senior software engineer

material handler

maintenance technician

inside sales representative

call center representative

Brady Corporation

You wake up at 5am...  be at the clients facility by 7am
You hang the procedures and tag the energy sources from the previous day.
You begin fielding equipment for LOTO procedures
When completed, you return to the hotel and begin writing the procedures.
When finished, you would print 2 copies of each procedure, 1 for clients machinery and 1 for the binder.
The procedure for the machinery would be laminated after printing was complete.
You would add the procedures written to the master equipment list and upload the written procedures to rackspace.
You then gather the necessary tags to be installed with the procedures the following day.

When this was completed, you would then log onto your field engineers sites and check their work for errors or defects.  If any were found, you would call them or send them an email informing them what you found.

In between doing all of this, there were at least 1 gotomeeting to attend for best practices and software development issues.

I would normally get to bed by 1 or 2 am.  Then begin the process all over again.


I learned that no matter how much you dedicate yourself to a company like Brady, you are just a number and your work was never appreciated by your managers..

The hardest part of the job was getting cooperation from the clients staff on large pieces of equipment like boilers.  It was common for everyone to disappear when those came up on the list.  And getting calls to go fix another field engineers work at another facility was a common issue.

The most enjoyable part of the job was that I got to got to different places and meet and work with different people.  This wasn't always good, but for the most part is was the best part of the job.

Brady could care less about its employees. Management mainly cares about their six figure salaries and outsourcing positions overseas. India..Philippines etc. The corporate waste I've seen first hand is unbelievable. Totally mismanaged finance department. Theresa McClure is nothing more than a machine who lacks any social skills or the ability to connect to real people. She is just a cog in a wheel who is completely out of touch with the reality of how to communicate with employees. Employees in the Valencia, California location have been lied to repeatedly regarding their positions being secure. Why Lie if you know you will be outsourcing positions to Asia. Try being honest instead of claiming that PDC would be a stand alone company. Tracy Carpentier is nothing more than a puppet who has no clue about product quality assurance. Everyone knows the St.John companies products are completely inferior to Precision Dynamics corp. Not to mention the unprofessional group of people it employs. Try wearing something other than Flip Flops to a business establishment.

Very unorganized environment, with rude and careless supervisors, or "team leads" as they call them. The leads or higher ups sleep around with each other and lower employees and brag about it until it's the talk of the facility, but what job doesn't have that right? The entire management is made up of closed circle of friends that rotate the higher positions amongst each other, so the same people will supervise or lead different areas of the facility for a few months and then rotate again each implementing stupid ideas that hinder production, and each displaying different abuses of power. They run the place like a sweat shop, and set BIG profit making quotas, making millions, promising employees bonuses for their hard work, only to tell them at the last minute that the quota was missed by .00001%. Meanwhile the leads and supervisors take home bonuses, tv's, and other rewards that the job often reminds you are available only to make you work harder. When I worked there, they rewarded us with pork sandwiches. YES PORK SANDWICHES!! Is there anything nice I can say about the place?... it has a nice break room

The work was simple and sometimes tedious in the design department but the coworkers make day to day enjoyable. Able to wear headphones while working as long as you're not in manufacturing or a phone based position (customer service).
The following story is obviously an outlier but you can see issues from it.
Thee design department had a VERY rough onboarding. Moved the department from Manila Philippines to Buffalo, poor training, took 3 months to get 5 person department cubicles and not a meeting room. We were told we would be temp for 6 months and then moved to full employee, after a year of moving our seats and managers they finally started onboarding us. Only to be told all hiring would be frozen (by the CEO to keep the profits up that quarter) for another 3 months. During the freeze they decided to cancel the Christmas party for the whole building because sales didn't make enough money. Christmas was demoted to a luncheon that didn't even have enough food for everyone.

Brady is a values driven organization with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. The people are great to work with and I enjoy being in a role where I can impact change.

I have been promoted twice in less than three years and have ongoing discussions with my manager and other senior members of my team around my career path and professional development. The global exposure I receive at Brady has expanded my perspective and broadened my experience.

I have also been paired with an Executive mentor who meets with me monthly to provide guidance, coaching and feedback in areas I am focusing my development on.

Overall, I am very appreciative for the opportunities that I have had and continue to have at Brady Corporation and recommend it as a great place to work. I am also proud to be part of a company with a strong focus on giving back through the Brady Foundation and through volunteer events. The company takes being a strong member of its communities very seriously.

I would come into work, prepare myself with the proper PPE, log into SAP and begin printing and finishing

I learn how to set high standard goals for myself, for example, if my backlog which contains how many open orders in my department is 100, I would set a goal to be under 20 by the end of the night

Management, well there was only a few supervisors that cared and treated the employees with respect and communicated well with, those few supervisors are no longer there, and the current manager, is never around and doesn't interact well the employees there, it was a very nice place to work for, good environment and safe as well.

The hardest part of my job was the daily challenges which were set by myself, I cared about working there so much I would try and better myself everyday by finishing all my work

The most enjoyable part of my day would be working with all the people there, everyone there is friendly, helpful, and gives good advice when needed

This 100+ year old company used to be run in a way where employees spent their lives there and were taken care of as family...Went public and got progressively worse over time. Unless you're hired at a position above a floor worker (Engineering and other specialized or management positions), you can likely expect to be hired on as a temporary contract worker (read: no benefits and can be fired for any reason) and unless you're spectacular you'll likely be fired before the end of your temp. agency contract of 6-12 months depending on the position. I worked there for over two years before leaving for another job.

Short story here. They don't take the time to listen to the many issues that the company has towards it's employees. Yes it is an interesting place to work, and yes sometime's things get messed up and no body is perfect. I get that. But they want you to take the blame for every mistake without fully looking into a situation, because they don't want to put the effort in to do so. All I can say is if you apply for the picker/warehouse position, be prepared to get tons of errors, even if they are not yours. After years of service to the company you'd think they'd trust the words of the employees and care just a little more as to what is going on. People will "misplace" your parts if your not looking, and when you catch them and confront them about it, you have a target on your back.

The position is not a territory manager position, it’s basically a telemarketer role. 75% of the mandatory calls you make are cold calls, selling a product that is way over priced in the market. Out of a team of 20+ reps, 3 or 4 hit their goal and there is no coloration between when you hit, It’s all luck. 
You are required to make 50 calls from a Dialer and have assigned break and lunch times. If you don’t comply you will be written up. This is really run like a telemarketing company not an account management position. 
When I left 75% of the sales floor was searching for a new job. They are losing more people then the can replace. Instead of fixing the problem the bosses just let good people walk and replace them with recent college grads or people with little to no real sales skills. 
STAY WAY FROM THIS PLACE!!!!!

The pay was decent. Most of the people were pretty cool. I loved the work itself but don't expect a 40 hour work week EVER. When I worked there my department worked 10 hour days, 6 days a week for most of the 7 months I was there. The other department worked 8 hour days but had to work 7 days a week. Chance of advancement is slim, I mean you can be trained on other positions pretty quick but nothing that comes with a pay raise. And if you want to get hired on you have to be there 6 or more months. There were people there who were great workers who didn't get hired on until being there 9 months. I was an outstanding worker, trained in all areas of my department and still wasn't hired on after 7 long months of busting my butt and working long hours.

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