warehouse lead

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Pegatron

I worked as Quality Manager for 4 months and had a terrible time at this company.  I was disappointed at every turn. The management team is from Taiwan and has not appreciation for work/family balance.  It is just expected that someone would be answering emails at midnight and would stay at work 12 hours per day.  In fact, I was yelled at, actually yelled at, for not being there for both shifts by the Operations Manager.  After being there for only 1 week, they sent me and a team to China to a 50,000 person facility, similar to the Foxcon facility that was profiled on 60-Minutes in December.  They have suicide nets on the dormitories and the operators look like zombies. Once there, we were informed that we were required to work 6 days per week for 12 hours per day, like the other Chinese workers at the factory.  Worse even, when we arrived in Shanghai, our hotel was not paid for, so everyone had to come up with $1500 to cover the 1 month stay.  None of this was explained before agreeing to go on the trip.  
As a line operator, this is a very marginal job at best.  Training is pathetic if non-existent.  Apple's grip on the organization is something I have never experience in my life when it comes to a Vendor / Supplier relationship. 
They are expanding exponentially in 2016 to repair new phones, and hired roughly 60 engineers, however never thought of where any of them would do their work.  My team of 24 engineers had 4 cubicles to share.  
It's amazing that a company that is being paid millions of dollars every month by Apple would be so cheap with the employees it depends on to follow through on its "Ponzy Scheme of Promises" as I like to call it.

I saw the post from the QA Lead below which was obviously written by one of the Taiwan management team.  The English is typical of someone who is not from the US.

Stay away from this place if you cherish your sanity, dignity and family life.

It's an ok job for someone starting out in tech to learn hardware and troubleshooting. You will learn a lot and for the most part be left alone to work. The trainers were very patient and knowledgeable. But after the first 2-4 weeks after assembly training the company threw my group into production with no systems training and began hounding about numbers immediately. It was kind of unreal. There is definitely a language barrier everywhere you turn, so bring patience. I agree with other reviews that the management was very confusing. Different managers would come through and tell us different processes. I didn't stay long because I interviewed for a first shift position but was advised that position was expired and only 2nd shift was open. It didn't work out for me. But that was the fault of their staffing agency Advantage Resourcing. Overall getting to assemble and disassemble computers all day was fun. It just felt somewhat chaotic and confusing with the language barriers, lack of clear processes and frequent process changes. Keep your head down and focus on your work. Don't sweat the hounding about numbers. Take advantage of everything you can learn, keep a good attitude and use the experience to move on. 

First i would get to my desk/ working station and turn on my computer and read emails i had received after my clock out time. Go to the other end of the warehouse and sit at another computer and login to see how many orders i had to pull to pack and ship out before my shift ended. I would have to keep track of how many products went out on truck for our inventory and our records. I did a daily report of how many products came from the floor to the warehouse and how many tablets and laptops were sent out. I worked with awesome co workers including my boss. The hardest part of my job was trying to get bulk orders out to Mexico because they always wanted them sent out the same day we got the order in the system. The most enjoyable part of my job was that they were not strict on not talking to people or had to stay in one area all day.

I would clock in every morning and walk to my station to continue my work from where I left of the day before, documenting customer merchandise. I would drink coffee and sit at a table with my co-workers for my first break (15 mins.).  Afterwards I would go back to my station and continue to document intake and socialize with a co-worker who trained me. For my 30 minuet break I would leave to go to lunch and eat. Again I would come back and continue where I left off. I learned how to carefully handle customer products. I also learned how to identify electronics such as AIO's, Motherboards, etc. The hardest part of my job was learning how to do it. The most enjoyable part was working alongside my co-workers.

A typical day at work is sitting around doing nothing until a fixture is broken and you get called down to fix it. Management was horrible and based on nepotism. Basically, the people that move up are those that speak Mandarin. 
You will get an underpaid salary, more than the minimum of any entry-level engineering positions.
Hardest part of the job was when you have to come in during Saturdays or set up the production line. Also, you can get sent to night shift on short notice and you will never be sent to day shift again. Most, if not all engineering teams do not rotate engineers day/night schedules.
Worst of all, my position was not a real engineering position, as you are mostly doing technician work. It's best to leave after a year, or have this job as steady income while you apply for better positions.

I worked the swing shift at Pegatron. The environment was nice, there were people of all ages and background so it was easy to make friends. The first few months was most enjoyable for me due to all the overtime we got. The pay was good and the work was repetitive and easy. I had several different tasks from entering in serial numbers into the computer, to warehouse duties such as moving pallets, unloading trucks, and keeping track of inventory. I also conducted safety procedures with my co workers. The hardest part of the job was inventory due to the high volume of people constantly needing material. Management did a good job of keeping production moving quickly and efficiently.

Work as an "engineer" isn't difficult. Lets just say you won't be using anything you learned in college here. 

Cons: Management can be sloppy at times, and work hours unpredictable. The quantity of work can be too much at times. This company likes to work their engineers overtime without any sort of compensation. It's not uncommon for some engineers to work 10-12 hour days year around. No pay raises. 

Pros: You get to work with a diverse group of people, many who are also college graduates with various engineering degrees. You learn how to manage/supervise various projects. Opportunities to move up in position.

You will get 40 hours a week. The pay is weekly. After that it goes down hill quickly. None of the jobs are actually that difficult in all honesty. You are either doing nothing all day or working as hard as you can while people basically yell at you for not working hard enough all day. Sadly to say the overall feel of the place is one of racism and favoritism for sure. Hard work is not rewarded, especially at the lower levels. Harassment was fairly dense and rampant. With that having been said, it was a job that had a set ( fairly set any way ) schedule with clearly defined hours. So in theory it was easy to make plans around that.

This job was by far the worst work experience I have ever had in my life.  The vast majority of supervisors are foreigners, and very clickish with their own groups of people; this includes them allowing their people to goof around & conversate for long periods of time, helping them to get promoted, and bad mouthing people in their native language, along with plotting to get them fired.  If you are African American Particularly, beware- these foreigners come to this job with automatic prejudices when it comes to blacks, and are so disrespectful, that they will push you to the point of explosion.

A job for employees who don't mind training themselves with minimal outside instruction.  There was always something to be learned so the job was not mundane.  Because of the lack of a training structure,  HP customer care was sometimes frustrating when trying to find solutions for the customers.  Inter-department co-workers were friendly.  My  only complaint is that there is no potential for growth or promotion and management/HR was not confidential or very helpful at all.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Warehouse lead 1 salary reported	$42,500 per year
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Supply chain specialist 2 salaries reported	$53,750 per year
Logistics specialist 2 salaries reported	$45,000 per year

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