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Carpenter Company

I've recently resigned from this company. 15 years and making same pay as someone who is coming off the street and has no experience doing the job. The work environment is stressful and toxic and don't look for any manager to listen or address your concerns. Favoritism is horrible there. If you aren't in the click don't expect to be treated fairly. They cater to the lazy and expect their good workers to just do the work for the ones who cannot. No room for advancement no matter what position you take or how many years you been there you'll be making the same money. It only takes someone a year to make that which is not fair to people who've dedicated their life to this company. Tell them this and they don't care. They will say "cooperate" is in charge of that but yet they don't fight to keep their good employees there. They don't let you know about overtime until last minute either. They will try to sell it by saying you only work 4 10s and will have a 3 day weekend. Don't buy it because you'll be working OT all summer long in a sweat shop. They've lost so many good employees in just this last year and they don't care at all! I literally got an "ok" when I put in my notice after 15 years!!. I could go on and on about how bad this company is but it's my time to move on and never look back! The only good thing I can say is they have great benefits but it's not worth all the things you have to grow through daily. Don't get expected to be told you are doing a good job often. If anything they will be on your back about numbers and how everyone should be doing better. This company has went downhill since I started working there and it will only continue to do so. 

ER Company is a friend place to work. Everybaody is down to earth and about coming to work and providing for themsekves or their family at home. The work environment coukd be stressful at time, but what job isn't. After a whike working with these individuals it's seems that they become your second famiky. The supervisors are individual that don't look down on you but look at you as a person that is her working forcefully but for a reason. Even the plant manager is a friendly person, you might not see him all the time because he's a busy man. Ut when you do, he'll shake your hand and take the initiative to know tour name and remember it so next time he see you he'll address you by name. ER Carpenter is a company thats been around for over 50 years across the world. Very well known and is a competitive company, in which makes so e amazing products.ER Carpenter to me is a lay back company especially after you haved worked there for so many year. At curtain times of the year it does get hectic but that comes with the territory at any job. Just come to work everyday with your game face on and your shoes tide tight and you'll be alright. ER Carpenter is a company in which is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week, it never sleeps especially if we're receiving order all day everyday, but don't stress, the ER Carpenter upper management will divide the work load equally to maintain peace, stress and everybody the equal opportunity to provide for there families at home. In conclusions I enjoyed working at ER Carpenter for almost 7 years but I believe it's time for me to take my next step in life.

I took this job through a temp agency. They lure you in by telling you the pay is good and that it's a mattress factory but they don't tell you anything else. When I got there, I quickly realized that I had to adapt or be let go. I learned every possible position that they put me in and eventually became the fastest at everything. I took the job very seriously because my son could be coming any day now. Everybody at the job knew this, including my supervisor and my manager. I even asked them how I could ensure that I kept this job and they told me not to worry. My supervisor would put me on the hardest positions and put her friends in the easiest positions. I distinctly remember the one day that I rolled nearly 2000 mattress pads in an 8 hour time frame while the machine operator, a friend of the supervisor, watched me with boredom. I brought it up with the manager and he brushed it off and even criticized me for the time I was late once because of the weather. The supervisor knew I was the fastest and most dedicated worker but only told the manager the bad aspects of me because she disliked me. Eventually, the company hired the one forklift operator that was a close friend of the supervisor and let everybody else go.

The pay is good when you start out depending on what department you are hired into, but there is really no advancement if there is a job that opens up within another department. There are a lot of turnover from employees, because of the excessive rules and guidelines that the employee must adhere too. Once you punch in for work, you are not allowed to go outside on your breaks. You only get two 15 min paid breaks on your shift. Because of this, if you are a smoker, you are not allowed to smoke while on company time. Just before work and after work in your own car. The management is really bad. They like to show favoritism with the employees, and not write up or fire anybody for breaking the rules that have been set in place. If you are a person who is active on social media with your phone, I would not recommend working here, because you will get fired on the spot. Never was a problem with me, since I left my cell phone in the car while at work. Some employees have a great work ethic to get the job done, while some just do the bare minimum to get paid for the week.

