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Pioneer Metal Finishing

Pioneer Metal Finishing is the worst run company that I have ever been a part of. Nepotism is common, dubious business practices are the norm, and they make it impossible to have a work-life balance. After my first month of employment, I could clearly see that there was no job security.

People didn't stay long at Pioneer. They had the highest turnover of employees that I had ever seen in my 20 plus year career. The average time for a new employee was less than 5 weeks. They were paid biweekly. It was even worse for temp workers who generally lasted only 2 weeks. It was quite common for them to be fresh out of prison. I fired one who did time for a double homicide. This was an uncomfortable position to be placed in. 

When I was hired I was told that I may have to work up to two weekends a month at the most. This was a lie that they told all new employees. The truth is that as a salaried employee I worked nearly every single weekend. All weekend work and overtime were mandatory for production workers. If a worker wanted to have a weekend off, they would have to use either PTO or UPTO, but only if they had either one to use. I worked a minimum of 53 hours per week, not including many full Sundays and after hour meetings that normally lasted 2.5 hours. 

I was told to inform all of the employees that from now on, anyone who punches in at 6:00 am, the starting time, were to be documented as being tardy. Yes, they were tardy if they were on time! They were supposed to be at their stations working at 6:00 am. I was informed that all workers must punch in ten minutes before their shift or they would be considered late. Of course, they would not get paid for this time. 

I had never worked in a company that was so impertinent towards its own workforce before. Needless to say, the morale of the workers were as low as Pioneers' business practices. For another example, all performance reviews were rigged. I was told that I couldn't give any employee over a predetermined point score no matter how good I thought they were. The starting pay at Pioneer for production workers was very low for its location. They started at $11.50 per hour and were forced to work almost every weekend along with 10 hour days. McDonald's starts at $15.00 per hour and Amazon starts at $17.50 per hour.

In a meeting about how to prevent the extraordinarily high turn over rate of my staff, I suggested a more competitive starting wage. In rebuttal, I was told that workers were not incentivized by money. What a shockingly delusional statement to utter. I was told this with a straight face twice. I do not advise anyone, no matter how desperate, to entertain the idea of working for this rudderless company.

.Pioneer has a terrible business model. 
.Managment doesn't care about employees. They only pretend to.
.Production must work 10 hour days 6 days a week and 8 hours on Sunday.
.Employees are treated with disrespect by the management. 
.Pioneer makes it impossible to have a private family life.
.Managment is inconsistent and change procedures but not the paperwork.
.Delusional management is always trying hard to spin straw into gold.
.They look for someone to blame when their unrealistic goals aren't met. 
.Some employees will backstab when management goes on their witch hunt. 
.Witch hunts even take down supervisors, team-leads, and office personnel.
.Turnover of employees is very high. This includes management.
.Pioneer values only apply to production workers and not to the management.
.Managment is very dishonest and have no ethics. They're morally bankrupt.
.Pioneer practices nepotism and wage theft.
.Pioneer forces production to work holiday weekends.
.You will work alongside numerous ex-felons.
.Both the pay and the morale is very low.
.Working conditions are really hot in the summertime. 
.They'll give some workers more responsibility but their meager pay will remain. 
.Pioneer will not give a cost of living increases ever.
.Pioneer likes to give food from time to time to appear as though they care.  
.Stay far away from this failing company!

Simply put. One of the most disorganized shipping/receiving area's I've ever worked at. It's not about effective shipping/receiving it's about covering first shift productions inept: planning, customer service, and planning. Their receiving practices are backwards. Most of the time orders are called into trucking companies BEFORE orders are done. Customer service makes promises they should not make but the shipping department is suppose to cover both first shift and the customer departments promises. To sum it all up, my team lead became angry with me for preparing an order ahead of time. His quote was, "I should embrace the chaos." If you don't mind: disorganization, old and outdated processes, and being blamed for "this is what we've always done". Work there. I have over ten years of warehousing experience....this was simply the most inept shipping/receiving departments I've EVER witnessed. Want to say, besides management, the people were great; I actually feel sorry for anyone who works there. It's really that bad. 

Working for Pioneer was the worst job that I have ever had. Management is incompetent and they treat their workers like slaves. They are extremely dishonest and can't be trusted. Employees will never get a cost of living increase!

