material handler

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Vista Outdoor

Who this job may be better suited for: People that lack post GED education (nothing wrong with that), night owls, like a routine, are okay with mindless repetitive tasks, and just want to clock in, make the things with the stuff, clock out, get paid -- rinse and repeat. You will also most likely land in a department that causes accelerated wear and tare on your body leaving you open to injuries at any given moment, and they are mostly irreversible injuries. This is entry level, so don't expect your voice to carry any weight whatsoever. You will be just a number and nothing more if you don't take a management position, and even those folks are treated as expendable. You will be taken advantage of at any opportunity. If you like to keep your head down and just get 'er done, you will probably enjoy working here. 

However,

If you are creative, an independent thinker, open to new ideas, embrace change, want to build a legacy, make an impact in this world, expect to be appropriately compensated when you provide 6 figure ideas with vision and direction that gets implemented (especially the kind that think tanks are supposed to be responsible for), you'll probably be less than satisfied and completely unfulfilled. Worse than that, taken advantage of. 

Don't get me wrong here. I needed to provide for my family while I was making plans toward goals and next moves, and I will forever be grateful that I had this job as a means to an end. The pay is great and the paid time off is second to none. Seriously. That being said, the culture is brutal, and drove me to levels of distress I'd never experienced before.100% of everybody that I worked with that had been there past 10 years were completely defeated by this job. Souls crushed. True depression like I've never seen. The kicker is, it's the people on the more desired shifts that are like this. The people on the weekend shifts are far happier do in large part to their newer status. Before accepting a position here, do a thorough inventory of yourself on how much of your time and physical/mental health you're willing to trade for nicer things. You can replace you material possessions... You can't replace your failed body parts. This job will accelerate your aging process. 

Absolutely zero work life balance, chastised for requesting a few days off here and there after being worked to absolute death, while higher ups consistently take weeks/months off at a time during the busiest time of year. 

This makes it impossible to plan taking any time off ever. Need to buy a plane ticket or book hotels for a trip? Too bad, management won't approve your time off until the day before, and make you feel bad for for taking it.

People who have been there a while are incredibly condescending and unprofessional, and have a false sense of seniority even though they can barely do their job correctly. Everything I was told in my interviews, and while I was working there was a complete lie.

Management consistently throws wrenches into productivity of entire departments then expects you to still deliver on time while you're left picking up the pieces meanwhile the direction of a project has made a 180, but they also forgot to tell you, also its due yesterday but they can't give you the details until tomorrow, and then make the whole thing out like its your fault.

Absolutely zero planning or ability to look into the future of how their decisions will effect things negatively. No accountability whatsoever for said managers who create most of the chaos and waste massive amounts of time and money.

If you bring any of this up, they will tell you that this is fine normal and just how things work, then condescendingly suggest that maybe its not the right environment for you.

Constant mass lay offs, continual massive budget cuts, but they keep hiring for high paying high level management roles while they lay off the individual employees who actually do the work.

The entirety of higher management is made up of people who are friends of the president, who was only chosen because he's a friend of the CEO.

Middle management is a nightmare of people with enormous egos who don't actually do much of anything, who will then micromanage you to the point of derailing every project they give you.

This company will lie to you, absolutely abuse you, and then cut you loose the second they feel like they no longer need you.

Stay away.

Love the work I do at federal ammunition. The Anoka plant needs to break up the good old boys club. I have never worked for a company that has so many talented people side lined because of the good old boys club. This company could be soooo much more but won't ever get there with its current management style. 
Shift preference was changed to slow down the turn around rate on weekends. An employee can expect to be locked into there weekend shift for a very long time now. The weekend shift still has a high turn over rate with employees leaving instead of changing shifts. 
To give you an idea of the turn over rate, about every six month we get on average 4-8 new employees/cell and currently there are 35 openings on the weekend. 

You will love the pay scale but hate your hours. You will get 4 to 3 days off a week but expect them to be Mon.-Thur. A few will make it to a week shift faster because of the new system but the majority will have slow movement. Career couching is limited and career advancement depends on your place in the Good old boys structure not on your skill set. 

Huge issue in Management, great fun loving people to work with on the floor... A good company that could become great if they would fix there management style.

