truck driver

maintenance technician

machine operator

forklift operator

chófer clase b

Pratt Industries

A typical day of work is tedious and boring. If the machine has mechanical issues you could be doing nothing for half a shift while maintenance works on it. Maintenance is horribly understaffed. We have a total of 7 machines not including forklifts and only three maintenance personal. One of which works on night shift alone. 

I learned that honesty is punished from this job and that if you have a problem keep it to yourself. 

Management is hit or miss. Some of them are nice to work with others not so much. It's common that complaints are met with and I quote "You'll just have to make do." Or "If you don't like it you can go home." The plant manager also has a bad habit of getting into inappropriate relationships with his workers which create inappropriate power dynamics.

The workplace culture is toxic. More than a few people have bad attitudes and participate in shouting matches. Its not uncommon for some to talk down to others who they feel are beneath them and that includes management. We are encouraged to act as a "family" but the moment you become inconvenient or more trouble than you are worth your are cut off. The people at the bottom are expected to work then hardest and provide maximum effort and efficiency while the top can do as they please. 

The hardest parts of the job is working the hazardous conditions. In the winter it gets below freezing and the summer is much worse. The plant can get  will over 100°F on a hot day. They offer water bottles and hydration pops but those are only accessible at the break room. Which means the people at the back of the plant have to walk all the away across to reach them. It's common to work 12hr shifts in these conditions at the measly pay they offer for anyone under management. If we're lucky we'll get a bonus or a lunch. The largest bonus I ever got was $700 but average is typically $300. The plant manager brings home $15000 per year. And that's just his yearly bonus. Not including any other bonuses. I've worked her for 3 years and every year we've worked a minimum of 3 months worth of mandatory overtime every year. Last year we worked 8 STRAIGHT months of overtime. At least 6 of those months were 12 hour shifts. If you are hurt in the job and get workers compensation they hold your compensation unless you come into work. The whole time you are expected to sit in the break room for the duration of the shift instead of resting at home like you should be. You can of course return to work with a doctors note. 

The most enjoyable part of the job is the breaks and if you're lucky your team you work with. Most of the people I work with are really nice people but this is a classic case of a few bad apples spoils the bunch. 

I cannot honestly recommend this company to anyone but the most desperate. Its by far the worst company I've ever worked for. It's only a bit better than companies like Amazon who makes their workers urinate in bottles. I'm sure Pratt would too if they could get away with it. Make no mistake this company will promise it cares about you but it does not. Your worth is measured by your tolerance of their misdoings and your production. If you're a woman be prepared for management to make advances towards you. I've never seen it myself but I've heard stories and that's more than enough for me not to trust them. 

The plant manager is a micromanaging tyrant. He even tries to control the way trailers are managed in the yard... which is completely out of his chain of command. The logistics manager is a nice guy, but a complete pushover who will do anything the plant manager says regardless what the drivers might say.

The work isn't bad. If you've been a yard jockey before, you know what to expect. The equipment is also about what you'd expect, always broken.

Plan on working every Saturday. I was told when I interviewed that they worked "a lot" of Saturdays. I was there three months and only had two Saturdays off. Management isn't smart enough to figure out they need to switch to a 24/7 schedule. Production works 24/7 a lot, drivers get Sunday off to get the 34-hr reset. They could easily run four 12-hr shifts like so many companies do.

You can't trust your coworkers. The dayshift guy acted like we were buddies, but I caught him talking about me behind my back. The third shift guy was just a schoolyard bully. Like all bullies, he thought he was The Man, but ran and hid behind his mommy's skirt the instant I pushed back. No kidding, he harassed me for weeks... when I finally got fed up and said something back to him, he complained I was creating a hostile work environment and I was fired immediately. He's a low-life snake, a worthless human being. If you take the job, don't trust him.

I actually consulted with a lawyer about my termination. While I didn't have enough of a case to justify pursuing, the lawyer did tell me it was inconceivable to him that my termination wasn't mainly due to my filing of a worker's comp claim. I hurt my leg Saturday 1/18/20, I was off Monday 1/20/20 to get the injury treated and because I could barely walk, then I was fired Thursday 1/23/20. I had no previous disciplinary action, just straight to termination. Coincidence?

Bottom line-- you'll bring home a decent check. But you won't feel like part of a team. And if you want to spend time with family, you'll be disappointed.

