warehouse worker

cnc operator

account manager

machinist

outside sales representative

Cope-Plastics-Inc

You have to be a friend or family to advance with this company. Managers micromanage but provide no training and have no knowledge to help their employees. You are not appreciated or valued, instead you are taken advantage of and used. If you put in a lot of hours to help the company you will not be compensated. Raises are so low it’s sad.  Employee morale is pathetic as Managers do not support or appreciate them.  Managers are verbally abusive often cussing and yelling, especially if sales are down. Rarely will they ever buy you a lunch not even on X-mas. To say they are family oriented and support family time is a joke. The smaller branches discourage and attack your work ethic if you need any time for your family.  Word of advise to small branches - offering family friendly benefits can foster work-life balance and retain employees.

What is the best part of working at the company?
At the time they paid double time for all overtime i worked. It was a good company for the most part pretty easy job i just hated being on night shift only reason i quit.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Night shift you have to work at the company for a long time before you get offered a day shift some people have been waiting forever 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Pretty laid back they give you 2 10 minutes breaks a day plus lunch. Long as you do your job its pretty relaxed.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You show up look at your work orders and start setting your machine up or if you dont have any work orders thru might have you pressing buttons on another machine someone else has already set up for a job.

 ; there’s micromanagement for the good workers and nothing for the bad ones , you learn nothing due to the micromanagement and have to do the bad workers jobs even though they’re micromanaging you , the pay is low for a machinist (union wages) would actually pay the good machinists their worth .. you make plastic parts that are usually normal measurements BUT they’ll tell you you’re doing it wrong even if your making good parts , LITERALLY any other machine shop would be like WTF on how they do things here , everyone there will snitch on you for ANYTHING, you’d be better off not working and being homeless than working here . Im surprised it’s not over ran with a Temp Service , i can see why it has openings for months for positions, 

I answered phones, took messages, helped co-workers and customers.  I entered orders.  I ordered supplies and did minor repairs on the office machines.  I filed paperwork and helped organize lunches and parties. I learned all about plastics (rod, sheet & tubing) and applications for it. As an extra project, I organized their brochures and catalogs. My co-workers were nice and helpful.  It was fast-paced and challenging.  It was hard when orders were late and the customers needs their parts or materials ASAP.  I had to help figure out alternatives for them.  Management was nice and helpful.

I started this role new to the industry, and the company did not foster knowledge growth. I was told that my performance was not at the level that was expected 5 months into the job. I was not given any extra material to help learn what I needed. Previous knowledge on the industry seems to be a requirement when it isn't stated anywhere with the job. The position of Account Manager is described by them as a mix of sales and account management. That is not true. You need knowledge on material to process orders, but other than cold calling companies, there is no sales to the job.

My day at work was cleaning the building. The only thing I learned was they could fire you without warning. There were complaints about my job that I was not aware of. I was never called in the office to discuss the problem and when I was called in the office it was to tell me I was fired because of these complaints. My first day on job my supervisor left at his regular time. I was not familiar with the building or what they expected. Several of my co-workers who work in shop complimented me on how good the restrooms in the factory looked. They said they have never seen them look that good.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I miss those guys (and girls).  I was at the Wisconsin plant, it should be the model for how a company runs.  Great shop.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It's a plastics factory, there are deadlines.  They all communicate so well it's rarely an issue.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most have worked there a while.  I was welcomed in, and we all chatted for a few, and then went to work.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Look at your orders and make sure there's no discrepancies.  Then you do a safety check on your machine, put your earbuds in and pump out quality parts.

Was an amazing good paying profitable place to work.  A HR manager who couldn’t turn on a CNC much less operate one was put in charge of all operations.  Pay was drastically cut.  The quotes had never run a machine and started quoting jobs we didn’t even have the equipment to run.  In the 2+ years I worked there corporate HR sent me 1 applicant.  We were severely understaffed.  Moral went from excellent to a mass exodus of any skilled workers.

I was there about a year as a second shift machinist and my only complaints were getting a mandatory Saturday dropped on you with only a days notice. Plenty of OT, so much that they pay a lot of double time to get employees to stick around longer. My first six months there I made just under $30k with all the available ot. All the guys and girls were great to work with with the exception of very few who were just negative to begin with. Overall, a good place to work with decent pay but they're way to strict with medical and the "cover your (their) a**" game.

Some co-workers do not pull their own weight so if you are a hard worker you will be expected to pull others weight.  One of the biggest money generating places within the nationwide business but only managers see bonuses anymore, I used to get $1500 and up bonuses yearly.  Summer and Christmas parties is not a show of appreciation but rather a way to dump cheap logo items off on their employees.  Will have meetings to address issues but will find them not effective for more than 5 days.  Glad to have a job but definitely on the lookout for a better, more positive work environment.

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