laborer

production worker

production supervisor

safety specialist

production associate

Cabinetworks Group

Favoritism is rampant. One person is allowed to stand around on their phone and do nothing while another is yelled at because they can't do the work of four people. The laziest people are promoted to foreman and manager positions, while the hard-working people (like myself) are told that they can't receive a promotion because they are "too good at their current job." 
The entire culture of the company is toxic, with corporate sociopaths leading in almost every major management position. They are far too concerned with trying to bring in new people instead of making a good company that people want to actually stay at for a long period of time. Management even BRAGS about how high their turnover rate is as if it is proof that "only the best of the best can handle it." The fact of the matter is, no self-respecting person with literally any other career option will continue working here for a long period of time. Most people quit within the first few months, and the people left are miserable people with no other options, which shows IMMENSELY in the attitudes of the workers and the overall work environment. 
As for upward mobility, if you are lazy and worthless, you will most likely be promoted to supervisor in your first week. If you are someone who enjoys rewarding, hard work, stay away. You'll likely be overworked to make up for the people allowed to sit around doing nothing, then (after years of asking for a promotion) be offered a position that you will work in (where you do extra work) that you never actually get paid for, even when they promised you a raise. 
Don't let the signup incentives fool you, they only offer them because they are desperate to replace all the people who keep leaving this awful place to work.

I really enjoyed my job there I would go in get on the computer and run a report that showed me everything that was a negative quanity in the system it would show me what locations that was negative and i would then go to those locations and physically count them and it would very from day to day on how many locations there was.  I would then research what i had found and report on my findings of why. I had 3 other reports that I had inforamtion given to me by email per differnet supervisors and team members in the plant that i would enter on a paredo sheet that combined and made bar graphs for percentage and reasoning for. Since I started there 17 years ago this company has taught me everything I know, multi-tasking, being team oriented, on time delivery, safety, quality, and cost.  Great place to work management always wanted you to go above and beyond your ability so you can go forward in the company, i worked well and got along with all of my co-workers enjoyed having a helping and and giving a helping hand. the hardest part of my job was probably mentally more than physical I had access to almost all of the computer system that was used in that facility and knew how to run alot of different posisitons.  I enjoyed the knowledge that i had accumulated there i could help make peoples job easier in many different ways and being able to do that was great!!

The place has high potential. Biggest issues is employees who have been with the company and are comfortable in taking part in toxic and rude and very unprofessional behaviors. This causes for a toxic work place culture. Mandatory overtime is mislead during interviewing as “occasional” when it is in fact mandatory regardless of outside circumstances. Areas are clean for working and organized. Production set ups are often inconsistent causing a lot of down time and production issues. The expectations for training are to fully learn the production tasks by 1 month which I feel is a high expectation being as there are no study guides nor formal training set. I do feel I have learned alot about my position from the people who have been willing to help me through things. Managers are very understanding and take the lead to ensure the lines are moving and production is going well.  The most enjoyable part of the job is having a standardized process and a designated organized working area. Some positive to the work place culture is that there are a lot of team members who are willing to help and get the job done properly. The weekly pay is a bonus giving access to funds earned at a faster rate. The compensation is fair with a lot of room for pay increases. 

Many long hours for extended period of time. Turnover was high and hiring process too slow, creating more work on employees remaining. Promotions were made based on "politics" and "vision" not on performance of individuals within the company. This created a 'hostile' environment to work as many employees were frustrated that the 'hard' workers were not promoted but those who 'did nothing' were promoted. The hardest part of the job was the complex operating environment with multiple systems across various locations throughout the United States. The most enjoyable part of the job was working with the locations and providing support to them. I learned about manufacturing operations and enhanced my accounting skills. I also learned what type of manager I wanted to be and how I would develop others into leaders. Management appeared to have differing agendas and a lack of communication as it usually ended up creating more work for the employees by having the same reports generated several times with differences in presentation. A lot of great people working with the company and I enjoyed working with all of them.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The day I left was the best part of worker here

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The ALL forms of harassment from the the supervisors, team leads,  and upper management are all on a power trip. They seem to target only people who want to work and not the lazy.  You are not allowed to have integrity,  ethics, or values if you want to work here. If you question any actions these power tripping, over paid, puppets do, they'll target you until you quit! They have 2 sets of rules.  One for them and one for the slaves who work there. I'd never recommend this company to work at, to anyone. Find somewhere to work that values your effort and time. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hostile... The department I worked in was systematically broken up by upper management.  We were running like a smooth oiled machine until the supervisors started targeting specific workers 1 by 1 until they're down to 2 people left in that area. The management creates a very hostile work environment and you feel like you're in an over seas sweat shop.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I would start off all my days in a very happy mood. However, daily, if you were a target, they'd have you written up by first break.

