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Georgia Transformer

They do not maintain the equipment properly and will spend hours trying to figure out who to blame for a breakdown rather than simply fixing the problem. Supervision has cart blanch as far as always being right even if they were wrong in the end it will be the employee that gets written up, suspended, or, outright fired usually for a supervisors incompetence. Very hostile environment many times and in general a very stressful company to work for. They hire allot of unskilled labor through temp companies and simply don't train the people enough to be able to do a good job. They also will fire someone that cares about the quality of what they produce and keep a drug addict and promote them.  I personally witnessed a man getting fired for refusing to put out a bad product unless his supervisor signed off on it because it was bad. Supervisor refused to sign off on the job and got the man fired for insubordination. the job went to test knowingly bad and caused the whole product to fail in test and had to be disassembled and redone costing company allot of money. All in all a very stressful place to work.

A typical day at work starts with us finding out what specific job we will be doing in our area (that changed frequently throughout the day). I found it pretty hard to learn the job I was hireand d for because of language barrier and being pulled into different tasks throughout the day. Management pushed production no matter what, they didn't seem to care about people getting burned out  or hurt. The workplace culture was just a bunch of people who seemed to hate their jobs and trying to do the best they could. The hardest part is the language barrier and lack of training. If you don't speak Spanish or aren't willing to work yourself to death it's not a good place to work at all. They lure you in with great pay and then either work you until you quit or put you in departments you don't have any experience in then if you don't catch on immediately they let you go. If you want a couple weeks of good pay it might be worth your time otherwise stay away. Just my thoughts on it 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Leaving, your family is not important, your anniversaries are not important, your religion is not important, your children are not important. The only thing that is important is the product and how well you can handle being belittled. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unattainable goals with the promise of a reward you will never attain. Unrealistic schedules made by those that could NEVER do it themselves. Never truly off duty.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work harder, work faster.
Schedules must be met and quality takes a back seat. Any legitimate reason for not meeting the schedule is viewed as an excuse. Zero team building or moral exercises. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Dread going in, dread dealing with arrogant people that are equally unhappy. Miserable work environment.

There are a lot of good people working here, much like any other place. Management is demanding and completely unaffected by errors they caused. This place is dirty and I've worked at a lot of fabrication and field construction sites but never do I come home as dirty as this place. Working as the tanking welder for a year it's surprising to continue to fix the same mistakes over and over again.This company will buy the cheapest tools and materials to do a job but the fact that manpower is their largest cost factor completely eludes them. I've (since quitting over a year ago) come back on numerous occasions to help them with their schedules on a contractor basis (like I said, they've got good people there....that they abuse). So now they're trying in earnest to get me to come back permanently. My free lance contractor days are over.

I would've gave all no stars but it wouldn't let me, and negative stars to management. Long story short we was getting forced to get the vaccine or lose our job. I should've just stayed using my fake card that was provided by HR. 16 years of loyalty doing any and everything that was asked of me. Went on the road fixing leaks in the field, weld tech, I wrote the process of how to build the tanks, if there was anything new they would come to me and ask my opinion, etc. So I put my 2 weeks in to do the right thing and the next day they walk me and a couple of my coworkers out. If you're looking for tons of overtime, feel like you are nothing, and always talked down to this is where you need to work. Upper Management at the troutville location are the biggest 2 faced, unprofessional liers you will ever meet. They have no clue how to run a business except in the ground not once but now working on their 2nd time. I wish ALL my coworkers the best and hope they find a real place to work.

The pay and benefits are very good. The lack of coordination, lack of timeliness from sales, and lack of proper supervision of projects from upper management makes it a terrible place to work if you want to enjoy your work and take pride in doing things well. Management or higher ups often have completely different objectives which leads to major conflicting points in procedure. Sales has so many new people coming through all the time that they genuinely don’t know enough to be handling the quotes and customers they’re assigned. Too much chaos, backtracking, blaming, and butt-kissing. Butt-kissing is a company wide thing for most due to how many visa workers are brought on. Everyone wants to present an idea, even if it’s not theirs. I believe the ceo operates too heavily on baseless favoritism and this propels the toxic pleaser mentalities.

I love what I do, but feel as though there is no room for advancement.  Especially allowing me to use the degree that I have now.  I have tried to move into an area that would allow me to use my degree, but there seems to be a road block there.  I do like everyone I work with and I have learned a lot about transformers in the time I have been with the company.  There is somewhat a lack of communication though between the management and floor people, but I do feel like the company is trying to work on that.  The hardest part of the job is working 6 days a week, 10 hour shifts.  But I would have to say I like how clean the company strives to be.  And the diversity of my co-workers.

A normal day will be nothing but worrying about what uncomfortable situation may arise this time.  Being assigned to do other people's jobs and unrealistically expecting you to complete them and at the same time yours. CFOs and managers normalize cursing when dealing with inconveniences rather than professionally approaching them.  Managers bragging about firing someone, or wanting an employee from a different department to be fired. Some employees do try to encourage others but, it is not easy working in such a bitter environment. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working alone, unsupervised and not having to deal with the morons who claimed to be managers and engineers at that pathetic excuse for a manufacturing facility was the only enjoyable aspect of being employed at Virginia trashformers.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having to constantly deal with the lack of intelligence exhibited by every fool who claimed to be a manager or engineer was the most stressful aspect of being employed at Virginia trashformers.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Unsafe, unreliable, inefficient and ineffective.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Chaotic and uncomfortable to say the least.

A typical day at work is spent reworking bc people aren’t properly trained. I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter what you know, you do what you’re told even if it’s wrong. Management is hired without knowledge of the process and they’re yes men even if they know what they’re doing is wrong. Workplace culture is horrible. No one sticks together. No one takes accountability.  The hardest part of the job is being told to do something that you know you can be penalized for. Also being micromanaged by someone who doesn’t know their job or the process. The most enjoyable part about the job is leaving and getting your paycheck.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Laborer 5 salaries reported	$23.59 per hour
Assembler 1 salary reported	$22.00 per hour
Buyer 4 salaries reported	$63,125 per year
Metal fabricator 2 salaries reported	$26.00 per hour
Technician 2 salaries reported	$25.00 per hour

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