warehouse/driver

fabricator

outside sales representative

inside sales representative

warehouse lead

Harrington Industrial Plastics

Do you like to drive to very unique spots ranging from big cities to beaches or even the local sewage plant? Do you like to be hired for one thing, but do the job of 4 other people? Do you like moving pvc pipes and fittings ranging in diameter from 1/2" to 14" with help till you get to the job site then forget about help? How about having sales people as managers, but sales come first before truck issues? Do you like driving trucks that need service, but sales are more important than potential DOT violations? Then welcome to the PVC graveyard, where you start at the bottom and stay there! Welcome to where you may get injured on the job from lifting heavy pipe and have SALES people question you on how did that happen? Welcome to the place where sales take precedent over EVERYTHING, including repairs needed to the vehicles. Welcome to the place where you ask for a pay raise and get told you make overtime, but in the same breath threating to take your OT away. Welcome to the place where you get threatened to be terminated for "slacking off" on the road when you don't want to return to the warehouse, becuase there is nothing to do there and they "talk" to you again about not doing anything. On the brightside my warehouse coworkers were really cool and were good people to work with, however the sales personnel were very unique and I'll leave it at that. Again everything comes down to sales and deliveries. Best of luck to anyone who wants to join Harrington, hopefully people read this and learn about what it's really like on the inside becuase what I was told during the interview and actually working were two seperate worlds. Also if you have any pending warrants you might not want to look here, becuase we do go to government facilities where they do background checks on you (fyi.)

I worked for them for 14 years as an Administrative Assistant working for the Executives at their corporate offices. Also did typing for branch managers at sales offices throughout the U.S. Typed correspondence and reports; ordered cell phones for all company personnel such as outside sales, managers, executives; audited company phone bills for errors; relieved on the reception desk; handled their Notaries; coordinated onsite and offsite meetings; made travel arrangements for all company personnel both domestic and foreign travel; made hotel arrangements for visitors. I enjoyed working with my co-workers. I didn't find any part of the job hard. I enjoyed working for this company. I also worked as their Training Coordinator which included bringing in new people and existing people to complete the company's online training for their computer system. Administered proctored tests and issued them certificates of completion. Kept records of all employee's progress in the training system.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part was the organized manner they run their company from top to bottom. It’s a whole lot easier to succeed as a salesperson when your company is established and well organized. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part was the overemphasis on the sales numbers. Granted, sales numbers are very important to any company involved in this industry, but I thought the numbers were discussed in excess there; month by month, week by week, and sometimes even day by day. Quarterly sales reports would be a better method there in my opinion. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is good and friendly. A lot of employees there that have been working there for more than a decade. A good chunk of them have also worked there for 20+ years. That’s a good sign of a company taking care of its employees. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
As an outside sales person, it’s a good deal. A lot of freedom and hardly any micromanaging issues to deal with. Inside sales personnel looked comfortable there too.

- Enjoy working two jobs for the price of one?  Come on down!
- If you like major corporate overreach, Harrington is the place for you!

Employees below the level of sales are expendable/replaceable in the eyes of your corporate overlords.  "We'll just hire a temp.  It's fine."
All of your ideas will be shot down if they might dare cut into corporate's pockets just a little bit.  Why fix the glaring safety issues in the building when you can use that money to buy new iPhones for the sales team?

It's very hard to advance.  When a position opens, they will specifically try to hire a new person (sometimes dragging the process on for months) before they even consider hiring from within.

It's next to impossible to get fired, it seems.  Bad employees are seemingly allowed to continue being bad employees, sometimes for decades.  This is a terrible thing for a new employee to walk into.

All in all, it's not a fun place to work (unless you are lucky enough to get a sweet corporate gig).

Work here at your on risk. Horrible management, pennies on the dollar in terms of compensation. Half the time they never got around to annual reviews for employees. 20 cent raises were considered a lot, if you received one at all. They do not have enough people on staff so you will be expected to do a huge amount of work and cram it into your day. They used to allow overtime to catch up but no longer do so. Some departments micromanage. Benefits package is subpar with very high insurance deductibles. Not enough parking, be prepared to park on a side street and walk a block to work. Managers are hand tied in their abilities to run departments due to upper management interference. Upper management does not care about their employees and there is a visible lack of support and technology. Upper management is a boys club. There is no "culture" at this firm, only a mission statement that they do not actively work to adhere to. The hardest part of working there is the sheer volume of work they expect out of you while treating you as if you don't matter.

The benefits are very good at this job, which *almost* makes up for the low pay for the work being done. The whole "Pick on the new guy" motto is common in this industry, but this place is ridiculous. they're going to have you do all the work while they sit back and chat all day, then proceed to bombard you with insults about your work afterwards.  the management treats you like garbage and will not teach you the little tricks to perform better/faster to keep the competition at bay and to keep their job secure. good luck complaining about this to the supervisor because they are all longtime friends and will constantly make excuses for each other and will find a way to turn the argument on to you and make you the source of the issue. if you have a problem with one of them, you're going to have to deal with all of them. 

Greeted by coworkers every morning in the break room while getting coffee, then off to my desk to start the day.  Get settled at my desk, log into email and database, and then start working on part adds sent in from sales representatives in branches.  I would research the information and confirm with vendors either online or over the phone, enter part number and information into database, and then send return email to sales rep confirming part add into system.  Part adds would sometimes be all day tasks unless our Lead would give me an additional task, such as a vendor price change.  Depending on effective date of vendor price change, it would take seniority over my day or days fro entering part adds.  I would also be called by receptionist to cover the switchboard for breaks and lunches, if other receptionist was unavailable.      .

What is the best part of working at the company?
Literally nothing if you like making enough to survive don't work here 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working at the company, the leadership is terrible, they willfully ignore anything that makes sense or is a good idea.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's absolutely toxic, favoritism exists throughout upper management, higher ups consistently dump workloads onto employees in lower positions and then take the credit for someone else doing their job for them. They also allow alcohol in the work environment during inventories depending on who's in charge at the specified facility.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It was too much work for one person to complete with little to no help even with other employees present.

The company has good Benefits. 
Every other work factor was in a word; terrible. 
The company decided to promote an uneducated moron to a warehouse management position. 
The warehouse manager had with no people skills and was prone to fits of anger. 
Typical days were spent with concerns of the mental stability of the warehouse supervisor. 
I was written up and told I would be fired because I failed to preform jobs tasks that were not part of my job description. (Warehouse Driver)
I was NEVER told any positive aspect of my work performance. I spent nearly three years without any type of pay increase. 
I was verbally abused (almost daily), whenever there was some sort of work related problem. 
These factors were the basis of my decision to leave the company

I’ll cut to the chase the plant manager is a good guy and is leading the company in a good direction but almost all the other supervisors and managers have zero communication skills, they all are on different pages.
Some supervisors are all about safety and taking it slow while the others are talking behind their backs and push people for more production.
Like I said before the supervisors are all on different pages so there are plenty of illogical messes that happen fairly commonly. 
Now with all that being said it does seem to be on the right track to becoming a better working environment for the employees and it’s honestly a pretty easy job to do.
So if you decide to apply here I wish you good luck and many happy fuses!

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