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The environment at CPP was inconsistent. For the two years I worked there the company mandated its employees to work 10 hour days, Monday through Friday with between 8 to 10 hours on Saturday and 6-8 on Sunday. The attendance policy was rigid and the company wouldn't accept doctors excuses. There was a point system. A call off was 1 point, tardy was .5 points and a  total of 8 points would be termination.  This was the hardest part of the job. Upon leaving the company I discovered that I was  not being paid the full salary that I was supposed to receive.  I was underpaid by $3.  I was promised to be trained on the company's computer, which would make me more valuable and more competitive to secure a management position.  That never happened. I was promised this in order to go to third shift to be a trainer and to do final inspections to have shipments ready for 1st shift's shipments. Once management got me where  they needed me, none of the promises were met. I never received a rate increase for becoming a trainer and when management was asked their response was "we don't have an amount in place for that position yet" Yet this is what I was promoted to do. Management shows favoritism. Once I saw how I was just being shoved into a box on 3rd shift I made request to go back to 1st shift and was told that I couldn't. Management will not get involved with employees issues or disputes.  They let problems fester and when you go to a supervisor with an issue that you have with another employee, it's brushed off and not dealt with until it becomes out of control but by then you are terminated.  The company works you into bad health and refuses accept a doctor's note. When the company messes up it's okay to tell their employees to work a 24 hour week, use your vacation time to make ends meet, and to send you home after you've came in to work because there is no work for a certain shift or position.  Even with all of that the highest annual raise you'll receive is $.20 maybe $.25. I loved the work but not the company. The most enjoyable part is leaving at the end  of the shift.

This company is in disorganized and in shambles.  The GM yells about team work then belittles and swears at employees on the production floor or in meetings in front of others. It is not uncommon for the GM and HR manager to openly disparage employees, call them lazy and discuss personal employee issues in front of others. Supervisors or Managers who approve time off for employees are accused of being soft.  An employee who asked the GM for two days off when their spouse was hospitalized was called lazy and a liar in front of HR and others. 

The culture is sink or swim and there is no training or support for new employees at virtually every level. There is constant turnover in hourly and upper level positions, supervisors, managers, engineers, etc because of the hostile work environment. The GM has zero ability to think beyond daily events so the same mistakes and problems keep happening and employees input is not listened to. Most experienced employees have left the company and the inept HR manager has no clue how to recruit replacements so employees work 60 hour weeks including managers and supervisors. There are some employees who are still earning minimum wage after 8-10 years on the job. 

The facility and equipment is in horrible condition and it is obvious it has been that way for many years. Almost every day a key piece of equipment breaks down causing safety, production or quality problems but the GM will not allocate capital to correctly repair. Instead, the understaffed maintenance manager gets dressed down during daily reviews and supervisors are told if they cannot make production it's because they are too lazy. Restrooms will go without toilet paper and hand towels for days.

Serious safety issues are ignored. HR described an employee as "stupid" for breaking a foot stepping into a hole in the crumbling concrete floor because "everybody knows that hole has been there forever".  This is the same floor that forklifts drive over carrying pots of molten metal.  Needless to say their safety record is abysmal.

Currently the management that oversee's both Azusa and Pomona plants is performing badly, customers from all small to large are complaining about the amount of quality defects they are receiving. 

The lack of communication from the quality manager and the department, poor customer service and failing audits. The quality manager is a chronic liar who frequently deflects his responsibilities to others and offers little to no training to understand how the responsibilities of the job (which they don't go into during the interview). 

The quality manager lies to his superiors of why he can't reduce the escapes, closings corrective actions, and being behind on audits by claiming the quality engineers are at fault all the while he does behind close doors. He never once speaks to the engineers on their performance unless he desperately needs something in order to get a customer off his back. He is so over whelmed that he rarely reads his emails and won’t accept that as an excuse to keep him in the loop.

My time there was short and disappointing to find out just how bad both the Azusa and Pomona facilities perform, as a reminder if you interview for this place they will lure you with 5% bonus at every quarter based on your salary. The truth is never facility has hit the quota in over two years for the bonus. Avoid this place like the plague.

