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What is the best part of working at the company?
Great company to work for, had one of the best work to home life ratios I’ve had. Four day work weeks, and has four personal days a year. Getting a personal day every 3 months plus two weeks vacation for a year. Employees there are fun to work with and I had my best boss here. Only thing that was an issue why I left was the pay, but I’ve heard they raised they’re pay.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Only little things, just having to go fix the stuff you missed all the way at the other side of the company. Stuff that takes less than a minutes the employees at the other side could fix, instead you have to walk all the way over to do fast/easy rework.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great, good work to home life ratio. You get three breaks in a ten hour shift, which is more than I ever got anywhere else.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Goes by fast, a pretty relaxed job and not too demanding on the body. Cutting insulation, squaring up the machines, installing insulation, dealing with silicone, taping heater wires, installing heater coils, evaporator coils, install fan motors and drain pipes. Did use a little tig welding as well.

Day starts out driving an unergonomic service van to customers site, a van that is more designed as a local delivery van and not a long haul service van!  Learned this company will destroy your personal life by keeping you on road as much as possible, require you to attend after hour meetings, poor work life balance! Management has ruined this company, started an apprenticeship program then don’t follow through. Managers think they know better than a doctor, criticizing procedures. Lack of team bonding and scope creep. Don’t honor negotiated travel agreements and could go on. No company culture just smoke and mirrors. The hardest part is being away from home, missing kids grow up and unable to attend family events. Best part of job was coworker’s that can talk to about the poor management and policies! I would rate this company as a “ 0”, consider job elsewhere.

Love the crowd I work with everyone’s pretty nice and fun to joke around with. Work your butt off doing a lot of different things so don’t ever think you’ll be just doing one thing at a time. Chill work Pace. You work at your own, for the most part I mean ya can’t be hiding in the bathroom the entire day but other than that there’s no record of speed of you as a person that you get penalized for which is nice. But your co-workers will definitely let you know when they’ve been doing all the work. Don’t want to get a bad rep. That way. Management sometimes makes safety makes rules that are over the top (like having to wear gloves while drilling?) kinda ridiculous and un-safe in my book but whatev. Overall a pretty good place to work. My only complaint so far

What is the best part of working at the company?
Weekly pay, fairly stable industry 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Exec level management does not understand the products or business at all. Workload is not spread evenly and mgmt does not pay attention to bandwidth or weak areas. High stress, low reward. Toxic culture at upper mgmt level 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Departments constantly arguing over who needs to do what. Lack of accountability. All work dumps on engineering with no recognition 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Constant fires to put out. Unpredictable daily work

A typical day at Espec consists of two group meetings a day, get what is needed for your job and build. Management is constantly bringing morale down, no professionalism at all. The company wants to do more all the time to profit, which is great, but when you have poor personel, it's harder to do. Improving the system is great, but if the employees are continually useless, you're at a stand still. Always wanting more from us without compensation. Do more work, or take specialized courses to help improve the process with little to nothing to show for it. The four ten hour days is the only reason to stay while I finish my degree.

It was a great place to work for the first 2 years, then it became toxic. Management failed by not being able to make modern changes to the company, no follow through on any prpccesses, lied to the company about a downsize that would "never happen" leaving 20 people jobless and even ones that were with the company 30+ years. I experienced very little job experience growth and was not set up for success to take to other jobs. The people were relatively nice but the work environment was toxic. I would NOT recommend working for this company as they do not practice what they preach. 

A typical work day consists of many different agendas. Calibrate with managers to assess the requirement for the day, assign tasks for my utility workers, and analyzing current jobs for problems and solutions. Some of the hardest yet most enjoyable part of my job is troubleshooting chambers that have design problems, where you interact with design engineers to formulate a solution.

This is a great place to work.  Awesome pay, great benefits and outstanding PTO policy. It is a very laid-back place to work, not stressful.  The product we make is incredible (Environmental Test Chambers).  ESPEC really cares about their employees, this is evident based off how they try to find ways to give back to their employees and the surrounding community (through their program ESPEC Cares).  

What is the best part of working at the company?
Liked the job itself but the plant manager has anger issues and yells at employees when he is stressed. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The bad attitude from manager and supervisor is just as bad.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic work environment. They don't like employees talking.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and unhealthy work environment

Constant drama between Management and the floor workers. Hourly employees receive no bonuses however salary employees do. They expect you to learn a trade in 6 months, but by having nobody train you. Group leaders and engineers are actually useless. A great place to work if you like drama, being under appreciated, incompetent leadership, and a job that makes you wanna off yourself. Not to mention they fired me a day after I opened up to them about depression and personal problems I had been having.

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