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Metals USA

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Then I had been working there ( as intern to get school credit but was to be employed after) for over 3 months and when I requested to learn about the form that is used to communicate the job though out the process...and how to read it // where all the information was located the person I was training under to go into CAD programming refused to teach me everything he knew because "the most you will be is a CAD programmer, your never gonna have my job" which his job was to be a CAD programmer... and he was going to be moved to quality control which is normally a higher paying job. and i was to be trained to fill in his spot as CAD programmer. 

Then their inventory program is very old its similar to doss... where its a blue screen and has only one path way to enter in information making it difficult to look up materials when you do not have all the information in that line ... and you may end up having to go to a hole different directory just to try and find some information on it or to look up in the inventory books which within 1 weeks time span a peace of plate steel could be in a completely different location then where it was listed only a week ago... 

the burners told me story's of how in the old days they use to have one gie running crane for each burner, and that after each job they would clean the machines but now they don't do that and they only have one gie running crane for 8 tables at 5 stations. so this causes the burners needing to use the cranes to both find plates and take parts off and burn  the parts... at times they run into conflicts where multiple people need to use the same magnet.... finding a plate can take 5 mins or it can take a hour... 

with cleaning the machines they no longer use a shop vac to get the majority of the material + clean the floors of small steel balls... instead they use a air gun which is set at a pressure that is just below OSHA standard. which when all the metal dust is blown off the machines it goes up into the air and makes a wall of metal dust about 10 to 15 feet tall that covers all the other machines all the material which increases clean time for parts... and then also goes into the air which everyone breaths in... it also covers the floor and if you stop short at the wrong place you could go sliding for a cupple inches or 3 feet .. the way they clean the floors is that they take the 10 ton magnet and turn it on and run it across the floor about 1 in off the ground which then within about 20 feet by about a 6 foot space the magnet is full of metal flakes and dust ... 

it was a worm and friendly environment it seamed at least but I just i fugred i would say my conserns take it as u will

Working at Metals is different for sure. In one aspect, its the first job I have had that offers bonus checks and overtime, on the other hand after a few months here you begin to notice how badly managed the resources and employees are at this branch.
Most work places I have encountered will come with a bit of gossiping and personal conversations which some would deem inappropriate.
Metals takes the cake in the contest for most inappropriate workplace behavior and conversation I have seen yet. Employees here regularly talk about their drinking habits, personal lives and make inappropriate jokes that include innuendo and other inappropriate content.
The people who work here are all well into adulthood and this is why i find the behavior so shocking and also the fact that it never seems to be addressed by management, which might be because now and again management will join in.
I have overheard supervisors talk about their subordinates, because there is an open floor plan, so not much can be talked about without the entire building hearing.
Aside from the level of unprofessional behavior in that aspect, it’s easy to walk in to metals and find many people who are completing busy work and slacking off, or creating more work for themselves in an effort to get overtime that is not needed.
The work at metals is interesting, however, many times if you are a worker bee you are pulling the weight of others.
Talking to management doesn’t help, I have addressed certain issues with only to be made fun of to my face. Raises? Not at metals, not even raises you are promised when you are hired. Perhaps the motivation for the slackers here. Now and again metals will buy a lunch for all and have some small branch events that are very nice, but if you biggest pet peeve is unprofessional behavior and slackers, like mine is, than it can be very frustrating.
The most frustrating thing for me, being that I am very technology savvy, is that the entire branch is about 20 years behind in the technology game and everything i have made an effort to bring up to date and make it easier and more incumbent on digital space rather than physical space, has been smothered and been made a point to go back to the old ways, all of which management makes no effort to work on.

there really is no typical day at metals usa, we mostly worked 9+hr days and weekends voluntary and mandatory as well as the option for voluntary overtime when the next shift was missing coworkers.i would be on a forklift transporting finished and unfinished product approximately 2-3 hrs a day minimal. what I learned in a steel facility as this one, every master coil regardless of type has many different traits, hardness camber,edgewave being the most critical as well as surface defects . the mills also provided different wualities which in time I learned to verify what material certain mills had tendancies of.
 The management portion of metals usa recently had a turnover since 2014 , new gm, new plant managers, 2 within that span, as well as new supervisors taking over the roles so its a transition phase for the company since they were purchased by alliance steel which has over 200 facilities throughout the world.
  as in all workplaces there are a variety of different personalities, so my tendancies were to just provide my knowledge and support of the job to all those newcomers and struggling coworkers .age ranges from 18-60 everyone really brought different perspectives to the job which made every day a different day.
  the hardest part of this job is that nothing is hard, or difficult its al common sense, where to put your hands or not, safety concerns of speed of material handling , maintenance situations, all of which were stressed daily as we had weekly safety meetings to ensure the most safe workplace opportunities.
   my most enjoyable part of the job was to always continue self improvement on my quality of product I could produce and the growth of knowledge about every possible machine and opportunity within the facility. I pride myself on my work and my accomplishments being as efficient as possible and making sure what was expected of me was exceeded as much as I could exceed as allowed.

