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If you are looking to further your career as an IT Professional, I HIGHLY DISCOURAGE taking a job at this company. 

The business applications are all 20-30+ years old, and that is NOT an exaggeration. .NET Framework 2.0, C++ 5.0, Sybase Databases just to name a few.

The IT sector of this company is incredibly slow moving, constantly doing data fixes and providing "work-arounds" for dying applications. Meeting updates are a constant reminder of how little individuals are actually accomplishing on a weekly basis. The abundant integration projects, that bleed into all the applications, drone on for years and play a big part in the mess that is the IT department.

Working in this atmosphere slowly deteriorates your skills and ambition to do quality work. Especially when you are rushed to do every change and there is never time to do it properly. Most work is done just to "get by" for the next few weeks/months until something else breaks because of the rushed changes that were done over the past decade or 2 of, you guessed it, more rushed changes.

To add insult to injury, this company is VERY HEAVILY involved in contracting out a majority of the work. Actually, most of the new development work is done by contractors. All in house/salaried employees mostly work on maintaining these dying applications. Because of the constant churn of going through contractor after contractor, the quality of code and the transfer of knowledge is non-existent.

Most teams do not have any sort of code review process. Source control is a mixture of visual source safe 6.0, surround, and even saving projects to a random network location.

Let's talk about job security. You may feel secure and comfy in this slow paced atmosphere. That is until the end of the year comes and they don't make their bottom line. If you are not a seasoned veteran holding a lot of business knowledge, your position is easily disposable.

There is very little opportunity for advancement because of the managers that have held their positions for many, many years.


On the up side, if you are looking for some of the best pay and benefits in the La Crosse WI area, this is the place for you.

As an experienced design engineer this was a very poor career choice. No opportunity for advancement. Poor work culture. No job stability. In my short time there, I survived many layoffs and re-orgs--having worked for 5 different managers. All good people, but none truly qualified to lead a design engineering group. I say this because none had any real design engineering/product development experience.
Trane--now IR, is a management company, not interested in innovation or engineering. My experience with IR is that they are not known for innovation or quality. They are a "me too" company often last to the market with an inferior product. It's just not part of their culture to develop a quality product. They put on a good facade though.
The company is run like a discount department store--Buy a product from someone else, re-badge it, and sell it. No thought is put into design or quality. They just don't have the infrastructure to support that type of development if they wanted to. Those that wanted to, failed.
Yes, I'm bitter. I'm sad that I had to leave the Tyler, TX area to find a better job. But, I chose to leave. Yes, the poor housing market helped contribute to some of the layoffs. Downturns in the economy are times to innovate and develop new products. Not cut your capabilities and rush to the India and China labor markets thinking you can develop there on the cheap. If you don't know how do innovate, develop and launch a product at home, what makes you think you can do it in a foreign country with any better luck?
The fact is, Trane and IR in general, is poorly led. As with too many companies, they choose to only look as far ahead as the next quarter, focusing on short term stock prices. Long term, who knows how long Trane will remain in business or part of IR? One thing for sure, I will never buy another Trane product for my home or any item with an IR name plate.

This was a enjoyable job as far as working with customers and completing tasks as scheduled by coordination. This was a job I felt I would work at until I retired many years down the road. The Bessemer air center was far from the ideal workplace due to SOME of the coworkers and lack of leadership. The work culture at my center was what I would consider toxic. There were a few good people that I worked with, but many were out for themselves. Onboarding wasn’t done properly, either. It made for an uncomfortable environment. I left a long-term job to come here because I thought it was an opportunity to better myself. I was always told by my manager he wanted to do what he could to help me succeed. However, I discovered after working there for several months there was a schedule of progression in the on boarding/training that was not followed by my supervisor. For example, I wasn’t directly told who my mentor was until I did not pass an evaluation. I worked with several people to get my training, but was supposed to be assigned a mentor. My supervisor was always trying to run air centers in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee instead of getting people were they needed to be in his own shop.  The company kept some of my personal tools and would not allow me to get them when I left. Some of those tools were gifts from my daughter. IF YOU GO TO WORK HERE, TAKE A INVENTORY OF WHAT IS YOURS AND HAVE RECEIPTS!!! Make them sign something stating what is yours. 
Coordination team would schedule jobs on you without letting you know in ample time to account for scheduling arrivals. Often, I would find out when I synced my Ipad that jobs had changed, drastically altering my day. At times, someone in another state would schedule jobs and wouldn’t realize the jobs were on the opposite side of the state from me when there were technicians who were within a hour of the customer.  Overall, I wouldn’t recommend anyone work here.

Similar to working at the Post Office, every day returns arrived and had to be taken care of. Some were just for credit; some defective (and it had to be determined if that was so, and the defect noted ), some returns required repair and shipment back to customer.
Prior to working in the returns area, I worked on the assembly line for two years, on second shift. When the job opening in RGA was posted, I applied for it and got the position.
I had almost 100% independence. I had responsibility for prioritizing returns, and alloting my time. I worked a lot of overtime. I needed to, because of the volume of returns. It's not that we had a high rate of defects; but if only 2 to 3 locks, out of 100 locks shipped get returned, and you ship out 1000 locks a day; well that means 20 to 30 items a day coming back! And that doesn't include Non-warranty repairs. People often returned locks up to ten years old for repair. We had a loyal clientelle.
The first year was brutal; the next four years were very enjoyable. It was like detective work. And, I sometimes served on Kaizan events, and helped out in the 'Out of Box' audit area (inspection of new products, just prior to shipment). The hardest part of my job, was watching the facility be shut down, and our product line moved offshore. I respected my team leaders and the engineers and managers, it was a good team. I learned, at IR/Locknetics, computer skills, electronics testing and evalution; and honed my 'hand' skills (soldering, disassembly/assembly, packing product for shipment, etc.)

