senior privacy analyst

account representative

human resources specialist

warehouse supervisor

group leader

Toyota Tsusho

Typical day at work:
Walking into a pile of sticky notes on your desk only to open your email to the same exact messages from 4 different co-workers.
Running errands for management in company vehicle
Serving coffee during meetings
Scheduling meetings
Scheduling hotel visits from out of Country Co-workers
Filing
Answering Front Office Phone 
Scanning/Emailing/Mailing Customer Invoices
Filling printers with paper
Emptying recycling bens
Ordering company supplies
Keeping up with car log when employees took company cars
Different project co-workers needed assistance on

After Promotion:
Creating invoices for several different customers
Verifying that pricing was correct
Custom Audit for overseas shipments
Working in JDE Systems
Creating Sales Orders for warehouse personnel 
Update tracking sheets in Excel


What I learned: How to be efficient in a timely manner.

Management: Lenient yet efficient, nice, always wanting to get to know you.

CoWorkers: Stand-offish mostly, some very friendly.  Noticeably was always the one picking up their slack. 

Hardest Part of job: Being a temporary for 3 years when always did above and beyond to prove oneself. Even with a promotion from receptionist to Administrative Assistant.

Most enjoyable part: Getting to know about overseas shipments, solar power lights, and co-workers in other departments

Look. i absolutely loved my job as a fork truck operator. i enjoyed the fast paced, non-stop sometimes overwhelming rat-race 2nd shift (4:30pm to 3:45am) dumped on me. Of course i had no life but the bills got paid.
The supervisor & his 2 puppets (team leads) were nothing less than a joke. It wasnt anything new if you didnt see them all shift due to them all watching videos or movies on their phones in the back. 
The worst part of the job is all the high school drama. he said she said. rumors & little clics that go on at this place. Everything i hated about high school was right here at Toyota the adult daycare. The suoervisor is a joke & should be fired & sent back to work at a fast food job cause the only thing he was super at doing was not a dang thing. YOUR HANDS ARE WHAT MAKE YOU....this company spells TEAM with a capital I. Its either sink or swim. thrown into a cluster funk with no instructions. little boys trying to run something that is already crazy & making it crazier & one step. away from being out of control. 
Never worked in a place where at least 45% of the shift was either drunk as a skunk....spun...tweaking...stoned....tripping on acid....rolling on extasy or even worse...coming down off one of these festivities of party favors.

A typical day starts at 3:00 PM as I process our customers orders for the first few deliveries. There are 4 deliveries I process from start to finish, daily data entry, customer service via e-mail/phone, I also schedule shipping and receiving for multiple carriers to and from our facility.
This position has taught me about distribution, multiple shipping documents, and how to maintain-pace myself while multi-tasking. I very much enjoy working with the other Admins and my supervisors. Communication is key in this environment.
I think the hardest part of my job would be making sure the good that we ship are labeled correctly and I have sent the correct shipping documents along with the delivery.
The most enjoyable part of this job for me is when I am caught up with our delivery paperwork, and I can take time to work on the data entry portion of my assiagnment.

A FEW GREAT PEOPLE TO WORK WITH HOWEVER THE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE LONGEVITY ARE MISERABLE, NON-PRODUCTIVE AND TOXIC TO THE ENTIRE OFFICE.

THE JAPANESE WAY OF THINKING IS NOT TO FIRE BUT PUT EMPLOYEES ON PUNISHMENT WHEN THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WITH NON PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEES BY TAKING ALL THERE WORK AWAY AND OVERLOADING GOOD EMPLOYEES. 

ROOM FOR ADVANCEMENT IS ONLY RESERVED FOR JAPANESE EMPLOYEES.

TONS OF WORK ON A DAILY BASIS, PAY IS SUPER LOW, YEARLY SALARY INCREASES EVEN LOWER AND YOU MUST WORK OVERTIME TO MAKE A DECENT LIVING.

GOOD HEALTH, VACATION, SICK/PERSONAL TIME, 2 WEEKS OFF BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR BUT DONT LET IT IS SUCK YOU IN!!

