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Woodgrain

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of working for the company is clocking out at the end of each workday!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part about working for Woodgrain was the lack of good management at the Plant level. Just this one missing key ingredient leads and have led to a myriad of problems system wide, not to mention the constant endangerment of people's physical safety. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment where I worked in Leesburg, GA was incessantly filled with dangerous accidents and incidents (near misses) due to the apathetic approach and mindset of the management to constantly and consistently overlook dangerous items or situations that has led to and still leads to serious physical harm of its employees. They rarely go more than 30-45 days without a recordable incident/or serious accident. The communication from front office to production floor is virtually nonexistent or miscued at best. They are one of the lowest if not the lowest salary paying companies with poor to mediocre health benefits. And due to the extreme apathy and lack of empathy from management to staff, the moral of the employees there is beneath the basement floor if at all still existent. This is evident based upon the extremely high turnover ratio and number of safety accidents that they are still currently facing now till this day. There is no sense of teamwork at all there. Every department seems to be on its own agenda with no congruity system wide. It's very surprising that the doors are still open, considering they have lost a lot of customers in the past few years due to poor performance derived from poor management. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Extremely physically demanding and mentally draining. The best part of the day is clocking out to go home!

The job itself was fine and served its purpose, it paid the bills. However, the work environment and management culture made the experience increasingly difficult over time.

Management was often unprofessional and gossipy, speaking negatively about employees behind their backs while acting friendly to their faces. There was no real opportunity for advancement, as competent employees were frequently relied on to take on higher‑level responsibilities without the title or pay, while certain members of management spent most of the day socializing instead of leading.

Anonymity does not exist here. Personal information spreads quickly throughout the warehouse, including through management, and it’s hard to trust anyone to keep things private. There is a significant amount of drama, personal vendettas, and blurred boundaries due to family and personal relationships among coworkers. Communication is poor across all departments, and the workload varies drastically from day to day. Overtime is inconsistent- sometimes mandatory, other times removed with notice.

The benefits were decent and reasonably priced, but not exceptional. Ultimately, the culture was the biggest issue, despite Woodgrain “swearing” by their “Fundamentals.”

It became increasingly toxic and mentally draining the longer I worked there. If you are a competent worker, you will likely be overused until you burn out, and any attempt to address concerns will be ignored.

Woodgrain is a company defined by dead-end opportunities and high turnover. Leadership decisions are driven more by nepotism and personal connections than by skill or merit. Promotions and opportunities are routinely given to those who “know the right people,” while talented employees are overlooked.

For women, the culture is especially toxic. This is a place where systemic sexism is alive and well: women are underpaid, rarely promoted, and expected to “stay quiet and do their jobs” while men make the decisions — often very poor ones. There is no real pathway for women to advance, and the leadership culture ensures it stays that way.

Performance reviews are inconsistent and subjective, often based more on a manager’s personal feelings than on measurable goals. Many employees aren’t even given proper objectives to work toward. Managers will frequently ask you to create your own goals, only to later ignore your strengths and focus solely on anything you did wrong. Raises are a joke — don’t expect more than a token 1–2% increase, no matter how much you contribute.

The business itself takes no accountability for fixing broken processes. Instead, they push the responsibility onto IT, creating audit risks and short-term patches rather than requiring true process improvement. If Woodgrain were a public company, it wouldn’t survive.

Turnover is astronomical, and for good reason. Between the lack of diversity, the poor leadership, the unfair performance practices, and the dead-end environment, employees leave as quickly as they can.

You only move up in this company if you are a "teacher's pet" even if your not good at your job. And they micromanage you really bad here. The phone thing is the worst. I wished they just hired a front desk worker to anwser the calls, it's hard to balance the calls with all the extra work we as Inside Sales have to do. Company treats us like children, other workers (OSRs, warehouse, etc) will go behind your back to talk to management about you constantly versus just talking to you 1 on 1 about the problem. Stressful environment. Management will take multiple weeks off in a roll or even months but freak out if you take 1 or 2 days off.  Commission was promise to be decent but it's really low for what you do (like an extra $100 bucks only).  Other sales role positions at other companies offer decent/great commission percentages for their workers and bonuses! Even the OSR would give a Christmas gift but not here. I just wish they would increase our commission to 2% to 5% of your total sales biweekly.  We're in sales but it doesn't feel like it cause of the low amount of money we make.. No work life balance except for management and higher roles. 