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at CabinetWorks Group is decent for the majority of the time, but can turn into a lot of hours quickly with fluctuations in orders, and manpower due to extraordinarily high turnover.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at CabinetWorks Group are erratic at best. Some weeks, when orders are low, hours will be cut. On the flip side of that, when orders are high you will work a lot of hours and bring home a decent check

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at CabinetWorks Group, I think they need all the help they can get. Just know going into it that they only really want people with strong backs and weak minds.

Management
In general, managers at CabinetWorks Group are far too proud and arrogant to admit when ideas that are not their own are better.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at CabinetWorks Group is near impossible. People stay far too busy to have the time required to conduct an intelligent conversation.

Overall
My experience working at CabinetWorks Group was not generally good. The HR department in particular does not like to follow the typical sets of rules that protect other companies from nepotism and favoritism.

Gave the Company almost 5 years of service and I Loved helping the people I worked with To the point where we all became family and then the company decided to let me and other excellent coworkers out the door. People that worked hard everyday and keeped the people that did nothing more than making drama with other teamates. Managers all they do is pick on employees making them fear about them loosing their job if they don't get better! I don't believe that is the right way to treat the people that makes them have a job! On a company the general labor workers are way more important than manager and all the office staff! At this place human errora are not accepted! This place is where if the managers doesn't like you. They will make sure and find all a reason to walk you out the door! Also they will not let you move out of the department if manager doesn't agree. If the manager says "im against it" they will not let you get another position!! Communicacion is another big problem they have which is the reason why alot of the production gets lost! You can't say how you really feel because they will not listen about it! Great pay! Great place to work but management needs some attention and upgrade them for better ones

If I didn't have severe allergies, I would plan to retire with this company.  Great 401K plan, medical and dental coverage, and hourly pay.  Some lower level managers are pretty unscrupulous, but upper management and most lower level management are absolutely excellent. Regardless of your place on the food chain, they want you to work safely and happily, they value innovation and creativity, and they're extremely focussed on individual career development.  Some departments have persistent problems with burn out due to high turn-over, but the opportunities to hard working individuals for getting into better paying positions with better hours are virtually limitless.  No workplace is perfect, but this one offers a lot of control over an employee's own environment not found at many other companies of comparable size.  Upper management will work along side general labor just to get an idea of how to make the plant a better place to work.

MASCO runs by the seat of their pants. Never operates the same way every day. They operate to get the product out the door the fastest way. Forget about procedures and safety. It's all about numbers there. The don't know how to treat the employees. That's why so many people leave. They hire so many new people.(just check their hiring record) I have seen as few as 20 new people in a month to 75 people hired in a month. It happens EVERY month. They had 2 different temp services on site doing their hiring. That's how often they hire people. Management plays favorites which gets quite old. Overtime isn't an option, it's mandatory, sometimes when you're on the way out the door, they tell you to be there 12 hours until further notice, which could last for months. The only reason they have "career" advancement is because they can't keep people. In the last 2 years I was there they have lost about 9 or 10 leads and a supervisor due to either being terminated, leaving on their own or giving up the lead position and going back to being an hourly worker.  Pay is average for the area and so are the benefits but that doesn't make up for the way that place is ran.

This company is a nightmare.  They only care about money and production numbers. Don't care about their employees. 
It's just your typical factory work. It's not your 9-5 job.  You'll never know what time you're going home.
It could be early,  late or on time. This job is more for people out of high school to get some work experience. I would not recommend to have a career there.  You WILL NOT  advance unless management favors you. They will knife you in the back any chance they get. 
 Very seldom does anyone get promoted.  Too much favoritism in the company. Other employees get demotivated because of this. Management is a big problem. They'll create a problem, try to fix it and then blame it on the employees somewhow. There are a few good supervisors left though. 
Human resources is a joke.  They are only there to protect the company.  I have been there many years and it just gets worse and worse.
 It's very hot in the building in the summer. The pay is ok. There is health insurance but it's expensive. 
 I used to like this company when it was Kraftmaid, but once Cabinetworks took over,  it went downhill really fast.  They can't seem to keep people. 
If this is your type of work, then by all means apply there. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Laborer 11 salaries reported	$18.38 per hour
Production worker 4 salaries reported	$17.88 per hour
Production supervisor 1 salary reported	$67,500 per year
Safety specialist 2 salaries reported	$72,500 per year
Production associate 4 salaries reported	$16.84 per hour

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