ACCOUNTANTS/CONTROLLERS ARE THE ONLY STAFF WHO GET TREATED WELL BUT ALL OTHERS ARE REPLACEABLE IN THE EYES OF MANAGEMENT.



LEARN ALL YOU CAN WHILE WORKING AT TOYOTA TSUSHO SO YOU CAN MAKE A GREAT ESCAPE.

Toyota Tsusho is a great company over all.  They are global and their core values as a company are superb. During my time in the Battle Creek office I gained a lot of knowledge and experience in 8 1/2 years. It could be very stressful and demanding but it allowed me to learn how to handle many different situations effectively and professionally.  I worked with a diverse group of people all with different personalities.  My co-workers became my family outside of home which helped make it a more enjoyable place to work.  The only negative thing I can say is that I personally feel that the office I worked in was poorly managed.  Although the managers were good people, there was a lack of recognition and appreciation shown towards the employees which seemed to cause poor morale.

A typical day would include management belittling, discriminating, harassing, ridiculing and/ or ignoring their employees.  You can go to HR about the unprofessional treatment, but they will tell you to learn how to get along with management or perhaps it would be better if you look for another job. 

Tsusho has a strict attendance policy......for hourly employees only!  If you are an hourly employee, you will be receive points against you for being one minute late and/ or using any of your sick time. With a combined total of 6 points in a rolling calendar year, you will be suspended and can be fired.  This policy does't apply to management. (By the way, management gets 10 sick days per year, hourly employees only get 5 days per year.)  Management can use all of their sick days and be late everyday, with no penalties or repercussions.

A typical day at work would go smooth as long as everyone did what
they were assigned to do and did it in a safe manner. At this job, I
learned many different things in the time I spent there like operating
machinery(balers, compactors, a crane, forklift, trackmobile,conveyor belts) transported material to an
from truck weight scale to rail road pad to unload material into rail cars.Operated trackmobile to weigh rail cars for outbound shipment.
The hardest part of the job to me, was when one of the many pipes on the compacter broke or sprung a leak, we had to locate it, shut down the machine an to the best of our ability repair it in order to move on an clean up a slippery mess of hydraulic fluid.The most enjoyable part about the job that I liked was when the area I worked in got weekend overtime an our supervisor let us get a fire permit an barbeque during our shift.

* typical day of work:
10 to 15 hours
* what you learned: 
received good business management skills, developed great organizational skills (5S), developed great problem solving skills through (PDCA, TBP, etc.). Developed great budget skills.
* management:
majority of the corporate management team was fair, good coaches, listeners, leaders.
* workplace culture:
great employees that were there to make a difference because of my management style.
* hardest part of job:
I relocated 5 times to other facilities (Kentucky, Illinois - twice, Indiana, Tennessee) needing my management skills. I do not mind to travel, but not willing to relocate).
* the most enjoyable part of the job:
I enjoyed the relationships that I have made from working directly with suppliers, or Toyota Production Plants.

My time at TTUK were full of opportunities to enhance and progress my working knowledge and experience . There was  plenty of encouragement through courses or performance related appraisals which was linked to bonuses . The ever changing flow of the organisation meant Kaizen was important to adapt to change in the accounts working environment meant . Team building events for staff through out the year such as family events and bowling and other activities brought staff together . 
But over the past few years  TTUK are now part of TT EUROPE making the process more antiquated more levels of europe authorisation causing delays before as TTUK Levels of authorisation was more streamlined and local .

Benefits completely awesome, beyond what majority of companies can offer, only missing gym membership. Management is changed every 3 to 5 years from outside USA, they try to absorb the culture as best possible. Some threaten job losses by moving to another country and do budget cuts by getting rid of employees with long tenures, over 10 years. 8-5 doesn't exist, looked down by management (even though denied), this passed to employees who start to criticize one another when leaving at 5. AC temperature always a disagreement, thermostat adjusted by whoever wanted to change it. Favoritism unfortunately reigns supreme, otherwise would have been an excellent work environment.

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