I would not recommend this company. Management is unorganized. I started a couple of months ago as a temp on 2nd shift. They talked about a big hire to permanent as they just got a HR manager to help facilitate the slow hiring process that had been the norm.
Then in a meeting today they said the company was consolidating and doing away with 2nd shift. They would now operate with one shift, being 1st. Management had to know this was going to be forecasted a couple months ago. They talk a good game, but it ended in a lie. Just to get production numbers up before the big "kick you to the curb." Right before Christmas. Very disappointing. 
It is an okay place to work everyone does seem to get along, most of the time a bit too much. Too much chit chat about personal stuff with the younger quality team especially. Which slows down the staging process in shipping. Supervisor's are a part of the problem as well as they participate in idle chit chat and laughing. Very frustrating when you are trying to do your job well and have a seasoned work ethic. 
There technology and warehouse engineering have a lot to be desired. Scanner's are poor functioning and not updated to a functioning level to produce increased productivety, the rollers the palletized completed orders come down are mangled and makes it very difficult to lift them of the line. In addition there labels on the pallets are not legible in order to see clearly what city they are going to. The staging dock is a mess. Forklift and foot traffic on the staging dock is too much with forklift drivers staging bulk orders. This creates an unsafe envroment for everyone. They need a larger warehouse or a warehous engineer to come in a revamp the entire layout. 
At first I liked it there but after working at other places in comparison the have a lot of growing to do.

I believe that the rating of most reviews it’s not very accurate for each employer based on the specific job title you have.  This is also based on the location you work for whether or not they are a part of a union or not.  This would definitely have an impact on salary and benefits.  What is pretty consistent across the board here is the work schedule and hours.  They  operate under a rotating schedule which usually consists of 5 days in a row working 12/hr shifts then with four days off after that. Depending on where you are with the company as far as recycling department or paper mill etc. Will determine if that schedule sticks to the home/work value it actually portrays to have. You can move up in every area in the company and you are fully supported and surrounded by a lot of leadership and motivation however, depending on where you are in the company will determine your workload for example four days off might seem great but what they don’t tell you is there are mandatory days that you have to work twice a month that may or may not fall on your days off during rotation And there is also on call required for some shifts on their days off. If you take those matters into consideration some days you wind up working a full 7-9 days straight 12 hours shifts without a day off but it’s not recognized as that because Sunday starts a new week. Overall the company is amazing to work for and offers great benefits and a lot of money is able to be made. and there is a lot of options for overtime as well. I believe this is why most people stay employed for a very long time. If you are confident you can handle the physical and emotional stress for long periods of time. Go for it.

This was a very good job for me to take the knowledge and experience I already had and develop it even more. When l first started at this company I didn't have any procedures to follow because it was a brand new company so I used my past experience to set up the warehouse and stock to run efficiently and productively. We would stock rolls so the tags were visible for inventory and easily accessible for all clamp truck drivers. We had a schedule to follow of trucks coming in to be unloaded, follow the schedule, and sometimes when a carrier came in 5 to 6 hours before their appointment we would unload them if no one was waiting in line. We unloaded on average 25 to 30 trucks in 10 hours on our shift.

The hardest part of the job for me was when some of the management and co-workers were very moody due to the extreme stress and pressure the job demanded. For a few years I helped work in the office when an employee took days off. With being leadman of the warehouse, working in the office, taking calls to schedule incoming trucks and scheduling companies to come in for roll stock repair, it became very stressful for me also. At this point I went to management to voice my concern about the heavy responsibilities, as a result I was demoted to clamp truck driver and suffered a cut in pay. Then management decided to give the scheduling job to people in the office and the person that was given leadman position had much lighter responsibilities. 
But I did enjoy my job very much and stayed busy and the days went by fast.

Hardest part of the job is was dealing with the fact that Pratt is located in a rural area of Conyers, GA. This company has some of the nicest people you could ever work with, however, it also has some of the most disrespectful and condescending people you could ever work with. By it being located in the relatively small town of Conyers, GA. you have to deal with the management sometimes treating you as people did back in the 1960's. I witnessed several incidents in which managers (Human Resource) would deliberately provoke a negative reaction from their employees just because they could get away with it. Also I noticed that one of the Plant Managers literally acting as if he owned the entire company, often times yelling at his employees for the smallest thing, (like walking out of the bathroom without wearing his safety-goggles eye protection). There's one more thing you should know about Pratt Industries, it has a BIG PROBLEM WITH NEPOTISM...! I remember VERY CLEARLY that an assistant manager was working for a few months in the Display building but AS SOON as she graduated, was immediately promoted to a new office in the upstairs corporate office, right down the hall from HER FATHER..!!?! Also I have personally seen managers hire their kids, train them, and then FIRE other employees to create a spot for their children. Just my observation. I'm sure this happens occasionally everywhere, but at Pratt it's a BIG PROBLEM. PRATT = NEPOTISM & DISRESPECT..!

