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EarthRoamer produces a niche product with a unique look, and at first glance, the work seems high-end and rewarding. However, once inside, it becomes clear that quality often takes a back seat to speed. Many of the shells arrive from the composites department with major defects in the gelcoat—cracks, voids, and uneven surfaces. These are not corrected properly but instead skimmed over with body filler or Dura-Glass and then covered with LINE-X. The goal is to make the unit look good enough to ship on time, with rework handled later if issues arise. It’s more about hiding flaws than fixing them.

The culture is reactive, not proactive. Schedules are built around customer due dates rather than realistic timelines, which creates a constant game of catch-up for the teams downstream. Management is slow to act on feedback and often more concerned with maintaining their position than improving workflow or quality. Leadership appears more focused on maintaining relevance than leading meaningful change, and good suggestions tend to stall in endless meetings without implementation.

New employees receive little structured training and are expected to “figure it out,” which creates inconsistency and puts pressure on those who do take the initiative. Unfortunately, those employees aren’t recognized or compensated fairly. Raises are minimal or nonexistent, regardless of effort, while less engaged coworkers often earn similar or higher pay.

This is not the kind of place where you’ll gain skills that transfer easily to other shops in the industry. Much of the work is specific to EarthRoamer’s process and doesn’t follow best practices seen in professional body shops or custom paint operations. So while you’ll stay busy, you likely won’t grow as a technician in a way that sets you up for future opportunities. The time you spend here, for the most part, stays here.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There are some good people in the lower levels but are treated horribly.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The lies are constant starting from the CEO then handed down to management, then subjected on workers. Management never excepts their wrong doings, lack of completing or even remembering their work. By far the worst place ever worked, professionalism does not exist here, never seen so many unhappy workers!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They allow certain leadership to go around verbally and mentally abuse people. That leadership was even caught sabotaging work and still no repercussions to them! Never had so many people apologizing for the bad leadership and probably explains the low moral in the workers.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You show up you're getting ready for work and then you got to do the regular meetings which aren't very informant then you get to work get criticized pushed the work faster but at the same time slower to be safer. You can then see a certain someone going around pointing in eyeballing people and talking about them and stabbing them in the back. Then you got other management coming around trying to pass the word that you're most likely doing something wrong and then when informed correctly you're not. You get to lunch and everyone just has a low kind of depressing feeling to them even though they're happy for lunch. I wish you push forward and harder just to get through the day to make it go by and the only happiness is when it's time to clean up and leave and boy people are running!!!

Save yourself and look for another work opportunity. The managers here are EXTREMELY impertinent. They choose favorites. This place is ran like a dictatorship. They are constantly trying to put out a “new line” but the existing lines of trucks still have their high share of problems. The work environment is not safe. You are often asked to take on more work but without more pay. When asking for a raise for cost of living you will be told that you make enough. Cool they get you a food truck Friday and a bonus at the end of the year. It’s not worth it to watch the upper management not take their jobs or their employees safety seriously. You can bend over backwards here and it will still not be good enough for them. A lot of the trucks are starting to come back because the owners do not want them anymore due to their technical difficulties. Turn over rate is extremely prominent due to poor pay and poor management. Go make a millionaires truck but you won’t be able to afford groceries. There is no inclusion, diversity or opportunity to grow into a higher role. The only way you move up the small chain of command here is by playing favorites with the higher ups. Company is crowded with people who have poor skill. Managers are highly unprofessional and are always in a fight to be the “alpha” of the shop. Egos and emotions run high around there. HR department does nothing to help their workers. You will be blamed and talked down to if you have to miss a day due to an emergency. Unless you are prepared for your mental health to decline do not work here.

The product is very cool to talk about to others and show off.  A lot of the people you work with are great.  Management generally has no clue what they're doing and all of their experience managing is from EarthRoamer. The CEO likes to be as hands off as possible and often gets smoke blown up his skirt by the incapable management.  If you can talk and lie your way out of responsibility you will move up. Talent often isn't rewarded or listened to.  Nepotism runs rampant.  The company is afloat simply because of the image of the product and nothing more.  The turnover rate is appalling and is about the entire number of people employed every 2 years. If management (including the top) took a good look at what is happening, took responsibility and then made positive changes coupled with actually working hard like their lower level staff, the company could really turn itself around.  A lot of promise, but the cancer comes from the top. 

The work environment, craftsmanship, and culture should match the uber premium price tag for the product. It simply does not. Current model trucks leave, only to return shortly after with issues. Inexperienced management personal as well as a lack of structure not only stiffles progress and process improvement, but has lead to a turnover rate similar to entry level food service positions. When you have experienced, valuable employees walking out week after week, its no longer about disgruntled individuals, but a cultural breakdown within the company. With 20 years of manufacturing background I've never seen such a divisive atmosphere, lead by people with so little manufacturing experience. The mantra is and will continue to be.....get product out the door. Right, ready, or safe......secondary concerns. 

Top ten toxic work environment signs:

1. High Employee Turnover
2. Lack of Transparency
3. Micromanagement
4. Negative Online Presence
5. Only Meeting the Interviewer
6. Lack of Work-Life Balance
7. Unclear Expectations
8. Mediocre Answers to Questions
9. No Opportunities for Growth
10. Favoritism

Learn from these! You meet or exceed at least five of these if not all 10. 

A requirement to work overtime is anyone's first sign to stay away from this company. That is a complete disregard for someone else's personal time, family time, etc. It is also a path to certain failure. Failure to maintain a healthy work environment, failure to keep good employees. Failure to have any regard for anyone else's time and personal life outside of work.

After joining the EarthRoamer team, I experienced advances that were unwanted but unthreatening. These situations were exacerbated and mishandled by multiple members of management. From being scolded every time that I stepped foot on the production floor to do my job because I was “too much of a distraction” to being told that I needed to “be careful of what I wear,” I felt nothing but victim blaming from the people who were supposed to protect me. After expressing this concern, EarthRoamer leadership blacklisted me as someone who could “not be trusted” which lead to the spread of misinformation, retaliation, and ultimately the perpetuation of misogyny in an already male-dominated workplace. 

My typical day is usually a busy, never a dull moment. There is a lot to learn with all the different departments in house.
The management is great they are here to listen and help in any way that is needed. I haven't worked anywhere that has really considered my opinion on matters.
Workplace culture is team oriented, everyone is always willing to help and teach those in need.
The hardest thing about my job is waiting in line for the food truck, the line can be long at times.
My most enjoyable part of my job is building the trucks, I get soo much satisfaction in making a unique vehicle. 
Overall i can't say that I have worked at a better place.

I recently left as the result of continuously ignored safety concerns. This place produces the same thing over and over and over and each unit ends up being more wrong than the last, creating new obstacles and everything is constantly on fire.  Morale is the lowest I’ve seen anywhere and it’s a system wide fail culture. Working here is playing a game that cannot be won, regardless of how much effort you put in.  Any dept here is an established trade in the world, here is different because it’s homemade, not professional. Any industry’s standards implied will not be present or understood. #HOMEMADE AF

This is a house of smoke and mirrors.  Everything is constantly in panic mode, like it’s one giant fire. The little dude that  owns the joint has no manufacturing experience but keeps expecting production to increase from nowhere with cockamamie ideas. If you like playing games that cannot be won, this is for you. If you like being directed by managers who constantly yell and break things like 4 year olds, this is for you. If you like being told you need to work more when you’re already forced to work 7 days a week, this is for you. It’s pure and simple fail culture. 

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