laborer

sales associate

welder

machine operator

truck driver

East Manufacturing

What is the best part of working at the company?
Weekly pay and the hire on bonus 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The lack of training the lack of tools the short 10 minutes breaks the 5 am starting time the rude horrible no people skills having supervisors no break facility except all the way up in the main building. And the played parking some.of the worst I've ever seen and far far walk from your car . 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Like a prison no lie you have the office admin personel -royalty
Then the white shirts - corrections officers
And then the qorkwrs- the inmates
It's all based on levels and seniority there . Not performance or who you are as a person. I can't wait to quit in 2 weeks 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Hard cold dirty rude long and generally unbearable

While employed by East, I worked in their mounting and mechanics department. The work is good, relatively easy and a somewhat decent group of guys as your teammates. However... The supervisor seemed really great at first, super understanding and laid back, but as time went on... Things changed. Harassing his employees and forcing overtime when they aren't behind, along with being the type of supervisor to throw his subordinates under the bus if anything happens..  I've also had multiple people I worked with let me know that the supervisor is making sure to tell everyone in the entire shop that they fired me. Really just an all around bad situation, but even worse management. The pay isn't worth the insecurity floating around that place.

Great if you wanna make money, horrible if you have a family and would like to actually see and spend time with them. The union makes it hard on new people, poor training of job. Constantly fighting over, overhead cranes to get you trailers done for the day, and I'm talking anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour+ wait for the crane sometimes. If you get stuck with a slow person you'll never go home on time, I think I went home on time maybe 3 times in the 6 months I was there. I seen about 20 people go in and out after me. You'll work all you want and your supervisor will be mad at you for not wanting to work Saturday when. You've already worked 50+ hours for the week.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Getting paid weekly is the only thing good about this job

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You get thrown around none stop to other positions and shifts when youre new. Co workers move so slow and management won't say anything to them but if you try it you get a write up.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Slow lazy and expected to always be doing something, or thrown to 3 different shifts or lines

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in do a meeting go to your station and hope yhe people behind you or infront of you stay on track and dont just talk 50% of the time

At first it was an OK place to work but then there was only 132 hourly employees there.  In my 30 years of employment there before retiring, I saw how that company went from a great place to for to a place that was an awful place to work for.   The upper management has no respect for the hourly employees, and, this is a fact, they tell the department supervisor's to ride a person's butt if they don't like a certain employee.   The only way to get ahead there is to kiss butt, which I never believed in.   At the time I retired, there was no union pension, and your retirement was based on profit sharing, which isn't to bad.  I am sure things have changed there since retiring 11 years ago.

No room for advancement unless your one of the good old boys. They pay well, have good insurance but that's it. Your expected to get the job done regardless of the set backs or lack of someone else doing their job. Toxic work culture and the company could care less. Yet they talk all day about how much they care. 
Making no effort beyond talk. Management is just there to crack the whip. Any problems that do arise earns you a shrug and a figure it out. They don't care about the workers. They give you the bare minimum in exchange for wanting everything. 

My typical day here was OK at first but like after a week or two i noticed i didn't like it here and plus some the people i didn't get along with even though it was a summer job. I didn't learn anything at all here they didn't even let me weld even though the other people say Im a very good welder at my age with 3 different certifications. i was only 17 at that time. management was trouble some people has to work 12 hours every day back to back. the place was filthy 7 times out of 10. your always stepping in or on something. The Hardest part of this job is getting along with the other workers. I didnt enjoy this job.

This place expects you to not miss any days or ever call off or you will be fired. If you have kids or a family emergency good luck. Don’t think about planning any family vacations your first year either because you don’t get any vacation time until after your first year. They claim to pay out annual bonuses but it’s not paid directly to you. After 2 months you are in the union. The only pro was that they will train you to weld with no experience. Other than that there really isn’t anything great about this place. Don’t be late because that’s all they will continuously harass you about. 

In less than a year that place has had nearly 1000 employees hired and fired.  I've learned this is so the company don't have to answer to the union.
They expect perfection with no proper training. Schedule constantly changes. Never know if you'll be working an 8,10 or 12 shift from week to week.
Old equipment constantly breaking down, dark and dirty environment. Had to use a flashlight to see my work.
I thought that would be a lot better place to work, but going through almost 1000 people in less than a year it seems more like a temp service.


i started out with a lot of manufacturing experience yet little of it with applicable here, so the men trained me well and were patient with my learning curve. the men and the bosses did everything they could to succeed and we all made a lot of money together. there's a great brotherhood and sisterhood in this place. i loved it . i left because i moved out of state. made more money here than any where or any year in my life 2019. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Laborer 3 salaries reported	$21.47 per hour
Sales associate 2 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour
Welder 1 salary reported	$22.20 per hour
Machine operator 2 salaries reported	$20.60 per hour
Truck driver 1 salary reported	$26.50 per hour

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