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Thompson Construction Group, Inc.

I have been an employee here for nearly 2 years. I thought coming into this job I would be dealing with professional people but soon after being there I found out that it was completely opposite. My supervisor is completely out of line. I've been called every name under the sun, belittled and constantly have my job threatened. There are supervisors sleeping with the employees and management has done nothing about this. They dont care about how you are treated they will even ask you in your interview if your okay with being around rude people and they dont mean the employees they mean supervisors. Your co-workers are the only thing that make this job bareable. Everyone tends to see the same problems and stick together to keep from saying or doing the wrong things to not lose their job. As far as co-workers its like family. Take away the poor management and supervisors its a pretty good job. If you do have a family i wouldnt come here. You work every weekend it doesnt alternate. I cant add up the amount birthdays or school functions I have missed being at this job. And of course no one there cares. Like the previous review said these supervisors think they are untouchable and they are. Management is no help! I wouldnt recommend this job on my worst enemy! I've had people ask about getting them a job, which wouldnt be hard considering they're always hiring because their turnover rate is so high, but I refuse to let someone I know get this job and have to go through what I have. If anyone with this company with some type of authority over these incompetent people with Thompson Construction at Philip Morris USA reads this I hope you take this review seriously and look into it. I will be more than happy to give you my name and help get to the bottom of everything and I'm positive other employees will also.

You can really learn knowledge of LOTO and lots of knowledgeable safety issues at this job. It's the perfect job for someone out of high school that is mature and is willing to work and learn and would like to move up in certain areas of the construction world over time. You get to interact with people of all nationalities and can learn about their cultures.Overall, the job is fairly easy to perform and can keep you busy most days so time goes by quickly. Most of the time there is opportunity for overtime, sometimes overtime days are mandatory. The downfall is the pay isn't the best, the supervisors could use extra training on handling their crews, how to react in certain situations and what to say and when to say it. Some supervisors/lead supervisors/ management favor certain people (other supervisors and laborers) when all should be treated the same and fairly. You don't get much recognition within the company. If you learn to drive the scissor lifts/boom lifts you don't get any extra pay for that. Don't look for management to come out on the floors, they rarely leave the office area. It seems to be very easy to move up to other positions when they are available as long as you are one of the favorable people. HR lady is pretty knowledgeable if you need anything, just be aware that at times she has a rude and unfriendly side, I assume depending on her mood. The office lady's are always lively (except when they are busy), very helpful and friendly. The turnover rate is always high, my opinion is due to the pay and also due to lack of supervisory/leadership skills within some (not all) supervisors within the company in Richmond.

What is the best part of working at the company?
This is the best company I’ve ever worked for. I was a site manager for the maintenance services department. Mr. Greg Thompson is a great CEO and takes care of his employees. I highly recommend working for them if the opportunity presents itself to you. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Stress is self-made. However, at TCG you have a great management team to help out in any stressful environment. Don’t be afraid to ask for help!!

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is great. Very friendly and welcoming. The culture centers around a very serious commitment to SAFETY. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
When you lead a team of maintenance folks, you must wear many hats, i.e., judge, jury, advocate, councilor, and most importantly a good listener.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Awesome lower and upper managment, great people to work for, "family geared" atmosphere.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Multiple contractor's work areas crossing each other per each contractor's own job plans before one contractor is finished and completed with their work in that particular area, but that's with ANY construction site you go on more times than not. It simply comes with the business

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Medium paced, safety -> quality -> quantity ... and usually in that order

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Mostly awesome, good days but there's always a bad day once in a while no matter WHERE you are or go

I have worked for Thompson for almost a year. The only reason being is I'm close to home. They have no management what so ever. For example they will put inworkers as pipe foreman's. You give them 100% and they really don't care.  Benefits are in place if you want to spend a chuck for them. I do enjoy working with most of my coworkers but supervision is terrible and makes it hard to stay. Good luck to anyone that works for them. I'm fixing to move on to a different job since I can no longer put up with the bs. Like one day I dragged welding lead back and forth for 6 hrs never striking a arc, then put me on a hot job that had to be done ASAP, but took 3 hrs to get the parts to weld. This is just a little of the bs you will deal with. They will also tell you tons of lies to get you to stay, but I wouldn't believe none of them.

Working for Thompson Construction Group as an HVAC Technician was interesting. Performed HVAC Maintenance at the site of a steel mill. Working in the environment of a steel mill is very demanding and you always have to keep safety first. Working for Thompson itself was not an enjoyable experience for me due to many company flaws, Dead end job with poor benefits and no job security. Working on the HVAC equipment inside the steel mill was always a pleasure because the inside temperature gets extremely hot due to the process of steel making, so it was always a since of accomplishment to bring the system back up to provide cool air to the workers.

There is no work-life balance in this place, the management thinks that every breathing moment of your life should be devoted to the company for a low salary and benefits that YOU have to pay for. You pay for Dental, You pay for Health Insurance and they even complain and argue about paying a gas ticket or even your car allowance. This is not a good place to work, there's always a dense atmosphere at the office, as a matter of fact... they don't even want you in the office, even if you have work to do there. Once you leave the company they will call your next employer to make sure you don't get the job. It did happen to me.

TCG could be an amazing place to work.  I can tell at one time it was, but growing pains are heavily impacting this company.  In an effort to staff jobs, they have hired numerous people who are grossly under-qualified.  If the upper management would take the time to do 360 evaluation on their employees and themselves, they would realize they have some amazing underutilized assets that are pulling the weight of the grossly under-qualified

This poor management  will lead to the loss of some of their best people.  These people care deeply about the company, but will not risk their own personal integrity for the company.

Hope to work for again in future. 4-5 week job night shift finish ing up tieing a Nucor steel mill,mill in to production on a huge galvanizing process of their Kentucky plant. Created a lot of good jobs for a lot of good people in probably a lot part doing to Trump steel embargo on China or whatever.. either way you look at it new Gorge growing all over the country and it's good I'm glad about it steel industry is growing as it should. It'd be alot better to work with material pipes example Steel made in the US instead of China or Taiwan and ship to dip in Korea it's ridiculous so I see things making an attempt to regain the title the best".

Average day started at 6:30, check in at specified location. We would have our safety meeting. Find out what site we were working at, pick up our paper work for the day and our phone for monitoring. Drive to site , monitor trucks in and out loading debris. If it was a new site we would prepare the site, place waddles, preparepaperwork for site we were at. At the endof the day, we would head back to our location or warehouse, turn in our paperwork and phones.

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