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This place is rough. Management and operations are at each other's throats, and you will be dragged into that mess whether you try to avoid it or not. To get anywhere, you better be related to someone up high, this place operates based on who you know and favors. Work/life balance is terrible. You will be pressured into working exhausting hours. So, if you want overtime, this would be a good fit. People working weeks straight with no days off isn't uncommon. The working environment is dirty and dangerous. Only perk was good pay. 

I’ll first start by saying I’ve been here for not a very long time, however from my first impression until now has been nothing but good things. 

Pay is competitive for the work done, unionized with 5 year contracts, weekly pay, good insurance and a 6% 401k match. 

If you devote your time here it will pay off. 

There is a roach problem but that is pretty understandably hard to control when you’re Company is surrounded by fields and use tons and tons of grains on a daily basis. 

As an operator in the MGP Atchison plant, you will learn a lot. You can make a lot of money. However, management is out to get you at every step. They hate the union, and will birddog until they can put a case together to fire someone. I believe it is because they are either trying to drive the union out, or keep everyone low seniority to avoid paying retirement to people. For whatever the reason, the relationship between workers and management could not be worse. It's like working in a snake pit.

This is the most toxic place you can possibly work at.  The shift managers for the most part are great but from there it is a complete circus all the way to the top.
HR refuses to hire anyone thus forcing the entire plant to be shorthanded at ALL times.  They are cutting overtime incentives because there is so much of it.
Management and HR cares nothing about the hourly workers, they will do anything they can to ensure you are paid as little as possible so they can still get their bonuses.  

Shocking how far this once great employer has fallen. Union management issues. 60 plus hours a week. No empathy with back breaking work.  Safety issues galore. Fumes, dust and nasty basements. Please do not work at mgpi. Turnover through the roof for a reason. I returned to my old job after just a few weeks of employment. Worst place Ive ever stepped foot in.

The company continually makes it clear that your personal life is of no concern to them. The benefits and pay are good for the area, but poor for the company. Managers seek to better themself by "stepping on" others. The union status is decayed at best. You have to worry about being fired simply because they do not like you. One manager even told a hopeful employee that they needed to change their name to better  themself.

Horrible all around. Blind leading the blind. Over worked hourly/union staff. Revolving door/high turnover. Upper management can often be found sitting on a co workers office couch with feet propped up doing nothing. It's all about who you are and if you want to be part of a high school type click. 

This company is like a upside-down triangle as far as staff to hourly ratio. Corporate staff get ginormous bonuses while hourly people that actually are out working keeping plant running and being responsible for what they do only get a small sliver put in there 401k plan instead of in there hands. Lots of cut throat staff. 

Typical day starts out with turnover from previous employee, run computer programs to make product and add chemicals when need to, resupply chemicals for next shift, end of shift paperwork give turnover at end of shift.

Management is completely unaware of how the plant runs and what it takes to keep running. Equipment it outdated and needs replaced yet they still run it at 120%. Multiple explosions have happened in the past including when the company gassed half the town with chlorine gas, and they run like it won’t ever happen again.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Operator 5 salaries reported	$26.38 per hour
Maintenance technician 4 salaries reported	$32.44 per hour
Laboratory technician 1 salary reported	$22.00 per hour
Warehouse manager 1 salary reported	$70,000 per year
Packaging operator 1 salary reported	$26.00 per hour

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