production worker

truck accessory installer

production supervisor

porter

maintenance technician

Ground Effects

Upper management doesn't care about us. I've been here 4 years and almost 2 of those have been an average of 25 hours a week. The company has made zero effort to help us with this severe reduction in pay/hours. We are a small facility so they don't care. Most of us are barely hanging on and some have already lost their homes or working 2nd/3rd jobs just to stay afloat. You're thinking, "why don't you leave and find a full-time job"? Well, the management here is incredible and has made a complete 360 change to this place over the last three years and made us a priority. I love my team members and there are 7 of us left out if the 30 that were here in the beginning
If we leave then there is no one to stripe the cars that come in and none of us want to walk out because that would cause copious amounts of stress to our plant manager, but we are at our max with this situation. Upper Management needs to do better and care about the employees more. PM says they do and that the company is doing everything they can to resolve these issues. Put your money where your mouth is and show us. Our boss shouldn't have to pay our bills, rent, and food for our families. Ground Effects LLC should make it right. Now we are headed into a three-week shutdown and I'll be surprised if any of us return. 


Fast paced. Team leads and supervisors are young,  inexperienced, and they play favorites. The same workers cause problems with other workers, talk back and argue about their job, are always away from their work areas and never get in trouble while other workers try their best to do a good job but get dogged anyway. There is a daily meeting at beginning of shift where they tell you how poorly a job you are doing. They say go faster, make less mistakes, but they don’t demonstrate how. Their idea of training is to tell you to read the step instructions on the wall and stand around watching you, which is nerve wracking.  The company that brings the trucks have staffing problems so sometimes you get sent home early. At the same time, because numbers weren’t met you have to work a lot of Saturdays. If GM has the day off chances are that you will too, then will have to work Saturday to get 40 hrs. There is a high turnover rate but management doesn’t seem to care because they can always get fresh bodies from the temp agencies, so always seem to be training new people and that slows you down and you don’t make your numbers. 
I got to the point that I hated to go in every day and was so happy when I found another job.

I was a yard lead the last year i was there. Another yard lead came down from Flint Michigan to show us how we should be operating the yard. He said that yard leads should supervise the yard and helpers while my boss should supervise inside the building. My boss said i was absolutely rude to the guy, when all i did was agree with him and didnt say much. My boss was always watching me, whether it was on camera, or sneaking around trucks to spy on me. He could not take losing part of his supervision. The second i got a free minute (which was rare) he would complain i wasnt doing enough work. I usually had a helper with me to move trucks when i got busy, but my boss would always take them and put them on the de-mask team (even though they had 5-6 people demasking one truck), which would leave me struggling to do my inspections, moving trucks, and working the shipping, plus all my paperwork. I was fired for "not inspecting" a line of trucks. Which i know i did, because my inspection papers were in the trucks. The only thing i can think of is that my signature wasnt on the papers. But you tend to lose track on what youre doing from time to time, especially when you are overwhelmed like i was.

The work was easy once you got the hang of it. The hours were awesome before Covid with 4 10 hour shifts and 3 days off. They lost a lot of people after the Covid shut down and had a high turn over with new people, which put a ton of overtime hours on the regular employees causing a lot of stress and burnout. They don’t give a raise after the probationary period, so you’re at 12.70 an hour for a full year (or longer if you came in as a temp, because that time doesn’t count). Raises are low so it can take years to even get to $14 an hour. It’s super hot in the summer and you WILL sweat. Benefits are ok for a single person, but very expensive if you have to put family on. Had some really great co workers though. Overall, not the worst place I’ve worked, but there are better paying jobs that aren’t so stingy with the raises. I’d look elsewhere first.

A typical day at work for me starts the night before I have everything ready for the following day everyday at work I learn something repeat task and improve. What works I continue to do and what does not work I subtract out of daily routine. The management I truly believe in good work relations. The hardest part of the job may be the learning curve however once I obtain the procedures and the muscle memory it becomes easier every day I find myself working on autopilot however focused. As far as enjoying things I believe a job is what you make it there's always something that I take out of a job that I apply on day to day knowledge I believe in safety quality and quantity and good work vibrations.

They will have you work 6 days a week for the rest of your life. There is no balance managers will yell and criticize you for not working harder. There turn over rate is a revolving door constant having people leave and quit. Oh There is no paid time off except vacation they need 2 weeks notice of vacation. They only have unpaid time off which has to be put in 24 hours before the day off requested. The plant manager will act nice but will watch on cameras and blame any delays on one section that didn't cause the delay. You will never have time to eat lunch as you only get 25 minutes for lunch and 2 minutes of it are used walking to the break room. Also there is only a 10 minute break as well then they will expect you to volunteer for overtime constantly

Management is the number one problem. Favoritism is a huge problem. Manager's are either sleeping with each other or realted to each other which causes alot of favoritism. Employees are mistreated daily. The supervisors are incopetent of there positions. The only time they like to act like supervisors is when cooperate comes around. There is absolutely no job security at this company. Employees are afarid to address matters due to all the relationships that are taking place at ground effects. I would never recommend ground effects to anyone unless you are related or friends with the management that is no place to waste your time at. They will work you to death they dont care about your work-life balance.

This is a good company to work for. They seem to really care about the quality of their product. A typical day is a lot of multi-tasking and keeping up with emails, paperwork and the amount of vehicles that need shipped and/or received. I absolutely love my team I supervise they make coming to work fun and run smoothly. The hardest part of the job is when people do not show up as there are not many back ups for positions so if one doesn't show up it makes it especially hard on every department and how production is ran. I have learned a lot more about computers and the running of Chryslers Shipping and receiving department.

The company is expanding to fast and can’t get out of its own way, the front office has its favorites and caters to them, the long weeks are draining and the people running the show don’t seem to care, they say they have an open door policy but most of the time trying to talk to someone requires an appointment and then they end up feeding you a line of BS. There are worse jobs out there but there are plenty of better ones also. You can learn new things and they tend to promote from within but most of the time they help their buddies climb the ladder while the hard workers are stuck doing the same thing everyday.

Typical day would be going to work and getting everything started to the stations you belong. I learned to have great amount of patience. Management can be up and down depending on your shift. You can get a Supervisor that will rush you to get things done without helping get the proper tools to do it. Also can get a supervisor that will just walk around and smoke. Co workers are all friendly once you get to know them all. Going to school since they will tell you late if you are working the weekends or not and the hours. You will end up working on and off days. Most enjoyable part of the job is getting to see all your co workers because when you work midnight they all tend to be your second family.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production worker 4 salaries reported	$18.02 per hour
Truck accessory installer 7 salaries reported	$18.97 per hour
Production supervisor 1 salary reported	$27.33 per hour
Porter 13 salaries reported	$18.12 per hour
Maintenance technician 7 salaries reported	$24.88 per hour

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