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Yates Construction

The company is "yes-man" driven. they don't care about if you know how to do the job they want a salesman personality.
Our (material managemt supervisor):
*Assaulted a worker on the job and did not get fired, instead they fired the one that was assaulted.
*harassed workers by constantly monitoring them by following them around in the truck and bothering them during lunch
*had HR in his pocket, because whatever we told her, she turned around and told him everything. no confidentiality. 
*Was reported several times for breaking safety rules and acknowledged he didn't care.
*literally took vacation 1-2 weeks per month every other month and questioned any time off requests that were submitted.
*falsified paperwork for MWR logs.
*crashed work truck offsite and took it too a shop to be fixed so no one would find out.
*crashed the truck onsite 2 times, both resulting in hitting onsite material, no drug test, no punishment.
*sent workers into confined space with no training to get things done because they didnt want to waste time in training. (eventually i complained to the right people)
*made constant threats resulting in termination if we didn't do what he said, even when it involved breaking safety rules
*zero respect for anyone that wasn't in a trade position. 

its also very sad when the customer made comments about how he was clueless, and a waste of money since our company on site was time/material.
i personally went to him personally and HR and the Site Superintendent with all that above and even more, and they both told me "this is construction, if you dont like it you should find somewhere else to work"
work got hectic because we were on 40's was asked by the pipe foreman to get OT, he said the client denied it, so they goto the client and the client says he never mentioned OT. so they go back to our boss and confront him, both got a pay bump and one of them got promotion to keep it quiet. this happened 2 more times that i personally know of
we had 3 fatalities on site, one was a heart attack that happened at 7:30am and the body wasnt found until 4:30pm that day. the other 2 fell 140 feet, my boss made the comment saying they shouldn't have sent in Mexicans 
eventually it turned into if he was onsite he was in HR office or site superintendent office, any other time he was on vacation.
I wanted to leave the site but i stayed because the people i worked WITH i cared about and i didnt want them to get hurt.

for my last 2 months of employment i been trying to move to rigging or pipe yard, and they denied me. we got some new hires that came to my department that i helped move to pipe. then another one got hired and eventually moved to pipe. so i went back and asked why i wasnt able to move to pipe and i was given a conflicted/bogus response. the next day they pulled him back. then the guy running pipe tried to get me and the other guy moved to pipe and the same boss i been talking about said yes to the other guy and no to me. two days later i was laid off for "lack of work/worfoce downsizing"
the other guy moved to pipe, and one of the pipe guys moved to where i was, then we hired a 100 ton crane and a crew to run it, and hired 3 more people for pipe. 

HR, site superintendant, material managemt supervisor for the Charleston, TN site do not care about anyone, they are just sitting back collecting money while not doing anything and if you say anything that makes them have to get up you will soon be let go

Nobody on the Yates crews seems to know how to arrive and just perform their job tasks without causing problems for the people nearby them. The managers speak viciously about each other out loud when one steps out of the room, they demean the whole crew, disrespect for each other is king.  They talk about how they do not respect their regional manager because they "don't know how he got his job because he was kicked off every project he was on" said the Sr QCM, Sr. PM, CM several times over months.

Everybody is a target for dismissal, if the managers can falsify reports behind your back to make you look inept they will and they do especially the Sr. PM she is a manipulator of story-lines. She has zero true respect for anyone and everyone sees it. Her idea of a "team" is a great selfie of her with the crew behind her and that is far as her "team" approach goes.  Yates allowed Sr. PMs to gift days off to any of the crew, she put the gifts in the desk and pockets of her APM and "Try Again" gifts everywhere else. She intentionally rewrote stories on events to falsify what happened numerous times to make a fall-guy take the fall for what other people actually did or to cover up other people's procrastination on critical items or the fact that her favored few dust plain didn't have the knowledge to complete a necessary task.  Cover-up is her expertise. She also told the crew that she was overriding the companies policy on reaching out to company trainers and leaders for task advice, with a threat of firing the individual who would. 

The Sr. PM is not the only person who treats the crew with an It's My Way or the Highway attitude on cover-ups, lying, false reporting, bullying, and mistreatment of others, the Sr. QCM, Sr. Scheduler, are all in on it.  The remainder of the crew notices the problems because the acts are so blatant.

