machine operator

maintenance technician

production associate

forklift operator

material handler

Worthington-Enterprises

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Worthington Industries is not the best. Started out being told overtime was never mandatory, within 2 months it was 6 days every other week. Then it was 6 days 3 weeks every month. Had enough trustworthy people tell me in the past it was 6 days or even 7 days every week. Dont trust them at all on what they say about overtime.

Management
In general, managers at Worthington Industries  were subpar.  At first they were super nice and friendly, seemed like a laid back atmosphere. But after a few months realized it was all just show. Once I saw their true colors it was all I could do to show up to work every day.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Worthington Industries was great. The co workers themselves (non management) were extremely helpful, friendly, laid back. A very teamwork mentality.

Overall
My experience working at Worthington Industries was terrible. At first it seemed like a great place to work, good coworkers, friendly management, decent pay and benefits. But once I actually got out on the floor and spent enough time there, you could see through all the lies.

Management prided themselves on supposedly having this super friendly respectful culture, but it was all lies. Outside of individual interactions, there was a lot if drama and complaints that were quietly swept under the rug. Lots of favoritism.  You would be trained how to run machines, then later be reprimanded for following your training. 

Then you would have people not trained on equipment telling you how to do your job, and when you did in their way you would still get reprimanded. You couldnt win. 

Open door policy was a joke. You had better be in the same opinion mindset as your supervisor and step in line, or you were quickly reprimanded. 

Management would act like your buddy at first and then throw you under the bus for stuff you didnt do. 

They would encourage new people to participate in team building sessions or method improvements, but regardless of what input you gave you were reprimanded even sometimes threatened or punished for offering new ways to do things. 

Some shifts the team leads and supervisors were respectful, others were downright nasty. Verbal assaults were commonplace. Favoritism was rampant. HR wouldnt stick up for you. Even all the veteran 20 30 year + workers had identical things to say about the terrible management.

Got out as soon as I could. My blood pressure was sky high working there.

-Decent Pay
-Good benefits
-Profit sharing(unless your facility isn’t profitable, in which case they kick you out of their profit-sharing pool so you don’t affect their flagship plants. Even if you took a pay-cut to work here factoring in the profit sharing as income, because they use that as a selling point)

-Ridiculously excessive safety program, spun out of the realm of reason. Get used to long sleeves in the summer, hard hats, and no watches or wedding rings, just to name a few needless rules
-Management views you as potential savings which they can report to their superiors. The longer you’ve been there and the higher your pay, the more likely they are to terminate you regardless of your performance, capabilities, knowledge, or tenure
-Management treats you like a stray dog: they pat you on the head when they need you, but you are just a nuisance when you need them
-Management protects management, and bottles up any acts of discrimination or misconduct. When their “anonymous” ethics line is called on a manager, management’s first act is to think of every way they can dismiss what was stated. Their second act is to try and identify the caller to put a target on their back
-Management makes you do side chores and tally points each month to show them how engaged you are, because they are incapable of assessing your engagement by the work you do
-Management only asks your opinion because their management training tells them they should. They’ve already made their decision before they ask.
-Managers only use acquired facilities as a stepping stone for the success of their career, and not the success of the facility. They will have moved on before they have to face the layoffs they cause
-This facility is on a 2-3 year layoff cycle, solely dependent on the oil industry
-Ridiculously excessive amounts of time spent in meetings or completing procedural documentation, as a welder, assembler, or anyone on the shop floor
-Their wellness program is full of challenges you must complete throughout the year to keep them from charging you an extra $40 a month the following year. Do you use tobacco? Tack on another $40 a month.

If you want to be part of a company that expects you to be a lemming and fall in line, step right up! Blindly go along with everything Worthington does, even if it’s a paycut disguised as a positive, and you’ll be in management in no time. Listen to them preach work life balance, but then have opportunities/promotions withheld since you have to leave at 5:00, because you have a family. Listen to workplace inclusion mantras ad nauseam, yet watch people be groomed for positions, never being afforded a shot at the opportunity. Listen to them boast of workplace flexibility and then, not so subtly, make it known that workplace flexibility is there on paper, but that it’s discouraged to actually take advantage of. Read about how they operate on “the Golden Rule” and then watch as the opposite of that philosophy is put in place. Sit back and take blame from team leads that desperately cannot bear to fail in front of managers, so the blame for team lead level mistakes gets placed on you. Would you like to dispute that these issues are your fault? Too bad, because your team manager is never around and ONLY communicates with the team lead. So if you have an issue with the team lead that needs discussed, too bad! Openly communicate to your team lead that you need support, receive response that “you always have my support”, at no point actually receive any support. Watch as people who are not good leaders get placed into leadership positions, which then destroys the morale of the team that they “lead”. Ask to apply to other positions within the company as a last ditch effort before completely leaving the company, and get told that you’re needed in the current group and no, not to apply, even though they boast that they want you to “be happy in your role”. Get paid $10,000 less than projected year one, and then told year two that you’d be receiving even more of a paycut to “better align salaries to the market”. Oh yes, they’ll phrase it to you as though it’s a good thing but, make no mistake, it’s a pay cut. If you’d like to endure this day to day, by all means apply. Maybe you can have my spot soon?

