technician

senior technician

account manager

administrative assistant

truck driver

Total Safety

I worked as an Electronics and Instrumentation Technician at the La Porte, TX office before getting terminated. Total Safety's mission is to "ensure the well-being of workers worldwide." The range of services that they provide is very impressive. The pretty much worked 40 hours per week in this role and the compensation was quite good. The benefits are great, and the vacation you get is also very generous. For the most part the coworkers were very patient and supportive. 

Nonetheless, the management evaluates employees too harshly on performance evaluations. I got evaluated three times in a period of 2 months, and I received "needs improvement" on all the criteria in all three evaluations. I performed the vast majority of my tasks correctly, yet for minor mistakes I was punished excessively. For example, on one of the days I didn't show up to work because I wasn't feeling well. I let the management know 15 minutes before the time they expected me to show up, whereas the company policy was to let them know at least an hour in advance. For this, I received an unsatisfactory rating on the "reliability" criteria during my first 30 days' performance evaluation. Another time, I showed up to work 11 minutes late but didn't think it important to let the management know because it was less than 15 minutes late; however, the management again gave me an unsatisfactory rating for "reliability" on my last performance evaluation. In another example, I refused to do what a coworker wanted me to do because I wanted to finish other tasks. That coworker never told me that he needed me to do his work urgently. Yet, the management was not happy with this and gave me an unsatisfactory rating on the "following directions" criteria. On my very last performance evaluation, I was given an unsatisfactory rating on the "job knowledge" criteria because it took me too long to repair a breather box. The reason was that I was not given proper directions by my coworkers regarding how to repair it, and I encountered issues that I previously had not encountered, despite having repaired a few breather boxes previously. At the very end, another coworker had to take over because the repairs were too complex and unknown for me to carry out. Yet, the management did not sympathize with me and punished me on the very last performance review. Had they evaluated me less harshly, I would most likely have continued working here as I am writing this. In summary, although one carries out the majority of the tasks properly, the management will penalize you severely for one or two mistakes that are often minor in nature and not under one's control. They refuse to listen to your side of the story. 

I also was shocked at how one of my supervisor behaved. Although being an old man, he frequently told me how he loved to go to strip clubs. He was prone to using vulgarity excessively, and one time he cussed me severely because I didn't get out of the truck to sign into a badging station because I thought he would do it for me. Thank god I no longer have to deal with him ! Also quite a few of my coworkers were not cordial and would not respond to my greetings such as "Good morning." 

Once at my desk it was non stop.  Respond to all emails.  Go over the daily problems.  Go through my normal routine of printing reports and reviewing reports for labor, sales orders, daily contracts.  Once reviewed sending to billing. Working any billing rejections.  Receiving all information from our 12 Valero Inplant service center locations and also helping to assist with any issues or questions they may have.  I handle all Valero locations.Discussing any Turnarounds that may be happening.  I have had to improve on my excel and Outlook.  I have learned several new systems including Rentalman and Salesforce.  I still continue working the aging report. 

I am the only person handling Valero but for my manager, who seems to have take on a lot more.  The hardest part of the day, for me, is dealing with my manager, whom is very loud and always upset and whose voice seems to resonate to the rest of the office.  This disrupts the office every day since we are in cubicles and are in close proximity to one another we are able to hear this person from their office.  I seem to have to defend my manager most of the time.  Everyone is starting to feel uneasy and now being in an office that once was calm, pleasant and professional is now very unprofessional. My manager seems to have taken on too much and it seems to be trickling down to me and the other person under her. I was told before I became permanent I was the only person who could work under this management which I took as a challenge and I loved it but now it has become very stressful, trying to meet impossible goals. Staying until late and working on the weekends to meet them. Although, I have learned a lot from this person, I have started to lose respect and that is very important to me. 

I would like to work in a more professional atmosphere.

