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This was by far the worst situation I got myself into. The twilight zone. They want you to be at work 15 minutes early, but you don't get paid for it. You get a 10 minute break a 20 minute lunch and another 10 minute break. But not really because it takes you 3-4 minutes to walk to the break area and another 3-4 minutes to get back. You are only suppose to use the restroom on break. So there you go. You will never have a 10 minute break or a 20 minute lunch. I was put into a department where I physically couldn't do the work. Couldn't find any management. Finally I found a manager who found 2 coaches. I thought maybe I was doing the job incorrectly but no I wasn't, neither coach could do it. Then they moved me. I was with a normal woman, she had 3 months with the company. She was training me but then took a lay off. I was waiting for a trainer. Never happened, a woman with a month of experience was training me on my second week. She didn't know what she was doing, broke a few machines and had temper tantrums. Finally realizing there was no one to train me I decided I must just go. I was in a hopeless situation. Also an unsafe situation. Plus my head was pounding from the screamer I was working next to. I couldn't find any management so I put my badge inside the door and ran for my life.The next morning I called and told them where my badge was and what happened. They said yes we heard and a new person shouldn't have been training you. They asked me if I would like to be connected to human resources where I left a voice mail that remains unanswered. I should have known better. They have ice cream day, popcorn day and fruit day but you won't get any because breaks and lunch are to short. Your lucky to have enough time to urinate. They don't do background checks because I was working with a woman who had been in and out of prison her whole adult life for meth.I thought since they did a hair follicle test I wouldn't be around meth addicts. Run for your life. If a job in New Haven Missouri is paying $15.15 an hour you know some things wrong. I'm hoping I get my last check. Work a double shift in fast food, mow lawns, scrub toilets, but what ever you do avoid this place. Consider prison as an option. This place is about warm bodies, push them and use them. As far as the great medical plan, no one stays long enough to get it and if by chance you did they would fire you for taking time off to use it. The turn over is huge. The craziness is indescribable. Everything you are told during orientation is a complete lie. It's a real pressure cooker. The worst of the worst.

i would cut, snip, and tape parts. the job itself was easy. i did my best. however, i was not making the rates because the rates are dang near impossible to reach even for people that have been there for a while. i would stay on task and yet still somehow that wasn’t enough. i got plucked from my job to be “disciplined” basically about how i’m not meeting rates and i need to do better, well i’m sorry but i’m already doing the best i can. i just want to say sure there are a lot of people that can make rate but how long have they been there? YEARS. i was there 3 months and they were down my back when i was trying my best. they don’t care about you, they care about how many parts you can get in 1 hour, each hour, everyday. too much overtime, so many people work 72 hours a week and that’s just NORMAL. i worked 72 hours one week and i was BEAT. at what point is it a company flaw vs a worker flaw when more people “can’t make rate” than make rate? i will miss my coworkers who treated me like family SO MUCH! 

so i guess the good things are, the job itself is easy, a lot of the people are nice, good pay, they will work you and they have overtime if you see that as a good thing. 

the bad things are a lot will also talk about you, i felt like people would look at me and talk or had thoughts but i never cared because unlike them i mind my business.  YOU ARE JUST A NUMBER TO HENNIGES. all they care about is you pumping out all those parts so they can get them out to Ford because they keep telling Ford they can get the parts out so to do so they have to over work their workers. 1 hour you have to snip and tape 97 parts, then the next hour is 117, then 97, then 117, until it’s been 8 hours. i mean it’s just craziness. they want you to do work that fast then i suggest they get robots because almost everyone i encountered did not make rate. 

my message to Henniges is, don’t bite off more than you can chew and drive loyal workers away. apparently they up the rates because they tell these companies such as Ford  they can give them all this product by a certain time, knowing the workers can’t do it, so they up the numbers on the workers and of course they can’t do it, then when the workers can’t pump out all those parts management has someone to blame and it’s the people “for not doing the work fast enough.”

i will find much better than this place.

Be prepared to work a lot of hours with people who are lazy.
If they don't like you they will try to get you fired.
Work would go a lot smoother if everyone did their jobs.
Management depends on the department you are in, some departments I would give a 5 star rating others not so much.
You have to not miss for the first 90 days of work, it doesn't matter what happens, if you miss you are fired.
Hot work environment during the summer. They should be paid a lot more in the summer time especially since they are away from their families. 
The most sucky part is you have to be there a year to get 1 week of vacation and then work there 3 yrs to get  2 weeks and then you have to be there 8 yrs before you get 3 weeks and you don't get that extra week until the following January. So if you started working there in say July 2018 and you hit your 3 yr mark, you would have to wait until January 2019 hits before you get that 3rd week vacation.
There is a lot of 2 faced people that work here.
If you want to survive, don't make friends and just go in and do your job otherwise you will have unnecessary drama.
The hardest part of the job is when you are low on the seniority totem pole. Senior people will force you in early and force you to work over and double bubble you if they don't like you. You can expect at least 50-72 hours of work each week.
The best part of the job, the pay checks are decent. You get paid weekly. The benefits are good.
If you want to work long hours and have no one tell you that you are valued this is the right place to be.