The higher management is aware of the problems within the company but are not willing to do anything about it. They will hire someone outside of the company that is less qualified for a job or not qualified at all over someone who has worked there for years who would be an ideal candidate. They say you can move up in the company but you can't. The managers of each department have no leadership skills and have no control over what happens in their department because their workers don't respect them. They do less than the bare minimum of upkeep to their equipment which result in more down time than running time because something is always broken, instead of making a repair when its small they wait until the machine is completely inoperable to fix it. They dont keep spare parts on hand and when you order a part they get lost. The turn over rate is so high at this company I only listed a few of the problems with this employer. Youre better off looking somewhere else. You will not be recognized or appreciated for anything at this company.

On a good day you'd go in to your work area and fullfill your orders, on hectic days you might be sent around the plant at the whims of your supervisor. My opinion are a probably a bit skewed due to supervisors and managers retiring during my time there, and the new supervisor over my department was either not cut out for the job or was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I am still suffering arm pain due to that supervisor not listening to my concerns and requests to be put onto lighter work for awhile.
Also whoever was in charge of accepting and handling orders and distribution of material was lacking. There were multiple times I could see orders waiting for almost a month before I got the material to full fill it, and by that time I had to rush to finish it or be forced to do overtime.

Negatives aside I enjoyed the schedule which, outside of overtime, was very consistent and easy to plan and schedule around. And despite the issues I said before management were rather flexible and willing to work with me when it came to vaction time.

Salaried IT Employees are not expected to stay late and put in extra hours unpaid. You come in when you are supposed to be there, and leave at the end of the day. One week of on-call rotation every two months (paid). 
If you are supporting manufacturing, the physical working conditions are not very good, especially in the summer. The manufacturing buildings are not cooled, they are just big metal sheds that get hot and stay hot all summer, and are quite chilly in the winter. There is wood dust that gets in everything (including cooling fans on electronic equipment). There are strong odors of paint, glue, and other chemical substances, depending on the building. 
Not all the buildings have restrooms or drinking water available. 
Management is largely good, but some of the management decisions have been incredibly poor. There was one manager that was okay to work with as a coworker, but unbearable as a manager. 
This business was hit very hard with the collapse of housing market in 2008 which was a huge hit to the Fruitland job market. They have been making a steady increase in employment since those layoffs.

There is no sense of employee appreciation at Woodgrain. Jeld-Wen offered a far superior benefits package. Woodgrain removed parental leave, took a week of PTO from most employees, and structured our compensation in a way that makes it more difficult to earn overtime. Overtime is paid after 40 worked hours (PTO does not count towards worked hours). Also, there is no holiday rate (I.e. 1.5x base hourly rate) for working a holiday. You will be paid straight time unless you are already above 40 hours. If you are called in at midnight, and have already taken PTO that week, you will not earn overtime for that call in. This has lead to a dramatic drop in yearly compensation when compared to previous years with Jeld-Wen. Raises are structured around “performance reviews” with arbitrary metrics. The corporate higher-ups preach a “family atmosphere” that means nothing unless your last name is Dame. If you are just a regular Joe with a good work ethic, you will be treated like a cog in their money making machine.

It promotes a "Safety Above All" approach, but only really follows up on it if someone is hurt. To their credit, management does go over safety topics every morning, but they are rarely followed by the employees and enforced by the managers. This is because they cannot afford to let people go as they are constantly slammed with orders. This is why there are many temp hires in the facility I worked in. They just needed the extra bodies to get the work done. The downside is that the temp agency they use fields very lazy individuals with some questionable backgrounds, with a "my way or no way" attitude. This causes problems when it comes to determining when you leave every day. It is an inconsistent job, but the policies concerning the job itself must be. And as it stands as of this writing,  it is not so.

The upper management at this company is a joke. They hire people from the outside who know nothing about the job. I worked there from April 2024 and went on maternity leave in april of 2025. During my maternity leave they hired a new coach for interior who refused to learn any part of interior. He bullied people, lied to his bosses about it, and lied about people to get them in trouble. He would be annoyed whenever you came to him with a problem. He also spread people’s business around, like telling people that he was letting someone go before letting them go. It’s a very unprofessional environment in there and I would not recommend working there as long as he is there or if they keep hiring people like him. They also hire people for lead positions whose parents work in the same facility upstairs. The favoritism in that place is crazy. They don’t hire people based on qualifications, they hire people based on who their parents are.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 3 salaries reported	$25.83 per hour
Laborer 6 salaries reported	$17.14 per hour
Field representative 1 salary reported	$578 per week
Entry level laborer 6 salaries reported	$19.13 per hour
Millwright 9 salaries reported	$29.62 per hour

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