Metals USA in Columbus, MS has been around for many years. I CAN say that they have pretty good benefits. A typical day at work with them has it's ups and downs. There are some really good people that I worked with there. Management however, has a nice pretty mesmerizing cover, but once you open the book and read through about halfway, you realize they are mainly just all talk when it comes to their workers. Secretly, their ONLY focus is how much money that they can put in the bank. We would have safety meetings every week once in the afternoons right before we got off on day shift. The big boss would always say, "Safety First Guys". That was his motto. But secretly it was a different story. I believe it still is a different story even though I haven't been there in a little while. Alot of business only talk safety because it is their JOB to.. not because they actually care. I believe Metals USA is one of those companies. It is one thing to tell your workers to always make sure you have your gloves on and eye protection and another thing to fire a guy for accidentally breaking his finger WHILE having gloves on. While at the same time, a few years earlier, almost the same situation happened to a guy who DID NOT have ANY safety equipment on at all. The point is, they are after the best working guys that will make them the most money. And it is understandable, Yes, I get it.. But what is gonna happen when that guy you just made a supervisor, gets injured again and he can never work again all from not wearing safety equipment? The most enjoyable part of the job was having a morning break and a long lunch.

Typical job that requires you to work, but the safety culture is crazy good. I know that they will never ask me to do anything unsafe to put me in harms way. I have a family at home and this place not only helps me pay my bills but also makes sure I going home safe to my wife and kids. Started off as a job but turned into a career.
Typical day at work? Show up, clock in get on all PPE, get your coffee and make your way to your station. Collect the skid list from the operator and gather up all the empty skids needed for the day by using a crane and a forklift. Super easy if you can stay on task and work ahead. 


Management? is great cant say a bad word about any of them, they are not afraid to get out and help on the floor when needed but most of them are always pulling orders, loading trucks or even running the lines or helping pack material.

Workplace Culture? is awesome love everyone I work with 

The hardest part of the job? Hot in the summer cold in the winter 

What you learned? It takes a team to make a successful company-------- Overhead crane and Forklift, CPR AED BBP

The most enjoyable part of the job?
The pay, the people I get to spend 40+ hours a week with 


Granted, I worked there more than 10 years ago, so much could have changed, but this job was miserable. We had our quarterly business meetings in Houston, with all the service center managers in a large conference room. The owner of the company would call out Center Managers and belittle them and curse at them in front of other managers from all over the country. On another occasion my arm was cut up on a piece of faulty window glass that shattered when I lifted it. I taped up my arm to finish the shift before going to get it stitched up. We were so busy that I put duct tape on my arm to hold a gash closed until I could go to the hospital later. I missed no days of work and merely turned in the emergency room bill to our HR at corporate. They informed me a couple weeks later that they reviewed my case and determined that I should have been able to fix my arm with materials in our workplace first aid kit, so they would not even pay for my hospital visit. I ended up having to claim it on my insurance and had to pay the copay. That was the last straw.

Poor leadership. No communication. Don’t value employee experience. Managers don’t really seem like they are there for their employees, only a pay check. As a manager your job is to set your people up for success and give your them what they need to complete their job but they always did the exact opposite. It’s hard to succeed when your set up to fail from the beginning. It started as a warehouse and they added machining a few years back but it’s still ran like a warehouse and not a machine shop so it doesn’t have the support system it needs. The shop “supervisor” (if you can call him that) has less than a year of machining experience. While I have 12 years. So I was always having to go help him figure something out and fix it. Then they fired me due to having low production numbers. Maybe it would have been if they had a competent person with experience to oversee it and I didn’t have to do his job for him. Only good thing about it was the insurance prices. Never got to use it though. 

Above all else Metals is all about safety. The management will def make sure you are trained and ready to go when your actually put on the job. There are a lot of good people the works at Metals but, with every job you will ever work you will meet a couple guys in the company that must really hate life because all they try to do is make your job and life miserable and i promise you no matter how good of a job it is at Metals there are a couple men that work there that will literally try to make you quit with the way they treat you and the hard time they give you on a daily basis. It was worse there with people like this than anywhere i've ever worked. All in all its a great job and a great place to work and the management is one of the best i've worked for. You just have to learn to ignore the talkers and trouble makers. Also raises are literally unheard of at this place unless you've been working there for 15 years.

I worked long hours at Metals USA. I wrote all the programs for the burning machine, I did all the layout work and machine set up for our punch press. I worked 6 days a week. I would come in on Saturdays to do payroll.
I was able to learn 2 programming formats: ESSI & EIA. I learned a lot of shop math ( which fasinates me ).
The Management at Metals USA were good people and my co-workers ( like Allied Crawford ) were like family. Again the hardest part of any managers job is to terminate a fellow employee while the most enjoyable part of the job is to reward an employee that shows 
that he or she is there for more than a paycheck.

assembly starts at $14
milling with no experience  at $15-$16
Turning $14-$16 
i have experience so i told them i was looking for $20, they offered me $18, i said no, and they raised it  to $19, only to find out on my first check i got paid $18, i had to show them the email they agreed to pay me $19. if you like to be a green bottom pusher this company offers great benefits. but if you want to advance in your carrier look somewhere else. i was there for a couple of months and their worker retention is lame 4 people quitting in that short time is not a good sing. there is no challenge nether room for growth. 

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