Up until three years ago, this was a family owned business, with high-level job satisfaction.  The pay was not exceptional, but with a broad range of responsibilities and authority over processes, there was a high-level of satisfaction.  I would liken the atmosphere to a small town of very pleasant and supportive co-workers.

After being absorbed into a larger corporate body, the new management (at this location) proved to be over-bearing, disrespectful, and strongly biased in favor of a "certain type", who were brought on-board and provided accelerated opportunities for advancement and compensation, while others sat by the wayside watching their careers plummet, no matter if more skilled, or more experienced, under a chain of favoritism and nepotism.

I found the corporate management team to be progressive, gracious, and highly professional, but they have little influence on conduct of management in their subsidiaries, whom I've seen hire and fire as if they are selecting produce in the marketplace, rather than by a well-thought selection process.

If you are of the "right type", opportunities are rich.

Pros: Good company for starting engineer. You will wear many hats and get a lot of experience in CAD, polyworks/CMM, NDT(FPI,Visual,X-RAY), GD&T, FAIRs, Metallurgical cut-up validations, inspection fixtures / straightening fixtures, wax injection dies/soluble dies/wax setters, 3-D printing, heat treat (homogenize,solution,age), weekly customer call for RAIL, INCO 718/Stainless steel alloys, vacuum/airmelt pours, machining & datum target(vertical mill & lathe), welding (TIG), RCCA, Concession, NCR, and six sigma. Foundry simulations with procast/solidcast. Will work with customers such as Rolls Royce, ITP, GE, SpaceX, GKN, SAFRAN, Honeywell, and Lockheed Martin. The people you meet will always be the best part of the job.

Cons : Much work to do. High turnover in ALL departments due to pressure and workload. Annual mangerial changes for ALL departments. Operations and shipments always take priority, especially at end of month. This will leave to less time to focus on engineering projects.

The job is nice the people are cool, but you will smell horrible when you go home as the company works with toxic chemicals. I would never recommend working here long term. Management is a joke and they’re like a bunch of high school kids that think they can talk to whoever however they wanna. And if you speak up for yourself they change your department to a bad one no one wants to work in and cut your hours. If you’re looking to get a good check short term this is the place for you. Lots of overtime, I personally wouldn’t go out your way to go above and beyond, the plant manager and leads don’t care about any of that. You’re just another employee number all they wanna do is make their quota for the quarter with machines from the 1980s that barely work half the time. Keep your head down. Make your money. Then leave and find a place that will actually appreciate you. The lung cancer isn’t worth the pay or the way they treat you and brush you off. The company is in the same place because that place is a revolving door and they’re like wonder why.  

I was looking for a company to grow with, but after 5 sets of upper management in under four years, and a progressively hostile work environment, this is not the company I want to stay with. Upper management tactics are based on intimidation and belittling employees, and each successive group of upper management eliminates benefits one at a time, until now, we have only the minimum required by law. Zero overtime and low wages, and an overburdened staff means that no one is able to complete tasks in a logically timely manner. With a history of stable and highly qualified employees, I thought this was going to be a stable work environment, but within the past four years they are bleeding these employees to the competition, and yet upper management continues to blame the employees for its falterings, while the competition is growing and expanding with these same employees.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I honestly cannot say anything positive about my experience at CPP Euclid. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The facilities manager was an absolute tyrant. He demanded his and only his orders be followed no matter how ridiculous. He was obviously on the take from preferred contractors. 90% of my time was spent cleaning the utility room and pencil whipping PM's to satisfy his evaluation metrics

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most of the people on the floor were pleasant. However management usually sat in their offices watching every move you made on CC TV. 
Every door had a FOB lock so you could be tracked all over the plant which gave the impression that as a worker you were not trusted. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Sheer boredom wrapped with intense frustration. I was hired for my skills with automation control systems which were never utilized once.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Competitive pay
Work hours 
Vacation 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They want you to work multiple jobs that are not in your job description. They tell you are required to work overtime. They have pour planning then want employees to work double time to try to make quotas 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work is environment is average but the culture is horrible. They allow management to bull employees and which allow employees to bully each other. They allow retaliation towards employees who complain about other people who mistreat you.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Every day would be different depending on the day or week. I worked at a desk but there were days I was told work on the manufacturing floor. I’d have to check in with each department  since we could not trust them to order the proper materials or amounts.

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