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How can you succeed when you have 3 changes in managent 2 levels deep in 10 months. I never talked to my direct supervisor (new and old) more than 2 times in 10 months about MY business. When it came time for my mid year review with #3 the company decided that their business model was not working for the company and they could not justify having a sales person in a territory that had such a small volume of work to chase. WTF! They changed their business model twice in 10 months. It takes time to ramp up a sales funnel people.
Masco is FUBAR. I have been is sales all my life in this industry (construction). Owned my own remodeling business for 17 years. They don't know what they are doing. Too much top heavy busy work and no thought to helping the sales team be more efficeint in what they need to do SELL!
Salaries suck. Comission programs suck. Benefits are good.
If you go to work here in sales negotiate a fat salary and no comission. That is the only way you will make money and be happy.
They average your comission based on margin. So if the truck burns down in a customers driveway (happend) and looses money. The other jobs you sold and fought for more margin to make both you and the company money get averaged out and you make 0.
It took me 6 months to even get access to a comission report to find this out, and even then they would not make it right.
Their training is horrible. You will need to have some real smarts to figure all that is Masco out on your own.I did and it was very frustrating  and time consuming. I would stay away unless you really need a job that bad. There are some good people here but they are in the same boat and only will tell you the truth if they trust you. The only salespeople surviving have been here for more than 10 years. Thats because when someone leaves or a divison closes (happened) they absorb the customer base and sales left behind. I had 5 sales people (as much a 300 miles away) with cusomers in my territory. They had all the low hanging fruit before I started 50% of the business. The rest did'nt like us for one reason or another,too expensive,screwed them when we left etc.
This is not disgruntled employee stuff here. I just want everyone to know what they will be getting into before they start. I wish I did.The turn over rate is pretty high for sales people. Beware.

A typical work day would be coding of AP invoices. Analysis of balance sheet accounts to ensure proper posting and balances. Working with assigned divisions on purchase order corrections and expense analysis.
This experience helped me to better understand the general ledger. It was the stepping stone to help me grow and learn more of the upper levels to the accounting function. I learned more of the financial package and how to best review the Trial Balance, Balance Sheet and Income Statement. This also helped me to understand the importance of budget to actual comparison.
Management was hard at times to work with. This organization endured an extremely high turnover rate including within the management structure. While employed there I was assigned several different managers and all had different working outlooks. Having to adhere and adjust with the change was at times difficult, what one manager wanted would not necessarily be what the new manager did.
The co-workers were also different as the turnover was high in this area as well. I was heavily involved with the training process within the general ledger department and therefore worked closely with many of the employees. This experience helped me to better understand the various types of employees a company can have, which in turn helped me to better acclimate to their needs and how best to deal with them individually and within a group.
The hardest part of the job was the long hours and constant demands for improvement. It was perceived as expected and very seldom showed appreciation by the management which in turn made for a tense working environment.
The most enjoyable part of the job was working with the many people within the department. Learning the ins and outs of the general ledger and accounting functions from start to finish.

Typical work day involved the health, care and wealfare of a 5 shop, 300 employee work place in the Puget Sound, WA. region. Developed a construction safety training program monitoring company safety and welfare of employees and their families in a multi trade construction environment.

Typical day involved office and general constuction field environments with constant interaction with company employees, State and Federal Inspectors, human resourse personel and laborer field inspections, data processing, safety equipment procurment sales represetatives and corperate risk management personnel.

Coordinated all risk management and safety training requirements with 100% pass rating of all safety audits. Praised as the best construction safety program coordinator for the region by the National Corperate Safety Specialist over a 5 year period.

The hardest part of my employment with Gale Contrator Services, Masco, was dealing with what felt like a lack of safety management and safety management teamwork. The pros were that I could, within my resposibilities, develop a program that instilled trust in individual characteristics, personnel and consistency to inforcing safety standards, fareness and and have the freedom, through an established safety committee to listen and incorperate new ideas toward a solid safety program that worked and made sence for the benefit of labores and their team.

I really enjoyed my job and most all of my co workers I feel i was easy to get along with./a 7-3 job sometimes I  volunteered to work over and I volunteered a lot when our hours were way down/i liked my job.I learned that nothing last forever and you have to take the positive with the negative and find a happy medium between the 2 and work with or around if that benefits your life the best. not much to say about management in this work area. I would have loved to be a lead for the company.but they were displaced often so i was also ok being where I was. i loved my co workers, i can have fun no matter where i work or who i work with once i get used to their likes and dislikes so i can have fun but also have respect for the more serious worker that don't like to have fun. The hardest part of the job was not knowing for sure if you were gonna get an 8 hour day or a 4 hour day.or if when you go to work if they were going to displace your line and seperate all the ones whom became your work family. or if they were gonna shut the doors and walk everyone out. the family events that they had like kings island for the family discounted tickets for ball games etc. and that i knew i had medical coverage as long as i had my job,

Solid senior leadership with a stable vision and strategic plan. MCS is on the move in the market with a focus on building a talanted team and they have the resources to achive their goals. The rewards are within anyones grasp in this company if you focus on safely delivering the results expected.

