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MTD Products Inc

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As a seasonal you are a considered a temporary worker and I felt a lot of the assigned jobs reflected this.
You do not ride a lawnmower or cut grass in this role.  This is surprising for a landscaper role especially at a lawnmower manufacture.  That is done mostly by the seasonal employees in the "testing" department and only involves sitting on a lawnmower and occasionally push mowing.

You are expected to work through light rain but on heavier and prolonged rain storms seasonal workers are sent home.  Mother nature cuts into your paycheck hard some weeks and if you depend on a constant paycheck you should consider that factor.

Jobs I encountered as a Landscaper in order of difficulty:
-1.5 Days a week you will spend weed whipping grass.  All day - continuously while picking up garbage roadside.  Sections of the campus are rotated.
-Weeding Gardens (poison ivy must be pulled-bring gloves)
-Replacing dead grass with rolls of sod (about 1 week)
-Mulching gardens by shovel (about 2 weeks)
-Removing dead deer, squirrels, possums, skunks, groundhogs from ditches and roads. (rare but mandatory)
-Cleaning the shop during rain days (shop toilet too), 
-Trimming overhead tree branches with pole pruners.
-Hauling away logs from cut-down trees.
-Digging muck filled holes to fix sprinklers
-Cleaning up pruned bushes after a senior worker cuts them.
-Driving a water cart to water flowers,  
-Blowing off walkways in the mornings,   
-Weekend work mandatory during large projects (a couple times per season). 

I worked with a guy that loves the job and made it bearable.  Managers and supervisors were condescending to both of us at times.  They were all about displaying status than empowering their workers with working tools and guidance.

I liked the other seasonal workers I worked with but it's just draining and they didn't last the summer.  If you say hello to office people passing by, some will not even acknowledge you.  The equipment is old, some barely functional that makes tasks harder than they need to be.  Which is ironic since they manufacturer most of that equipment.  It's a prime example of how they make the job more difficult than it has to be.  The grass you whip is sprayed with herbicides frequently so take that into consideration.  Also you will find the seasonal positions are not eligible for any of the company-wide benefits listed in the job posting.

I worked at MTD in their call center over the summer as part of their internship program. The pay was fair, the job was easy, however the lack of communication between HR/Management/worker was brain melting. during the interview for us interns we were told that we would be considered for part time or full time employment at the end of the summer by the HR rep, who I guess should have spoken with management before jumping to that conclusion. I asked several times about future employment during the summer, usually getting shrugged off or given a "I'll throw your name in" answer. when the time was dawing near that college was about to start back up I started to really push. I attend a community college and pay for everything out of pocket, as well as rent, insurance and all my other expenses; so I needed a dedicated answer as to if I would have a job once fall started. Three weeks later we were finally informed of our internship's deadline and that there would not be any positions open, due to the fact that they had just hired a new round of employees. Now, I could go into how much money they wasted training new people when they already had us trained but I'll boil it down to this. MTD's call center needs a serious businessman in management as their shift to marketing is seriously hurting both their employees and their customers at this point. As for me, I won't be going back to college this fall due to it taking weeks to get a response as to my employment and I am now scrambling for a job to keep the lights on, much less pay for tuition, books and supplies. If anyone over at MTD bothers to read this, take this away. Actually talk with you employees, don't just push off questions but find the answers. I know not a single person who uses their new programming was actually included in the development of what the program changed from the previous model and I know that it has done nothing short of drive up call times, lose customer files and lose them god only knows how much money by bringing it out in the middle of summer. Marketing to customers isn't whats going to bring them back, you need to build strong relationships with them by being the best one shop stop for all their mower parts and by constantly showing that you're the best deal on the block.

I worked in a few of the positions in the world headquarters, as both a product tester and later with an internship doing customer service.
The Negatives
It's tough work, when I worked with product testing we mowed lawns rain or shine, in heat or cold, (except for dangerous weather, that wasn't allowed). My internship was more mentally difficult, I worked customer service and due to the nature of the business I had to tell a LOT of people that it's gonna be months before your lawnmower would be fixed (during the summer) or that their warranty couldn't cover delivery etc. It was very repetitive work and I was yelled at and patronized frequently by customers. I was very stressed throughout the duration of my job.

The Positive.
It's important to take those negatives into perspective, a job exists because the task sucks enough you have to pay people to do it. MTD's culture and management were pretty positive, I never felt disrespected in my 3 years of working there. The pay was fair, not great, not bad, overtime was very favorable and never mandatory. YOU WILL learn a lot in this job, my internship gave me an equivalent of 2 college classes of engine science and customer service. I was able to work from home for the internship once I was solid at the work, and the work quality dramatically improved due to my very long commute being non existant. 

