The treatment of the two sides (MFG & Front Office) is vastly one sided. The front office personnel seem to be the only employee's who are worth recognition. Quarterly company meetings are discouraging to go, because they praise the front office so much it almost feels like we as MFG personnel shouldn't even be there.
There have been a few occasions where it seems like MFG was finally starting to be appreciated when the CEO announced that they were going to start paying more attention to the unknown people who don't get to do the big activities and are doing the day to day things that keep this place running, but again this was referring to the front office and no mention of the MFG side.
This place tears you down. In the beginning your all fired up with idea's and projects and only met with resistance or the people who don't care, or view your suggestions as unimportant. There have been instances where idea's are submitted, shot down, and then implemented later with no credit going to the operators/individual who submitted the idea.
The cycle reverses and you get so fed up with it that you become the person who doesn't care when others come to you.
Another big issue is that there is no direction for development on the MFG side, no career path if you want to move up. The "pay based on individual performance" model is broken and only promotes more favoritism.
We all play a role at this company whether it is being an operator on the line sitting for 10hrs/day or being the CEO, and from a manufacturing point of view it is becoming difficult to keep coming into this place every day.
