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Morgan Olson

There truly isn't a "typical day" when one works in a manufacturing/logistics type of field therefore I cannot give you a picture of what I do everyday here since it's different every day; what I can give you is what I walked into........

I came aboard Morgan Olson's logistics team towards the end of June, 2014. 

This company was opened in Charleston back in 2012 in order to lower costs with transport from Daimler and had a documented lost over 2 Million dollars which was due to extreme inaccuracy regarding cost of labor, tooling, efficiency and loss/damaged materials.

When I began at Morgan Olson, I sat back for about a month watching what processes were in place regarding logistics and the handling of materials.

What I saw was this: Nothing set in place, processes, procedures, discipline nor accountability.

A logistics nightmare that started with recieving and continued down to distributions of materials to the production floor.  Materials were virtually defaulted to the production line when recieved in without merit, 2 years of materials spread across the facility without racking or bins.

Setting processes in place was easy, the following of the process for those who've never had any experience was the hard part.

Within two months, through the clean up of recieving, placing racking and inventory accountability into place, I was able to give back a profit of $360,000 to Morgan Olson within 2 months of my employment.  Inventory control became stable and productivity from materials and production became secure.

Unfortunately,by that time, the damage had been done and the CEO deemed Morgan Olson at North Charleston was to be closed down.

I'm eager to move forward and find my last place of employment and bring profit, workmanship and integrity along with me.

Awful management that doesn’t care about its employees, low pay for everything you deal with, completely unorganized where nothing is ever done correctly. The company likes to take as many shortcuts as possible, usually to the detriment of the regular employee, such as using a cheaper sheet of metal that is prone to impurities, causing the company to lose thousands of dollars in scrap metal, rather than use a slightly more expensive, but higher quality metal. Machines are heavily outdated and visually falling apart, a nearly nonexistent maintenance team that usually knows less about fixing the machines than the average employee. No communication whatsoever between departments, rumors are for some reason the only way to be told what’s going on currently, and are usually correct. Frequent overtime during the week and Saturdays, barely allowing time to make any plans or simply unwind after a stressful day or week. Frequent harassment and attempted intimidation from supervisors and upper management, no assistance or care from HR. Highly recommend not working for this company unless you have absolutely no choice.

typical day- consists of being questions on the exact same thing i was questioned on the days before. sometimes day to day doesnt change but being questioned by someone who knows nothing of the JDE system its very difficult to explain more then an i do not know

Learned - valuable JDE information, bom processes, accounts payable and simple entries...

Management- rarely knew what the positions consist of and when it comes to doing there own job its done half way or pawned off on someone else.

coworkers- very friendly, knowledgeable to the extent that the management has taught them, most are close friends with HR so its a tight knit group that basically if you know HR have no knowledge of trucks your a shoe in for a job if not customer service or truck sales

hardest part- getting the access needed to do that job correctly IT is so backed up programs are not put on the computers at the right time or takes months to gain access to them.

enjoyable part of the job - gaining the knowledge so that one day i know with the information i learned i could go to a different company and feel more valued there then ever have at morgan olson

If you’re tight with upper management, it’s an okay place to work. Since 99% of people don’t fall into this category, best of luck to you. You will not get time off. If you do have something to do on a weekend you should have off, you are made to feel like garbage for having a life outside of building walk in trucks. If you try to take your vacation you’ve earned, you will receive a hard time about it. All that being said, if you’ve fallen behind in life or have a bad background this place will keep you so busy you can’t make bad decisions. There have been several layoffs, and each layoff they say the outlook for orders looks great! Then the doors closed. Management is a joke, they make you believe you are important and vital to the team only to replace you or cut you loose the second you don’t 100% agree with something.

Interviewed for a Supervisor position. Plant manager spent over 2 hours with me. Couldn’t answer any of my questions I had for him at the end of the interview about production, continuous improvement, 5’s, etc. Got turned down for the job then 2 weeks later received a call from my recruiter about a Group Leader job at their other plant. Got this job right away. Placed on 2nd shift only to work anywhere from 10 to 15 hour nights and weekends while 1st shift only worked 10 hours at most. Applied for 5 job postings within 2 years time to advance myself only to get turned down every time. I had at the time around 27 or 28 years experience as a manufacturing supervisor. Too many family members and friends working together up the chain of command and not willing to listen to someone with more experience than them. No leadership anywhere or process improvements to streamline flow through the plant. Hopefully it has gotten better since then.

I was hired as a welder learned every welding position on the floor and could weld in all departments whenever needed, except I was told I did not know how to weld and I was not good enough. Also was made to do the job of three people ( that's how many people were in the position on the same job on first shift as me) by myself and was expected to produce the same amount of work, not only this but was made to work the line as a production operator and after learning the positions required was denied the pay raise as others were given for doing the same production job. 
After learning and proving to be able to weld in all positions required was also denied the option of master welder pay... 
All in all I would say do not waste you time working for a company who's supervisors call you worthless and worse to your face and behind your back...

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of working there to me is that you can leave for Lunck break

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The way the Company was ran and management sucked showing favoritism towards certain individuals and too much friends & family working together

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was very hot and the culture was weird for me because I didn't have family working there like most individuals 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Didn't know what time you were getting off because you had a quota to make before you can leave so that may be delayed by parts missing in your department or another department

come in, have morning meeting, go straight to work wherever they needed me i usually picked orders restocked parts, sometimes had to drive company box truck to other plants to find the parts i needed to fill the orders, i was fired for attendance which should never have been the case, i put in for vacation days or half vacation days to cover appointments but when they pulled me in the office to let me go, the paper with all the days i missed had mostly all the days i put vacation days in for but my boss must have not put in the paperwork. they didnt want to hear my side of the story about those days i put in for vacation time, just asked me to please get my belongings and leave.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being able to get overtime and having 2 weeks vacation 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
More than half of the employees won't do their job and screw up what they did do management seems to not care. The points system is stupid they don't have sick days if you leave early or don't come in for being sick or have a vehicle problem even if you call you still get a point unless it's approved 24 hrs in advance using your pto time or 2 unpaid days

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fast paced for those who actually work the culture is pitiful lazy people who barely do their job and won't try to learn anything else they say it ain't my job 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Tiring, long and stressful always rushed

What is the best part of working at the company?
There are quite a few paid holidays 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything. It's hot and a lot of pressure to get the trucks out. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not good. The company doesn't care at all about you and for the most part the other employees you work with are ok but some not so much. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get to work, have a company meeting to hear how bad everyone is doing, stretch, get things together you need to work with and then work till you about drop from heat exhaustion and dehydration. Not to mention they tell you 8 or 10 hours a day but it never fails you're working 12 hours a day because your waiting on the line to move.

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