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Roseburg Forest Products

I work in the office so I can't speak for the production or maintenance workers but I really enjoy my job. The management team is pretty tight knit. They expect a lot from their employees but they also care about them and go out of their way for them. There are great development opportunities if you seek them out. The flexibility in the schedule is great, as long as I work 40 hrs a week and am there during most of the business hours, I can pretty much decide my schedule. I can also work from home if I need to and you are encouraged to have work/life balance, you start out with three weeks of vacation per year. I do wish the position paid more, as I make less than an entry level production employee and in my position I'm expected to wear many hats. The medical plan is probably one of the worst ones I've had but I've been lucky to work at places in the past that had above average healthcare plans. I think Roseburg's is probably pretty typical and you can earn discounts. I will say that the lack of stress and the family environment makes the pay and benefits worth it to me.

Was lied to repeatedly by my manager, but since I didn't get her promises in writing, she denied ever having made them. She forbade me to speak to her manager for any reason. She allowed other team members flexibility with their location and scheduling, but I was required to be on site at all times (she works entirely remotely). After she called me a b1tch (still not sure why, and she wouldn't answer), I confronted her and she denied it. I spoke to HR and their solution was for me to read some self help books. Apparently supervisors are allowed to be derogatory to their employees with no repercussions. If you're willing to play by their twisted rules and not make waves, the pay and benefits are decent. However, due to changes in their overhead and culture, I don't see that lasting long. I know I sound bitter, and it is hard not to after working at a place for over 6 years while watching other employees get the things I had asked for and been promised, such as part-time remote work. When a company or its employees repeatedly deceive you, harrass you, or do not support you, it's not a good company.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I gave a single star but deserves nothing more. This place is full of good ol boy tricks. The supervisor will look for any reason to keep you from aquiring a new bid position. 


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The stressful part. Is they lie about their ethics. It's posted on their billboard come grow with us! But in reality you will stay stagnant no matter how good of a job you do. Your supervisor will see to it that you stay out unless you are part of their chosen ones LOL
Lots of unethical treatment. And if you have a personal issue the ENTIRE PLANT WILL KNOW. NOTHING IS PRIVATE. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hostile and lots of closed minded folk. Full of like I said before gold ol boy tactics. If someone doesn't like you. Be sure to know you'll be singled out for no good reason. There is plenty of people who get away with it. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter depending on where you work.

This is by far the best job I've ever had pay and benefits wise. The work is very physically demanding and can be frustrating at times but also rewarding. It is very easy to move up into an administrative position with this company and plenty of ways to get involved in different aspects of the company (i.e. safety, observation, lead person, over-time etc...), without moving into administration. This is a union mill and the workers are members of the local C I C, (carpenters industrial council.) Although the union provided great pay and medical coverage, I find working within a union-structured environment to be very challenging at times for various reasons. We as workers are well provided for and given many opportunities to succeed within the company.

I really enjoyed my job, but it was by no means easy.  There were times I went thru some very very unpleasant times, working there.  When I left, seniority really did not matter at all. People with less plant/job seniority got to stay on their bid job, while I who was 2nd in line of job seniority and 25 years plant, got moved to a different job. I was even laid off due to current bid being curtailed, but others who worked at a different bid got to stay, so someone with 17 years of plant seniority got laid off while many who had 1-2 years plant seniority got to stay and work.  Shop stewards who sat in grievance flat out lied and tried to make me look like I was lying, but I had proof, so I won.  Management after they got rid of the original ones, was totally inexperienced and came in with the attitude of I know more than you do. 

The Coquille mill has over a 70% turn over rate. The good hard working employees are rewarded with more work. While the lazy employees are allowed to be lazy.  Very poor management, shift leads are constantly short staffed and left to fend for themselves to keep production going.  Management implements new policy with complete disregard to how it may effect the employees and their ability to do their jobs. They almost never consult with employees on coming to a common sense solution to safety concerns or maintenance on machine centers. Over all, it is a very frustrating place to work, especially if you have any ambition to try and make it a less stressful more enjoyable place to work as management ignores almost all employee insights. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
There are no good parts about working for this woke liberal company. Management will play games to try and make you quit. If that doesn’t work, then it’s falsified documents to terminate employees. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Wondering how long you will have a job. It’s all politics. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Woke liberal. All political all the time. If your not part of the click then your terminated. If they want someone in your position then your terminated or pushed out to try and make you quit. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Miserable. Keeping your head down wondering when you will be terminated or who is going to make up allegations to get you fired.

Hardest part was learning what the expectations were for my job. I regularly saw new employees begin work without a safety orientation - myself included. It was hard time to figure out what we were allowed to do or not. Each supervisor wants something different from you and not all of them are good at communicating their expectations. I saw leadership discipline employees for not adhering to policies that they haven't been trained on, because they don't want to own up and admit that they messed up the training or training schedule. Roseburg definitely needs to improve their communication, training and respecting employees. But if you are close with someone in management then you probably will have great job security.

Culture in Information Technology since 2003 has changed at least 3 times with the introduction of a new CIO/Director of the department. The management styles of each are vastly different and how they communicate to the employees is directly related to the location and status with the company. Within the Helpdesk the culture is more open and thoughts and questions have flowed more freely - beyond there are structures put in place that inhibit communication and even block it from occurring in some cases where it could benefit the company.

Corporate re-branding and improvements to be more driven on the marketing Roseburg seems to be in a good position for the future with a good core leadership in the CEO and President.

I sat in a lot of meetings with the upper management over the years. Corporate would coach the supervisors and managers on how to avoid recordable incidents. Stuff like if the “team member” goes to the doctor remind them if they get a prescription its a recordable. There is a us against them with the union the corporate HR would remind us all  the union is a presence not a partner. As far as working in a salary position you where expendable. The new management they have over the Dillard complex is a bunch of college kids with very little experience in wood products but they have a degree. The lack of knowledge and maturity shows. The best decision I have ever made is to move on before it got way out of hand. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production 9 salaries reported	$21.21 per hour
Millwright 4 salaries reported	$29.00 per hour
Electrician 2 salaries reported	$33.16 per hour
Laborer 2 salaries reported	$23.26 per hour
Inside sales representative 3 salaries reported	$68,000 per year

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