assembler

White River Marine Group

Work starts at 6:00am. You go to your work location and begin your shift. Upon realizing you don’t have the parts you need to do your job, you. You try to find your team leader to get you the parts you need. Only to find out your team leader is already trying to find parts for everyone else who doesn’t have the parts they need to do their job. For 25% of the day you find yourself, trying to avoid management. Management will stop and randomly harass you about not doing anything with the parts that you don’t have. Spend part of your day, wishing it was break time, or lunch. Because at least no one usually harasses you during break time or lunch.
You learn that it’s easier to pull a rabbit out of your hat magically then it is to work with parts that no one can provide you with.
The management is a group of people that either made it to their positions by kissing someone’s butt, or lying themselves into their position. They spend most of their day micromanaging, making terrible decisions, and as I said, before randomly harassing people and Making them hate coming to work every day. One of the good qualities that management has only benefits, their family members, and or friends that they hire and put into comfortable positions within the company. Nepotism is fantastic for them.
The hardest part of the day is staying in your workstation, even though you don’t have the parts you need to do your job. If you leave your workstation to try and find parts and stay busy and productive, you will be harassed by management and most likely sent home for the rest of the day without pay because you left your workstation. Also, watching out for the Backstabber in the Backstabber culture that management has created. But don’t worry too much about those people. Because they’re not that smart. And easy to pick out..
Most enjoyable part of the day is working with some really good people, and the hope that Friday will come quickly.


the first two years were great. production welding the same parts over and over. pay is good benefits are good. it get extremely hot in the summer months and are only given heat breaks if the temp reaches 95 outside. its at least 10-15 degrees hotter inside and your wear full leather and gear. 
when welding you don't get new consumables i.e. tips diffusers and cones, you have to clean old worn out ones and reuse and they cause problems. Due to them cutting costs etc. 
for the PPE, you will not get new filters, lenses etc for your fresh air hood, even though they are needed to be replaced everyday. 
supervision has their favorites and you are retaliated against.
I used to enjoy the job, the work and people. could be really great place to work if they actually had real supervisors who knew how to do their jobs and speak to people correctly and not have inappropriate relatioships with employees. Hopefully they can invest in leadership teaching for supervisors and leads. they could greatly benefit from it. sad to leave this place and most of the people ive built great working relationships with. 

Management is a joke. All the benefits of everything the hourly employees do go to the supervisors and up. The only thing they care about is production and efficiency. They have events that are supposed to show what can be done and how many people it will take but supervisors doctor the numbers to make it seem like less people can do more. Supervisors have no idea what is going on or how things are done and don’t care to learn. They will come out and scream at employees and bully them into working themselves into a heat stroke. There is no climate control whatsoever. It is extremely hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. They raise production values annually by 10% or more but only give a 3% raise.  While keeping all the bonuses at the salary level all though no one in the salary level will lift a finger to help. Force overtime or cut hours with little to no notice regardless of what an employee has going on.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There wasn't a good time for me!! But everyone is different. Their management is not good. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management doesn't know what they are doing, they think everyone there is replaceable, so they tell you I have apps, I can replace you if you don't wanna do it. That's from the guy running the place. Doesn't seem like they value anybody and they treat you as such. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Horrible. They can't meet they mark half the time. They got a lot of cleaning up to do. But it won't get fixed. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Go in be in at 6 shut down at 4:15 you get 2,  8 min breaks. If your not back at your station you get sent to the principles office.

    Most work included basic use of power tools and following a system put in place by whoever the previous lead was of whatever station you are at.
    Management was decent, some of the leads had issues but it happens and upper management seem kind of out of the loop about most of the work floor systems but still hand a good enough hold on the situation.
    The people were great, hard working, family oriented people for the most part.
Most stress is work drama which is bound to happen but it could get annoying at times especially when its management/lead drama.



I had very high hopes for White River.  Sadly, the culture ( thanks to upper management ) simply is NOT conducive to productivity.   "Chain of command" is more important than ingenuity, originality and success.  I've worked with groups in the past where there was no hierarchy; we were all "FLAT" and we worked as a TEAM.  Not at White River.  You do not talk to the next person up the chain until you've approved the convo with your "boss".  No thanks.  I've dealt with that in the past.  It isn't fun.  It isn't productive.  I don't care to be yelled at by someone for taking initiative to FIX PROBLEMS because I may step on someone's toes, then have that some person brag about MY SOLUTION the next day.   Good bye, White River.  

Wake up get there before six to clock in at 6 then depending on placement of job in the facility is where you're going to be heading towards I've learned the mako and the ranger boat from start to finish management is poor due to lack of communication its a manufacturing plant so plant life is the culture chemicals and fiberglass is the hardest part of the job besides repetitive motion the most enjoyable part of the job is the percentage off merchandise that is given with employment through bass pro shop 

Unfortunately most of the time, the place is ran on fear and the fact our town has little to choose from.  
The management are unable to communicate in a way that is respectful and reasonable. They want impossible things to be possible, with little to no compromise. Work until it hurts and get in a routine that is as comfortable as you can be.  
Stress is so intense you have no idea if you’re going into a war zone that day or not. 
People are over worked and under paid. Truly and unfortunately one of the worst places I have worked. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
If you like working yourself to death for the greater wealth of the owner, down threw management (white colars) and get minimal pay... than this is the job for you!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They don't care about there employees 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fast, stressful, toxic and exhausting 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Non stop assembly  at a ridiculous pace. No appreciation for the works who are making up for two people.

This was basically a good company to work for because I had a steady job close to home and got decent pay. I also enjoyed working with most of the people. There were supervisors that ignored harassment of employees by other employees based on who they were friends with. The company also made it difficult to get orders filled because they could never make a decision on how they wanted things run. 

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