mig welder

press brake operator

assembler

welder

mechanic

PALFINGER

I was hired as a forklift operator in the yard.  After 3 weeks, I was told they were getting rid of some positions and I was transferred by my manager to inventory control.  They laid 1 person 2 persons from the yard since they were getting rid of the position and then later in weeks they hired 4 more new employees.  

My job then was to create identification cards for them to establish a bar coding system to help with inventory audits.  I was being pulled to do several other tasks than what my job was entitled which I did not know since there was no training involved.

They laid off my manager last month, 3 weeks before a preliminary audit and said that they were eliminating the inventory manager position.  From this I was not secure of what my job was to pertain too.  

I worked their for over 6 months and I never had a 90 day or a 6 month evaluation. which other members have had.

What I learned from this is that the whole place is very clicky.  If you are not part of their group then there is a chance of being fired after they have accomplished what it is they needed from you to do,

Any higher ups will rat you out to save their skin, they only care about getting it built and not about their workers in the slightest. They will hold you there for 10 hours waiting for a shipment that may or may not come that day, expect you to do so many gates a day yet during interview they claim there is no quota so that it would prevent them from holding you but they don’t abide by it. You get denied vacation a lot, they are always low on parts so they can never complete full gates and hold employees for no reason as there’s no work to be done. If you use any of your 10 points within the first 60 days they will make you wait an entire year to give you the raise. They pressure their workers for the higher ups mistakes as if it’s a workers fault that the person who orders parts, decided not to order it. The mud flows down hill way to often. Make no friends here people are backpokers but their are only a handful of good people here. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Terminating my employment with them.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Doing 3 Kobe for the price of one, price cap on raises and getting far too many extra responsibilities dumped on you, management gets huge profit sharing checks, production does all the hard work and gets NOTHING but treated like trash.
No opportunity for advancement. Upper management greed

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very TOXIC! People quit faster than they get hired. Pay is far below national average in assigned position. Favoritism and upper management’s stench of greed is overwhelmingly rank. Strict unfair attendance point system. 10 points yearly. Doctors app with excuse costs a point. Management gets PTO days.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Absolutely miserable  Mandatory 10 hour days  are like 20 hours of insanity 
No, seriously.

The work environment changed greatly from the time I was hired to the time I left.  We used to schedule our own jobs and create our own schedules and solicit our own customers; while we completed repairs of equipment along with the paperwork for each customer.  We were basically our own mangers with our own areas covering different sections of the state.   It could be stressful but it was rewarding.  Then management changed and everyone was getting micromanaged.  All of our perks were removed one by one and stress levels went through the roof.  Upper management wouldn't listen to the concerns of the workers.  The job went from stressful with a fun and exciting atmosphere to very stressful with an atmosphere of distrust and finger pointing.  You and learn a lot at this job and get factory training which is very good, but under this management I don't believe the pay is equal compensation for the stress and environment.

First thing they never seem
To have enough product to keep up with production. Secondly  the management is terrible you constantly feel like you have to kiss there toes or being watched by a hawk. No appreciation for the workers that work hard. They treat workers unfairly and if your apart of there clicks or whatever you get away with what you want. I’ve heard terrible wrong things that the corporation itself is doing to the workers hiding money to lieing about there production and workers itself. I myself wouldn’t recommend this job to anyone unless you wannna feel like your obligated to be there to do nothing. The management just isn’t on top of there game as they act like they need to be. Me being a general assembler for the company i feel as if no matter what you do your always gonna be doing something wrong or not enough.

Palfinger is going through a lot of changes, and thus making it a really interesting and complicated place to work. I never felt as though they wanted to address the safety culture or lack thereof until the right before I left. Palfinger Liftgates does not want to invest the necessary capital to make it a truly lean, organized facility.  I spent the better part of my tenure there trying to make them understand what was needed and always met with resistance, which eventually left me apathetic. The last two months before I left they really started making investments and pushing the needed improvements, i think mainly due to a series of not so flattering visits from the corporate personnel in Austria. Again I like the company but it needs a lot improvement and has a lot of potential.

Upper management and regional associates are great but there is a culture ingrained in department managers, site HR, and hourly employees that will be very difficult to improve any aspect of this facility location. Other than a few higher-level employees or people that have been there a while, nobody takes any pride in their work or space which has to lead to an unmanageable mess that nobody wants to help address because "it's not their job". I think they are moving in the right direction and will improve slowly over time as they bring in the right people but there is a gossipy overly emotional culture between departments and in the office that contributes to a toxic culture. There are some nice people though and the place makes a great product.

What is the best part of working at the company?
A few of the employees were helpful

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of adequate pay, lack of support from management, everything about running a department was a fight to get it done

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A lot of nepotism. If you are not in the 'in' crowd, expect to be used and not get any promotion of any kind, especially if you are expecting a pay increase for performance or longevity.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Chaos and hilarity, as mistakes are often made because no one wants to follow processes.

The customers and clients are always angry! It is a very sad environment where everyone is always complaining about their job and how much stress is being put on them. Management is really unorganized and orders are being sent to the wrong location. They also seem to be in a bad mood 80% of the time. A major part of this reason is that there is a big lack of good training in each department and not enough workers to take on the loads of calls and work. Plus everyone is so focused on gossip and blaming eachother, rather than figuring out where the lack of communication is. Micro-managing is a major problem here, as well.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay and notice a good management. Lost my phone and couldn't call in. She told me that I should've used a (pay phone). Pay phones are no longer around

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management and they do like to talk about their co-workers when they are not around. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
People don't like to help out each other

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and have to worry about getting help or a straight answers from people.

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