CONN-SELMER INC

A typical day here is countless meetings that should have been emails. If you plan to work here, prepare for meetings, and meetings about meetings. Expect to put in a lot of work, only to have plans changed last minute and all of your time and effort wasted. Your deadline will remain the same, though, so get ready to put in long nights and weekends to complete your projects on time. Management plays favorites. If you do not fit into their clique, your efforts will be overlooked and accomplishments with be awarded to someone else. The culture at Conn-Selmer is toxic. You are better off keeping to yourself and ignoring the drama; that is if you don't get sucked into it. There are good, honest, hardworking people here, unfortunately not a lot of them work in management.  Departments work in silos and the communication is often bad. The hardest part of working here isn't the work itself, it's the people you have to work with.  The most enjoyable part of the job died after I accepted the position.  The management (upper and middle) don't have the leadership skills to run this organization as a whole.  They throw their subordinates under the bus to save face and have no problem stealing your ideas in the process.  This used to be an amazing place to work, but over time, management has taken upon themselves to fire incredibly gifted, talented, hardworking people, just so they can look like they are the intelligent ones.  This place is an absolute joke, and the quality of their products reflect this.  If you love Conn-Selmer don't expect them to love you back. 

Supervisors change frequently back and forth in departments. They do not know how to do the job they're supervising. Supervisors too friendly with coworkers, they don't supervise, they placate.
Typical day, you don't know what you are doing in which department due to constant lack of work. Chinese materials never come in on time. 
You are just a body in the building.
No job advancement, or pay raises never done correctly. Reviews are a joke, they "forget" they need to be done.
I learned how to build a horn. Management is a disaster. Cannot keep HR. Workplace culture is drama, dram, drama. Too many busy bodies, not enough work being done. Company policies are not enforced. Saftey glasses are worn on top of heads, dress code needed but non existent. Assimilate or you get a target on your back. They do target people who do not go along with drama and then you're gone without contractual warning. Union is a joke too. They do not back you on anything. Some of the people, which I miss, were great to work with. 


If you have worked there for less than 10 years and don't kiss your supervisor's butt then you are on your own. They don't care about quality and always getting products back from customers. The buddy system is in full affect there, they have no accountability on the floor and more often than not you will find employees standing around in groups watching videos on their phones or just having conversations.  When supervisors see it they just ignore it.  The senior floor people are opposed to change and under cut any attempt at improving processes to improve work quality.  Management plays favorites with the overtime to make sure their buddies eat it up. It is a union shop only in name, they do very little help their members, it's just a popularity contest, much like high school.  Good pay for some departments and not great for others. If you want to make ok money and can deal with the drama go for it but I would not recommend working for them. They are losing customers and I cant imagine them being open for much longer

Seemed like a laid back place, but how they are demanding overtime, including Saturdays. I feel like I hardly have a life outside of work now, and now they are making all sorts of demands on production and cutting our attendance bonus down. They say we can make more than we are making now on it if we meet production quotas, but our parts are garbage when we actually have parts. We have to constantly rework parts before using them so hitting our quota is hopless. Management is garbage as well too. They keep blaming us and asking what our issues are but they never address the issues and fix them, they just keep blaming us for low production numbers. It's like putting lipstick on a pig. Honestly they should start at the top and fire all of management and start over since it would be hard to do worse than they do. I don't see how this place can turn any sort of profit considering how much waste goes on in parts and labor.

I appreciated the opportunity given when I was in need of a job.  Felt like a fairly welcoming environment overall.  Most coworkers seemed to care about my general well-being.  Unfortunately, I think I had gotten a somewhat raw deal in hindsight, though don't believe there was any particular ill intent.  The training received was rather subpar for what I was expected to learn in addition to virtually little to real feedback that there were any problems with my performance.  I feel I was doing at a minimum okay, knowing it could have been better, but there was really wasn't a ton of communication indicating this nor any sort of second chance opportunity offered.  Sadly, my time ended rather abruptly and without warning after close to 3 months of employment.  

Had I known there was something wrong, I might have approached my supervisor about it despite not wanting to rock the boat due to being a new hire.

This company uses and abuses their employees.  You are just a number to them. They want you to work 70 or more hours a week for nothing. They make promises they don't keep. HR is no help and rarely in the office. Good luck ever collecting life insurance, they make people call in 10 to 20 times just to get terminated from the 401k system so they can collect or roll over their funds.  
 They tell you not to work so many hours then dump days more worth of work on you. You have dozens of projects going at all times with no help or direction. Run and run fast you do not want to work here. It will never get better because the problem starts at the top and flows down.

Got a passion for working at a company that's determined to self-destruct by refusing to keep up with the times? Looking for a soul-sucking experience where you can polish your butt-kissing skills? Conn Selmer might be your perfect dream-killer! Watch your enthusiasm (and your colleagues’) fade as projects pivot last minute but somehow cling to their original, and now impossible, deadlines. Enjoy heavy workloads with tiny raises, unrealistic KPIs, and atrocious communication- unless you’re in the corporate clique of favorites, of course. If diversity and inclusion isn’t really your thing, you’ll fit right in! Join because you love music, but leave when you realize the company doesn't care about you. Burnout is the only thing you'll ever achieve here. 

I have worked in a lot of different types of work and all considered this company is by far the worst managed company I have ever worked for. They will take advantage of you so quick and will play you out of paying you what your worth.  All of the management is pretty much related so it's pretty much just family ran even tho there's multiple locations this one for sure your notoving up unless your related in some sort of way that's the only chance you'll have to move up even though the billionaire that owns it has little to no say of what goes on there it's just terrible the greed that spreads through there 

The plant in Eastlake has been neglected for many years.  The equipment is not maintained, the building is falling down and the safety is poor.  Corporation had not invested in the plant and demonstrates more concern for the bottom line than the safety of the employees.  The industry is amazing.   The products and people who sell/design the products are fantastic.  The individuals who make the instruments are truly craftsman.  They unfortunately have been lead astray by too many years of numbers over good quality.

Was not a very safe place to work because of the chemicals and copperand brass dust in the air they had a$250,000 fine from the health department because of the violations of the chemicals and dust in the air. to be fair they might have fixed the problemby now. And they're handling of covid was abysmal . there's a lot of managers who couldn't manage your way out of a brown paper bag. The turnover there is huge, 

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