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Metrie

Pros:
- Wonderful work environment, probably one of the best office work environments you can find.
- Flexible work hours; management is very kind and understanding.
- Very good for family people.
- Decent benefits.
- Fun and great work culture; everyone is a family there.
- Lots of overtime work available (also a con, see below).

Cons:
- Little to no work advancement or prospects. Where you are hired, is probably where you will stay for 5+ years.
- College graduates should avoid; there is only a little valuable experience to be learned and obtained from this company. You don't learn a variety of programs that are desirable by other companies. You learn skills that are hardly transferable. Your resume 4-6 months into the company will probably look the same 5 years later which says a lot.
- Meager pay.
- Too much workload. The company needs to hire more people to efficiently handle and produce the amount of work coming in. Great for business, terrible situation management. They are convinced that overworking their current employees is better than hiring and training more people.

Conclusion:
- Amazing company, but not for all. If you have a family and cannot afford to take risks or further develop yourself as a professional, this is the job and company for you. Otherwise, individuals on the climb should look elsewhere, this place will lead you nowhere.

The daily work is fairly monotonous; lots of answering phones, and entering orders. Accounts get assigned to reps, but there is no commission so there is no benefit to having more accounts except you end up with more work. Essentially, if you're good at the job, you get punished by having a greater workload, longer hours, etc. Not all account representatives are trained on all accounts, so if you're overloaded there is no way to ask for help. Some account reps. hold onto orders because they don't want to share, and then ask for help when it's time to go home which results in late working hours. They promise promotion opportunities but fail to tell new hires that there are only 3 outside sales/territory manager positions in the entire state of Washington. There are also very few management positions and they don't focus on developing talent. Turnover for account reps. is very bad, and there is one girl in particular who bullies new employees/plays favorites. There is no work/life balance, and the benefits aren't great. The 401k match doesn't take effect until after a year, and if you use your vacation, you are looked down upon.

 If you are a hard worker and you do not mind long hours, this is the place for you. Overtime is mandatory. If it's busy and you are short manpower, do not be surprised to see the Operations Manager working by your side. That goes for the Department Heads as well. I am talking 13, 14 and even 16 hours some days. El & El is going through some rough times with this Covid-19. The employee's are given the choice to work or stay home. If you choose to work, they reward you each week with a bonus. Not to mention a $2 an hour increase in pay. I started here as a temp. In just a week my hard work was appreciated and i was hired immediately. Unfortunately for me, I made a mistake and was let go. I highly recommend El & EL Wood Products to any serious hard working person.

Metries work culture has really changed over the last few years! My machine center is one of the first stops for new hires. The work can be hard, but we have a great team thats willing to help out at anytime! We have daily meetings between the crew and supervision and talk about the prior days accoplishment and failures, from that we come up with plans to eliminate our failures! New hires recieve a detailed book about our grading and everyone is willing to make sure you understand the grade. Ive been able to work both shifts and there are veteran workers with a wealth of knowlege on both. Metrie has some of the best benefits in the lumber industry. Managment is very understanding of everyone and their needs, They always make an effort to accomadate everyone! Overtime is optional and always an option for anyone who wants to work it!

I would have stayed at this company for a long time if not for my manager and a few of the other employees. After almost 2 years, I had to go. The pay was good, and I enjoyed the work, but being the low man meant you got blamed for everything that went wrong... even when you could prove that it wasnt your fault. People talk behind your back, and made for a very uncomfortable working environment. .After requesting time off 6 months in advance, I was told I couldn't take the time off... that was the straw that broke the camels back. I don't know if there are similar problems at the company as a whole, but in my building there were many and my complaints about the same were ignored.

I have not been working for Metrie for long, but in my short time, I have been in awe of the company and its standards. It is a place where you walk in the doors knowing you can bring your whole self to work. There are endless opportunities for development & growth. The people care for one another and strive for excellence daily. Metrie is not perfect, but the leaders are continuously evaluating and open to new unique perspectives. They care about diversity and inclusion, and their ACTIONS represent that. Overall, the onboarding process is fantastic, and there is clear room for professional growth within the company. I am impressed and happy to work for a company like Metrie.

Great job for the right person. It is very hard on the body, which is ok if you have time to finish the job. They are a vendor for Lowe's so anything Lowe's complains about is absolute panick. They expect way too much for a 40 hour work week. You are responsible for the stock level of your stores - regardless of how many times you have been at store to order product or not. It's all about metrics. All about numbers. They will fail to communicate something to you but hold you accountable for not knowing what to do. So better ways to run the business but they don't want to for whatever reason. 

Pros- Working at Metrie gives a good work/life balance, as the days are never too heavy for the team to handle and everyone goes home at a good time. Warehouse even gets full 8 hours of pay if the day ends early. 

Cons- The management is in perpetual cycle of acting like they care by asking questions, paying for food every now and then, and pretending that concerns are heard. No one knows how to communicate necessary information to each other, whether on scheduling, new internal systems situations that people should know about, or general knowledge of anything happening. Pay is also lackluster for a full time 40 hour/week job.

Pays good if they only stop letting people go on and off with overtime. With overtime the job is indeed worth it. Like the other comments, there's no room for growth. You'll be doing the same simple thing with the same simple people; until you are fired or decide your time is better elsewhere. Be careful about calling off or calling that your gonna be late, they'll write you up so fast the paper will be still be smoking when they hand it to you. They just see you as numbers, if you ain't meeting the quota, that's another write up.

Plenty of autonomy at Metrie but lack of direction from the top meant poor vision for the sites. Unwilling to invest in the sites so the sites suffered with poor equipment and support. Most of the leadership has moved up internally within Metrie so not many new ideas, just more of the same. If you are in manufacturing, I would not recommend Metrie unless they've changed their approach to investing in the sites.
Our facility was going to be shut down and we were promised severance packages. They then decided to sell the facility and told us because we'd still have jobs, no severance package. We ended up getting part of our severance package but it left a bad taste in our mouths about Metrie.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Warehouse worker 15 salaries reported	$20.70 per hour
Field representative 22 salaries reported	$20.94 per hour
Material handler 8 salaries reported	$19.97 per hour
Warehouse associate 2 salaries reported	$20.50 per hour
Stocker 3 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour

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