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Any one above a shop manager walks around talking down to technicians and any other form of laborer. The current executive managers are ruining the company. There is plenty of room for advancement….. within a shop/ parts department. Don’t ever expect to make it out unless you can suck up or have personal relationships with executives. No employee appreciation since the new owner took over.  Executives have been known to tell techs that they are “a dime a dozen” and “monkeys can do your job”. I would never recommend a good hard working employee that wants to advance their career to work here. Bad behavior and work ethic is rewarded and good employees are run off regularly. Most people that make it to retirement age, are run off before they can retire unless they are part of the clique. Management executives literally do not care for good employees, they just want yes men and women. You have to work for the company for 15 years before you can get a reasonable amount of PTO, which depending on your immediate manager, is very difficult to use.

I work in augusta in the Earthmoving shop. The work is pretty standard for the industry, work day starts at 7am and runs to at least 5pm moat days, with more overtime available when you have work to do. no complaints about the work aspects of this. My foremost complaint is the management. communication is a minimum, and when things are communicated it's done in a derogatory and demeaning way. Management consistantly over-promises and pushes unreasonable and unrealistic deadlines. Support is non-existent for the regular employees, reserved only for those that are deemed in good favor. The term "Beatings will continue until morale improves" must be taught during managers training, as this is the motto that they seem to live by. 
Shop tooling is damaged, worn out, cobbled together from scraps,  and often ineffective. Any requests for upgraded or even just repaired shop tooling is dismissed and ignored. The shop culture is an every man for himself and nobody takes responsibility for shared areas. favoritism runs rampant here. 

Co-workers were good, and I enjoyed seeing customers and helping them get what they needed. The problem was upper management. They would continually waste so much money on costly and unnecessary business trips and other expenses (especially for management.) They of course paid the top management employees huge salaries and big benefits, and then, they would always be telling everyone else about how tough things were for the company and that we needed to find ways to lower expenses. Then they would start firing regular employees like crazy to reduce expenses instead of just using common sense and cutting out all the unnecessary waste at the top which was actually causing the problem. This included firing loyal employees that had been with company for many years. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
They have great benefits and some of the managers make it an ok place to work 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Worrying about getting fired! They micro manage something awful!! 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fast paced, enjoyable for the most part but stressful especially at the end of the month 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Morning safety meetings, then rush rush rush, then lunch, then rush rush rush some more. Oh, did we do what we were supposed to do? 🤷🏻

To start with the pay is low for the type of job. Second you’re told to be a team player and help with others jobs while they stay on their phone or sit in the bathroom for an hour. Hours are 7-5 everyone else gets an hour for lunch you are given 20 minutes while you’re filling out paperwork on your phone.  It doesn’t matter if you come in at 4 in the morning they make you stay until 5 or whenever you’ve completed your picks and deliveries. They just put new cameras in the trucks, they call you if you have a headset on and tell you you can’t talk on the phone. Can’t drink anything while you are driving. 

This locating needs some work, to many people want to be the boss, manager picks and chooses, ALOT. Great learning experience, ok benefits. Most enjoyable thing is actually getting to work, hardest thing is standing around with nothing to do all day which was pothole of the time. People like to look at you like you’re dumb when you ask a question, and most of the time they don’t even know the answer. Lead tech acts like he knows nothing most of the time and will just tell you to look it up, not much of a lead tech.

Management is absolutely horrible. None of them care about you and will do whatever they can to try and hit their bonus. Even if it means working the life out of employees to make themselves look better.
Managers and higher ups are basically cream of the crop. They can do whatever they want, take lunches however long they want. Always have little catering events and eat for free on company time. Just a bunch of double standards. You always have to be on go while they get to sit around in their office doing nothing and tell you how you should be doing your job. 

Yancey is a great place to work. The safety culture is outstanding. Benefits, pay, and training is a plus. For me personally, the scheduling was my issue, as well as the balance of so many different systems required to perform duties. But, overall this company is top notch. I was a field technician, so scheduling and making plans at times were tough. But the trade was the compensation for those situations. If you enjoy traveling and doing a job you love, this is the place to work. I think flexibility is a key to any professional job. 

I enjoyed working there.  My fellow employees for the most part where good to work with.  The biggest issue I can see with the company is there is the lack of training for the middle management, the toxic management that is part of a good ole boy program that still is going on and probably won't change.  The company changed so much from the old owner to the new one.  Not sure if it was a good change, but a different one.

Yancey was a good company under the old owner.  New owner, new ways, doesn't always work out.  They still have very toxic individuals in leadership positions that makes it very difficult to want to stay there and work.  These individuals won't have anything done to them because Yancey breeds the good ole boy system.   Was once a really good company to work for, enjoyed getting up and going to work, now not so much.

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