The building was extremely hot in the summertime and we were not allowed to open the doors on cooler days. The management had unrealistic expectations given the poor pay and the number of hours worked. They look for scapegoats when their unrealistic goals aren't met. They also expect their employees to smile and be grateful to give up their entire personal life for a substandard wage and hot working conditions. Morale is low and stress is high.

They work production six and seven days a week. Veteran employees told me that this was normal business practice for this company to work you nonstop until you either quit or become a silent and obedient slave. Surprisingly, there are some at Pioneer. They even have an authentic uncle Tom. Not kidding!

Pioneer offered some exciting opportunities for advancement on paper, but the management team in the local plant never seemed willing or able to assist. The main headquarters consisted of some of the nicest people to work with and I think represented the companies core values and principles, but sadly I never felt the same kind of pleasantness in the team here locally. Many good people still remain and are great to work with, but I really think the Pioneer philosophy changed many wonderful people that were down to earth and understanding into zombie like machines. The trust level between management and hourly employees is extremely strained. I wouldn't be surprised if Pioneer employees started a union soon.

Regardless of how well you work to their schedule, they will keep demanding more. They lay off half the work force and then required the ones that are left to work mandatory overtime and weekends. Then if you can't because you have already made plans, they force you out for someone that will and for less money.
They don't pay your worth and they don't care about following procedures even they themselves have written. Even special or specific AMS standards that we have to follow for specific contracts, they just forge documents to keep the customer happy and hope they don't look to far into it. It blew my mind how many corners thier quality department cut just to get things done. I wouldn't send anything here to be processed, let alone work.. even the upper management is constantly changing and they don't promote unless you have a degree in that said field you are applying for.

The time i was at pioneer was cool but as time went by u could see where things were heading. Too much favortism,management friendly with employees,good workers fired over nonsense where the bad ones get promoted. Never deliver on their promises to employees just give them the run around. Team leaders and supervisors are rude and self centered. Production manager has a very bad attitude problem and when u tell hr bout it u get targeted for termination even when u have a racial comment hurled at u. Workers on the floor have no leg to stand on because when someone try to stand up for themselves team leaders and plant manager find a way to get rid of u. Cant ask for raises because that will be one step for u to get fired plus the threats u get from management regarding anything is crazy because they know they can get away with it.

17 years. I loved this place and put my heart and soul into it. The leaders that think it’s ok to say and do whatever they want feel that way because they are allowed to. They are very comfortable using derogatory terms and boy do they use them. Start others off making more than people that were there 40 years and I wish that was a joke. The turnover rate is so bad that they will give you $2 more an hour if you bring somebody In That stays 30 days/ up to 3 times. Nobody takes advantage of that because you know what the others will have to go through to work there. Please stay away unless your looking for something in between jobs. I even got demoted for holding them to a date to move back to 1st. Then they took money away because my job wasn’t available on 1st anymore when I went back, we’ll where did it go? Oh, they said I voluntarily gave up my position. I left , please don’t make this mistake.

I worked at Pioneer for a couple of years and saw it transition to new owners. After the transition I felt things just went downhill after Bill left. The owner himself is a decent person, it's the people that work for him. Management is HORRIBLE he will publicly humiliate you, yell at you and never knows anything going on before he approaches a situation. Management definitely has there favorites its like going back to high school again. The office lady should be fired she always messing paperwork up and putting the blame on other and the same with the other ladies that work in in warehouse. Piece of advice if you haven't worked there for 10+ yrs you will get treated and talked to different from the rest and they don't pay you what your worth but expect you to give 100 and do all jobs demanded of you.

Saw fist fights and police called. Felons threaten other employees. Supervisor , leads turnover is high. Won't let minorities take supervisor roles even after being leads for several years. Forced to work holidays and every weekend if unrealistic management goals are not reached. Top management has no clue what they are doing and show little if any interest in learning. plant management puts on show of how much they care about their own families then forces you to work on holiday weekends while they are at home with their families. They give out 1.00 tokens for the vending service for your birthday and feel they have gone out of their way doing so. 
do yourself a great service and avoid this employer at all cost.

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