production technician

maintenance technician

account executive

machine operator

printer

Vericast

This company pulls a bait and switch on prospective employees. I was informed that I would have 6-8 weeks of training and my pay would be $12.50 hourly. That was not true. I found out during orientation that I would only be receiving $12, and that the training was for 4 weeks for a position called welcome call (where you cold call customers about benefits for credit cards that they signed up for and the majority of the time are already aware of).  In addition, I was also informed that they would pay for the gym membership for Gold's Gym. Also not true. I signed up and they (Harland) canceled my contract six days after I turned it in. I was informed that this was an error and it would be fixed. It wasn't, and Gold's Gym began to charge me for their incompetence. By the time I left the company, it still wasn't resolved and now I am working with Gold's Gym to fix this matter. 

If you are hoping to move up in the company due to your expertise, you can forget it. The only ones that are promoted are ones that don't perform their job duties well, suckups, and favorites. 

You are micromanaged by trainers and managers unless you suck up and/or a favorite. You have to swipe your ID on every entrance with the exception of the cafeteria and the restrooms. This can affect your adherence if you do not leave your break early enough to arrive back on time. 

You cannot have any personals belongings with you. No purses, no lunchboxes, backpacks, paper, pens, pencils, books (unless you work on the MINQ section you can read) and no small plastic bags. Everything must remain in a locker.  You cannot bring in red drinks because of the company being afraid of stains on the carpet ( the carpets are not even new or very well maintained.)  

God forbid if you have a family emergency because you are SOL unless your family members know the work number to leave a message at the front desk.  You can't have a cell phone on the floor. Only the supervisors can.

Harland Clarke is a very customer oriented company that understands that their customers are their most important asset.  The company provides the appropriate training to all levels of management and personnel to successfully grow their knowledge and skill sets related to, not only the business needs, but the overall culture of the company.

This was a good place to work for many years.  I learned many skills in my management roles with the company.  I was lucky enough to bring in a great staff of individuals who stayed with the company as a team for many years.  Building the success of the IT team was the most enjoyable part of my job.  Leading the team through many company changes and challenges was a big part of my leadership responsibility.  Managing the project workload, staying within my annual budget and working directly with leaders from all areas of the company allowed me to obtain a full understanding of the business needs that the IT team had to support on a daily basis.

Communication with my direct reports was essential to our success to assure that everyone on the team was clear on their project priorities on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

My direct contact with leaders in sales, manufacturing, account support and finance allowed my understanding of the needs and goals of the overall business to be very clear.

The most difficult part of the job came in the later years of my employment when cost cutting and downsizing took precedence over employee loyalty.  It was difficult to watch many very talented and experienced people be forced to leave the company to meet company budget goals, although I know this is often a necessity.

Overall, I would recommend Harland Clarke as a very good company to work for.

Went though a very bad experience here recently. I was hired as a contractor for a 3 month contract as a QA tester. As I live 4 to 5 hours away, I rented a place close by. I would drive down on Sunday to be at work on Monday morning and then return home on Friday. The first month everything went fine. For the second month, I drove down as usual, paid my rent and went to work and started working on the tasks assigned to me. Around lunch time, I got a call from my employer saying that the QA supervisor had decided to terminate my contract. I was shocked and perplexed by this sudden decision. I asked the supervisor if there was anything wrong with my performance or did I do something wrong to cause this abrupt termination. The response was that my performance was good but they were terminating me due to lack of work. The QA supervisor did not even take into consideration that I had just driven down the previous day and had paid my full rent for the month that same day. I later realized what had happened- the previous week the supervisor had asked me to take two days off since I was working remote due to the hurricane. I had spoken to my employer if they would compensate me for those two days. But they declined and told me they would talk to the supervisor about that. Obviously that did not go down too well with the QA supervisor - he probably thought I was complaining about him. Long story short, I lost my rent money since the landlady refused to return it and also lost my income for the remainder of the project. Lesson learnt for me - think twice before accepting an offer from small companies like this one - make sure the contract explicitly states the grounds for termination and sufficient notice period.

At first it may seem to be a good place to work but you will soon realize reality. They will slowly want you to perform job duties other than what you were hired to do and not even bump up your pay for it. "Cross Training".  Then even though you are not a trainer you will soon train others and not get compensation for it. 2 raises a year going off of company performances. It goes something like this each shift most liked employee (pet) gets maxed raise 50 cents maybe more, then next is the brown noisers which gets about 30 to 40 cents, ant the rest of the budget goes to everyone else 10 to 15 cents. They will tell you your job performance is outstanding but you have room for improvement. Mind you this company makes billions of dollars each year. 

They want your opinion on how to improve the job, so you let them know. In the end your opinion does not mean anything. All that really matters is kiss butt and be liked or voice your opinion and be hated. Speak your mind and be hated for life. 

The facility is a health hazard just take a tour and look at the ceiling. 

Employees are replaceable

Word of advice!!! If you want to go to school dont let them know you will soon be out of the job. They tell you if you wish to do so they will work with you but they wont. 
Be an average worker because if you show them you are a hard worker pretty soon you will do the work and everyone else just stands around watching you work. 
Know the rules, regulations, policies, and laws. Make copies of everything, get everything in writing, and make sure you are notified about every rule changes. They will change the rules at will. 

To me it was easy I would have stayed if I did not plan on a career change.