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay and you get benefits from day one are the best part of working here they have some in house performance perks that can put a little extra coin in your pocket 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It's factory work. It's hot,dirty,fast paced and repetitive you will be expected to learn many different roles 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Well to be honest they talk about it's like a family  but it ain't  there is definitely favoritism  I  live by this rule not all people you work with are your friends go to work do your job and go home. I personally don't go to work to make friends I go to make a paycheck 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
We start at 11 pm we have a start up meeting go over any necessary information.find out what job we'll be doing for the day then go over what products we'll be running  after our meeting we do stretching exercises and go to our brain storming boards were we work on problems with making our jobs more successful,ergonomic, safer then we go to work we get 2 twenty minute breaks paid 1st break is usually around 2:15 and 2nd break is 6:15 we shut down around 6:45for cleanup and leave at 7:00am

Let me start off with Worthington Industries (WI) being a wonderful place to work. It has absolutely wonderful policies for both hourly employees (who are actually on what they call "salary plan") and salaried employees. There's a wonderful culture there, and everyone is treated so well. The Golden Rule is actually one of WI's policies. 
The one thing I will say though is that I started in October -- and was actually moved down there -- and was let go the next May. WI decided to stop doing business in the value stream for which I was hired, and several employees were let go without warning. No one at my branch knew until they were given packets with everyone's names on them. I was given an excellent severance package, and was told to please pursue other opportunities at Worthington, but it felt a bit hollow because I hadn't been given warning and there was no effort to place me elsewhere, despite the praise from several executives in the company. So now I am living here after they moved me, and got let go within a year of employment.

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Worthington Industries is demand you to work 60+ hours change your schedule make you stay late at night if you let them that is hold them to what schedule they give you in the beginning.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at Worthington Industries are ok benefits look better than they are but stuck paying bills anytime you have to be seen for anything. They won’t give you a raise so don’t bother.

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at Worthington Industries, I think oil and gas so unless your friends they don’t care. Or if they just can’t fire you because of they’re rules but that doesn’t mean they treat you good.

Management
In general, managers at Worthington Industries treat you badly and can’t move up unless your friends.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Worthington Industries is most of us just seem to talk about how much we didn’t like it.

Overall
My experience working at Worthington Industries just awful “ treat other like you want to be treated” but still treated like badly and demand to give them your respect.

The culture is going down hill, none union employees entitled to union representation,  telling on union dues paying workers instead of having a crucial conversation to bring awareness or a chance to correct behavior, management will say one thing and not follow through within a reasonable time, good for pacifying an employee with empty promises, raises seem to be a 6 month process, operators are not trained properly or trained to do bare minimum,  if it dont work, they enlist maintenance to do the simplest task like wiping off a camera, yet they want 30 hr, salary employees help the union hrly employees essentially taking a union position away, even when there's enough employees on a team. Things used to be great there and management was more in tune with " the company's biggest asset-the people" union contract negotiations are 100% corporate dominated  and the union is just taking money from the people on the premises to provide a service they can't legally provide

A typical day at work for me at Worthington Industries being incharge of orientation for new employees. Before the new employees can go through orientation I enter their background check and make sure that i check new employee records.  I make sure that two other test results come back before they can start at Worthington. I collect the new employee paper work and identifications for the I-9. I also set up interviews with the HR Respresentative at Worthington, I  update all new employee information and all new applications.
I learned a lot of information that I could not be taught from school. I learned more about the different cultures that live around me, and how important it is to be very detailed orientated in this position. The most enjoyable part of this job is meeting different kinds of people throughout the orientations and other employees.

If you like feeling like you could lose your job at any minute in a hostile workplace where complacency is rewarded and shop floor employees who were promoted into IT guide best practices instead of trained professionals, this is the place for you. People who try to change status quo and make things better are told that they aren't following the "Philosophy," which is only applied to certain situations within IT and not across the board like they'd want you to believe. Endless meetings that could have been an email, zero consistency for performance reviews from one to the next or between peers, and improperly delegated tasks from people who aren't your manager are some of the many things that you can expect to look forward to at your time at WI. However, they do pay well, work life balance is great, and as long as you can fly under the radar for 30 years, you can retire from the company with a pension. Self motivators or go-getters need not apply.

Worked at Steel and management is terrible at that location in Columbus, they are all related or have kids with one another. Once they get you in a position you are good at you can forget about any advancement opportunities, they will find ways to make sure you don’t leave. Columbus steel manipulates pay scale to pay you in a lower scale position but gives you the responsibility of a job 2 pay scales higher. Then when they turn in there report to corporate they look like geniuses because of there total pay vs ton produced. Corporate is a much better environment to work and it’s a shame they don’t fix problem at the steel plant. Over all not a bad company if you are just wanting a job and don’t care about the games they play with you.

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