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Where do I start?  I'll present three levels:  management, supervisory, line production.

Management:  If you're planning on a career in management at this plant, DON'T.  They have been through something approaching 10 Plant Managers in the past 7 years.  It might be slightly less.  I lost count.  Production Manager (their are four positions, though that changes based on who is in charge) turnover is like a buzz saw.  This doesn't happen at their other plants, so the root cause has to be the fact that Corp HQ is co-located with the plant.  No one is in charge long enough to instill a sense of discipline or direction or a plan of any sort.  Since turnover is so high at the lower ranks, there is very little junior leadership.  Your line leads (15-25 year guys, mostly) are dedicated, but they have no one below them who has been there, say, a half dozen years to help them.  Almost everyone is 3 years or less with many less than a year and they're still figuring things out and keeping their heads down.  It is PURE MISERY for management!!!

Supervisory:  Since there is no foundation of leadership from the management level  (It's not their fault, though), it is more than difficult to lead at this level, too.  Turnover is very high for supervisors, too, though I don't think it's quite as bad as at management level.  Imagine, however, that you are the greatest Supervisor who ever walked a floor.  EVen if you do EVERYTHING right, eventually, the turnover above you will result in a Manager for whom you work being someone you can't work with.  The law of averages will do this to you.  Overtime is unplanned.  Morale is low.  There is a training program of sorts, but it only goes so far and cannot possibly prepare you for what you will face.  Expectations are wholly unrealistic.  You are constantly behind.  You will never make schedule.  We almost did.  Then they came in a fired managers.  If you're good, go somewhere good where that will be recognized.

Production:  The most important people in the plant, but Corp HQ does not know this.  The people who are supposed to make your day productive (management) don't stand a chance.  Some of them are probably pretty good, but they will not get the opportunity to show you this.  They are expected by their Corp leaders to drive production out the door, yet they are not afforded the opportunity to establish the foundation necessary to make this possible by any other means that cracking the whip.  Like I said, for the most part, it's not their fault.

I think you get the picture.  There are other options.  Use them.

Liars. Morgan posts jobs on here, Craigslist and through multiple temp agencies. Applied for a job here, told through management/interview that the job I applied for  was already filled from within... BUT,  they could offer me another job welding, given my experience. SOOO... my foot is in the door. Nearly a month later, (along with poor excuses,) I finally get to learn some welding. Very short lived. No sooner I learn that job, and they have me training someone else to do it. In the meantime, the job I originally applied for is reposted again on here and multiple other sites. It's a  pull the wool over your eyes shim sham scam just to get bodies through the door. Liars. They're all about learn this and that... the more you know, the more you make...etc... ship you around from station to station like a delirious nomad minion slave. And you must produce... be proficient in each area and make their numbers... SOOO... I did... I should be at a p2 or 3 by now. (There is 4 production levels, 4 being highest)  Aaannnddd... my 90 day review comes around. NO RAISE. Have never missed a day or been late in 6 months. No points.  NO RAISE. That's how Morgan treats it's employees. They don't care. They will just go to the jail or another temp agency for another monkey to drill holes all day and pop in rivets and screws. Jeez... how can they get away with this? Think about this: if they hire you in at 12 an hour, and a year later you finally get a raise, you will probably be at 12.50 an hour. Yay. Looking for other work here and I would advise you to do the same. The line leads and supervisors will pull you off from the job your doing and put you on another job unfinished, and tell you you're not doing your job... leaving everyone else standing around... Actually stopping production. No life married to the job supervisors and line leads that pride themselves in others failure. Horrible work culture and morale. Others make you feel like you have no right to work there. Maybe if I was hired for the job you posted and I applied for, I could be more useful for the company. Sorry. Jeepers.

