packer

forklift operator

Carolina Poly, Inc.

I formerly worked at Carolina Poly for 2 years and have a lot of insight about this place, from top to bottom. The main issues I encountered were poor management, no sense of accountability, and very lazy coworkers. The people you work with here can directly affect your production, so laziness can bring down your daily production. Management is always on the floor observing. Sometimes they will say something and sometimes they won't, so there is a very unstable level of accountability. As a Machine Operator, I found myself being held accountable for people that were lazy or did not want to stay on their assigned lines. People just walked off not letting me know anything and I was left packing on their lines for hours, while they walked around or did whatever they wanted to do. I can honestly say Supervisors and Section Coordinators do not have any control over what people do here. They turn the blind eye to obvious issues and only worry about production at the end of the day. There were many days where I did not get a break because i was having issues with my lines and no one would come to help, even if I asked. This showed me that you are really alone and there is no teamwork. Because of all these obvious issues, the morale stays at a low level and, the turnover rate stays at a very high level. If you plan to apply here or are getting ready to start working here, my advice is to stay to yourself and do your job. If you have an issue, go to HR because, the management here will gloss things over and even ignore you at times.

Extremely under-paid. I only took this job because I needed one right away. Management is horrible. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Another employee was denied a raise because he was told he had too much overtime the previous year (even though it was all approved). The rumor mill there makes me feel like I’m back in 7th grade.  People are back-stabbers and are always looking for ways to nail others when they make mistakes. I like to stay busy so when my department was slow one day, I tried to find some other things to keep me busy (mainly cleaning!) I was told I can’t do that and I could get in trouble. I asked if they’d rather pay me to sit around and do nothing and they said yes. Ridiculous. Terrible culture there. Only the “favorites” get advanced and the hard-workers are taken adavantage of and over-looked. Don’t take your questions/concerns/complaints to HR because they will rat you out and make you the black sheep of the department. On the job training is a joke. I literally did NOTHING my first 2 weeks there. And when I would ask questions, my “trainer” would just get irritated and tell me he didn’t know. The plant is an an absolute pig-sty...garbage laying everywhere. OSHA would have a field day there.

They tell you it’s room for advancement, but they only advance who they personally like. Your education means nothing, your experience means nothing, and your work ethics mean nothing. HR can’t be trusted because everything you say in HR will get out to everyone and you will be treated like a black sheep. If you do decide to work there, you must have thick skin. The supervisors and their coordinators whistle at you, yell at you, and will cuss you out just because they are having bad days, if they talk to you at all. It’s a lot of favoritism there and racism is ridiculous. If you have a question, you better pray the person you ask speaks English, or you’re screwed. The only way you get a raise is if everyone gets one. This place is depressing, and the culture is that of a prison. The managers run the place like that and if they speak to you, you’re probably in trouble for something you didn’t even know you were doing wrong. They look at you like you are beneath them and won’t even speak when you say “good morning”. They are uninvolved, inaccessible, untrusting, critical, and extremely prejudiced. It’s not worth working here unless you are desperate.

Poor management due to Micro Management of Supervisors, creating a weird environment like to buddy system extent ; where the outsiders or "unliked" are forced to do task not related to the job and "the dirty work" the other less experienced personnel are  praised due to the buddy system. The factory is in start up to a degree so as maintenance you are required to do everything from forklift operation, machine operator, process tech, and maintenance duties creating a high work load, where as just training the other personnel the right way instead of just giving the job would take the stress off on Maintenance and Production making the "scrap" levels go down making the company more money... But hey I'm just maintenance  what would I know... (told by production maintenance doesn't know anything including the current manager)
 Other than that the place is a good stepping stone for people getting into the field;  the high levels of stress are high than most places meaning the move to another place will be easier. The pay is low because they know its a stepping stone.. (told by plant manager)

Decent pay, very hot & humid summers (your under clothes be soaked) always understaffed, roaches in the break room…u are just a number not a person. Do not expect to grow with this company. What ur hired for, u stuck at. Not a fan of cross training. Work is so boring u literally debate taking a lower paying job. Overtime is always available. Management doesn’t seem to care about staffs needs/concerns/goals. Coworkers pretty cool. Will fire some for small violations and bigger violations go unpunished depending on who u are. 12 hour shifts cause ur off days to be wasted sleeping & if ur night shift u literally have a screwed up sleeping schedule. For the environment u work in too many other jobs with better air in summer and heat in winter for a dollar less….

I'm currently a machine operator. If you really need a job it will get you by. All of the bad reviews on here are on point though. Horrible management, training is an absolute joke, no PTO or sick time, no vacation for one year. 4 days on, 4 days off. Sounds good? Wait until you get 4 36hr checks in a row. 4 48s and 4 36s. And you will also work 4 weekends in a row too. Most unorganized and messy place I've ever worked by far! Can't believe OSHA isn't all over this place. A lot of young people (18-25) so not much work experience as a whole. And it shows! Only take a job here until something else comes along (what I'm doing). I'm not a disgruntled employee, just calling it like I see it.

They hire people with felonies but the culture is bad and the managers don’t care about safety just that you get production. The medical benefits are horrible and there is no diversity in upper management or the VPs that visit. The shift 1 supervisor in excrusion was never around so people did whatever they wanted to do and the supervisors did nothing about it even if the people were leaving the lines and cussing everybody out. The training is garbage cuz they put you with anybody on the floor even if they aren’t doing their job properly.

Low pay(2021); when I was hired the pay wasn’t very good but from the looks of it that has changed.
Broken promises; tell you, you’ll be able to advance but never will. I heard this from multiple people varying from 2 mo.- 2 yrs. of being at Carolina Poly.
Management isn’t present; prior to finding a different job I left early for an interview and showed up late a different day. I even punched in/out. Nothing was even said to me.
It’s a dump; material/scrap in gaylords taking up most of the warehouse and even outside. Some of the material that was outside even had plants growing in it from being out there so long.

Came into the job with huge aspirations to work up into management. I was stuck in a job with a retention issue and they would not let me move into anything else. I worked there 6 months and I put my 2 weeks in and left honorably. The issue with that is that the management holds grudges. They refuse to let people come back even with a proper 2 weeks notice so don't waste your time putting one in if you leave. Also they want you to work OT but once you do HR will cut those hours back. They told me "I was working too much", while I was covering down on 2 shifts. So they cut my hours. Just trust me and stay away.

This job is HORRIBLE don’t work here unless you are in desperate need of a job use it as a stepping stone management is horrible,HR is horrible, nobody never seems to know anything you ask. The general manager  is a very rude person who thinks he’s better than other and looks down on people with lower titles. The job is easy but others make it harder than it should be due to lack of knowledge. Positions are given based off favoritism not who has the experience so yes that makes others jobs very hard. Overall it’s just a horrible place to work would most definitely not recommend this job

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