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Orchid Orthopedic Solutions

Of all the years I have worked here, I have seen a lot of maintenance guys get hired and let go after a couple of months. I usually end up on being the only maintenance tech. It was difficult keeping up with a lot of your daily routines because I was the only experience guy there. They went and hired 2 other guys who claim to have a lot of knowledge, but I had to end up on training both of them from sctrach. After a couple months of training those guys, I had left the company. I was getting extremely stressed out because I couldn't keep up with my daily routine and train 2 people. There are also a lot of days where once you get home, then you get a call about equipment being down, then you have no choice but to go back to work. It was a 30 mile drive back to work and 30 miles back home again so every other day I would drive 120 miles, and they refuse to pay you double time for it. It also didnt help that I was the least payed maintenance tech there so that was also another reason that had caused me to leave the place. I would not recommend working here as a maintenance technician. You will always get the short end if the stick. Maintenance personal get treated like they are nothing, and they cant keep maintenance personal/supervisors/managers/directors for longer than a year because of cost issues. This company has a hard time paying for equipment/parts that some customers dont even want to deal with them no more. Plus there is the logistics supervisor who thinks he is maintenance, but ends up on throwing maintenance under the bus when OSHA appears. Impatient to wait for electrician to install drop, so he uses extension cords all over the place. All in all this is a terrible place to work for as a maintenance technician.

I worked at orchid for a little over a year. The pay for my position was great. No complaints there. Management is ridiculous. Like most places you need to be in the clique group to be liked. HR is a joke. Certain Managers have no management skills period. They are all two faced. Especially the women in upper positions. If you want to enjoy your job or keep one don’t work in the Quality department. If you have any issues with someone don’t go to HR they don’t care about you. They say quality over quantity but that’s a lie completely. They only care about what they can get out. But either way it will be your fault. Over all most of the other employees I worked with were really great. We stuck together for the most part. But most of them will throw you under the bus to save their own skin especially if its a seasoned employee or a supervisor. If you still want to work here then best advice is go in on time every day and work your shift like you are suppose to. Don’t make many friends and if you do don’t tell them your personal life. Don’t cause problems and be careful around management. If you work in quality don’t expect to ever move out unless they really like you. Most of the women are backstabbing and act like they are the popular girls still in high school. 

The following information is only for candidates interviewing with this company. 
In the interview they failed to inform me of the FDA (Food Drug Administration) violations that they were operating under. Part of my job was to address & solve any FDA infractions. The violations stretched back   
for 5 years prior to my employment. They were operating with insufficent documentation in the best cases & no documentation in most cases. I was  
responsible for this documentation. Without prior notice, my manager would pull me into a phone conference with a customer & then expect me to appease that agitated customer with false documentation on issues that existed prior to my employment. This happened many times with their biggest customers. Falsifying FDA documentation is a felony. I spent 14 months trying to straighten out the mess with no help. It forced me to work 
70 - 75 hours a week on a base salary. The more that I did revealed the more problems that existed. I had to end it. I asked my manager to lay me off. They kept trying get me to stay but they told me that they couldn't give me any help. They offered me a new phone. I told management & HR that I was going to work only 40 hours a week & that I was not going to quit. It took them another 3 weeks to lay me off. It was the worst experience that I have ever had. In retrospect I think that they needed a fall guy.

Zero training- you have to train yourself. Leads/management are beyond useless, no help. High favoritism, especially to the associates that pull bare minimum and don't care about quality. You're not allowed to speak up on defected parts or else you will %100 be targeted. Will also be targeted if you associate with someone management/HR doesn't like. HR only cares about themselves. Act as if they're there for you, on your side, but very much so the opposite. UNLESS you are related to management in some way OR do whatever management/leads ask, no questions asked by you, then you will be fine. Implemented pay tier system, makes it borderline impossible to actually get a raise. If you go above and beyond, it is not appreciated nor reflected in pay. If your quality is above and beyond, again, not appreciated not reflected in pay. They have people completely untrained in a lot of areas, working on manufacturing (parts that literally go into people), with no assistance/trainer. They really do only care to have associates that will not speak up for themselves and won't question management in any way shape or form. Would not recommend working here. Medical parts being manufactured and they couldn't care one bit if the quality is good enough to put into a human being. There's a reason that they are below average in practically every category on here. NO JOKE.

The moment I walk into work I always check with the previous visual grinder about what areas of the parts need more attention. After that I set up to start my shift. As I continue my work day I make sure to tell my team leaders if I run into any problems with the parts. Before I scrap any parts I will show the parts to my team leaders so they know why, and what was the problem with the part.When I finish a job I look for the next job and set that job up to be visualized. If ever I don't have any parts in line to be visualized I help out where I am needed. Sometimes I help knock out parts at the press or help grind miscellaneous parts. In doing this I have learned to run the blocker press when ever I have down time. So I could alternate with the blocker press operator if he needs to use the bathroom or he goes on break. My coworkers on my shift are easy going and helpful, always making sure I have parts to visual so production doesn't stop. The hardest part of my job, I'll say, is when the parts have a lot of defects. It slows down production and it take time to make sure the parts are 100% defect free. Even with the defects in the parts being the hardest part,the most enjoyable part of my job is working with people I enjoy being around.Easy going people and helpful people are the easiest to work with in my opinion.