The company has a lot of weird problems.
There are too many branches under the company for everyone to be on the same page. Office workers tend not to know the times Warehouse or Assembly workers are working or on breaks, and vice versa. Many teams are on separate managing units, so one team's policies can be completely different from another's. Ex: the team I worked in previously had the option to do partial remote working, and had a higher rate of pay for a similar job to my other position; my other position has a lower rate of pay and no option for remote work at all.
There is currently (as I'm writing this) a company switch happening, so much of the tech and software as well as policies are being strained or not working well despite the best efforts of Leads and the IT dept.
The company heads say one thing but do other things instead. And the rates don't seem to match the work being done. The company also goes on frequent hiring freezes and lay-offs.
All in all, it can be decent work either on the floor or in the office, but the looming instability is a big weight. Coworkers tend to be nice, but everyone feels the pressure from the jobs and workload going on. There's very little good communication as well, and the work-life balance is pretty bad.
Also, the health insurance is on MN state, soooooo have fun with that if you're outside MN.

If you absolutely have to take a job here be very careful as they have forklifts (turret trucks) that will drive on their own, they know this yet still keep it in service even after it crashes on its own they throw it back on the charger. They try to rush you into the little work that they have so they can try to simply match last years projections and have no clue as to the current work demand so they never have a clue as to your schedule for that week so you can literally never plan a weekend. While I worked there someone broke their leg on a forklift and after medical examination they were fired and said they did it so that OSHA wouldn’t return and **** them. Absolutely worst work/life balance and even at work they give extremely unfair work loads to some and almost no work for others who have been there for years and may even move them to departments where they do no labor all week when you are throwing 50 pound boxes for 10+ hours for weeks at a time

What is the best part of working at the company?
The new CEO will take Revelyst to a new beggining. This will help new hires start fresh. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
International Customer Service management. The lack of experience and profetionalism prevents the department to be a team and grow together. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Currently there is none, management wants to treat people like slaves and expects you to be full of exitement after you are told if you get cought up you will get a price, being short staff for over 2 yrs. This will never happen. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressed, overwhelmed, scared of answering with the truth to any other department when asked and speaking up for myself, knowing the retaliation that will be coming back from it.

I have loved this job as far as pay, benefits, and my own personal management. On the other hand, I have watched many people be fired, quit, and become miserable in their own positions. It's stressful, employees have been overworked, and everyone knows they are not safe. The company is under a new CEO and since he has come on they have sold 2 companies off (planning to sell more), fired hundreds of people (Including almost ALL of the upper VP's), and decided to rid of there HQ office putting 40-50 people out of job come the move. All I want to get across is that this company promised me growth, opportunity, and benefits and all I have received 2 years later is a severance. This company is not reliable or promising to work for at the moment. They are trying to save their own. The culture is cut-throat and competitive to a T.

I've worked here for a while now (almost 10 years) Back when I first started this place was great to work for. I was proud to say I worked here and always tried to get people to apply. Now, many years later and a lot of change to the company and I no longer say anything about it. Management has become low end and dealing with workers compensation sucks, especially working for a company that is easy to tear your body apart. Most of our supervisors are fantastic, however our management is sub-par and not easy to work or deal with. Overall, if you want a paycheck and to make the same amount of money 10-20 years down the road as a person working here for 1 year than this is the place to be. Definitely a good filler job while in school due to shift preferences, but you could also be stuck on weekend swing for a long time due to movement not being very good here.

High turnover caused by bad managers that are allowed to stay for many years.  Micromanaging is rampant, narcissistic managers, disorganized and forgetful managers, constantly changing expectations.  No written bulletins.  "Do what I say right now" is the standard, because they likely don't remember what they told you last month. And never ever solve a problem the manager could not. Rewarded with persecution not appeciation.

Many different systems, processes that are very outdated and extremely manual.  Desperately needs one integrated system but will not make a decision or spend the money.  Way too few resources put to IT.  Super complicated manual processes (everything programmed in Excel by employees) leads to more errors which are then always blamed on employees.

Good coworkers.  Good benefits.

I used to really enjoy working at Vista/ Bushnell in Olathe, but new management changes, poor leadership, and constant mandatory overtime made it absolutely terrible. We are currently on mandatory 10 hour days until further notice and including Saturdays. There is no end in sight. One thing worth mentioning is that the people I do work with are incredible. I enjoy getting through the crummy work hours with them. But new management is garbage right now. If they don't change their ways it will only get worse. I hope you mouth breathers up top see this. A lot of us are burnt out and miserable. Stop exploiting the people who make your gears spin.

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