My time at Morgan has probably been the most stressful and overworked I've been in my life. I was at the Finish department. They have mandatory overtime and if you can not make it into overtime they will point you. Your whole life will be sucked into the company after a while. Dealing with supervisors and leads who only care about how many trucks they can push out a day just so they can take all the credit. Bonuses are only paid out to supervisors and leads. They will also gaslight you into thinking you'll get a green hat just that you can work harder and join their group of entitled green hats. They require you to push out 3 trucks in a 10 hour shift for little pay. In the finish department you have to weld, install, wire, and be an engine mechanic, basically do it all for little pay, which adds stress when being timed. 
The company needs to update and change its production line, it's ridiculous. Every truck is reworked because they don't value the previous workers labor. For example, if a worker installed a new wood flooring, it's not protected. Instead it's walked on and marked, to then be sanded during rework. Or a side panel is installed and beat up to then reworked on. Passing on more work to the next person, which leads to more man hours, and late trucks being sent out. Instead of solving the main issue, which is the production line. Solving that will give workers more flexibility, stress, and family time. I wouldn't recommend working here until they get rid of old green hats and supervisors and fix production.

Dont waste 3 weeks of your time on their hiring process. Morgan posts job offerings for everything under the sun at every temp agency and job website in the state. Truth. They sugarcoat it with great bonuses and benefits... job potential and advancement. Lies. It's just to get bodies through the door. Anybody. In the event that somebody with experience and skills walks through the door, and they are stupid enough to accept employment with Morgan, they will soon realize that they made a huge mistake. HUGE. Dont be fooled. They drop the ball big time and treat you like any other temp agency garbage... even if you're hired through the company. If you have a Resume a mile long, if you're ASE certified, chamber of commerce certified, welder you're whole life, electrician, millwright, maintenance tech with ironworker and shopsmith experience, hey... great. Good for you. Not for them. You will be drilling and filling holes all day. Every day. All the time. 6 days a week. Non stop. Drilling and filling holes. STRONGLY recommend that you stay away from this joint if you're a welder or have qualifications or experience in any other field of expertise besides drilling and filling holes all day... or if you're good at fixing others mistakes. Then, this may be the job for you. Hop on board. Clueless old school people been there since the ice age showing you how to rub sticks together and create fire. That's about the quality and safety extent of their tools and culture. Sure, they have fancy red hats and pretty stickers and stripes to make them feel grandiose. Clueless they are.

I left an 11 year career to start for Morgan in the late summer of 2018. Was the longest hiring process I have ever been through (4-5 months before I was offered the position). Salaried position, paid expenses for traveling to train in PA (headquarters), new facility opening near me in CT. Thought Morgan would be the job I retire from. As it turned out that was not the case. I had multiple absences due to freak medical conditions and illnesses in a very short period of time. Had doctors notes for 98% of the issues I had and always communicated if I would be out. I was never given a written warning or signed anything that I was breaking company policy. I was unprofessionally fired by PHONE for ”accessive absenteeism”, appalling. I have NEVER been fired from a job in my entire life. I had my boyfriend go and get my things I left there because I was so disgusted by how I was treated. The expectation at Morgan is “we work until we are done” “I don’t care what corporate says” “harder, faster, longer”. Things are to be done (wether they are wrong or not) per what the Director of your plant says. Management is horrendous, expect to work 9+ hour days, if you aren’t at work, you better be dead because the human element is taken out of it. You may very well lose your job due to being out more than once. You’re just a body to make them money and if you aren’t there you can and will be replaced.

Management has no idea what’s going on other than the fact we need to get trucks out. They are all against each other. If you get into the absolute slightest disagreement with management, they get on a power trip and will make your life miserable. 
This place will hire literally anyone and expect the hard workers to pick up the slack even if that means killing yourself. They don’t care they just want to hit their numbers. Another reason the turnover rate is through the roof. Most people with a brain has left this hole but some of us are taking it day by day and wanting to die in the process. Management will tell you how thankful they are for all of your hard work then turn around and spit in your face the next day. 
The leads and supervisors can’t get along and figure out how they’re suppose to run a line which makes things difficult. The leads will also throw you under the bus for the slightest thing to make themselves look better. 
I have never worked at such a dysfunctional place in my life and can’t wait to get out of here. 

