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I wanted to take a moment to reflect and share my experience with this job. To be honest, I really loved it in the beginning! I worked hard, gave it my all, and poured my heart into supporting my team and helping everyone succeed.

But over time, I started to notice some tough realities. The environment was... intense. Trust? That was something I quickly learned wasn’t an option here. If someone had the chance to throw you under the bus, they usually did. In fact, management would remind us often, “It’s either them or us,” and they never had a problem choosing us. It created such a tense atmosphere that it became really hard to feel supported.

The meetings didn’t help either—they were brutal. Management made it clear that we were free to walk out anytime we wanted. Eventually, I realized I needed to take them up on that. When I made the decision to leave, I didn’t give notice to the team, just to HR. It felt like the only way to truly move forward.

I also faced inconsistent treatment—like being told I couldn’t do something others were allowed to do. It wasn’t about the rules; it was about fairness. The mixed messages were exhausting, too. Be quiet. Don’t be too quiet. It felt impossible to win.

Leaving wasn’t easy, especially since I cared so much about my role and the people around me. But I knew it was time when the stress outweighed the joy.

The company itself isn’t all bad—it’s just very old-school in its management style. If you’re someone who prefers a more traditional environment and sticks strictly to the rules, you might do well here. But if you’re like me and enjoy finding ways to improve things, you might find it frustrating.

At the end of the day, I’m grateful for the lessons (even the hard ones) and the experience. If you’re considering this job, just know what you’re walking into—and make sure you’re looking out for yourself!










Do not trust anything they say.  They feed the public sugarcoated lies to make the place sound wonderful to work for.  It is all fake, but you will not find that out until you have already signed the confidentiality papers and gone to work for them.  The true face of PLI is very carefully kept hidden, especially how it mistreats its employees.  If work is heavy, they will make 6-day work weeks mandatory for months and months.  When orders are low they will force you to go home, then take your vacation time to cover it, even if you don’t want them to.  Once you don’t have any vacation time left, you are just forced to go home with no pay at all.  In slow winter months you can end up working 3-day work weeks for months. This is also when they start making up lies so they can claim to have justification for firing people. The truth is, I could go on with several pages about things I saw while with this company, but you really only need to know this.  The turnover there is horrendous.  New employees often walk out before the end of their first shift.  We use to start taking bets the minute we saw a new employee enter, on whether or not they would stay through their first night.  PLI can’t keep employees.  The employees get fed up and walk out, or they get fired during the slow winter months.  That is why PLI seems to always be hiring from spring until winter.  If you really need a job, apply with PLI because they will most likely hire you.  But, once you walk through those bulletproof glass doors and begin the death walk down that long walkway, look to see how many faces are looking you up and down.  No.  You are not that interesting.  They are just sizing you up and taking bets.

PLI from the outside gives the appearance of a solid organization. It's only when you swipe your badge and enter the actual production facility one quickly realizes this is a rudderless ship. PLI faces a great deal of challenges with it's number 1 crisis is management. PLI is owned by Platinum Equity, who purchased PLI a relatively short time ago. The Las Vegas location was originally a company called CPI (https://www.plicards.com/pli-lasvegas-cpi) which was purchased for pennies on the dollar as CPI was locking its doors for good over a Christmas break without telling it's employees it's intention. PLI has other plants on the East Coast. The game plan was to make Las Vegas the headquarters and align the remaining plants to work in unison. The problem is that either no one recognized or understood the depth of disarray CPI and it's employees mindsets operated at. 
One can put up a new sign over the front door, yet that doesn't change the fact that the prevailing mindset is every man for themselves inside the building. The reluctance and outright deception, by multiple levels of management, to address inefficiencies and strengthen the manufacturing process along with reigning in out of control costs and countless massive errors in production was at a level one could not imagine. The prevailing attitude was that Platinum Equity is the cash cow and will provide the influx of capital to cure it's woes.  
Most of the management lives in a "save my job" mentality, making the necessary progress to a better future impossible. 
 