Firstly, you will never not have OT. They often complain about paying it but they refuse to cut it. 

I learned a few different jobs there but when I applied for advancement I was told I didn't look stable enough because someone else had decided to cross train me. There really is no advancement. Some people have been here 20-30 years and still do the same thing. I applied many times and they always found an excuse despite my track record and willingness to learn. 

Management is a joke. Poor communication, split decisions made that affect only the bottom employees work-life balance, double standards, and the high turnover rate really should tell you that at least half of managers are to blame. Training is abysmal at best, certain promoted people have admitted they didn't directly ask for the role, others went mad with power. 

Culture is somehow more cut-throat than sales. The old ladies that have been here for years won't hesitate to throw you under. 

Hardest part is dealing with a never ending stream of drama. 

You get PTO days, not vacation days. In larger companies these two are distinct. They finally made it so new hires get 10 days of PTO but they are not for 10 hour days, only 8, despite the fact that you work 10 regularly. 

Only solid thing is the healthcare. Good and actually cheap. But not a well known carrier so it can be hard to find in network doctors.

Punch in, do your job, punch out repeat. The employee's on the floor help you keep it together when you find people you like. Little to no work life balance. Asked for an unpaid weekend and something came up and requested the next Friday off. Was told I had my singular unpaid weekend approved and if I didn't like it "there's the door, it's not locked from the inside." One cell is ready to quit and they start the process across all shifts. They tell you if your metrics are in the green there is little to no reason to work your Friday, then turn around and make you work it and the Saturday after if your unfortunate, but hey you got Sunday off! Other times you have no weekend. The people who make the decisions benefit from the 10hr shift more than the people on the shop floor with that shift. If you like to work and have no social life this is the place for you. Currently looking for greener pastures, shop floor management above team leads and some team leads have the "I'm better than you" mentality. Most of the people working Veteran's Day were veteran's, told the two big bosses on the shop floor how much the day meant to me as a veteran and they acted like I asked for a kidney and their first born.

No life when working with this company.  Overtime is MANDATORY. Usually work 6 days a week, 10 hour shifts, usually emails are sent by mid-week telling you that you will most likely be working 12 hours before end of week.  HR is worthless.  Confidentiality needs to be looked at seriously by someone outside of their organization.  HR does nothing to help or assist an employee regarding issues with other management.  Instead, they tend to 'gang up" on anyone who dares to complain.  They drag other employees in to HR to "build a case" against anyone who will complain.  Other employees are made to feel extremely uncomfortable in doing this.   Safety is NEVER a priority.  I was there over a year, not one safety meeting was ever mentioned, must less, an actual meeting.  
PTO is 40 hrs a year!!!  Zero vacation, or comp time.  once you have used that, any emergency you may have that could result in having to be absent, will ALWAYS result in a write up.  If you stress over the write up, they said "don't worry about it, some employees have seven or eight a month".  
I could go on and on, instead let me just say...if you value a family life, and a weekend off - STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY AND THEIR VERY POOR MANAGEMENT.

A typical day at Orchid's Farmington Hills facility consists of putting out fires, explaining/justifying your job to management (who knows very little about your role and why it's important), and trying not to bang your head against the nearest wall in frustration.  If you're lucky, you'll be able to cross an item off of your task list, which is incredibly long because you're juggling so many things and all you can do is slowly inch each one along.

Management is a revolving door that does little to communicate with its employees, hold anyone accountable, or make attempts to improve employee morale.  They ignore their subject matter experts and keep everyone on their toes by re-organizing non-stop.

Workplace culture has pitted the "front office" personnel and "production" personnel against each other despite the fact that they are on the same team and working towards the same goals.

The hardest part of the job is working at a company that only cares about its bottom line and will fire you for the most absurd reasons.

The most enjoyable part of the job are the amazing co-workers that make your terrible day a little brighter, help you when they can, and commiserate with you over your favorite beverage.

Perfect job if you enjoy being treated like a robot. Every year you're expected to do more for/with less incentive. Your location broke just about every sales/profit record last year? Cool, we'll take away all the perks of working here as a thank you (Flexible time off, Early outs, ability to skip lunches to get out 1/2 hour earlier). Not to mention you'll no longer be receiving a 3% merit increase at the start of the fiscal calendar. You'll only receive 1.5% at the beginning of the year and the other 1.5% mid-year now so we don't have to pay the full 3% all year long. Management has no control and the only people they will consider reprimanding are the people who actually work, which are far and few between. Good/educated employees are expected to pick up the slack of the lazy/uneducated ones. Even though the lazy ones likely make more money. If they don't pick up the slack of the lazy/uneducated employees, they are made to feel guilty and belittled by management. This company thinks a free occasional lunch makes us happy when all we would really like is just a living wage and maybe just a little more time with our families. Could go on for days.

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