Also, they won’t give you your raises like they should. You’ll get half of your raise then you have to wait another 90 days to get the other half, which you already worked for and proved you’re worthy of. Just don’t waste your time here. Save yourself the stress and anxiety. 

Overall working at Morgan was a mess, I have never seen anything like this. It's not a friendly environment, always changing your work schedule. You have no personal life especially 'mandatory' saturdays, everything is so unorganized, unprofessional, & dishonest (management). I've seen top notch knowledgeable good people on the shop floor get screwed over for something that is so dumb as an excuse. It's like being set up for failure... It's all about making numbers that cannot be touched & NO advancement. Kept moving me around in multiple areas, never learned one thing at a time. When it came to morning meetings did not have a clue to what they were talking about, kept saying the same things everyday. Constant state of missing parts & couldn't build what we needed (still blamed us regardless). Hired wack jobs who were too lazy to work possibly quit later & you had to full in for them, job training was awful. Tools always broke/missing. I was a good worker always on time showed respect to my workers, I have no sympathy for management. They didn't appreciate the value of good workers until they're gone. I worked there for about a year & a half. I've seen a lot of bad things happen! Take what you learned & NEVER go back. I highly recommend nobody to apply here if you're a welder.

Typical day in Materials Department: pick items for production lines— single pieces, kits, consumables for Kanban Stations

If you are the Materials Data Clerk: in addition to the above, you conduct Cycle Counts and Inventory Reconciliations

What I Learned: nothing— I came to this position with over a decade of prior experience. Inventory is terribly managed. The only good thing to say is that Management was receptive to improvement projects in this respect, but Corporate level decision making inhibited the progress with this.

Workplace Culture: Independent thought is generally discouraged and sycophantic behavior is rewarded.

Hardest part of the job: remaining patient with incompetent superiors

Best part of the job: a lot of nice people worked at the Team Member level. I enjoyed most of my colleagues and also several people in Management, including HR and the Plant Manager. They really did a lot of nice things with Team lunches and awesome company merch. 

It is sad to give this place a bad review. But the Management was toxic. And the good ones didn’t have the power to change it.

You work all night long and they change your shift time at the supervisors whim.  He said because his bedtime is at nine o'clock that we have to start coming in at five o'clock. Means you don't get to see your family or have a home life, have friends, watch a ball game or have a beer like a normal American. Good group of employees to get screwed by employers ,as always. My pay is good but there are people that don't get the recognition they deserve. We work a lot of weekend also, taking more home life. They wont work the whole shift meaning you drive back and forth for two hours and work only five. I just don't see how some employers could be so ignorant and it goes all the way to the top. No opportunity for advancement, people have been here twenty years plus and they'll hire someone over them and expect the long time employee to train the new supervisor. Almost forgot, they hire in new people with wages more than people who have been working there for years. They say that they will adjust pay buy it still hasn't happened. I don't expect to see this review as it will probably be deleted.

Managment is horrible they dont care one bit of your needs. Such as tools ect. They will not want you to go to the hospital if you get hurt wierd stuff at this dump.(games) I left a 16$ an hour job to work at Morgan because work was slow. Got offered 12.50 $ hr and had to argue and still didn't get more. which is garbage since I know how to read blue prints. Use a tape measure. Ect. I was always asked questions by MANAGERS. EMPLOYEES. Because of their lack of talent. While they get salary pay and more than I did.? Dont forget about all of the PLAINFIELD METH HEADS AND DOPE FIENDS. 80% are all crack pots with no lives. Not trying to be rude. I waited 14 days to get a paycheck everytime. Pretty much you will be waiting every 3 weeks for a paycheck. TO MUCH GAMES. If you work at a work station everyone takes your tools you need and DOES NOT RETURN THEM then managers look at you and complain when you cant get the job done and argue with them. And much more. IF YOU HAVE A LIFE THIS JOB WILL NOT PAY YOUR BILLS.... HAVE FUN 👍👍👍💩

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