a typical day at pratt display was rather fast paced and easily flew by without much of a hassle. the warehouse was an over all kind environment with many different people and cultures blending wonderfully with the building. The over all job allowed me to work on my time management as well as my attention to detail within my personal tasks throughout the day. I learned rather quickly how to operate the companies software and also how important a organized and easily navigated work station is when operating so timely while being around so many individuals. while working at pratt the management suffered a huge loss in employees and with that a few months happened to be quite shaky, however the staff genuinely pulled together and kept the work days normalized and as swift as ever which I admired about them. the work could easily stack up during a break or lunch outing and the pressure to push orders out the door quickly and correctly could get pretty immense and often times could make coworkers on edge. many a times tension would be in the office and that created a negative work environment that was hard to enjoy, but nothing was more rewarding than seeing the trucks pull away and having your higher ups praise everyone for another flawless day. even with the pressure to be perfect high the warehouse was always a giant family and at the end of the shift it was good knowing you had people around you who understood and would have your back when you truly needed it.

A typical day at Pratt begins with a safety meeting which all employees are required to attend. A new safety topic is introduced on the first day of each week and we are given a quiz about the topic on the last day of the week. Safety is very important at Pratt. After the meeting, we go out into the production area where we begin making preparations for the day's production. A look at the printed schedule reveals the necessary tooling and materials that will be required for the next few hours. Once preparations have been made, the machinery is then started up. A sample part is ran, which is then thoroughly inspected for quality. Once inspected, batch production begins. As an operator, my major job function is to ensure that everything on my line is doing what it is supposed to be doing; one small hang-up on the line can lead to a catastrophe, so I must be aware of my surroundings and also be able to spot potential mishaps before they occur.

I enjoy my job at Pratt. There are days when absolutely nothing goes right, but the days when everything goes right leaves me with a great feeling of satisfaction. I am highly fond of the majority of my co-workers; they are great people. But even with my higher education, I feel that my career has reached its peak with this company. I stand by and watch as advancement opportunities are handed to employees with less experience and less education. I do understand that the company is happy with me being at my current position, but they must understand that I am ready to move on and live a better life.

You're expected to WORK! There are no benefits other than 5 days vacation and medical(which is extremely high). They have an 8 point system whereas if you call in you're pointed, you're out sick you're pointed, you're a second late you're pointed. We were recently off for 2 days due to gas shortage and the only way to get paid for those days was to use your vacation days. So much for a vacation if you were planning one. They offer no kind of sick pay or PTO occural that would really help. Their job posting states that you may be asked to work overtime and some Saturdays this is not true. They schedule you to work these times and for Saturday you won't be notified that you're working until 24-48 hours before and we've worked a lot of Saturdays sometimes 5 weeks in a row.  Bad part is that even with this short notice if you call in you will be pointed even though this is considered your day off. So any plans that you may have had you have to decide if you want to miss it and be pointed or go to work.  The turnover rate is CRAZY as I have seen so many come and go after only being there a week or shorter. This is not a great place to work. If you have applied please don't be fooled by the smiles. 

a typical day of working at Pratt Industries  includes arriving 15 minutes to 45 minutes before your shift starts if you are late even one minute or two minutes for your shift you were docked have a point. It is a seven point system if you reach seven points, you will be terminated Points include half point for leaving early before shift quarter of a point for leaving after halfway mark of your shift four point if you are sick with a note full point if you leave work sick or injured expect to work 5 to 6 days a week 8 to 12 hours a day. Workplace culture does not exist, but you do have a diverse group of hired individuals ranging from felons two normal every day people. Hardest part about the job while working for Pratt . Industries is having a normal life outside of work with the amount of people that you work with and how they act or you interact with them Will differ your work life at work and cause you to be your drained or ecstatic. The workplace is always 90+ to 110°F. You will need to drink plenty of water in order to stay hydrated and vigilant. The most enjoyable part about working at Pratt  is leaving the factory itself or receiving pay. If you do not receive your pay, good luck, they will either say we do not have the paperwork or corporate will not approve your backpay.

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