Henniges Automotive, is definitely the most unpleasant place I've ever been employed. The only reason to work there is for the money and benefits which is arguably decent; however, with the mind-numbing labor, poor management decisions, and constant overtime will make you contemplate suicide with every slow passing minute. If possible, work there for a month or two and save the money while looking for another job. This company is always hiring because workers are always leaving and tired with the way they're treated. My second week there they already brought in a new batch of recruits, within at least a hour one of them received a call from another employer and walked out on the spot. That's the power of Hennegis labor just in a hour. To describe how much overtime there is I can only put it this way: on orientation day I asked the instructor how much overtime they've had recently, he replied "Oh just a little bit, been going on for three years now." Three years, needless to say his interpretation of "a little" is quite different than mine. Depending on your department some of the individuals have worked from 40-60 days straight and don't even get requested time off. Hope you don't have a life because Hennegis becomes your life.

Depending on what you are looking for in a career this job may or may no be for you. It can be very fast paced and starting as a new hire you can not miss a single day for your first 90 days. It is very hard to move up on seniority so be prepared to do a lot of overtime. Also depending on where you go in the plant you will have some management that is very knowledgeable or you will have some that don't have a clue and are bent on thinking they are right which causes a very stressful work environment. Also 80% of the hr. employees have a horrible attitude towards the work environment which will also cause a lot of tension between employees. If you can manage to deal with 12 hr. shifts 5-6 days a week with a possiblity of coming in for 4 hrs on your one day off then this could be the place for you. the pay is sub-par for the stress you wll endure but the insurance isn't to bad as of now.

This company  makes millions, if not billion on yearly basis.3 of the companies that make products for.Very known ,Multi-millionare,and billionaire companies.Therefore, employees on production floor, all departments,should be paid more.  Their equipment, machiney,robots,etc are high dollar. Maintenance on some these,could be much better.There's many great men and women work here.Some work hard,some do bare minium.High school Gossip, and drama a HUGE PROBLEM,ALONG WITH FAVORITISM FROM SUPERVISION.SOME of the Supervisiors, should go to person face to face with issues.Not the person they work next to,Employee's would appreciate that more.Along with accepting responsibility when they've made mistake.

I see a lot of others say the pay is good, but I'll have to disagree. It's not bad for what you are asked to do, but I wouldn't call it "good". I think you need to be at double the amount of minimum wage before "good" can even be considered, and they're not quite there yet. They do have good benefits and that is definitely a plus. The problem here is the overtime and the lack of communication about the overtime problem during the interview process. I was asked in my interview, "Do you have a problem working overtime? Because we are on overtime right now." Which sounds like they are just working overtime temporarily, and to expect to work overtime when needed. In all actuality, you're normal work week is 48 hours(six 8 hour days), so you have 8 hours of overtime built into an average work week. You may get lucky every once in a while and get some undertime(off Saturday) or unlucky and get more overtime(work Sunday). 

I was hired as a quality engineer, supporting their production. I was told there were some problems to be solved because of previous employees not being up to par and a rebuild of the quality department. I was told I would be trained in my area of work. The quality department was understaffed the entire time I was there. They brought in workers from the factory to do jobs they had no training or degrees for. I was never trained like I was promised. The pay was decent, but there were many days of after hours and Saturday work. The factory workers had a high rate of turnover because they were worked 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. My scheduled hours were changed to 72 a week from 40 without notice, so I quit.

Making parts for vehicles doors and windows was about all you did. You had machines to run and had a set amount to get  done before the end of the shift. I learned to keep up with production (which isnt to hard when the machines are not fast paced). To keep my mouth closed because even if it were a conversation about the weather or sports it would still get you in trouble. Coworkers were not the best to be around you couldnt do anything without them scrutinizing you even if you were doing the job right. The hardest part was trying to stay under the radar. The most enjoyable part was there were always as least 2 people who enjoyed making situations calmer and happier so if you found those two workers and as long as you did your job right you could enjoy it and make the shift go by easier. 

Miserable work/life balance. Learned a lot very fast because it’s cut throat, but even after saving the company thousands of dollars by eliminating the need for additional hiring, you still end up feeling scared to make any tiny mistake day to day or you’ll lose your job. It’s all a blame game to throw each other under the bus constantly. A lot of of propping good ol boy friends up in positions they aren’t qualified for. And that’s management. Received another offer 30+% over my salary at the time, and was told I couldn’t handle their management style. Never looked back. They waited until my last day to send someone to come train under me as a replacement. 

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