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When I started at Weyerhauser the company appeared to have a long-term focus on the future, and developed businesses and technologies to ensure diversity during times when wood prices were low. Since then the culture shifted to short-term resource extraction, from the land it holds and from its employees. The company sold many of the diversified businesses to focus on wood products. I'm concerned about their sustainability when the price of wood drops. 

These changes affected the people-development side of the company with a noticeable decrease in emphasis on safety from senior management, employee growth and development, and morale. The environment was more of treading water to survive, not proactively pursuing new business ideas and creating opportunities. There are many smart and talented people working at this company, but even some of the brightest employees recognized for their exceptional achievements showed low morale. 

With that said, the work was rewarding, the team was fantastic, and the work-life balance was generally controllable. It was never easy living with the idea that our jobs could disappear at any time. The most important advice I would give is take the job if it's your best option, but keep your eyes and ears open for other opportunities, keep your resume updated, and save your money in the event you need it to transition to another job. Remember, you are trading years of your life for some paychecks so make it count!

Don't make any long term financial commitments when working for this company and save every dime you can is the best advice I can give you if you choose to work for this company because it will likely be shut down with out any notice to you.
 Weyco. has left a trail of destruction of family's behind them here in the northwest US, closing down countless facility's. To them your just an employee number and a brain dead person with a pulse if you work production with little if any room for advancement. 
 The hardest part of the job at Weyco. is just a terrible place to work if you have kids in school because most new people at best end up stuck on graveyard or at worst swing shift missing out seeing their children until the weekend and even then overtime can be mandatory.
   The work place culture before weyc..was once was production, production,production,be careful out there since back in the late 60s.We set production record's year after year when the market needed our product and would scale back with everyone getting a furlough day during the hard time's when our product was less demanded.
 Then after Weyco. came in and installed their "safety culture" our production went in the toilet! Trying to save a dime instead of making a dollar! And a short 5years later Weyco management said the plant wasn't profitable anymore and had to closed it down to make a long store short! 
 So I will let you make the call about weyco. management style.
The most enjoyable part of the job is your co-workers because all of you are in this together and want to make the best of it while it last. Some of us still keep in touch to this very day.

Let's start with that I have been with Weyerhaeuser for four years and have only received one raise, with over 95% ratings on my annual reviews. I had plenty of meetings explaining my intent on moving up with the company over the last few years. Yes, I took on many roles outside the scoop of my original job duties. Such as Safety, Training and Inventory Managment to name a few. I have in all of these cases excelled and either came up with new SOP's or saved our site hundreds of thousands in potential fines. Yep, our site was operating with no forklift certifications for two years...that's two years. 

Of course, one would think that finding and fixing said issues would afford them recognition for their hard work etc. Not in the case of Weyerhaeuser. 

It is not enough to work 16 hour days and complete a degree while doing so. Yes, I am finishing my BS, 12 months left, while still working 16 hours days. Again, I thought that showing I can get my higher education done it would somehow allow me to be able to move up finally. Yet again, no, Weyerhaeuser does not care if their current employees are bettering themselves, no, they side-line them and hire from the outside. Then you get the chance to teach those new bosses of yours how to do their new jobs. 

In conclusion, Weyerhaeuser is great for lateral or higher position moves. The sad thing is once you are in one spot they do not promote you moving from that position, no matter how hard you work, at all. So for those with midlevel backgrounds you are set. Those who are at the beginning trying to move up, Weyerhaeuser is by far the worst. I wouldn't wish to work with them on my worst enemy.

Clock in, get coffee, picked up orders and hurried to job location. Half of the day was pulling orders, boxing them and palletizing. for pet store deliveries. Then restocking shelves in pet department.
Later in the day, moving over to garden department. Using an electric pallet jack, we pulled orders for department stores. shrink wrapped the pallets, and aligned them for loading. At the end of the day, we cleaned the warehouse, plugged in all electric equipment and if time permitted, restocked shelves with electric forklifts. Some days we unloaded trucks, and train cars of fright all day.

I learned how to do all the above while working there.
Management always pushing for more then could be performed, then froze wages.

Co-workers in the pet area, morning crew were the most friendly people to work with there. the garden department were good folks, just not real friendly, but easy to get along with.

Getting the message across to the management that only so much could be done in a day, which was next to impossible, and soon resulted in a wage freeze, I then soon left here giving them two weeks notice as was expected, and started employment at a grounds maintenance company.

