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Independent Stave Company

I worked for ISCO for 8 months and it was not a good experience for me. I've waited a few years to leave this review to see if time would change my opinion and it has not. I was not a good fit for the position I was hired for. I was not thoroughly interviewed by my supervisor. If I had been, there would have been more questions from both of us and I probably would have never been hired. My direct supervisor, in my opinion, committed several HR violations regarding my personal life/appearance and several comments were made about my salary, etc. I was hired to be a marketing professional/event planner but ended up making travel arrangements, itineraries and several other duties that were not directly marketing related and I was admittedly not good at, and never claimed to be good at. My time there was miserable to be honest. I worked with different locations in different time zones and felt I was "on call" 24/7. I missed exactly three hours of work for a family member's hospitalization and was berated for my focus not being on work and rather on a my family member. 

My anxiety got to ridiculous levels and I was under the care of a doctor and medication just to get myself to work each day. I was on the highest dose of Prozac I could take and had several stress related symptoms causing me to be ill. If you can't do high pressure and don't have a rhino thick skin - you can't work in this job. I recognized that I was not flourishing, and was rather floundering, and found another job. Upon resigning I was told I would have been fired anyway, told I would fail in my next job, and berated more without provocation. I left a two page letter with human resources on my way out the door as I felt any comments to them prior would have resulted in retaliation.

Independent Save Company offered higher pay when it first opened, but compensation was later reduced while workload and expectations increased. The biggest issue is the workplace culture. The environment is heavily cliqued among supervisors, and leadership frequently speaks poorly about employees to other workers. There is a clear lack of respect, and many supervisors carry an unprofessional attitude toward the workers they manage.

There are repeated toxic behaviors, including supervisors making inappropriate, racist and homophobic remarks openly, which creates a hostile and uncomfortable atmosphere for staff.

I can’t speak to official time-off policies, but in my personal experience, scheduling a day off was always difficult and treated like an issue. The leadership culture, lack of accountability, and overall unprofessional behavior made this the worst work environment I’ve experienced.

If the company replaces its leadership, improves accountability, and overhauls in the supervisor structure it could be a great long term opportunity and job for the area. Until then, I believe a complete overhaul of supervisors, particularly within the Save Department, could change the entire company for the better.

The work is very hard, but if you don't mind hard work and not standing around it's a good place. The thing that makes it bad is management. They could careless about the employee as long as the biss gets those barrels out to get them all a bonus on their checks. They do not care if someone is lazy and you're having to do all the work. They will not compensate for it. Unfair and very unsafe working conditions. Most definitely very unfair and ignorant pay. I was doing the work of two people and they would not give me any more raises or compensate me for the hard work I put in for them. Management is a complete joke and I strongly believe that if the Owner of the company actually knew what was really going on a lot of people would be fired. Great place to work job wise, but management wise you're wasting your time. You will not move up unless you're buddy buddy with all the hire ups. 

My typical day starts at 5 AM Monday thru Friday , I have worked 10 day's most of my time employed with ISC , What I have learned the most with ISC is to be open to new direction , rules , guidelines , as our product changes with customer needs and desires .
Management , In my longevity with ISC I have had great management in most cases and I have had and or am currently under poor management .
Workplace culture , where I am currently stationed at , Salem Wood Products , overall its pretty good , I personally think the plant could use some updating to help the employee's do there job more effective thus creating a better product and or improvement in quality on a day to day basis .
Hardest part of my job is seeing problems , solvable problems , and not being able to either do anything about it and or not getting the chance to express my thoughts into effective solvable solutions creating a better product on a day to day basis .
The most enjoyable part of my job has been to see how over time how our company has changed , how it has grown , and how solid our customer base is and continues to grow .

You know, it was not that bad, although I had my hand caught in a drill press and now have a permanent 10 pound weight limit for the rest of my life but its good money, if you want honest pay for honest work this is the place for you, you have to be fast, quick thinking, using common sense because if you don't use your head then well, you get your body hurt real bad, but if you are a smart person then you have nothing to worry about. They give you free gloves, free ear protection, and free eye protection. Management is a little bit garbage but if you put that aside or do what you are suppose to do then you will do just fine. I think the best part is the location since there is a fast food across the street, but try not to get hit by a car like me. Its not a good idea to walk across the street with ear protection still in because you cant hear nothing. Take it from me because I myself did that by accident, SO DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE IT! Because workers comp don't cover getting hit by a car on your lunch.

Very good place to work fast paced but not bad. Supervisor was great to work with and for. always jumped in and helped out anywhere, superintendent was also there if needed HR always open door. It was like a big family. Yes you had bad ones but the others made it enjoyable to work with. The company itself takes very good of you benefits,dinners,family day picnics, uniforms lots of pluses working for ISC. I regrettably had to leave for medical that would have hurt me and the company in the long run,but am currently applying for return. I recommend ISC for anyone for a carreer that wants to work younger starting out or older needing to provide for their family. ISC doesn't descrimanate.

They pay drug users more money in order for them to support their drug habbits, in order for them to be able to do the job. The labor is pretty hard, but they do pay pretty well. They treat you like a number, and will fire you after 10 years. An old co worker was fired after he loss a fingure. The HR told him "We don't have any positions for people with missing fingures" and fired him. They will hire you if your dirty. So for the ones worried about a drug test, just tell them before you take it. Overall a bad place will not advance, but can make good money for a while. Their insurance is high. They do also cut pays and try to cut hours for a month or two every year to keep ppl hanging for awhile then bam back to 60+ hours.

Good pay for Morehead. Easy job when machines run smooth how they should. Thing is they rarely do and it is made into a job not worth it imo. Upper management is always stressed out and that trickles down to everyone else. Cheap equipment. Always talked about incentives which never amounted to more than 10-30 cents from what I seen it’s  just more money in supervisors pocket so they drive you into the ground and preach to you about it. Always threatening your job also if equipment shuts down and something out of your control happens and throws you off. Longer I was there the more they took. Starting pay was 21 now it’s 17 I give 3 stars because it was a good job at the start but the back half became unbearable and had to leave.

Competitive pay and benefits, piece pay positions offer 20 dollars plus potential.  I don't know any other company in the area that offers the consistent hours as Missouri Cooperage.  I have never been laid off and we have never had to have work share because of lack of work.  The management and fellow employees are fun to work and really push you to be successful.  This company offers a four day training program which I have never had another job offer anything quite like that.

Typical day you show up early to make sure things are in order for your machine depending position you learn quick no on cares long as you meet production but don’t expect much other then the money and the benefits to be the only reason you show up, the higher ups don’t care about you and will replace you quickly the hardest part of the job is showing up, easiest part is cleaning and there’s nothing enjoyable about it, the hours are rough they give no PTO or UPT only  MOT and don’t expect a doctors note to save you cause they just throw them away

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Manufacturing associate 8 salaries reported	$18.73 per hour
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