press brake operator

maintenance technician

welder

quality assurance inspector

truck driver

Anchor Fabrication

Dear reader, If you work day shift at Anchor Fabrication in any given dept, almost everyone there speaks little to no English. The supervisors and leads are bilangual but there’s a fraternity of favoritisms and cliques there between the workers and Supervisors so if you’re not of Mexican or Latino decent, don’t expect to move up on day shift. I seriously wish I was kidding about that one. 2nd and 3rd shift is a little better in opportunity if you’re ok with cancelling your personal/family life (did that here too) also if you’re considering applying for material handler, DONT DO IT the materials manager over shipping/receiving/forklifts is a complete psycho with a raging authority complex and certainly won’t care about your family life. Case in point. There’s a five minute grace period in clocking in earlier or later but everyone who works there pushes the envelope in the tardiness generally if it’s not incredibly late like 30 or 45 mins the supervisors won’t even bother you about it. the forklift boss will write you up for clocking in after 6-7 mins if it’s more than once. he’ll also make you come in on Saturday when the whole company is off work just to repaint yellow striping and staging areas in the warehouse because he wanted it to look fresh we would even have to come in just to sweep the floor little things like that are usually mandatory And will only take like an hour or less

Don't really think there are any positive things I can actually say about this company as a whole.  There are some good people in leadership rolls, but unfortunately the negative overwhelmingly out weights the positive.
-Poor management past production floor. 
-Extremely high turn over rate. 
- No chance of promotion and/ or raise for that matter. 
-Selective rule enforcement is applied. 
Only if called out will upper management try and cover the action by writing up other employees that done equal or greater than within the last month that the rule/ policy didn't apply to when the offense was committed. While  managing to let employees in the buddy system slide on same offense. Even to allowing bad out of tolerance parts ship to the customer just so that employee doesn't receive any consequences.
- Policies change at anytime with notice  after the fact. Generally in form of write up. 
- Buddy system employee can produce bad parts that are not salvagable, sabotaged other employees with photographic proof, directly break company policies all without consequences. While non bubby system employee have to correct and get wrote up for taking to long to run the production. 
-Extream double standards are continuously used by upper management on select employees at this company. 


What is the best part of working at the company?
Reasonable supervisors for those times when life causes problems with scheduling. Unless your real outspoken, opinionated  and are not just a “YES” to everything without question kind of employee. Also, supervisor positions if they offer you a promotion they will give you all the work/responsibilities  with nowhere close to adequate training and no increase in pay for 3/4 months and they won’t even tell HR about your so called promotion. It’s a stepping stone company. Get on your feet and get out while you can.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
•Training for positions above entry level in every department is lacking severely.
•My predecessor and I were so poorly trained and I watched as they made up changes to policy out of nowhere just to keep up the blame game and have ammunition for when they saw fit to terminate.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
• Uncomfortable for most thin skinned people.

• work hard and keep your head down and mouth shut to avoid issues.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Hard workers are far and few so the slack gets added to the best employees.

If you like overtime, this is the place for you. They don’t give enough of a pay raise for the job you’re doing, they will give you extra work and not change your position, meaning they don’t have to pay you more for the work you’re doing. They bring in people to be supervisors’ and area management who have never worked on the machines they are to supervise. You will most likely work every weekend, whether you work 4 hours or 8…you will get one guaranteed Saturday off. They let people in their little “clique” do what they want, certain people will leave, not clock out, and come back in right before their shift ends. Not the best place to work, would not recommend. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing. They are liars and HR sticks with management even when they are in the wrong

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Managers that lie to you to get you to move shifts then decrease your pay and tell you your other job that has the higher pay is no longer available

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful over worked and greatly umder appreciated 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work in a hot or freezing environment and then when shift is over they make you stay and do more work

I worked for a sister company of Anchor Fabrication from 2013 until the time they shut it down and moved the work to their main company. I have to say it was one of the overall most decent jobs I ever had in the metal fab industry. Sure, every company has its pros and cons but if you did your job, stayed busy, and kept your mouth shut, you could make some money. They gave overtime like nothing and had holiday lunches and quarterly rewards. Employees were all pretty cool and easy to get along with. They respected your faith and didn't discriminate.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They treated you like family. They have positions that you can be trained on. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working at the plasma cutter is very stressful. It demands strength and ability to move around steel parts 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
There is a lot of Hispanic people there. If don’t know Spanish it’s hard to understand what they are saying 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
 A typical day there is busy. They are always making parts for anything

Don't waste your time in this company. Long hours and not a sign of developing and advancements.. They make you work under really high violent and tense environment and not even a thank you on bonus time.  Got 3 chocolate coins once but yet they proud of saying they're good Christians. The owner looks greedy compared to willbanks metal...it's it was a an honor work for the old men a real tuff and good hearted person a self made millionaire not a spoil little brat.

There is misogyny when it comes to leadership here. I guess its to be expected when it comes to the male steel dominated industry but its very obvious here. There is no such thing as employment security, there were three layoffs in the span of a year. Turnover is very high, benefits are almost non-existent, compensation is basically the lowest they can get away with. This then translates as devaluing you as a person. The community that is there is great, but there are components such as those mentioned above that just make it not worth it.

It's a decent job if you're starting out as a welder. The pay is alright and the hours are good. The management is awful and does not care about their workers at all. No matter how much work you put into what you do everyday they don't care, they only care about numbers and money.  If you're getting harassed or have an issue, don't expect HR to do anything. Overall my experience there was so awful and i wouldn't recommend this place to anyone! Only work there if you HAVE to. If you do work there don't stay long because you will never get a raise and you'll never grow. It's miserable!!  

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