inspector/packer

machine operator

chemical operator

mechanic

maintenance technician

Jadex

Organization:
	This company is behind the times.  Equipment, methodologies, and software are incredibly dated and difficult to utilize.  High levels of disorganization require creative problem-solving to acquire the simplest information.  The company treats personnel with the lowest priority, engaging in dubious acts such as making non-union, low-pay positions salary positions rather than hourly, mass lay-offs, no-notice terminations, and bait-and-switches.  For this, the company has a high turnover rate for salary personnel.  Additionally, the company demonstrates low resilience to change and innovation and maintains an unnecessarily high-stress environment which is explained away as a symptom of being a “job shop”.  Communication is very poor across all levels.  Teamwork is not a core value, very much opting for an ‘every man for himself’ culture.

Management:
	Direct management is very delusive with a silver tongue.  While very eloquent, their lack of knowledge and science literacy is very apparent and prone to confirmation bias.  Attempts to sound experienced are often regurgitations of others’ statements and ideas being passed off as if it were their own drawn conclusions.  There is a tendency for supported ideas to be highjacked and turned into exploratory research for which there is no supporting literature.  Disagreements and concerns are nefariously met with impromptu performance evaluations.  

Position:
	This role is responsible for 5 operation centers with a combined total of 26 sub-operational components, as well as components of waste-water treatment.  This position was originally held by multiple engineers, which dwindled to a couple of engineers supported by process technicians, which became just the two engineers and, finally, down to one engineer; the final transition of which occurred during my tenure with no change to remuneration.  The organization is very unsure of what this position is supposed to be; thus, this job is treated as a catch-all as the experience and responsibility for everything pertaining to operations has been centralized onto this position.  While there is no supervisory component to this position, this job is required to constantly double-check the work of others across many departments as technical skill and knowledge is not required of them and their functions have been attributed to being “part of the process,” and thus their failures are treated as your failures.  There is no direct support for this position but it is integral to the success of everyone else’s work; therefore, there is a tendency for other people’s work to become your work.  

Workload:
	Processes are highly unstable.  The same conditions can yield multiple results.  Outlying production issues are a mainstay.  This means constant intervention.  Low resilience from the organization means that often times projects will lose buy-in and focus will rapidly shift to another direction.  I have dubbed this “project whiplash”.  Additionally, senior management has a tendency to reject sound data supporting change as a form of fearful risk-mitigation.  Direct management often times treats this position as a secretarial role, offloading menial work not worthy of their time regardless of relevance.  Tasks are assigned to you from all areas of the organization.  The expectations of this position are cumbersome for one person.  My predecessor grew tired of the weight of this role before they consolidated responsibility, and—once everything was forced onto the shoulders of a single person in this role, so did I.  


This company is an absolute nightmare.  Ultimately, the problem is absolutely abysmal management who just don't have a clue and fail at every single one of Fayol's Principles of Management.  People in key positions have literally failed upwards-- I'm not saying this out of spite.  This is literally true.  They are very abusive and exploitive to the point where mass layoffs will take place, sending a lot of knowledge and experience out the door and discarding the responsibility onto inexperienced people in their place and beating them down when the process isn't ran with the same level of efficiency all the while denying them compensation for the increased responsibility forced upon them; effectively a 'Bait & Switch' in many cases.  Management has a hands-off, 'every-man-for-themselves' approach.  Even qualities that offer some leeway only exist because of apathetic management too lazy to enforce policy.  Upper management believes they are entitled to you as a person, wasting your personal time without justifiable reasoning.  There is a huge problem with accountability.  The responsibility for most of everything is consolidated onto a handful of people.  Many people can shirk their contributions because they know that someone else will be responsible for fixing it and management is complicit.  People in these positions are absolutely over-encumbered and show up to work just trying to stay afloat each day. 
 Company doesn't understand its staff, doling out tasks to people without the skillsets choosing not to bother with the arduous task of determining who would be most suited for the project, suggesting they just "figure it out," but will not invest in you learning the skillset required for the task or in your growth in general.  Company benefits such as tuition reimbursement are absolutely laughable.  Not a single system there has been successfully implemented and it makes me wonder how a company with so much incompetence survives this long.  To further harken on the point of exploitation, the company regularly employs temporary staffing.  The union that operates there has a policy about how long someone is allowed to remain a temp and the company must make a decision to hire them or let them go.  The company doesn't do that.  Instead, they send them to an area not governed by the union where they can remain a temp for years without benefits for literally no justifiable reason.  That being said, there are some good people and I wish them the best.