A typical day at Yates Construction was great. Every day started with smiles an positive attitudes. Everyone worked hard to get there job done, but we worked as a team and had fun doing so. I learnt that no matter what type of job your doing team work and positive attitudes makes everything much easier to accomplish. The managment and owners were amazing, as well as my co-workers. Everyone was friendly always smiling with a positive attitude at all times no matter what was going on through out the day. Everyone including myself left our outside problems outside the door before entering work. After work we left whatever problems we had at work. We didnt mix or personal lives with our work, and we didnt mix our work with our personal lives. The hardest part of the job was the owners wife getting sick and the company having to greatly downsize causing us to be without jobs. Even after our jobs ending we all still helped finish the projects we were working on. We were all one big family we were there for each other no matter what which mde that job very enjoyable.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Yates is a big safety oriented company an fairness is a big factor but also the timely manner we complete of task they make sure to equip us with the proper equipment to do our job right 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When I’m digging laying pipe osha has a rule but we have to go bye Yates bc it holds higher standards as in all holes deeper then chest height has to have a 4 to 1 slope an then at top of slope it has to be to feet behind construction limits or it is considered un safe 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very respectful and businessman very professional 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It’s not like a day at work bc most of time when we out on a job we keep same group of people so our chemistry together it’s like working with family an having fun while being safe an competitive

Honestly haven’t been working here long enough to know the full environment at drake a typical day requires coming in at 6 AM. I’ve learned quite a bit since I’ve been working here for Drake. I’ve learned a whole lot about lawns and shrubs also about different insects that affects lawns and shrubs. I think the mole crickets are the most interesting ones. I have discovered so far also white flies and sod web worms management seems cool a bit strict but I’m used to it. the guys are really nice to be around. Everybody is friendly and we joke around a lot. I think the hardest part is getting back so late Sundays you get back really late and you don’t have the day left over for yourself, but I guess that’s life. I think the thing I enjoy the most even though I really haven’t read the benefits of it is the pay and of course the relationships we get to make with the customers I’ve met some really interesting people such as WWE wrestlers, whose lawn we service.

New Hire Orientations were VIP
Enjoyed the job site owners-Supt's were very good!
Housekeeping was the hardest to enforce as personnel were worked to the very last minute, personnel were assigned to maintain the areas were not a part of the messes, they worked at their own pace-NOT A MY BEST PRACTICE IN CONSTRUCTION.

Training for accident prevention-I did English and Spanish, it makes the point sometimes twice!  Use Job Hazard analysis daily and review with personnel to ensure the same page and if they are listening? what?who?2there/here? Report any stressing ANY injuries at the moment they occur-there is no question it did NOT happen there.

END IN "BE SAFE FOR YOUR FAMILY IF NOT FOR YOURSELF!"

My experience was at a job in Mountain Pass CA right outside of Las Vegas NV. The hiring process was they hired anyone with a pulse. The work they did reflected that in ALL areas from the tradesmen to supervision to one of the worst project managers I've ever seen. It was no surprise they lost this job long story short. I can say the QA/QC department was legit and I kind of felt bad for them because that job was a disaster. There was a constant revolving door for all levels of supervision and most were clueless & many had power trips. I had maybe 5 different Forman & 3 GF's on my crew alone. I personally knew many who never did any work in the craft they were in before. Communication here was just bad. All in all I wouldn't work for this company again. YATES was one the worst in my 20 years in my craft to work for.

I presently work on an independent basis in regards to balancing my work load. I am expected to do whatever is necessary to take a project from cradle to grave within the scheduled time frame and budget. I am expected to conduct all calculations with regards to line sizing, Process Safety, Stress Analysis, vessel design, etc... I oversee junior designers and engineers and am expected to increase their knowledge, productivity and accuracy as well as to check their work. I interact with mill management, operations and maintenence on a daily basis in order to keep projects accurate and on track.

Everyday was a new experience with new challenges. Usually being the only woman on each new job site I became best friend- mother- nurse- and confident to many different personalities. Every new supervisor gave me new directives and a new prospective on all my surroundings not just what was expected at that time. I cannot say enough good things about all the many supervisors I had over 15 years except they were courteous and respectful at all times. The hardest part in those years was leaving new friends I made. The best part was the friends I made throughout the Southeast, the people I worked with, and the areas I got to work in that otherwise I wouldn't have ever known.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I like how they take a hour long lunch and don't have a morning or afternoon break. That works for me.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Nothing agrivates me more than when you don't pay the fitter and the welder the same money. Fitter's job is not exactly easy so don't hand me that mess about x-ray x-ray I don't want to hear that mess.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I don't get too involved with that because the more you do that's when the backstabbing starts so I just stay to myself and do my job.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Work hard and try not to get caught up in politics of the company.

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