Working with peers, and pulling orders in the pet department was a real pleasure.

this company has done nothing but gone down hill every year for the last 7 years at least. every time we think it can't get worse, it does. we have worked less than 40 hrs a wk for more than half the year for the last 4-5 years. the cost of labor adjustment that we are supposed to get yearly we have only received twice in the past 7 years. management has ran this plant in the ground. it used to be a great place to work with competitive pay and benefits. now you don't work enough hours to be able to pay your bills.  when we are working our regular hours we have to save all that money to go with our tax return to make it through the slow times.  management only cares about corporate and their bonus. they do not pass the profits on to their employees.  they profited 40 million last year at this facility and the biggest cost of labor adjustment was like 30 cents. some of the managers go back and take time off your time card because they don't want you to have that many hours, even though they told you that you could get forty hours. seniority means absolutely nothing out here. supervisors that have been here for over 20 years get fired over personal differences, things that have nothing to do with work. very little chance for advancement.

I was an Associate Engineering. I thought the pay was reasonable, but I found myself committing most of my life to this stressful work environment (which I expected, so I wasn't too shocked). I normally would have no issue with this, but their was no sense of gratification that came along with it. The engineering and process managers were fantastic; they cared a significant amount about their employees and process. Though the bureaucratic structure of this large company seemed to always interfere with getting work done.

There was some definite need for improvement in the Associate's program. If I was not an outgoing individual, I could have sat at my desk for months without anyone caring. 

The culture at the mill just seemed lost. Many employees were not motivated enough to do their job well. Others were very argumentative. More gossip than a high school hallway. Ultimately, the vibe didn't match my personality.

Ending on a plus side, I think it is a great place to work and gain some useful experience. There are plenty of advancement opportunities as well. If that's the market you're in, I would at least try Weyerhaeuser out.

New hires will not be offered a pension fund as of January 2020, and the decent health, dental and vision insurance will be replaced with an HSA with a terribly high deductible. The pay is extremely outdated, this is by no means a family supporting job. Salary / management is sneaky, will gaslight you and won’t hesitate backstabbing if it meant a shoe up for them. You will start on nights working split days off and most likely sundays for several years before you see a change up. Crew morality has been dead and gone for years with no sign of resurrection. Machines have polices set in place that result in you operating them with as little personal dedication making as possible, with consequences for deviating from them. The latest contract between the company and union has loopholes in place that more or less allow the company to change work policies when they desire. You will have high expectations on you at all times with no motivation, recognition or morality. You will be a nothing more than a number here.

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                      I worked on the Finishing side of the mill one day I would work the round tables, the next I would work the Fork lift to keep up the mill. While working round tables I would sort and stack good lumber while the bad lumber was thrown out. After strapping and labeling the stacked lumber I would use a small lift to put the lumber in the lumber yard. They give you two 15 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch. At the end of shift the team would work together to clean up your perspective work areas for the next shift. The days I keep up the mill I would drive the big lift all day and pull lumber off the line. I would then place said lumber in the lumber yard for shipping. I enjoyed the people I worked with for the most part. I enjoyed the steady working so as not to get bored while working. The hardest part of the job was that it was a swing shift one week days and the other nights. You could never get good rest due to the hours. Management was like any other management.

Weyerhaeuser has struggled operating this mill as well other mills in the south.  Stock price has hovered at $30 for many years under Weyerhaeuser's leadership.  The corporate office is too far disconnected from the mills and tend to expect unrealistic results.  The mill is old with much of the equipment heavily worn and in disrepair.  The pay for both hourly and salary are not competitive for the area.   The company intends to stay competitive on salaries in the "industry" instead of being competitive with local industry.  Salary positions are usually very long hours with no compensation for working late, or working weekends and holidays.  .  No much security in salary positions with current upper management.  The hourly ranks are cover under the local union.   The local union representatives are concerned for their other union "pals" instead of representing the entire workforce. If you like long hours for uncompetitive pay, this maybe a good place for you.

If your looking for back stabbing than come here it's the best. They are always looking for a new scape goat.

Maintenance leadership is out for themselves. No repair goes without multiple failures. Parts are always incorrect and repairs are done without proper preparations leaving a myriad of unsafe working conditions. Don't tell then that though because the banners all over the mill say safety first and bringing up issues just puts a target on your back. Production over all else at this plant no matter what they tell you.

They also like to keep management that sexually harass members of their crew. They will also keep "leaders" that target and harass certain people and continually degrade and belittle them. Those two were just investigated internally by Weyerhaeuser and still have a job. I guess when your management your safe no matter what you do. 

Just don't make waves and you won't drown. Always be a yes man and you won't have to worry. Stay off day shift and be invisible.

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