I love the job, I love to learn something new and use it in the future and I have learned a lot.  Dealing with the people at the refineries is such a pleasure and being able to get their paperwork to billing correct and in a timely manner is very rewarding. 
Unfortunately, my job has lost its spark and the job I once loved has become very stressful.  I have been offered a job at another position within the company without any incentives but have decided I would like to work somewhere new. This company has taught me so much about safety and I would love to stay but unfortunately there is no advancement in position or pay which pales in comparison with having to work in an unprofessional atmosphere.  I love it here but now the demands have increased but not the pay.

They do not give pay raises here. In fact they from time to time put a "freeze" on pay increases. They do this fairly often when it comes about time for people to start asking for increases again. The self evaluation each year is a joke. You mark your qualities as you feel you are. Management looks at your eval and makes their own which basically moves everything you scored yourself as down 2-3 points in a 1-5 scoring system. This is done so that you will not feel confident in asking for a raise because your supervisor has just scored you a "par" or decent employee and told you a whole list of things you can do to get better most of which are not even in your job description! The management here is unbelievable. Certain individuals can get away with almost anything and have not much more than i finger shook at them for it. While others would have paid time off or even fired for the same offense. Some employees are so special that when they get banned from a facility so that they cannot do their job, they get a promotion and are given all the easy office chair overtime they want. It is a who knows who and who can not tell on me type of game. Stay away from this place. Employes quit at a rapid rate. and nothing ever changes for the better. NOTHING. Its an everyday thing to walk through parts of the building and see 3-4 people standing around playing on their phones or talking on them or browsing the internet while you are expected to be outside in the blazing heat doing physical work with machinery and manual labor.

Overall experience with the company wasn't bad met some quality people and was able to learn a lot from them. The company itself is just a hot mess, it's very disorganized, and before you work for this company heed my words they do not believe in raises, and I don't think job security was a factor 5 years ago it is for sure Factor right now. You're only protections are if you are  a billable position if you're a cost position good freaking luck, The company simply does not like to pay for things its just not how their business model works, I still think if you're trying to get your foot in the door in the industry total safety is not a bad move they still have a lot of sites that you can work at or you can get customer interaction and network but I repeat never stay with this company The only people that stay are legacy workers and there's just way too much grimy behavior to ever call it a professional place.  many of the upper-level management is simply untrained and will do all kinds of shenanigans as far as pay is concerned, and you will find yourself baffled at the personalities that maintain employment without scrutiny so if you are a high speed disciplined individual do not stay with this company long, use it for the experience, if you stay too long you will pay dearly,  quite literally. overall did not have a bad experience. picked up a lot of competency when it came to industrial safety equipment and I am very confident that I'll be able to use it and some of the relationships I built as a launching pad into this career field with great success, and I will have total safety to credit because they did give me a job. My only advice is be extremely careful this is coming from an employee who left on very good terms with the company and still had to deal with a lot of nonsense, if you are an experience worker in the industry go find a place that will treat you better, if you are new it's a great place to work to pick up some experience but STAY THERE AR YOUR OWN PERIL.

•	Process multi State Payroll including Canadian
•	Calculate workups for overpayments and retroactive pay
•	Review payroll error reports and defensive queries
•	Analyze gross to net calculations for accuracy including tax withholding calculations
•	Assist team leaders with complex payroll issues
•	Process Bi-Weekly Tax Liability Report for Accounting to book payroll for financial purposes and process Net Pay, ACH Tape
•	Communicate with the Bank to see if a direct deposit has been returned
•	Enter time and other pay data into ADP PCPW, and ADP Canada
•	Handle all payroll and HR processes for Canadian Employee's
•	Process Short Term Disability payments
•	Process manual (off cycle) payments, reversals and adjustments
•	Work closely with Requirements Consultant to define requirements and process flow
•	Reviews transactions accuracy and Prepares and executes and internal audits
•	Researches Plan Rules to ensure compliance and to resolve plans administration questions/issues resulting from Audit
•	Documented end to end payroll processes formerly used in house
•	Assisted with writing and editing process guides currently used for client
•	Shadowed and reverse shadowed on all payroll functions
•	Identified process gaps then developed and implemented new procedures to improve the end to end process flow
•	Worked directly with the client to build and nurture the business partnership