Bottom line this company is a good one to work at, I've worked at a lot of exploitive companies ran by narcissists with bad pay and benefits, but MTD is a great place to work.


Don't get me wrong there are people who love MTD and have been there for years, but before you see the pay and just immediately jump in to be hired, this has been my experience thus far. During orientation, they told us two major things that stuck out. 1. "if you didn't get an employee handbook then don't worry about it too much because the rules are subject to change at any point upon our discretion." 2. They have a lower than 50% retention rate for the first week. Now I am not going to say the retention rate is solely on the employers, but I feel like it would be a bit higher if they were more transparent. When I was hired I wasn't told that 3 weeks later the plant was shutting down and we will not be paid for 2 weeks, I was not told about "flexing" which is when you have to stay an extra 30 mins after your shift was supposed to end (and they won't tell you most of the time, the assembly line will just continue to role when you thought you were getting off), and I was not told about how even though they have multiple Saturdays scheduled they are typically canceled THE DAY BEFORE. If you have friends that are out of town and you want a summer job then this isn't a bad place, but if you want any real free time then I would not recommend. Overall I would probably give this place 2 stars, I have some good and bad opinions about this place, but they are more bad than good. This is definitely a job that almost anyone can do, but it is the environment that makes most people leave.

This company has great benefits and healthcare. The management all the way from the plant manager to the supervisors on the floor is awful. They have a buddy buddy system and will not punish certain employers in management for their wrong doing. Management will talk to you like your a child and will go to the office and lie on you like you're the problem. The plant manager is non-existent. If you do go to him with a problem he will brush it off as if management is right and your wrong (buddy buddy system) without even investigating the problem. The place is a great place to work for it's just the people. Floor supervisor and cell leaders are so disorganized and disrespectful to line workers. They will get on to certain line workers about things but will let others slide and will have them written up. Hopefully with this new company in place a lot of necessary changes will be made and they will put great leadership in place.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great place to work good pay a lot of good opportunities for moving up in to good positions and higher pay great vacation time.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It’s like any other factory you have different kinds of people to work with some are difficult I pretty much get along with anyone it’s just a job we all go home at the end of the day go in put 100 percent don’t miss a lot of work and don’t be late they like you there on the floor 8 minutes early not bad 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not bad everyone try helping everyone else they also have mentors they want everyone to work together as a team great team leaders I worked on line one great zone leaders and team leader on line one line 2 and 3 and 4 have really good ones I haven’t spent much time on the other lines.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Easy day I was a stock mover very easy sometimes change overs stressful but I loved my job  miss it and miss most of my co workers

This was a very progressive company, I learned much while working for this company, I knew nothing about lean programs and 5s, or many of the other Japanese way of running production in a manufacturing environment, I was able to perform as a group leader while working for this company,when I first started at this company I worked on a assembly line and then I went to take a position as a material handler, then I worked for the paint department on the hang line, while i worked on the hang line I became a group leader then I worked in the warehouse, the warehouse manager was a very intelligent young man, fresh out of college but extremely wise in his doings, I enjoyed working with and for him, I hate that this wonderful company closed it's doors but even the lean programs could not save it from the economic strains of 2008, this company produced fine lawn equipment and it was seasonal but it was a foundation of joyfulness during my beginning years in the manufacturing environment.

A typical day at work is working as a team to get our customers order out with no damage to the product and working together. How to work with shippments going out on FEDEX and UPS trucks and overseas order. MY supervisor was a good man to work for and he like the way I work and how i got the job done. Some of my co-workers that i had the chance to work with was a good group to work with. we set records together for almost 2 years straight and i like working with coworkers that get the job done. We the company bring in temps to do the job they want it seems like some of them dont care about the job or just there to get a check. i feel if u was called there to do a job you should do your job and not make it hard for other( i am saying we work good together as a team so we need to be a team player. Words from my old boss THERE IS NO I IN TEAM.). When we work together to get a big order out n finished the day knowing we got the whole order out make me feel good that i was part of that.

This was essentially my first career job out of college and the mediocre salary was amazing for me at the time, along with the company car that they provided.  I loved what I did for this company and loved the company at the same time.  However, the lack of promotion opportunities and minimal pay increases lead me to a point that I had to look for another company after a few years.  But I made my own schedule and ran my own territory and I was 100% responsible for my markets success, and I was very successful at that.  My manager actually exclaimed to me during a review that for the work that I did and the energy I provide, that I was about $50,000 underpaid, which in turn motivated me to look for something else, but the honesty and openness of that manager, in particular, is something that I will always appreciate and treasure for the rest of my life.

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