymore, they'll hire anyone and I mean anyone in the production areas. It's gotten so bad that full time employee's, both management and hourly are leaving the company, I'm not far from exiting myself after better than 7 plus years. You can't plan anything for the weekends because the constant threat of having to work over and on the weekends is never ending. Each department has a supervisor who has at least, at least,2-4 team leads who've never really led in any race from the way they talk to you. They don't train the new people how to do the jobs properly, then complain to you why they're not making tact each hour. Lunches are 30 minutes with 10 minute breaks that equal out to be about a good 5-6 minutes after a bathroom break and vending machine snack. The people there will smile in your face and stab you in the back, tell on you for anything you do, bid jobs posted are prematurely awarded to those the company wants to have them, I can go on. They pay is good if you're a direct hire and good luck with that if you're one of the luckies to hire directly on or they'll string you along into thinking you will be and 6-8 months later, you'll still be a temp, not to mention they've hired someone with less time than you, I"m done!!!...don't believe me, go see for yourself then, they'll hire ya...lol

I was employed at Allegion for 10 years. I worked in multiple departments throughout the facility and got to know the entire staff, majority of which are great, honest, hard working people. During my tenure with the company I was able to advance at my own rate which was quickly and consistent in the time I was there. Once I was promoted to a leadership role I quickly identified the poor accountability that Allegion demonstrates for employees that do not follow policies in place. This comprised my role in a leadership position to lead effectively, meet deadlines and accomplish team goals. Work/life balance they are very accommodating and try to be as flexible as they can with business needs. They are constantly looking to improve but the end results from execution of projects lacks significant productivity gains and cost reductions. Again due to lack of accountability it makes it difficult to accomplish creating new processes that would be sustainable. Last I would say being a non-union company there is the pick and choose who is promoted to leadership roles which is why there is a lack of leadership/management within the company. The turnover rate for plant managers has been in question for years with 4 different plant managers over the last 5 years.

A typical day at work usually involves moving quickly from one machine to the next to make sure that the hoppers are full and that the re-stackers are emptied when they get filled. It also involves stacking keys as well as recycling cardboard when the cart gets too full, writing up scrap when a key is shaved or zero bitted incorrectly, bent,scratched too deeply, damaged in handling, or other-wise. The management there is friendly as long as you keep your nose to the grindstone and are back on time from breaks. I haven't experienced any disciplinary action because I am always working when I need to and I come back early from breaks. My co-workers are nice and help me out if a mistake was made. The hardest parts of the job (mainly during the summer) are the hours and when the machines keep jamming. The most enjoyable parts of the job are the breaks every two hours and the self-motivated work.

I agree 100% with the other 1 star reviews regarding Allegion. The entire company is stuck doing business as if AOL were still an internet provider. Leadership is not inclusive.

Employees are not likely to learn anything new since the corporate strategy is to leverage legacy technologies.

A typical day consists of discussing work that should have been completed, motivating employees and leadership to do the right and ethical practices to further the growth of its employees and the organization.

It's a very toxic workplace culture because the lazy employees are rewarded and hard workers are taken advantage of and required to carry the team.

Management is inept and hires individuals that can show them how to get things done; only to steal their work product and try to pass it off as their own.

The hardest part of the job is trying to work with their people, but you are not able to trust who you colleagues.

The most enjoyable part of the job is logging off, but dreading logging back on the next day. 

The compensation is okay, but not worth the stress, lies, procrastination and laziness of the entire company. Looking for a new position ASAP to be free of this place.

Spin off from Ingersoll Rand about 5 years ago so a fairly new company with solid brand reputation, but new company struggles. Strategy and focus seems to change frequently with multiple org changes that aren't explained well. Communication is lacking from the leadership team-don't assume messages are getting cascaded down because most likely they aren't. If you want development, a promotion, or out of job scope project work then be prepared to lobby yourself and be assertive-it should be more of a reciprocal dynamic. Positive reinforcement and feedback is lacking, I'd like to see this be more of an initiative. Very much VP heavy-it seems titles are granted without much thought around why we need to maintain such a executive heavy workforce. Shouldn't we be putting those monies back into innovation, marketing, and manufacturing development? We're supposed to be considered a lean environment, but the workforce/priorities/money spend don't reflect this.

I was hired for their Burgaw NC plant last July 2015. It was okay until I got to really know what kind of people this company really hires. Its a manufacturing plant so they dont pick from the top they scrap at the bottom. Used to not be any background checks before I was hired. This plant had a high turnover rate, started with 20 people and within 8 months down to 9. The employees will do anything to stab each other in the back and more so for the management. The HR department does not look at someone as a whole when an complaint is brought forward and they are quick to fire the hard workers that do not cause problems but on the other hand go to great lengths to keep the employees that are the biggest head aches and do the least amount of work. If I had known then what I know now, i would have thought twice. By the way I was a back breaker employee. Gave 110% everyday but they did not take that into account when I was fired for telling one joke with another employee. The plant manager did nothing to stand and fight to hold onto a raising the bar employee.

The staff was wonderful. I learned a lot about locks, but mostly, I learned it wasn't the job for me. I would've stayed and done well, but what my job entailed was too slow, with outdated processes and I thought about fixing the processes (for the company, myself, coworkers), but had to stay in my role. 
I was offered a chance to come back if I changed my mind and have since been asked to come back by a recruiter of this company. I would like to say that I left a good impression of them, just as they did on me; I was just less than content with how obsolete and old the reference guides and processing systems worked. Overall, it is a great place for someone who is new at administrative assistant work.

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