Never in my years as a driver have I seen such poor upper management acknowledgement .It is as if drivers play no importance. But yet without trained drivers their business does suffer loss. They continued to lower your income instead of improve.And use you as a puppet on a string. Changing hours etc and forcing such often. My paycheck was wrong every other week.No such thing as performance bonuses or pay raises. And sadly the hardest working drivers were the least recognized being the ones inside their intermediate circle that are , even though not deserving of such. From what I gathered in my short time there as a driver is as long as deliveries are made manangement cares less if one is working diligently and one is not. Just so delivery is made. How they inforce rules and polices on whom they choose to.
I see the driving dept never to be improved in anyway until Total is forced to do so. And from what I gathered that day will never come. Dept turnover as I heard was outrageous but of no concern to them.So if your looking for a company that will care and give attention to you as a professional driver and the driving dept and see that a professional driver has worth? You must find another company because that's exactly what I had to do along with many others before me and after.

Benefits package is decent. You do have some opportunity to get some good training in various things from manufacturers that you can use to further your career with another company.  That is the only pro to this employer. There are a hand full of people of have a good job here. The rest are very overworked and underpaid. Pay raises are non existent unless you are promoted, and even then it is not enough to compensate for the added responsibility unless you are one of the favored individuals who knows certain members of management personally. 50% of the employees live in or are from the same city and have family ties together. Many complaints against upper management have been made and no action taken whatsoever. If you choose to work here just be prepared to deal with some very shady actions and attitudes from "leaders" and understand that there is no real desire to change in the company.

My overall view of this company,

The bussiness is there total safety has numerous contracts with the oil and gasline pipeline industry, managenment is not the best for being such a big company. Total Safety has a big problem when it comes to finding out the source and hearing both sides of the story. they are  very one--sided and when it comes to decision making they take the veterans side over a rookie.Supervisors never own-up to their mistakes, their real quick to put all fault on a technician when on most cases the fault should fall on bost, supervisor and technician. The co-workers are awesome, we like using the saying "you are your brothers keeper" we take that to heart in the line of work we do.The hardest part of the job is dealing with company man, but with my past knowledge and experince i've learned to just bite your tongue and do all in your power to make them happy, and at the end of the day your happy and hes happy! The most enjoyable part of the job is saving peoples lifes, i've prevented the lord knows how many times that i've prevented an accident that was waiting to happen. That right there is why i loved and took pride in work with total safety .

Its hard to say what a typical day at Total Safety is. You are constantly bouncing from one location to the next. Normally we are working with refinery workers and mill workers helping them with their safety equipment. I did learn a lot of things at Total Safety. Unfortunately the things that I learned would only really be useful in the safety field. I learned how to service breathing apparatus' and numerous safety devices.
The management at Total Safety was awful. They are constantly firing and hiring new managers so it was very difficult to find good trustworthy leadership.
My co-workers may have been the only bright spot working here. Ive made some lifetime friends and learned lots working with some really knowledgeable, friendly, and down to earth people.
The hardest part of the job was the mental stress it caused with all the bouncing around to different parts of the country with sometimes less than a days notice. Also the lack of trust for the management. Ive never worked somewhere where morale is so low company wide.
The most enjoyable part of the job was my co-workers. They made it enjoyable to go to work most days.

1. Rove from site to site checking equiptment.
2. Learned about H2S and became familiar with the different operations pertaining to the Oil and Gas Industry.
3. Co workers are great to work with, we showed more appreciation for eachother than the company showed us.
4.Management was harldly ever in the field so we as a group took the reigns and took care of our area. And when management did decide to show up, He/She would try changing what plans we had already for the work day because he/she wanted it their way, all in all it brought moral down everytime management showed up, because they had no idea what they missed by not being there and then take it out on us if one little issue was not to their liking.
5. The hardest part of the job was sitting a job site in the vehicle for 12hr shifts and feeling like you were not doing enough.
6. The most enjoyable part of the job is knowing your helping provide safety measures so others can get home alive. Another enjoyable part of the job was the end of the day being able to relax with co workers and reflect on that days accoplishments.

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