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I would say that the company underpays their employees for the work performed.   There is room to improve processes and equipment that would overall make for a more efficient and profitable company over the long run.  
The real commitment to make those changes has not occurred.   There is always risk when these types of investment are required. This company is one of the last true small family run businesses in the country.  Eventually they will be purchased because it will and probably already does make financial sense.   
In the meantime. If you are looking for a place to work that feels like family and home, this is it.   Management is a little all over the place but they mean well.  The MFG flow is out of sink in most places simply because the company did not grow very gracefully in the last 100 years.   A patch quilt of development that could use a upgrade and re-vamp. 

I worked at the Tumwater branch. You are expected on time, every day. You are expected to be giving solid effort, all day, every day. If you do that, you will succeed. They cross trained me to work in multiple stations, and they listened to me any time I was stressed or needed help. I felt genuinely cared about, so I genuinely tried my best. The boss is great, HR is great, I made some awesome friends with coworkers. Pretty was good, I got a raise after being there a while. Also they match your retirement. At 4% invested from my paycheck and the company 4% match I had 5k in my retirement after 1 year. Pretty good! The insurance was great I had coverage everywhere in the area. They brought in cake for my birthday and threw me a going away party when I quit. There is always a chance to work extra days for overtime if you want to.

A typical day at work is being moved around so you cant learn anything while the employees from express get trained up.
I learned how to grade wood and run a couple really cool machines
Management is horrible, plays favorites and even tries to tell you, you aren’t a part of the union when being pulled into the office for disciplinary actions.
Culture is slim to none, all the big wigs and old timers get 4 or 5 weeks off with a pension. New employees get nothing other than to be hounded to work more over time. Hardest part of the job is the floor supervisors either playing favorites or doing their best to get people fired.
The most enjoyable part was my co workers, i really enjoyed the people i worked with.

There are no raises, it’s completely dependent on if you can bid into something or if the union has a raise stipulation in the contract. Neither ever happen.



What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part at working for any company is the people. They can make or break the experience. I can be doing the worst thing in the world, whatever that may be, as long as it is around good people, it won't matter, usually, what the job is.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Most stressful is some people. I don't know what it is like today but it wasn't that bad a place when I worked there.


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Industrial, woodworking environment..

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get in and work hard until it is time to go home.

There’s many departments and supervisors for each department. So when all those supervisors don’t work together w the other supervisors, us laborers get a “Downday” and still get “encouraged” to work fast on order to get orders shipped on time. It’s bull how they get to rush laborers to get what little we have for work just to not work the next day because supervisors can’t stay on the same page.

Management does everything possible to draw the contract negotiations to well over a year because they know they are not going to give retroactive pay, some supervisors treat you terrible, they promote from within with preference to people who have relatives in management or if the supervisor likes you , not by experience, machines are old and worn out, 

Daily drawing/Design entryways for customers while creating Bill of Material's for manufacturing. Learning design specifications. Creativity is encouraged.

If you can't work a high paced job while having to lift heavy weights at all levels then I would not recommend this place of work on the floor. You could always apply for office jobs but I only worked the floor and it is very demanding on your body. They are very safety focused however if you cant handle your duties you will be let go.

All of Management was awesome, I loved them. My floor supervisor was horrible and played favorites which is one of the reasons I left. Pay, benefits, and hours were awesome.

It depended on the work order some days faster than others not hard at all.First real job learned machine oper-forklift-dryer-sorter.Managment good.Co workers great people. Nothing hard about the job. The chance to learn so much and given so much responsibility.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Sales manager 10 salaries reported	$170,000 per year
Production worker 2 salaries reported	$21.82 per hour
Warehouse associate 2 salaries reported	$21.50 per hour
Cad drafter 2 salaries reported	$25.00 per hour
Millwright 5 salaries reported	$30.67 per hour

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