A typical day at Harland Clarke started with a Team 10 Meeting. We'd learn what our goals were and how we did the day before. Our manager would then go to each station and see what or if you need anything and also tell you the individual goals for the machine or section you were in. If you were behind or in need of help, all you would have to do was ask. They were so willingly to help. Everyone kinda knew that, the one day could be the day you need help and wouldn't you love the helpful hand. The hardest part of the job was, when you would get slammed with assignments and then, what happens, you break down. It would be something so microscopical or a major part of your machine. It puts scheduling way behind and other machine would then have to help with the work load. Everything  must still go out on the right shipping palet or else the company would lose money. Although to be honest, on these days, I probably enjoy my job more than I should have. When my printer was down for  any amount of time, I would either help the maintence guys if they required help, or I would simply run a different machine. I was trained on several machine: the printer for starters, next was the binder, which binded the checkbooks, then I was trained on shipping them. I also was trained on different printer. I took joy in knowing how to run a machine, I was later asked by the supervisor to help to shipping coordinator, who, like me, could fix and run just about every machine out there. He had been work there for a number of years. He was a very funny guy and loved his job. I can say it has been the best job I have ever had.

A typical day at work involved contacting currnet clients regarding cross sell/up sell opportunities either in person calls or via phone/internet communications. I was also responsible for "hunting' new business within my territory for not only the core products (checks/cards) but also all the companies products to include software, marketing, surveys and analytics that drive customer behaviors. I learned how to become very diverse in my offerings and how to ask a lot of questions that lead to uncovering needs specific to each individual account. The hardest part of the job the decline in market for the core product (checks) while replacing this revenue with other products services offered by our company to fill the gaps. The company was forced to make tough decisions regarding price increases in the base of the products as well as the delivery. The most enjoyable part of this position was the relationships I had with all of my clients and even prospects! After almost 12 years of calling a very finite group, I came to know them and enjoy being with all of them. I loved uncovering needs that would truly benefit their growth within their markets and fulfilling their business goals

A typical day at work entails balancing many facets of financial responsibilities. This includes Accounts receivable, account reconciliation, collections, invoice correction, credit issues, account management and facilitating a wide varieties of issues to name a few. I mainly work directly with clients, sales or internal contacts. Working with Valassis I have added to my existent knowledge of financial responsibilities I possess from my experience with Total Logistic Services as well as my educational experience. The management style at my place of employment allows me to own the tasks assigned to me and stand behind my decision making. My co-workers are a great bunch of people who are willing to assist, as I am to them. We are a cohesive unit. The hardest part of my job would have to be dealing with client issues directly. Always balancing client relationships while keeping the best interests of the organization in mind. Sometimes clients can become irate, but you have to work them to devise a mutual resolution. The most enjoyable part of my day is analyzing numbers. I enjoy digging into accounts, reconciling them, figuring out any financial errors and fixing them.  I look at analysis like a puzzle, I enjoy piecing the information together to come to an outcome.

It was never the same thing, nor typical day for the warehouse.  Trucks coming and going, product being taken out to the production floor, inventories beng conducted unannounced.  It was enjoyable to go to work at Harland-Clarke.  

I learned a whole new system of inventory, receiving stock, and how to unload trucks that had scattered damaged material inside the container.  The computer slills that my manager taught me, have greatly enhanced my knowledge of computers.

The most difficult item I had with work, was with safety regulations.  The lack of attention to detail by some employees concerned me to no end.  I did bring this up to my immediate supervisor, very tactfully, and Harland eventually established a safety committee. I volunteered for this committee, and stayed on it for twelve years.  Incidents dropped dramaticly, and the employees knew that the company meant business when it came to safety.

The management and leadership of Harland-Clarke is second to none.  They were always there for any of us, and supported each and everyone of the employees. It was extremely hard to close the doors when we shut down the plant.  Harland-Clarke is a great place to work.  They care about their people, and their customers.

I came in to Harland Clarke with the expectations that I would be given the opportunity to grow and learn with the company. However, over the past few years, I've seen all that opportunity be liquidated or shipped overseas. A large portion of the company works remotely, which makes it very difficult to work with others.

Harland Clarke also does not set aside time for their employees to become acclimated to their new positions. They are expected to learn on their own time after given a brief overview of their responsibilities.

Harland Clarke is completely driven by their sales department. Sales dictates everything that the other departments must do on a project. If it isn't something that is currently supported, they are forced to figure it out and often must implement it without proper testing.

The employees I've had the privilege of working with are a plus. The managers I've dealt with here are by far the best I've had in my professional career thus far. They have no control over what business decisions are made, therefor I cannot hold them accountable.

All in all, Harland Clarke feels like a dead end job. One were you come in (stay late if instructed) and go home. Nothing to get excited about and no opportunities to grow in your career.

We made business to business marketing calls to prospects on various projects. I was assigned to the American Express Merchant Services project, where we contacted merchants who were showing a low charge volume with Amex and wanted to let the merchants know about different tools and resources to help grow and manage their business. I learned a lot about using my active listening skills when it came to hearing what struggles the merchants were facing and was effectively able to determine relevant information to provide to help their businesses thrive. The management team was very effective in providing all the necessary information we needed to make our calls more effective to our clients. Everyone I worked with brought something different to the table, whether it was on the phone, or in the different center teams we were involved in. I would say the hardest part of the job was dealing with various challenging prospects we encountered on the phone. The most enjoyable part of the job was the different and challenging calls we encountered, plus the different center activities and recognition I had the pleasure of taking part in.

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