Expect to do jobs/duties well outside the scope of the role you were hired for. Lay offs are frequent and only semi-predictable, making the environment feel unstable. Management has been systematically removing experienced engineers and replacing them with new engineers that, without proper guidance, are repeating past lessons learned. Company clearly priorities the immediate shareholder profit and does not compensate employees appropriately. On an individual level, climbing up the ladder is not only difficult, but expected to be done without compensation. On a corporate level, more employees and material are being outsourced out of country, which seems cheaper on paper but is weakening the company. Your actual coworkers will, for the most part, be good genuine good people. Some managers really wish to see their employees succeed, but many only care about what upper management thinks. Okay place to stay short term, but I would be wary of trying to set roots here. You will be nothing more than a tally mark on a spreadsheet.

It was a fun place to work most days. Great benefits. Paid training was pretty often, 1-2 time every six months, usually at their beautiful facility in Davidson, NC. Got a nice truck to work out of, as well as a nice shop with the benefit of having the tool dept in the same building. Quite a few incentives. Getting the correct parts in a timely manner for jobs was often frustrating. Most coworkers were friendly and helpful, even made some real good friends there. There is a fair amount of corporate politics and the stuff that comes with it. Safety meetings were torturous and having to wear arc/flash gear was overboard. Their safety program isn't very common sense oriented, more lawyer derived.

That said, at the location that I worked, the service management was a joke. The people having that title role were the puppet of their branch manager, which was a bigger problem. That small part of the company has become a "buddy club" that, when determined, will make work life for those under them so miserable that they quit. They skew productivity numbers to their own advantage and when reported for being unethical, they are somehow able to replace themselves with someone lower on the corporate ladder to face the consequences. 

I do miss working there and would love to have advanced to a role working on the larger, more advanced equipment. This wasn't a possibility because of the aforementioned management.

Trying to do the right thing, will only get you fired. Their so called Ethics and Compliance Committee will do NOTHING to right a wrong.  IR is out of compliance in every department and they will do anything to hide it from auditors. I saw plenty of good employees get fired for trying to do the right thing. You will only get ahead if you are willing to sell your soul, every time you try to bring up real issues, you are considered a negative employee. The benefits are good, but promotions are only given to those who are willing to play the game. Departments are extremely understaffed and it takes managers months to back fill positions, yet employees are expected to do the work of 3 people and if they don't, they are considered have poor performance. A co-worker of mine, whom I know to be a very hard worker, launched an investigation with the ethics and compliance committee, she had e-mail proof and recordings of everything that had been done to her by her manager and HR; the committee did nothing about it, they didn't even bother to respond to her after the investigation was over, instead, the same HR rep who she had complained about, called her into a room and then walked her out of the building. 

It is very disheartening to know that a company such as IR can just throw away hard working people like they are garbage and you can't do anything about it.

They do more firing here then hiring at this company. When peak season come around they will hire a brunch of temporary people and regular people. That you will waste time training because when peak season over all they will do is lay you off. The management will not give you a 24 hour notice to tell you to work overtime. Sometime they will tell you to work extra hours at the last 4 hour of the shift. And sometimes depending what department you work in you will never get a weekend off. And if the company plans a family day on the weekend and your department is behind please believe you will be working.  The point system they got there is terrible if you run out of you personal time you will get point. Even if you have a doctor excuse that covers you for the days you were out you will get a point if you don't have personal time. When the holidays come especially Christmas if your line is not caught you will be working the day after Christmas until New Years Eve. So don't make no plans with your family or friends. Don't expect any bonuses from this because you don't get anything but a pat on the back. All the management get bonus for your hard work

In the last several years (2011 - 2014) there have been several re-organizations of the business.  This has resulted in many "forced" retirements and layoffs.  At this point, many divisions are cut thin and simply forced to keep things the way they were before the cuts.  When upper management has come to visit they have done an overview on how the company has been doing, how the stock price has been going up, and how the future seems very bright.  However, many employees have left those meetings rolling their eyes - knowing they are overworked and that some of their closest peers were recently let go. 

The division of Ingersoll Rand I was a part of (Trane) is run by a good ol' boy type of mentality.  That is - learn to fit in or get out.  Change seemed to be coming slowly  but not fast enough, and not open enough to make this company in a spotlight for "best places to work"

Ingersoll Rand seems to overlay the importance of culture, diversity, and diversification of employee talents - however, during these recent re-organizations the only people moving around the business and getting the diverse education within the business seem to be upper management at IR - not at Trane...

IR does seem to care about their employees (as does Trane), but there is a long way to go put these companies in the spotlight

I was happy to start at Ingersoll because it was clean, safe, better pay, and closer to home. 

I liked my team, and they liked me. I got invited to the company Holiday party and had a blast. We all got along. My supervisor liked my work, I thought she was really cool. I even got the nickname smiley because I always carried a smile on my face. I spoke up when needed. 

I loved my job and was getting trained on forklift because our department needed another driver. I was thrilled to become certified.   
The next thing I know, given all these promises I was let go without warning Friday. 

I get a call after I arrived home right before the company's Christmas holiday break (we were all off the following week) saying that due to "performance issues," and "not the right fit."

This was not true since my supervisor said my work was fine. I had no writeups or any disciplinary actions taken against me. 

I spend the rest of the holidays looking for a job instead of enjoying my week off.

Getting a call saying I was let go after arriving home Friday was not a good feeling. Talk about a rough start to Shabbat. 

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