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Tosoh SMD is a good company to work for if you want to find a comfortable career that doesn't offer much when it comes to continuing your machinist knowledge and education. 

It's next to impossible to make it on 1st shift unless you're an engineer. There are many people who have been with this company for 20+ years and moving to 1st is tenure based.  

The management team is under qualified as a whole, they don't know how to job plan to achieve a productive work flow. There's a big disconnect between management/ office personnel and the shop employees. Management has difficulty implementing ideas brought forth by shop employees and while they will hear you out, they do not listen to understand and absorb.

They offer profit sharing as an incentive / benefit however in the 3-4 years I've been here I've yet to see a single profit sharing check. 

Get 2 ten minutes breaks and a 20 min lunch in which you are not permitted to leave company premises.

There is favouritism, very clearly. There are employees who have stagnated for years and other who are paid more than another machinist who has more experience both in time as a machinist and experience across multiple machines. Once you're in trouble you get blacklisted and kicked while you're down.

No paid sick leave, PPL (paid personal leave) is your vacation time, it must be used for any days requested off and used for sick days as well. They don't do unpaid days unless approved by the CEO beforehand

Overworked and underpaid. This job was insane. They expect you to have more than you can reasonably handle on your plate, and pay you barely above minimum. Some positions paid $10+ under standard rate and they expected you to thank them for it. They did a HUGE layoff in May, leaving the rest of the employees struggling to keep up with work, then hired more engineers to add onto their plethora of high paid office employees. 

No matter what you do to try and help the company and it's processes, words will fall on deaf ears. The same goes for any problems that arise with production, coworkers, etc. It is an extreme boys club, and very much a "do as I say not as I do" environment. An example, the building supervisor can stand around for 45 minutes chatting about their weekend, but when you are answering a job-related question for another employee, they're at your shoulder listening in making sure you're not "off task". Many of the higher floor office people are two faced and do what they can to get you in trouble, and often bring their out of work anger into the workplace.

Very hostile, unwelcoming, and uncomfortable place to be.

I will say there were a lot of good people there, who have good intentions and are willing to listen and help, but most of them got cut in the layoff, leaving the remaining ones stressed and overworked.

This company looks very attractive starting out, expensive equipment, money invested in the buildings, big name clients. And multimillion dollar profits.

Aside from the benifet package, this company does not pay you like it could. As a result they see a lot of employee turn around, and have a disgruntled workforce in many areas.

 While they promise to reward for hard work. This is absolutely not the case. They reward for time in the company. It is almost like a union shop in attitude, where performance based wage increases are rare or too low.

Glassblowers are paid pathetically low for industry standard when considering cost of living. And getting to 22 dollars an hour could take you easily 3 years. When other company's will start you at that.

Unless your a lazy machinist or engineer looking to start your career. I would look elsewhere.  

It's not unsavable, but it's unlikely they will make the changes needed to keep their new hires long enough to see profit. Sales team prices almost everything to low.  Problems on problems

Tosoh Quartz can expose you to tight tolerance machining and offsets, but overall the requirements and job experience I pulled from here is not universal to machining. No place is perfect but Tosoh has a very tight set of company policies that they turn a blind eye to on actors within the environment they like. 

Overall, I do not consider this place a good opportunity for a long term career, nor do I consider it a good stepping stone to a good long term career. 

Of the skills I acquired at Tosoh, the most important one was exposure and eventually a thorough understanding of the Renishaw probing system, both from a machining and usage/metrology perspective, as well as a programming perspective, using the default program package Renishaw provides. You do not need to know gcode to work here, and the tools are supplied, but if you want to learn more about your trade, this isn't the place to be. 

The environment is relaxed if you do want to "coast."

Management is stuck in the 1990s.  This is a rapidly growing company.  Management thinks they can run a 140 million dollar a year company like they ran a 50 million dollar a year company 20 years ago.  It has an outdated ERP/MRP system being held together with excel spreadsheet band aids.  Shop floor is held to no accountability for their actions or in-actions.  Engineering is in charge of most production issues and moves at a snails pace in terms of resolving issues and making improvements.  Receive multiple, contradictory, and no plans to implement goals from management.

The good: Company car, weekends off, management does care about your free time, no working before 8am, or after 5pm, great pay, even better bonus structure, Tosoh machines are VERY well built and documentation is done very well, Co-workers are VERY reliable and will help you, training is very good. Area managers are cool and help out. Great teamwork.

Bad: a few micromanagers, very large teritories, lots of travel during the week, Admin work can be confusing and take a little while to get used to.

Other: Overall, I really enjoy working at Tosoh. The fact that we have weekends off is a huge plus. I feel confident that I will be able to move up some point, as well, and have made this my goal.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The 12 hour shifts were the only good thing at this company.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Training people so much so the bosses over look you for lead positions and hire your halfwit trainee as the lead

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was laid back, but then the first layoff hit a few years ago, from then on it was stressful because they would over work some people and let others slack

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Show up, clean up the previous shifts mess, try to fix, go home, repaeat

my boss would first bark out his orders,so I would keep my nose to the grind stone the entire day.what I learned was I had some back stabbing over paid job scared co-workers.management,had lower management do there cowardly dirty work, I got ahead of myself on the co-worker they are over paid and they know it.the hardest part of my job was the almost daily threats of being fired,by my boss,but I know he was put to this management and tosoh america

I am a glassblower at Tosoh Quartz. I have been with the company less than 5 years, but it is evident that the company is not doing well. Management has been a revolving door, senior glassblowers are quitting, and overall, employees are simultaneously chastised for not completing more work and not given any work to complete. While we have been stuck with 1% annual raises and no clear path to becoming glassblower II, III, etc, the company has been hiring inexperienced glassblowers like crazy. Again, where is the work?

The products produced at TQI are very diverse as are the applications for same.  Working in sales has exposed me not only to quartz products used in Semiconductor related applications, but also Medical, Renewable Energy, and other markets.  This diversity keeps work interesting and fun.  However, demand for products is erratic and difficult to forecast.  This puts stress into the organization as we struggle to meet unrealistic customer expectations every day.

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