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S.S. White Technologies

Well, I would recommend avoiding this place by any means, and if you go by she/her – run as far as you can!

I’ll start off with one and only positive thing about the company – its people. I made a lot of friends among SSW employees, who are kind-hearted, genuine, and fun. But that has nothing to do with a hostile work environment the management is so particularly good at creating. 

If you happened to browse the company’s job openings, have you noticed that SSW work descriptions are somewhat different from the others? That’s right, it’s the only organization out there that brags about how exceptionally talented and awesome their CEO is. In this company, its employees’ world has to revolve around his wants and needs – your professional opinion will get dismissed and demonstratively ignored if it does not align with his. Moreover, if you’re a female – god forbid a strong one – he will go out of his way to degrade you not only as a professional but as a person. I witnessed a super bright and smart female employee getting on stronger pills she could barely afford because of that kind of treatment. Also, you will probably notice that his top-management folks act like submissive yes-men who take every opportunity to prove their loyalty to SSW and him in particular. This means no matter whom you end up reporting to, you will become just another brick in the wall of his cult. 

That selling point of a “family-oriented culture” is the scam of the century, too. Why? Well, the management did not allow a high-risk employee with diabetes work from home during the coronavirus pandemic and threatened those who wished to wfh with unpaid leave. In the meantime, when it was decided to divide the workforce into 3 shifts to “maintain social distance” instead of just trusting people and letting them wfh, the president locked himself up in his house and had an employee come over to his front door and disinfect packages for him. Risking your “family member” to keep yourself safe? Yes, that’s what they probably don’t advertise in their precious family-oriented job postings.

You might be as well an immigrant seeking H1-B… Well, there’s a bunch of immigrant workers in the company. Just keep in mind that the visa fee will be considered as your personal debt to the company if you work less than 2 years – be prepared to sign a form and chain yourself to your desk. Also, get ready to be mistreated and underpaid. Oh, by the way, they just kicked out three non-immigrants, two of them won H1-B this March. God only knows if they will stay in the country, considering the pandemic and crazy unemployment rates among locals. Rumors are they revoked H1-B petitions without notifying those guys and not even discussing possible options of transferring their visas to new employers. What’s funny they posted their jobs online the next day after firing with no cause and no notice, after keeping them on a temporary furlough for a month. Yes, your family-oriented boss may throw you out like garbage, my fellow H1-B seeker. 

HR is probably my favorite department. Its manager is likely the most unprofessional and president-oriented creature you’ll ever see. No matter what your qualifications are, she will not let you pass the job interview if you don’t read political news or books. She ignored a female who got harassed by a male worker, which eventually forced that girl to quit her job. She cracks flat jokes about firing people on the meetings and has zero empathy towards anyone unless you’re the CEO or VP. Even an orchid in her office is plastic. 

What you just read are only a few examples of the company’s routine. Maybe worth getting into for some experience and friends. But my special warning here is for females and OPT/ H1-B folks. Take care, stay sane, stay away, and don't waste your talent in a place where it's never gonna be appreciated.

When I was hired I was promised opportunities to advance, competitive work environment, opportunities for trainings to advance my skillset, and yearly bonuses and pay increases.

The management here followed up on none of these promises, even though the CEO would publicly continue to talk about them in speeches throughout the year.

The company monitors everything you do closely usually just to have "proof" when they tell you that you arent working to your potential. They have a background program running on all computers recording every program, website, mouse click, into an excel sheet. It sends reports splitting productive and nonproductive catagories. (checking company email, and researching materials/designs/specifications often end up getting counted as unproductive)

Pay started rather low for my position, with the promises of bonuses and annual increases to make up for it if I stuck with the company. The bonuses were completely bogus (with the exception of 1 mediocre holiday bonus in the 5 years I was there) and pay increases were average about 3-5% per year, just barely above inflation rates. When you ask about raises, out comes the excel sheet from the computer monitoring program.

The CEO of the company expects everyone to trust him, yet he trusts no one. He would verbally make promises in a meeting to everyone, then change all of his promises a month later and claim he never said anything. Yet when he expects something from you, you need to sign a contract legally binding you to follow through. 

All management positions are filled with the CEOs friends and family, there is no chance of working your way up to management.

Thus far I'm sure I seem like a disgruntled ex employee. But not everything was negative. The employees all around me were great in supporting each other as we were all in the same boat. The 401K match at 12.5% was better than nothing. In an environment where your managers rarely know how to support their teams, you learn a lot on how to create support for yourself and how to be proactive without looking for help from others. I definitely came out of the company better off than when I started.

This is not a bad place to work for a year or two if you need a job and want to pad your resume, just be careful of what the owner makes you sign. But if you are looking for a career, this is not the place for it. You will become Sisyphus, constantly battling uphill and taking a beating all for nothing.

I would arrive and do the initial safety check on the fork lifts before manning them to load and unload trucks and/or reposition material, as well as to perform other various duties around the dock and warehouses.

I learned how to operate several fork trucks with great efficiency and safety consciousness.