Nice place to work but need better compensation in terms of pay and medical coverage. Its a great location. Could benefit from a security guard to protect employees. Lunch area could have more microwaves. Ample parking is a plus. No matter which shift one works guaranteed a parking spot. Cleanliness is average. Some safety issues as it relates doors swing out versus in. Just simply a place to work to assist with daily responsibilities. I enjoy working there and would refer others. A sign on bonus is a great incentive also. We have great lunches during holidays and we are allowed to eat outdoors,. Which is really nice when weather permits. The culture is a mix group of people. Casual dress is a nice fit. The most enjoyable part is meeting quotas and getting the customers the items they need. Fork Lift is a great way to transport materials versus having to lift all the materials manually. Warehouse life is interesting its an opportunity to embrace diversity and to meet people from all over the world. Managers here respect you and value your work. Opportunity to get overtime but its not always available. I have learned a lot about the warehouse and look forward to learning more. Socialization Collaboration, and team participation is necessary to get the work done. We aim t please all of our customers. The winter months we could benefit from having a shuttle to ensure coverage and everyone gets to work safe and on time. The fewer cars on the road would make it a safer commute. The time clock is a great way to track employees time and a test of integrity. Guidelines help people to stay on track and on time. Thank You for allowing me to tell you more about the company. A website that includes everything about the company is a better way to get insight because it is from the source itself. Employees cab say any thing that may not be the truth but to get through the review they may just say anything whether true or false. 
I appreciate you all listening to how I feel about. the company. In summary a nice place to work. Better wages and insurance is an area that can improve. A typical day is work eat work. I learned that in dealing with people at work you have to keep a grip on relationships. I like to talk to people to learn various aspects of the warehouse. There is nothing hard about my job. i just simple have to me coach able and willing  to do whatever I am asked. as long as it is in the realm of my job duties.

I spent about a month here through a staffing agency. The pay was decent but the jobs were incredibly boring and monotonous. In 4 weeks I had one day off. The new hires were forced to work 12 hour shifts on the weekends due to the more senior employees using vacation time to avoid weekend work. My supervisor and everyone who worked with me absolutely loved me and told me how I would definitely be offered a full time position. I was given an interview after being there for 1 week but after 3 more weeks of consistently asking every few days I was never given any updates and just kept being told to "hang in there". I loved the people I worked with but it was honestly a waste of my time being drug along for several weeks about a full time position when I had better opportunities available to me. Seems like every other staffing agency work in the area where they like to take advantage of paying you less and not giving benefit for as long as possible no matter how good of an employee you are. Also a lot of poor talk about the factory manager and their abilities/attitude.

It's good for easy money and a lot of overtime if that's what you want but be cautious for long term positions. Several people I worked with had been in the same full time positions for decades and not moved up into any sort of management role because there are extremely few supervisor positions.

Love most people that work here they make it fun while the others are "rats" and will rat you out so they can kiss a** to management. Management does NOT know what they're doing. They hire people to manage with little to no experience. They will be a smarta** and make you feel dumb. The environment feels hostile especially from certain associates and management personal. There is no communication whatsoever. E.G. They lowered our pay without any notice (which is a breach of contract). Work schedule is not a FIXED schedule it is more like a rotating schedule; going from 8 to 10 to 12 and they switch to whichever fits best to "customer needs".  Work-Life balance is not even a thing if have other important things to do such as your kids, school, etc. Unless you love to remind people about your important things outside of work every single time there is a schedule change (every other week). Then this isn't the place for you. The work is easy if you know what you're doing. They will give you a write-up for something that has happened MONTHS ago. They only do safety meetings and training when something occurs other than that they don't care.

Though I was working through a Temp agent, I loved working there! bosses work with you if the machines are going to fast for you. No heavy lifting but fast-paced.  There was no getting on full time there unless someone quit, then the seniority would usually get on fulltime. The co-workers were great, and we all worked as a team. If I hadn't of hurt my back, I'd still be working there. All I did was pull some back muscles, and called in sick but the temp agency made me go to their Dr.s, and made me go on light duty in their office, and didn't have anything for me to do but clean the office, and read the OSHA book several times over. I felt like I was being punished. I asked to go back to work but they wouldn't let me. Anyway; I'd go back to work there if I could without having to go through their Temp agent!

Jadex has high standards yet inadequate training, lazy,self-serving employees. Strict-ness due to losing customers from mis-management from supervisors and strict company policies. A typical day of work consists of constant rotation of machine assignments berating by on-site crew. You learn that standards supercede any means of training so labor suffers as a direct result of Jadex not structuring a system for supervisors to train new hires to keep production standards to high. The workplace culture is 50/50 some people are genuine and kind whilst the management and upper echelons are toxic and self-serving. The hardest part of the job is working in extreme environment conditions for substandard pay. The only enjoyable part of the job is the three days off.

twelve hours are too long to work. Working night shift you have no life. Management doesn't care about their employees. They have the point system. If you were in a car wreck on the way to work, a family member died, you got sick at work and have to leave. You will get pointed for that. You leave work in a ambulance, you will get pointed for that!

It won't take long for you to figure out who are the supervisors "favorites" are, they will gossip about you and everyone else. Favoritism is huge here. They will throw you under the bus to make them look better.

The only thing that's good about this place is the pay rate. It's the highest pay in the area. Most workers there only work for the money. If this company didn't pay good, they wouldn't have any workers!

It was very informative and helped me with more hands on skills, which I find useful for daily life. It also helped with social skills which I found helpful and with the opportunity to learn from others and to be able to communicate. This helped me with different kinds of people and be more open minded bht also mlre independent with how I can do things swiftly and diligently. In overall, the job has helped me but I wanted to keep going forward to keep improving

Every morning we would have a Meeting. We worked on the same press 2 days in a row and then a different press the last 2 days. We worked 4 days out of the week. Monday- Thursday 6am-4:30pm  and some times Fridays. My co-workers were awesome to work with. The only time I did not like working there was when the presses would go down. We would try to help other presses until our press cam back up but sometimes all the presses would be down as well and there would be nothing for us too do except wait for the presses to come back up. Some times they would send us home but i would always ask to see if another department needed help and i would go there if they needed and approved by my manager.

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