forklift operator

packer

machine operator

cycle counter

shift leader

Keeco, LLC

Communication could better! Which makes it hard for everyone to be on the same page as how to work better as a team! Management is very shady! Your words will be twisted if you ask questions to try to gain clarity! Lacks empathy for people who have never worked in a warehouse setting or use to their culture as we all come from different walks of life! Most of the people know each other very well being It's a small town and older workers are very close knit. It's a second chance workplace with a urban culture which is pretty cool but hospitality could be a little better, no greetings or introducing not required to wear name badges so it will take a while before you know which roles people play. Supervisor can be very perplexed.. You pretty much have to figure everything out on your own so it takes patience and to you have to pay attention cause you could miss important info! This is if you are new to the whole warehouse setting if not it would be easier for you to catch on, but being that they hire some people without experience (which is cool) I would like to share my learning experience to help someone else out from being left behind... On a positive note... Quailty and safety is the key. Stay consistent with work but watch the quailty of the product produced because they work with upscale vendors and their products sale on the high end rage! You will have have your quality inspector to come around and check and make sure the product is right if you see someone checking your work don't get alarmed the are just doing what they do. Certain supervisors will confuse you with the percentage they throw at you and not explain how it works but basically it's just a number that consist of making sure that everything runs smoothly and properly from safety to quality and making sure the material used to cover the job is used effectively and is not wasted and that things stays in sync! They will have more than one line running if they have a big order and also have multiple shifts to help complete big orders so don't get freaked and stressed out when they start talking about big orders you don't have to move so fast to where errors are starting to be made and you and your teammates safety is being jeopardize. Consistency is the key as well as paying  attention to detail QUAILTY, QUALITY, QUALITY!  The key is to stay in sync with team members to produce quailty work and stay safe! It's basically an assembly line...  The place is very hot in the summer and cold in the winter! The better the quailty the less time you spend correcting your mistakes! Hope this helps provide a little understanding to my fellow job seekers it's so much more to learn and you will learn a little more each day!!! Remember quailty, safety, and cost management...

When you weigh all the pros and cons of working at Hollander, it is just an OK place to work.

Hollander has an old-style, structured environment that you'd probably associate with the times of the industrial revolution in a way. In some senses, it is difficult for them to keep up with current times, but since they are in the manufacturing industry and they keep consuming their competitors through acquisitions...that allows them to keep thriving today.

They like to keep a lean workforce and squeeze every ounce of work out of their employees while paying mediocre wages. At the production facilities, they force their employees to work "mandatory overtime". Many employees agree in the interviews because they are desperate to get a job, but then shortly leave within a few months when they realize they are working 50-60 hrs a week, including weekends.

At the corporate office, many of their employees are stressed and overworked with additionally responsibilities put on them from constant acquisitions, and the pay does not increase with the workload or even warrant the amount of work in the first place. Since many employees turnover in the corporate office as well, they have to reshuffle employees' positions and have to find replacements often. So I suppose on the bright side if you're looking for quick upward mobility, you can just wait until someone quits and you can possibly be put as their replacement if your seen as a hard worker.

But you ask what are the pros that make it deemed to be OK....they provide alright health benefits, 401k, and PTO (which tends to be hard to use with the amount of work you need to accomplish- and it doesn't roll over to the next year). They are very much pro health and fitness, so at the corporate office, they give employees paid gym membership and also provide lunch-and-learns with fitness professionals coming to educate employees about wellness. They also have masseuses come in once of month to give 10-min massages to employees. Sometimes they have luncheons and holiday parties. They also have employee sales for products that have been tested by the quality department, with products costing $1, $5, $10 depending on how expensive they would be at market (although it would be much better if they just gave the pillows for free to their employees if that is too much to ask for....).

So if you look at the whole picture, Hollander is OK. Nothing special and nothing great, but maybe a few good perks which are basically outweighed by the cons. I wouldn't recommend working here, but there are worse places I suppose...

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Hollander Sleep Products is that you have no life. Work 6 days a week because machines are poorly taken care of.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at Hollander Sleep Products are lower than other plants in the area

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at Hollander Sleep Products, I think if you skin is brown your good. If not, then your replaced in a blink of an eye!

