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The Okonite Company

The Okonite Company is a great place to work. They make an excellent product, and are the Cadillac of the industry. During the busy times your income potential is nearly unlimited depending on how much time you're willing to commit. The workload isn't very bad considering the pay.  I am in a union setting so you really have to put some effort out to get fired.  The sure fire way to get fired is to miss work. The ESOP program is just the icing on the cake.  Aside from your 401K you can have up to $100,000-$300,000 in your employment stock at the end of your career. Some criticisms would be that the company is probably 10-20 years in the past.  Technologically, and as far as managerial principles they are in the past.  Some of the people are the best people you could ever work with, but some are difficult to work with.  They have been there for 10-20-30 years and they are set in their ways.  Some get complacent and troublesome.  Hard work and advancement isn't glorified between the union employees.  When you seek advancement with the company the other employees act as though you have abandoned them and the union.  When you have a good work ethic, and you try to be as productive as possible the employees look down on that and strongly discourage it.  

The most enjoyable part is the pay and the job security.  They are very reluctant to lay off, and they usually call you back if they do. You have potential to learn skills that are useful beyond Okonite.   

The worst part of the job is the misorganization, how far in the past they are, and the difficult employees. They play favorites with some employees. Some supervisors are very ignorant to the process.  The training is not effective.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The factor was clean and the money

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Some of the people did not want to work together

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They really believe.
In the six  s. So you mess up you clean up

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in communicate with the previous shift. Get started and then remember why you're here to make good quality wire and And do that to the best of your ability And when your shift is over, make sure Everything is clean up at the end of the day and report to the next shift on what they need to do.

It's been a while since I worked there, but the reason I left was due to the Union being more "good ole boys" than management. If you had an issue with a union steward, you were out of luck. They would go through the motions but would not fight for you. I would personally rather deal with things man to man with a manager rather than bring in a 3rd party that just likes to spread the details around the plant of what's going on (at least their side of it). I didn't have anything for a union growing up and after that experience, I don't have anything for them during any where I work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Everything is the best part great company to work for.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Stress comes with every job but working for okonite everyone there understands and tries to help.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Like working with family and friends.  They are truly a joy to work for.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Answering phones, quoting jobs.

The upper levels of management have recently changed, and most of these changes have had negative overall impacts. Okonite has never been the highest paying company, however the benefits package was always near the top in the industry. Unfortunately this benefits package has declined over the last fifteen years and continues to diminish.

The work aspect is very good. I have learned that as long as you stay focused on your work and stay away from office gossips and office politics, you will be better off. The hardest part of the job is dealing with personalities fueled by their title and position status the most enjoyable part of the job is being appreciated for the work you do.

There is always work to be done. The role in which I work is non-stressful in the fact that no one is in need of things right away. Work is done by a predetermined schedule, and if you are new to working with a mainframe, every day there is something new to learn. The management team is willing to work with you, and they constantly strive to help and guide you along the way.

When there is work to do to keep you busy all day, it is nice. There is not much work to do, it gets boring. The place is disorganized and can not find tools you need, they are left outside or you can not find the tools. Managers on phone most day, he is flexible with scheduling though. I like to work but it is too boring for the pay

1. unload the flatbed trucks with oversized reels
2 put all oversived reals in proper locations
3 take in all reels on screen with new locations
4 print out new orders and caculate cuts from reels to accomodate orders.
5 cut orders 
6 ship out orders to proper locations with the correct truckllines.

A typical day at Okonite would be incoming order, setup and then production. While at Okonite I learned, how to operate a ext-ruder injection machine. The hardest part of the job was bad tooling.The most enjoyable part of my job was when I made over my production.

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