The plant manager was very kind, understanding, and helpful, which offset the fact that the another manager may well have have been Himmler's lost son, a FACT that backed by the fact that 95 percent of his original staff to leave within the first year, and had significant turnover as well. He berated other plant employees and temporary employees so much that two temporary service agencies to refused to continue sending us employees at all.

Although STAFFED with wonderful people, the workplace "culture" was an absolutely contrived attempt to carher employees for photo ops to include in next years edition of their new-workers' manual, hundreds of which went into the hands of employees who lasted six months or less.

The hardest part of the job was dealing with the omnipresent "Himmler" who seemed to make it his mission, not only verbally abuse members of his department, but to stalk and harass workers outside his department without deferring to other department heads. This "man" literally was the reason I began seeing a psychiatrist and having to take antidepressant medication just to deal with his daily abuse, and I am exceptionally surprised that they haven't been sued for this man systematically and knowingly causing a very hostile work environment.

The favorite part of my job was doing it well so that could make my personal manager's job more efficient and, of course, learning, becoming certified, and operating the company fork trucks.

This is a decent place to gain some early experience in your career, but beyond that, DO NOT WORK HERE. I spent two years at this company, and it was by far the most poorly managed and toxic environment I’ve encountered.

Most of the upper management has little understanding of how to lead effectively. Their expertise seems limited to making employees feel undervalued and overworked, all while operating in a rigid, prison-like atmosphere. Raises were minimal or non-existent, and when asked about performance-based incentives, the responses were vague, dismissive, or outright deflective. At one point, several high-performing employees left within weeks of each other, not for better offers, but simply because the work environment had become unbearable.

I rarely felt appreciated in my role. One of the most discouraging experiences came after I spent six months leading a project that significantly improved company-wide operations. Despite the effort, results, and clear value delivered, I didn’t receive even a simple “good job” from my supervisor. That moment solidified the reality: hard work was expected, but never recognized.

During the hiring process, the company made bold promises about generous bonuses and excellent benefits. In practice, those claims were grossly overstated. Bonuses were few and far between — typically only $100 — and only awarded if a monthly sales record was broken, which happened maybe once or twice a year. It felt like a bait-and-switch tactic to lure people in, only for the reality to fall far short of expectations.

If you're looking for a place where your time, effort, and contributions will be valued, I strongly recommend looking elsewhere.

They make the employees go to the owners properties to do work for their normal hourly rate. This is because he is too cheap to hire actual contractors to work on his beach condo's and his home. I've never worked at a place where this was common practice, but I found it completely unprofessional and demeaning.

Also, the 'free insurance' is kind of a gimmick. Yeah, it's free for the employee, but with a $6000 deductible.  So basically, it's like not having insurance. If you want to upgrade to a decent plan or add family , then the cost is about what every other company charges.

The pay scale is much less for all the positions, than other companies and raises are very small and infrequent.

There is lots of turnover, because people figure out pretty quickly that this is not a good place to work in the long term.

The hours were good and I met some really nice coworkers there. But those are about the only 2 positives I can think of.


I held an electrician position for about a month upon arrival. I noticed that I was doing more contract electrician work more than performing maintenance on machines in facility maintenance I was asked to go to owners home to lower down their boat just seen a little unethical and unprofessional there’s a big lack of communication. The pay is cheap. The hours are good.

They’re expanding and using their work force to build the additions. 
They claim family but are obnoxiously, rude and passive.
The people there were very nice when I first started. I was told that they’re keeping it a close eye on me and I was told that they do this with every new employee. I felt like they wanted me to walk on eggshells it’s unfortunate that I didn’t stay there

While working at SS White wasn't bad in itself, and I did enjoy myself most of the time ( as fellow employees are generally easy to get along with ) there were multiple occasions where management and/or other departments had no clue what was going on.  

Things that I would consider high level priority were often downplayed, while issues that were extremely minor were sometimes blown completely out of proportion.  

Multiple, incompatible, data systems were being used simultaneously making work more difficult.  Ie, instead of using a single database to track production, there were 2 ( or 3 ) which needed to be updated all the time...  ( basically doing the same work multiple times for no reason and increasing opportunities for error )

All in all...  Fun place to work...  but management was clueless.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Best part about this place is going on your breaks and lunch. That is it..

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The stressful part that comes along with this company is that if a co-worker doesn't like you or you did something they didnt like, they'll create drama for you, making the work day unbearable.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Company is ran by the employees and favoritism between one another

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in, setup and run machine, deal with bs, go on break, clock out, go home.

Typical day of work often involves begging for work and being blamed if you don't have anything to do, despite empty promises for projects from managers. Weird combination of absolutely no direction and obscene micromanaging.

Coworkers were generally good - all interesting people who did what was needed of them, and the product itself is relatively unique, but the company is absolutely ruined by management's lack of direction, an absurd amount of nepotism, and a disgustingly overbearing CEO. Do not recommend.

They have good hours. They will lie to you.  They will make you do things that you don't get paid for. And then tell you that's part of your job. When it's not. They will not let you grow with the company unless they like you. They also pay you low wage for hard work.  Raises are on your work performance. Even if you do good you still get lower   Raises. Only if you're like by the supervisor will you get a decent raise. If you ever get hired just asked the people who's been there. Not a good place to work.

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