technical support representative

it technician

TPI Corporation

1. Absolutely do not care about their employees. At TPI, they offer no health insurance. Management does not care about working you to death or trying to work your line way over normal production numbers, which are sometimes impossible to do, even is if everyone is working as hard as they can. These corporation has serious unrealistic expectations for what is feasible to do in a day. 

2. Terrible benefits. First year working there, you get no vacation, paid time off, 401k, health insurance, FMLA, and even after working there for years, the benefits are still terrible compared to most other places. They do not even match your 401k contributions. Workers who have worked there for 5 years, still only have 2 weeks of vacation.

3. Pay is not worth it for the type of work you do. They’ll work you into the ground for mediocre pay.

4. Short lunch break, only 30 minutes long, but it takes an insane amount of time to walk across the factory. 

5. Little room for advancement. Most of the supervisors there, had to work here for 20 plus years to get their positions. But in the meantime, they had to put up with a poorly run corporation for 2 decades, with a load of BS to get their positions. And this factory does not pay the best or compensate their workers future’s the best, so it is not worth it. 

6. Ridiculous attendance policies. TPI does not understand that people have lives outside of work, and stuff happens, that is sometimes out of your control. Since they do not offer vacation time your first year working there, they give you 18 “occurrence points” to go through, before they fire you. If you miss 4 days and 2 hours of work, they will automatically fire you. The only way you can’t get points, is if you bring in a doctors excuse, but it has to say you are contagious. So, if you are a woman and have a debilitating UTI for example that you go to the doctor for and get excused, they will not excuse you, because you were not contagious. There is such a thing as getting non contagious illnesses/diseases or injuries, they can greatly effect your productivity and safety to work. But TPI has very outdated ways to run a business, and they absolutely do not care about their employees well being, safety, future, or anything else.

Tpi is for sure in my top 5 worst job experiences. Unless you part of the clique, family, or major brown noser you won't get far. Pay scale is severely broken (skilled labor jobs being paid less than non skilled labor) as a welder I received a laughable salary. Quality of welding acceptable at facility is a joke. Some employees cared to ensure good quality while others passed welds that were extremely questionable. Management is poor at best. All management is held by one particular family who are clueless on how management works. Facilities are poor. Building is nasty and poorly kempt. Bathrooms (men's as I am myself man) are gross. Benefits are out of the question as no health coverage is available and the plans for dental and vision are very overpriced. They offer a union but it is pointless as it does absolutely nothing for you and was only established to make sales for contracts requiring union labor involved in the manufacturing process

- you go to work and do work until the bell rings
- don't leave the line unless allowed to 
- learned how an assembly line worked
- learned safety and conditions of a plant
- meet quotas for the day/week
- talk to co-workers about steps of building heaters and asking for help if you needed it and not bothering the line lead unless absolutely necessary
- follow rules and regulations strictly or be written up
- lifting and moving heaters was difficult because some heaters were about 100 pounds
- the people I worked with were extremely nice for the most part and did what they could to help you out or went to get someone to help you if they couldn't/didn't know

When ONE man holds an entire MO/CNC shop together it’s sad, absolutely disorganized company. Always switching you around to different machines for no reason. I understand switching people on different machines to not burn them out but when you are told to figure it out by reading the BP and it’s completely incorrect/backwards then your to blame.  They will also fire you for ANYTHING steer clear from this place. No health insurance no promise for advancement. THEY won’t tell you until you get hired on but they have a illness policy if you are sick and not contagious your points won’t be excused. 

SAD! This place cares nothing about its employees! The benefits are HORRIBLE,  the pay is below average for the area. The bathrooms are GROSS. 
The office environment is very stuffy. They will not let you walk around the parking lot on your lunch or breaks. They have no outdoor area for employees to sit and eat or just relax. You have to sit in the building or in your car. If you sneeze inside everyone looks at you, like you have committed a capital crime. 
It is a very hard place to work. No benefits,  no incentive to stay.

I worked here for 2 years and did absolutely nothing wrong I took a layoff and became a foster parent and then boom I wasn’t able to return. I think it’s funny people are allowed to walk out point out among other things and are able to return with no questions asked including some of the HR’S family! The supervisor’s pick and choose whom they like and dislike and if your disliked they will find a reason to terminate your job! In my opinion they need a new HR person as well as a few new supervisors maybe then they wouldn’t have such a high turnover rate!! 

I would go back with them in a heart beat, everyone was awesome to work with and for. If I had the chance I would go back. I learned a lot about the products they make and sale , very goof reputation  on products. I Loved the people that worked there everyone was so nice.

I came in as a temporary and advanced to a team lead in less than 5 months. The benefits are not that great but the environment is. The people are wonderful and the best department in the plant is Shipping. I highly recommend if you go to work here. Try to get into the shipping department the supervisors are nice and helpful and always try to look out for their personnel.

TPI would be a great place to work if they cared more about their employees. They do not offer any health insurance, only dental and vision. The company changed management several years ago and there was really no discipline in that place. There is nothing wrong with being a little lax but you have to have some structure and respect for the job. I had a supervisor that was oblivious to what was going on across the room.

TPI offers no insurance works a lot of overtime and has a very quid pro quo environment it has plant manager who has his entire family working their as supervisors none have been trained for management and are very by intimidated by any person educated and qualified they very unprofessional and quick to lash out at anyone who intimidates them

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