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Thor Motor Coach

What is the best part of working at the company?
After nine years in the RV industry I had an interview at Thor (Bristol Indiana). This interview ended up being the best one that I've ever experienced in my life! The head of Quality Control for the plant that I was interviewing for was so impressed while looking over my application due to not only my years of experience as an inspector,  because I had experience in every single department,  as well as my ability and years of experience training new employees. I received so much positive recognition by not only the group leaders from each department but as well as the plant manager,  assistant plant manager, and a couple of there important people in upper management positions at that plant. I was finally treated with respect, because not only  was i praised for my great attention to detail during my inspections, but my great organizational skills and paperwork I filed everyday for each RV was never reported as incomplete or inaccurate. Through proving my knowledge in different departments I was able to get a raise going from hourly to being on full time rate which made my income increase by literally hundreds of dollars resulting in receiving the largest weekly checks I'd ever acquired in my e tire life!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When people are informed of "work offs" their required to do before they get to leave for the day and they either partially have the installation completed not meeting the requirements for proper and safe institution /or in their quality of repairs  or just lie about getting them done. This results in other peoples time being wasted.or the installation of items that had been previously out of stock and needed to be installed)

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very friendly staff and coworkers. Never seen any physical altercations or hostility amongst coworkers. Very professional and respectful atmosphere and environment! Also very clean facilities.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There was nothing enjoyable about the job. My personal workload was consistently increased and was far more than my co-workers I worked in the same department as. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Getting told if I didn't get my units done today that my pay would be cut, I would be written up, and I would be forced to work on Saturday to complete it. As well as being forced to work until 6pm or I didn't get paid for the day. And being literally yelled at by upper management about meeting production numbers when we were already 50% understaffed.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible, the company has favoritism and uses family connections as their main way to choose who to give promotions to. And if you want to go up anyways its only around $100 more a week and your hours and workload go up exponentially as well as working Saturdays consistently, so no upwards potential.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work 12 hour days and be forced to stay even if your job is completed to help other people even though its supposedly a "piece rate shop".

I loved my job at Thor! I loved the people I worked with and felt like it was my second home...which it was since I spent all day there.
The hours were rough but everyone who stayed positive made it easy to deal with. However their point system rules are super strict, I knew I had points from my daughter having surgery, I DID NOT know that I had 3 extra points because the office admin clocked me out.. I was never asked what time I left, my clock out time was based on when my partner left and there were times when I was there later than she was. When my daughter had a medical emergency resulting in an emergency surgery I had to call off, resulting in my termination. I've been told that I can have my job back which is great, but the important information like when, what do I need to do, how do I need to do it, what do I need to take care of and when does it need to be done... cant be answered because HR wont and the plant manager just doesn't answer his phone, yet every time you cross paths it glued to his ear... weird

You get easily punished for taking unpaid time off. Like with most corporations these days. They want you to burn up your vacation time. So you have nothing left to take a vacation. Thor is no different. If I call in sick, it is two points against me. I need to use vacation time to prevent getting the points. Four points in a 90 day period and you get a written warning. And it takes 90 days of no time off to get points removed from your record. Thor is not life balance friendly. You are expected to be there everyday, or you need to burn up your vacation time to prevent getting points for unforeseen time off. Information is expected to flow from the techs to everyone else. But everyone else neglects to inform the techs of things concerning the coach they are working on. Getting parts is an issue. I will not get into our parts department.

Typical work day began at 6 am. First fill up on any screws needed for the day, grab parts box (box filled with anything needed to complete one unit), which was prepped the day before, and go through the unit hooking up any parts that were my responsibility. I worked with one partner, we split the duties of the electrical hook up. I learned how to troubleshoot and hook up electrical parts in an RV. My management was some of the best I've had. They showed respect in many ways. They stuck up for you when needed, they were not afraid to get their hands dirty, and they always made sure you had everything you needed. The most enjoyable part of the job is hard to choose, I liked what I did and I liked the management. The hardest part about the job was waiting on other people. With it being a production line one person can slow everyone down.

Unfortunately, this company struggles at the production level with poor management and a lack of meaningful follow-through. Leadership frequently talks about change and improvement, but little to no action ever materializes. Promises are made, morale is discussed, and feedback is requested—yet the same issues persist year after year.
The workplace culture is heavily influenced by a “good ol’ boy” system, where favoritism is noticeable and advancement often depends more on who you know than on performance or merit. Adding to this, there are too many relatives working closely together, which creates conflicts of interest and makes it difficult for others to feel treated fairly or heard objectively.
While there are capable employees who genuinely want to do good work, the overall environment makes growth and accountability challenging. Real change would require leadership to move beyond talking points and address favoritism, transparency, and fairness head-on.

Worked as a customer service admin, and they don’t pay well for the amount of work and stress to keep employees. Production is increasing in the RV industry meaning more work load, but they don’t realize when they need to hire more people to minimize the stress on other employees. Also the management for the customer service admins are discouraging of employees as things are micromanaged and very nit picky, and don’t do well to provide positive feedback to ensure that their employees have a positive work environment. Planned on giving at least a years worth of my time when I was a customer service admin, but the management was 95% of the issue and was what pushed me to find a more positive job and work environment.

Within my department, I love my job. I have the great fortune of having wonderful management. I feel like they always have my back. My partners at other locations are a great team and the on-site members of my team are great to work with. I hear a lot of complaints from people outside my department. On one hand, I get it. I, personally, would not be happy doing that type of work. On the other hand, they make nearly twice what I do. All that being said, some pretty disgusting things happen within the company that should NEVER be allowed, but are often overlooked. Unfortunately, I'm not witness to most of these events, so I can't do much other than report them, and nothing ever seems to be done about it. 

I could tell you about my work experience here as a regular worker and a group leader as well. As a regular worker they're expected you to do three jobs and not pay you for it they expect you to get the same rate even though that the expectations are higher management is poor there is no training they can't show you how to build a cabinet or manufacture the whole thing by yourself and if you can't do that they would look to get rid of you and about a couple weeks as a group leader was fun I got to help out a lot of people but from upper management they don't care about that they only care about the check that they get at the end of their bonus and if your area is messed up upper management don't care about that and if you talk back or Express an idea or opinion they will want to get rid of you

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