Management
In general, managers at Hollander Sleep Products are not managers. Plant manager would rather be your friend than a manager. Production manager is not fit to do the job. She highly lacks communications skill with employees and blames others for her faults. Inventory and maintenance managers are the best managers they got! Both will communicate and listen to your issues and help you correct them. They are also observant of what is going on,on a daily basis.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Hollander Sleep Products is you are not allowed to speak on the job. Only on your break

Overall
My experience working at Hollander Sleep Products. Is I would not recommend people to work there. Unfair treatment, no communication, lack of training, several safety issues, poorly managed and supervised.

a typical day at work: excruciating. exhausting. mentally & physically draining. they will purposely confuse u to try & make u look bad then write u up for doing exactly what they told u to do. they let's ur coworkers harass u & put u down all day every day & will even join in & harass & put u down themselves. they mess with ur pay. they mess with ur numbers & make it look like u did HUNDREDS less of pillows than u actually did so they don't have to pay u right. they never keep someone in human resources, & even when someone IS in there the higher ups usually refuse to let u talk to them. even if u do talk to them (have twice), the issues u brought up only get worse & u now have a bright red target on it back.

what u believe u have learned: how to treat employees terribly. how to make an unsafe work environment. how to not care about the people that work for u while telling them that u do. how to lie. how to be a crook.

workplace culture: sadly if u are any other ethnicity than Hispanic, u will be hated.

the hardest part of the job: coworkers, management, leads, PEOPLE THERE IN GENERAL.

the most enjoyable part of the job: going home.

As Spotter/Truck Driver/Shipper, my day starts at 6:30 in the morning. Being the only truck driver for the entire plant, I have to service all departments(Shipping, Receiving, Production and Recycling). I requested to start earlier, given the fact that I have to cover all departments as the only truck driver. Request was denied due to strategy...the strategy being that I complete my duties and responsibilities for first shift, and set up second shift before I leave, which may keep me there longer than expected. So, you could say my schedule fluctuates day to day. 

By normal standards, my schedule should be 6:30a.m.- 3p.m. (30 min lunch) and two 15 min breaks. There are many times when I can't take my breaks or lunch when scheduled.  Honestly, I never know when my day will end, and I never know when I'll have a weekend off. Sometimes they don't tell me if I have to work the weekend or not until Friday.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay was actually decent. Review seemed to be fair and the increase was fair based on the economic environment at the time 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unorganized, micromanaged chaos. No true diversity. Only old straight white men are allowed to have influence 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Chaos is the culture. Disjointed processes. No real employee recognition unless you did something incorrect. It’s just not run well and they don’t want to hear that it’s not run well. Egos everywhere, no accountability, and lots of blaming others 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Getting assigned projects only to have the one in charge change course in the middle of it every single time. It got to a point that I would not start on a project because I knew either the process, objectives or even the data would change.

Lack of structure, very little team effort in meeting productive goals,
Lack of communication,
Knowledge obtained with the company was patience
Management was non existent wasn't really concerned about the employees well being when it mattered.
The confidentiality clause is at an all time low when it came to close door work related  discussions.Personal business will float around the warehouse as if it was Topic of today's title.
The Company is multi-cultural people from different areas of the world,good people easy to get along with.
The hardest part about the job is the communication as a material handler connecting production supervisors on what jobs to prepare for is a waste of time and energy no one ever knows until its too late and every 2 to 3hrs becomes rush hour.

The work there as a packer was extremely fast paced and could be hard if you aren't prepared. The employees there are fantastic people and so were the supervisors. Management above the supervisor level was very poor, they hardly ever let you know anything ahead of time, especially weekend work, which was required almost every week.
I enjoyed working the weekends because it is overtime over 40 hours and Sunday was double time no matter what. If you can't handle a fast paced workplace this isn't for you.
The insurance i recieved was fantastic and the paid vacation hours you get after a year of service is fantastic and just keeps getting better the longer you work there. Starting pay was terrible when I worked there but I've heard it is much higher now. Overall a great place to work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Hourly rate or the amount they pay per hour

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The fast pace- they expected me to be as fast as people that had been there a year or longer.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not much communication at all. They said I would be trained, but I was not. They would put me at a station to work with absolutely zero instructions. My supervisor would just point her finger in the direction she wanted me to go. They never told me personally how I was doing or what needed improvement. Yet they would tell others on my team and then have them tell me. Very unprofessional. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
STRESSFUL, STRESSFUL,STRESSFUL,STRESSFUL. FRUSTRATING, FRUSTRATING,FRUSTRATING, LONG, LONG , LONG

The company is okay, some of the issues that they have are that not everyone has a part. I was learning as I went but at least the manager had told me that was going to happen. But there was to much going on at once. To much work and not enough support. The new new guy in charge didn’t like the questions that I would asked and after that he would get on my boss about my work and I was let go after 6 weeks after I would come up with ideas that helped out the building. To much is going on and the shifts are always working against one  another. One shift would leave all the hard work for the other shift knowing that the shift would not have the manpower or resources to get the job done. They don’t like things to change.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Forklift operator 3 salaries reported	$15.01 per hour
Packer 1 salary reported	$14.00 per hour
Machine operator 7 salaries reported	$13.61 per hour
Cycle counter 14 salaries reported	$18.79 per hour
Shift leader 2 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour

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