This is the most toxic place. I worked there almost 5 years. Had hard life mishaps happen where as they had no sympathy and also allowed workers to say hurtful things. All the younger people worked in harder lines at faster pace not able to go to bathroom and got paid same as people doing easy work. They allowed people to bully newcomers to where people literally cried(myself included) and they just patted those people on the back and gave them promotions(even after making multiple complaints). The actual good workers who do all the work get no extra pay or promotions. The managers also talk and make fun of other employees with employees. Any concern you bring up they will not take you seriously and almost dismiss you right away . In the summer they work you to where you can't even enjoy it. 56 hrs. 6 DAYS A WEEK. you don't get sick days and you get punished if you miss for example 2 Fridays in a row off. Like you will get written up. Everyday before going in there it was like a huge wave of doom would hit me, my mental health struggled. I am so happy to be out of that pit of h e l l

Everyday i punched in at 1:54 and go to my department which was consumer. Get my schedule for the day and start getting my materials together. The forklift driver brought them to me. I then either ran a machine or was on the floor.  If i was on the hole punch machine then i would simply take the pillows on the monorail off and through my machine which then would punch the pillow putting holes through it for a air  flowed pillows on the stocking net machine then i just wait for the pillow to go through the hole punch and on to my belt which then i would put through my machine and it sealed stocking net around the pillow and then i would throw it on the other belt which goes through the stuffer machine. Where the stuffer person will put the pillow case on the pillow depending on what kind of pillow it is. Then whoever is on t he floor packs it out and gets it through the tape machine to tape the box shut and the robot stacks the boxes. then the forklift driver takes it to be shipped.

Honestly I would not recommend anybody to work here at this place they do not treat you fairly all they only care about is production and their numbers they do not care if you get sick or if you have a death in your family if you mess you get a point if you’re late you get a half a point there is no grace period They try to say there is before your Time to clock in but none after that no five minutes or anything The management there is completely pathetic honestly they do not know how to run anything they expect you to do everything without a pay increase and everybody there at Carpenter co. is a bunch of liars they give you false hope and false accusations just so you can do better they do not treat you as if you were a human being more as if you were a robot with no life so I repeat do not work here it is a hostile work environment management always acts like a little immature child throwing tantrums and throwing things and screaming at employees which none of that is acceptable 

At this place, you’re not an employee, you’re a servant, yes you heard it right ! This place along with it’s management staff shows it. Ever heard a manager say “it’s not my fault y’all didn’t go to college ? Yep, he did say that, without hesitation, I left that place ASAP, no need to tell HR because everyone looks out for each other there. Most people working there think they have no other option to find a better job because of their run ins with the law. But remember whenever one door is close there are a million still open (opportunities elsewhere). They don’t care about you, even when they give you the shirt off their backs they will one day take it back ! But who am I to judge? You might go there and fall in love with the place and it’s people !

The way how the management staff acts and treats people makes me wonder how do they still have a job there and not gotten into trouble? Daahh they own the place 😂 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Co-Workers, Customers and Managers

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Low pay, long hours.  A great place for a first job.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Traditional - initially one or two autocratic tyrannical leaders but they were sent  were sent packing albeit late but certainly eventually.  Two mentors, and one office Manager there, taught me valuable lessons about dignity, respect, honor and "treating" people right; lessons that served me very well then and have carried me throughout my 50+ year career!  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Ever changing, they way I like it.  Rarely dull.  Enough different product lines to consistently level out what many companies see as seasonal slumps.

Typical day for this job (scheduling left to me) was to complete preventive maintenance on equipment as scheduled on a monthly basis, with emergency repairs and installations being fit in as they came up. I thought there were good managers and I thought less of other managers, but overall, didn't have many problems with management. Hardest part of the job staying clean, due to the mess of the products and most enjoyable part of the job was that I pretty much ran my territory as if it were my own business, with corporate support. As long as I took care of my customers and territory, the company knew it.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Maintenance electrician 2 salaries reported	$23.77 per hour
Utility operator 1 salary reported	$30,000 per year
Truck driver 1 salary reported	$64,000 per year
Sewer 1 salary reported	$19.03 per hour
Material handler 1 salary reported	$17.45 per hour

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