production associate

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injection mold operator

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The atmosphere at work is rather friendly and informal.
The management is also friendly, and  leaves their subordinates alone - maybe too much.
Some employees who work from home actually do nothing all day, and their management does not really monitor or even care. It is difficult to accept that these dishonest lazy employees are oftentimes masterful in disguising themselves as good subordinates and thus are rather quicker to climb the ladder to promotion than those who actually work diligently behind the scenes whether being monitored or not.
The management does not take time to develop every single employee equally - they lack the ability to do so or do not care.
There is no clear career path set for your future, and once a certain skill is acquired, you can mechanically do it every day like a robot and get paid for it, but there is no guidance on how to move up from there, so morale can get quite low.
If you do only what you are told, no matter how boring and without much challenge, you will be praised as doing a good job but you will eventually find yourself feeling empty and losing pride and confidence that you once had in your own worthiness.
An annual pay raises are lower than the national average (for subordinates only?). The rate of pay increase is so way lower than the rate of increase in inflation that it is almost ridiculous. 
Overall, If you admit to yourself that you have no motivation, are lazy but smooth-talking, then this loose, lukewarm, spiritless work environment may be a right place for you. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Benefits, Clean environment steady work with overtime. Challenging work positions, full cafeteria, Air conditioned and they play music on the floor. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The management didn't want anyone with ideas of their own or with a voice if you had opinions other than the way they did things they started to work you out and if you're not in the group of buddies that have been there forever you were not going to be there long and then when you're working so hard constantly on a production line just killing it and nothing's ever good enough getting underappreciated at a job it's the worst thing management can do to an employee

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is very fast paced there's like no down time at all because they run so close to Honda's production they can't shut harm you down so if Honda is working you're working

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I started as a temp was hired on after 3 months start a promotions early on so I wouldn't start working on the line we rotate every 2 hours to the next job because they were jobs like bolding front back to seats stretching the trim around the front backs putting headrests on all the way down the line rotate through those jobs and an inspection I was a team leader I did quality control

Currently work at ts tech 2nd shift. Started out as a temp in 2018 and was told after 3 months would be hired on...took 9 months. Started out on 1st shift unaware that after being hired on you were forced to work 2nd shift (6pm-2:30am). I'm a single mother with a small child so working till nearly 4am or 5am (lines dont run efficiently and everything breaks) can be very difficult with little sleep. Swapping shifts takes around 5 YEARS! Currently so short handed that employees are having to double up on jobs and cut out others lowering the quality standards and cutting corners. Raises are not given as scheduled and HR is a joke. They can never tell you anything. The technicians are lazy except a select few and if you are a hard worker they take advantage of you expecting more work (double jobs at once). Its very physical on your body and I come home cut up and covered in bruises. The company is falling apart and losing great employees to save a buck. Robots are being installed to replace manpower and the robots/machines they currently use break constantly and don't work half the time. Use to be an excellent place to work with exceptional benefits and bonuses. Now I stress every night going in worried/knowing that my workload will be doubled up and having to work till dawn. 

The job is hard on your hands most of the time, unless you are a man, then you get stuff that's easy on your hands. Folding is usually women but there is some men that do fold. Mostly just cause some chemicals can cause cancer in women, so they dont mess with the chemicals like men. The managment will work with you for the most part unless they are short staffed and they have no choice to put you anywhere other than a bad place. They have a high turn over rate cause the money is not worth the work, especially when you are destroying your hands and wrists. Overtime is really bad, they say 8 hours but every day is 10. you work most saturdays so there is no work life balance unless you are lucky and get the day off. There is 2 week long shutdowns in the year, around 4th of july, and christmas. you get paid for the days you have off, as long as you are there the day before the shutdown and the day after. You will get nice bonuses maybe a couple times a year depending on how the company does. its not horrible but its repetitive everyday and thats what will kill your hands. As long as you dont mind your hands hurting every single day, its not bad.

Hopes of career growth and learning new skills are quickly met with disappointment. Human Resources only cares about the legal aspect of everything and they don't care about their employees at all. Management in most departments is absolutely horrible. They would rather just get rid of you than to help you succeed. They overwork their employees and compensation is lower than average. Company sends people from Japan to run the show and they bring Japanese work culture to the US instead of understanding our work culture here. This is a multi-million dollar company that just hired on a janitorial team even though they've had this office for like 30 years.  