This place is very unorganized and a lot of drama they have a lot of work to be worked on when it comes to coming in everyday but other than that they have a very bad work ethics. They do not care for their employees and they start many jobs they have their very late and rush their employees to work on the job then if not finished in time after already being late on shipment employees will be in trouble on their behalf of something they had no power in doing and starting on time. People there have a lot of drama to the point where it messes with your work day because people are trying to start problems with you and or sabotage your own work I have seen it happen before where people will mess with your machine and or change something so you will mess up jobs and or not get any numbers. Management isn't very good the boss is good but certain leads and supervisors are not they have no idea of what is going on all they do is hang around and talk and when you ask them for help on certain jobs or questions they'll say go to this lead or go to that lead they will pass their own work on to the next person. The pay isn't any better they have people who have worked there for 14 years without a raise they tell you everything to do to get one even say you get a 6 month raise but you never actually get it. They will give someone that they are attracted to a raise but not the person who deserves in there is leads there who hit on all the girls and will give them raises just because they like them.

A typical day at PLI was high-pressure, exhausting, and built around constant demands with very little appreciation for the people actually doing the work. I learned how to stay productive under stress and handle multiple responsibilities, but most of that came from necessity rather than good leadership. In my experience, management was inconsistent, communication was poor, and the workplace culture felt more draining than supportive. One of the worst parts was the constant camera vigilance, which made it feel like employees were always being watched instead of trusted to do their jobs. PTO also seemed harder to get approved if you were versatile and able to cover multiple positions, unless you were one of the favorites, which made the process feel unfair. The hardest part overall was feeling like no matter how much effort you gave, it was never enough, while problems in leadership and organization kept getting pushed onto employees. The only real positive was gaining experience, because the overall environment made it hard to feel respected, valued, or motivated to stay.

Poor communication, your self taught most of the time not to mention there is no raise people have been there for years and never get a raise last year also we it come to making the employee feel wanted throw that out the window case the y will start to complain about it when it comes to employee meeting. Barley give any appreciation towards the employees that do the work. As for employment they will take ANYONE but once you get hired they will fire people and also fire people they don't like at all. In around March or April they start hiring people and then in august or September they start to fire people don't if you are just hired they will fire you they have 90 day probation  period. work wise they will give you an job that's was never on the paper and expect you to push these old machines that's from the 1900s that will breakdown every 10 mins to the max oh also the job is due on that day have fun. For the new red line machine they paid almost 12 to 50k for barley functions as it suppose to . as for employees love them to death but very messy but that's almost everywhere you go.  P.S- they have mandatory weekend that if you don't go you get fired for this

What is the best part of working at the company?
Other dept’s are not as bad as sales, hours are good, coworkers are mostly friendly and helpful.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Revolving door of people/management, no opportunity for growth, expectations are too high for the pay offered.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
PLI used to be a good place to work but the constant changes and unrealistic expectations have ruined the sales dept. Management creates unobtainable sales goals, then rides everyone about how/when/why they are not being met. Commission has basically been taken away, which gives no actual motivation to sell more. Warning: They WILL lie to you about the amount of commission that you can earn. Sales dept management has changed several times over the past couple years. Managers are all out of touch and will not take the time to learn exactly what each dept does. Communication is absolute garbage and raises are non-existent. Long term employees have all begun to jump ship and new employees are clueless due to poor training.

Terrible company to work for.
They hire you on and emphasize the 90 day probation period, they give you regular reviews during your 90 days and as your 90 days is nearing they start to tell you you’re falling short, performance is lacking and your 90 days will be extended to prove yourself even though all reviews have been positive and you’ve been working hard. It’s nothing but gas lighting and manipulation to help them get caught up on their work and then lay you off right before your 90 days.
They make up lies and excuses as to why they’re letting you go but will have 0 proof.
This company is a joke. I’d steer clear of this company unless you enjoy wondering every day if you’ll have a job by the end of the day or not.

I've worked there for almost 3 years. The Pay is ok, could be better, and the benefits are decent. But the management needs a lot of work. Things change to the point of confusing workers. Communication from one shift to another is just about null and void. Accountability is right out the window. None whatsoever. Human Resources is a joke. They say they will help but only put in minimal time to help you and will not go above and beyond for you. Be careful who you talk to. People will be your friend to your face and then stab you in the back if it will benefit them. They don't care if you have a family or personal life. All that matters to them is getting the job done even if it takes working 7 day work weeks.

Some departments are better than others but mine is managed by someone who constantly berates you and very rarely has a good thing to say about anyone. Every once in a while you will hear them say the word team but their actions drown out their words. 
You come in each day and you try so hard to do a good job but it’s never good enough.

Classic toxic environment kind of manager. But, you keep going in because you need your job.

If Las Vegas were not so far away, I would transfer to their office. But, I will just keep trying till I find another job.



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