I have met many of my peers throughout this national company and they are all high quality individuals that work hard and have a clear understanding of the corporate goals and the challenges that they need to overcome in their individual markets. The NJ team is deverse and works hard and i am proud to be a part of this team.

The hardest part of my job is probably dealing with all the change. As MCS positions the best matrix for regional management and market penetration I have had 5 managers in the two years I have been with the company. Each manager has a different leadership style and the adjustment to 2nd teir priorities can be challenging at times but the challenge keeps you on your toes and they have all been worth while goals. The core vision and business strategy has remained constant.

This is a great company to work for!

I have spent a lot of years at this place (before it was masco) and I have never seen it in such bad shape. The starting pay has gotten better but the vacation time has gotten not so good. A good supervisor is a very rare find in this place anymore. Most of them don't care about your issues, just do your jobs. I say jobs because 
as you learn more, you will be expected to do more. Also between the lack of employees and the high turnover rate you will most likely be farmed out to other departments. Most of the floor workers are really good people and will help you out, but like any factory there are plenty of job Milker's ( yes those types) and they seem to get away with it. There have been some big shake ups over the last year or so and it hasn't been for the better. The benefits (medical, dental and eyecare ) are decent and they offer a 401k match. A few times a year they provide you lunch, they do a Halloween and Christmas party for the kids. They also do an annual company picnic. If you can deal with poor floor supervisors, poor training, unorganized situations, unpredictable hours and no one to actually vent your concerns to. Then Masco is the place for you.

This job is a high stress work environment. It's not for weak minded people. With that said I've lasted 12 years there and made it to the highest paid position. my typical work day starts with printing a list of cabinets. Than I go to my two lines and fine the cabinets that need to ship first. Although that sounds very easy its not some are down at the end of the line and need to be fixed, which I fix them and get them in a box to be shipped that's easy. the others I need to hunt down threw out the plant which is very large. So I look at the list and call the supervisors from that area and find out where the parts are and when I would expect them once all the parts arrive I have the builders put them on the line to build. while im waiting for the parts to arrive I am fixing other cabinets that are not meeting quality standers. I normally have to fix around 200 cabinets a shift while im trying to find and get out late cabinets that trucks are waiting on. I have to run the shipping list every two hours to make sure the late cabinets are out the door, if they don't make it out the door in time it cost Masco 700 dollars a hour so I make sure the late ones are out in time.

Day starts at 6:30 am.
Get your schedule of which houses you have to insulate then load up in the truck that was assigned to you. Drive to the location on your paper work and proceed to check if area is available to be worked on. Unload all the insulation and check the houses/building to determine how much insulation you will need. Work until 9-10:30 am  because you are required to take a 30 minute lunch before 11:00 am and also a 15 minute break before that. Keep working until 2:30 pm which is the official end of the day, unless you are close to finishing insulating you have to keep working until it is done. Lots of overtime even days when you work until 5:30 pm. You do get paid for drive time. At the end of the day you calculate how much insulation you have used and write down your footage separate from anyone else footage. Return to the warehouse and turn in your paper work, tell the manager about any issues the house/building had and if someone will need to go with different material to correct it.

A typical day included me grabbing end panels, frames and gluing them, and then stapling them, sliding it down the line, then jumping down to the next position and putting the back on the cabinet.  At times I would have to get on the saw and cut the parts I needed for the cabinet.  At other times I would hardware the cabinet, this included drilling the holes for the doors and putting rails in the cabinet for the drawers and adding any instruction booklets or packets the cabinet called for.  Other times I would have to hinge the doors and get them ready to put on the cabinet, and put the heads on the drawers and then also put them in the cabinet.  I was responsible for getting cabinets out of the floor that were missing parts, so that they could be completed and put on the truck. I was in charge of what they call the clean up crew, this was my responsibility to get any cabinet that was ship today out the door.

Management and fellow coworkers are very nice and friendly, everyone was able to laugh and have fun alongside of working. Although if you intend to have a life outside of KraftMaid that's not going to be an option. It will be very hard to see family and friends, especially working night shift on a flipped schedule from everyone, if you even can. Work days can range from 10-12+ hours of monotonous work, which can be very physically and mentally draining, especially when you're doing the same thing over and over with little to no change of pace. Mandatory overtime is scheduled very frequently on Fridays and sometimes Saturdays, even on back to back weeks, leaving you with only 1-2 days to recover from a 55+ hour work week. Work hours per day can also very so you never know when you'll be done and can go home. And when you do have your days off it's very difficult to keep adjusting back to a daytime schedule and actually be able to function properly.  If you're looking for an easy paycheck, don't even bother. This job comes at a greater cost than what it's worth.

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