Management doesn't follow half of their procedures or rules but they're quick to use refer you to them when they can use them to their advantage. Managers don't make time for their employees and don't give work to new employees and then penalize them for low productivity. Rules are only their to protect the company and not the employee.  If you question their actions too much, they will use every shady trick in the book to try and get rid of you for misconduct so you don't get unemployment.

Certain departments work 12 hours every single day, other departments work less than 8 and no help is assigned. Management jumps down people's throats for the slightest things then turn around and try to be friendly once they see you're "upset". They'll also set you up for failure as a "test" instead of showing you the proper way to do something when they see you doing it wrong.

Rotation policies are never followed, so people stay in the same department for over a year with no rotation to a lower paced department and then those people burn out when lower paced departments should be swapping with higher paced departments instead. Attendance is a joke, you get a write up for missing two days in a year and put on probation if you miss 5 which really encourages people to stay at this company. 

Overall there's just too much going on here; policies are applied at a whim; everyone is short staffed; no one is properly trained on any machine(trial by fire) or how to weld properly(literal trial by fire); and the culture is basically just throw people under the bus to save yourself because management does not care.

What is the best part of working at the company?
No life balance at all don't weld for them unless you like running too fast to make good looking welds it's just straight lines plus forgot planning anything 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lots of unprofessional people doing jobs they are not qualified to do because they can't keep people because they are unwilling to just trust people and just hire them doesn't help that they bring in people all the time just to fill gaps but they don't even speak English 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
See they is the good part the person you can talk to are really nice for the most part HR is completely useless but that's the same as anywhere anymore they forget it's called human resource they are rude always seem angry will they seat in ac and fire people because they worked too much and want a life 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Start my day at 5:30am meeting right of the start and after lunch other than that I'm welding frames one after another they need better air flow in the building if your going to run 12hr days 6-7 days a week

In my typical work day i and in charge of scheduling the associates work rotations,  checking each product making sure that we have quality products leaving out our factory at all times. 

I've gained alot of knowledge from working in a Japanese factory. I've learned how to effectively manage people and to work as a team to push out the best quality products.

In the management department there is room for improvement due to commutation between the association and upper management team.

Being in a Japanese work environment can be very strict but at the same time it makes you become a stronger harder worker.

The hardest part of the day or most days is dealing with the high turn over rate and teaching new people to build the best product as possible with low errors.

The best part of my day is being able to meet new people and also being able to get along well with my management team and working as a team daily to continue in success.

TS Tech is a great place to get early-career experience if you are a skilled worker or professional of some type. The work is very fast-paced, so you will learn to think and act quickly. However, long-term planning is also handled this way, requiring a lot of “shooting from the hip”. 

Management is also a mixed bag. If you’re lucky enough to get one of the good ones who is compassionate, gives clear direction, and refuses to throw you under the bus, enjoy them while you can because they will either get frustrated and leave, or be pushed out by the “good old boy” crew who runs everything. Those are the ones who learned how to properly suck up to the Japanese expats sent in from the corporate office in Tokyo, and who have true control over everything (no matter their rank or position).

Pros:
Decent benefits, though getting worse every year
On-site cafeteria
Climate-controlled factory environment

Cons:
Below market standard pay for skilled professionals
Good old boy management highly skilled at throwing people under the bus
HR that cares more about protecting the company and the good old boys than in helping employees

Management at TS Tech Indiana have poor attitudes and treat people poorly. I was there for 5 1/2 years and was treated like a robot. Worked over the limit aloud as far as overtime hours and would not recommend anyone to go there. However I did learn a lot about how to maintain and run an efficient assembly line as well as how to take care of paper work. I also was taught how to become a TL for production line. A typical day of work at TS Tech Indiana would be described as smooth to hectic in about a half hours time due to repairs and the way upper management talks to people. The hardest part of the job would have to be trying to be everywhere at once whenever there are 23 associates to maintain as well as any repairs that happen to go into the repair area. The most enjoyable would have to be the associates who you work with they're very caring most of the time and if you show them respect and show them you're there to work and not to play around.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production associate 5 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour
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Injection mold operator 5 salaries reported	$26.50 per hour
Production scheduler 1 salary reported	$56,000 per year
Service associate 1 salary reported	$19.90 per hour

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