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Management has created a cut throat environment with wardens as supervisors. Employees have to fend for themselves because the supervisors will not help you. They have second story offices that management uses to watch everyone, if you are seen even asking a coworker from assistance they assume it's not work related and send a supervisor or give you a warning. They are the lowest paying company in this type of manufacturing industry and refuse to promote anyone unless you can become friends with the plant manager. They are known to move employees into a new position that would require a promotion to perform but not inform you so they don't have to pay you what the positions minimum pay is supposed to be. The benefits are minimal and cost too much, they have had a total of 3 HR leads quit because they refuse to let them improve benefits for the employees. Production team have a hard time getting engineers to assist with engineering problems. The engineers are very rude to people when they discover an engineering mistake. Production team never gets bonuses but all of the engineers get bonuses when the production team exceeds manufacturing goals.

Design Ready Controls is a great place to work!  DRC is growing but still small enough that it lacks the bureaucracy of larger companies.  I’ve worked for large companies and it can be difficult to get your ideas heard by the decision makers; much less implemented.  At DRC, that’s not an issue.  In fact, it’s really appreciated when someone with a good idea approaches upper management to share it.  Another good thing about DRC is that it feels like everyone is truly on the same team and not focused on their personal agendas.  Ego is checked at the door.  In this environment, I really don’t mind being told that my idea is not a good one.  If the group consensus is that it’s a bad idea, it probably is and most likely won’t help us achieve our overall objectives.  No one is critical of me personally; just the idea.  That’s very liberating.  I don’t mind suggesting things that might be “out there” because it could be a springboard for someone else’s great idea.  And, in the end, the overall success of the company is good for all of us.  Many ideas don’t even need to be floated to the group.  We are trusted to use our best judgment and run with it.  Given this, my motto has become, “If I think it’s the right thing to do, I’ll keep doing it until I’m told to stop.”  That’s worked out pretty well and makes DRC an enjoyable place to be!

Production crew are hard working people that get crapped on all of the time by the "office" crew. Engineers sit behind their desks, getting treated better than the people doing the hard work. 

The rules and regulations are ridiculous. Don't even think about leaving your station! Not even for a second otherwise you get in trouble for "socializing". Yet they want us to be a "family!" What a crock! They assume the worst in the production workers without even asking them. 

They have attendance points that you get if you call in, no matter what. You or your child could be sick and they don't care. You better be to work to spread the sickness. If you ask to go home, they ask you "how many attendance points do you have?" 

They've gone through employees and supervisors like crazy there because they don't know how to actually appreciate the hard work and dedication the production workers do there. 

Job Work/Life Balance- Alright, just don't get sick
Compensation/Benefits- SUCK
Job Security- NONE you're just a body to them
Management- Micromanages your every move
Job Culture- NEEDS MAJOR IMPROVEMENT!!! 

Unless you're an engineer/supervisor/manager of some kind, then I wouldn't work here. They only treat office people like royalty.

I was lied to at my interview about what was to be expected pay at the job, I found out when signing up for benefits that I had been lied to when the HR manager said "oh you're making below what we allow your position to make" despite me having several years of experience coming into the position. they also lied about the scope of the position. they make everything sound custom and exciting but the job is beyond braindead. you'll learn like 3 or 4 kinds of panels and the entire job is reading wires and plugging them in. Also at my interview I told them 6AM was the earliest I could do, the DAY I came out of training we were on mandatory 5AM for several months. I was told by others that 5 AM was the normal for like 9 months out of the year.

You get what you put into this company. If you just show up to do your job and do the bare minimum it reflects. If you show up ready to go the extra mile it reflects that as well. Management is for lack of a better term old school no bs. They are very straight forward and are easy to talk to and will help you as much as you want to help yourself. Everyone in a position of leadership has started from the bottom and worked their way into the current position they have. This includes the supervisors, plant managers, directors, all the way up to the CEO. The company prefers to promote from within. So if you have passion, drive, and pride in the work you do you will go far with this company.

Fast paced. I already had experience in my line of work but they offer training as well. The warehouse Supervisor has absolutely no clue when it comes to shipping operations. Which is terrible considering he is the warehouse supervisor, And didn’t seem like he cared to learn. Constantly hires women in his area, which isn’t a bad thing but leaves a feeling of Sleaziness. Not sure how he was qualified to be a supervisor, But I guess it was above my pay grade. Would be ask to come in on weekend’s which I didn’t mind if the supervisor wasn’t always a no show. They constantly flip through new people, And try to offer incentives to keep workers when instead they need to offer better pay. Other then that it was a decent place work or a stepping stone to something else like I did.

I have been at this workplace for 2 1/2 years and I feel unrecognized for the work I’ve done. There’s no advancement for me yet. There is a lot of miscommunication between departments a management. This place needs a lot of improvement. Management does not see the value of Good employees. There is a lot of favoritism which only promotes within the company who are good friends and buddies. New employees are hired everyday to replace good employees who either gets terminated or leaves due to lack of being recognized by management. New employees entering the job are getting paid more or equal to long term employees who had been an asset to the company. 

If the greatest obstacle to progress in business is the reluctance to let go of old habits, Design Ready Controls has free rein on an open range. Its executives are among the most forward-looking and thoughtful leaders in manufacturing today.

Quality is the highest priority for its customers, but Design Ready Controls has never been satisfied just to make good products. It invents and implements process improvements in every part of business, from integrated automation to workplace ergonomics. Continuous improvement is a way of life there.

As a contractor to Design Ready Controls, I have the privilege of helping brilliant people explain how they work, and show customers how they benefit. I'll work for them any time.

Working at Design Ready Controls you get the opportunity to work with many great people and form meaningful relationships with co workers! I have made lifelong friends in my little over a year here. Everyone is there to get the job done which creates a great culture! My manager fosters advancement and helps me succeed - If you put in the work and ask for opportunities you will get the tools you need to succeed in your career. Design Ready Controls also provides regular communication to keep everyone (regardless of working in the office or the production floor) up to date whether its weekly stand ups, or regular communication during the COVID-19 pandemic - which really helps you feel like part of the team.

The company is not one to care for its workers properly,. They will see you as an expense and not an asset, they will withhold information to help you when troubled like long term plans if people have surgery or injuries, misrepresent their policies to seem not so bad until you work there. Highly selfish company and seems to hate the workers there. Unrealistic expectations of you even when not properly changed. They put on a show for you first week then after that it’s gone.  Will get punished and disclilpned even if sick with dr note 

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