Use to be great - Production Supervisor Amcor Employee Review

1.0
Oct 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay Time off Some of the cons are also disguised as pros. tread carefully when considering this company. It recently restructured the pay, and time off policies.

Cons

Pay & Paid time off Vacation and overtime was recently restructured, and the restructure had a direct correlation to recouping costs Amcor incurred due to the Bemis buyout. The restructure involved reducing hours eligible for overtime. Sunday hours are paid at a premium (which the rate was also reduced ) and makes the hours ineligible for OT. On a week that you work Sunday you will only have "24 eligible OT hours" so even if you do pick up a day of OT that week, you are only paid at your normal rate, and not 1.5 time. Vacation days took a hit as well. Max vacation days use to be 28 days a year, and it has been reduced down to 21 days maximum. Employees in the 2yr-7yr use to get 13 days off a year, the new policy only allows for 7days. Work Schedule Your work schedule will be something like work 2, have off 2, work 3, have off 2, work 2, have off 3. You will be led to believe that you "only work half the year" the reality is that you rotate from nights to days frequently... so as an example, you will work Thurs and have off Fri, Sat, Sun. However what really happens is you work Thurs, into Fri morning, sleep most your Friday away since you're tired working a 12+hr night, stay up late into Sat because you cant sleep and you're trying to correct your sleep cycle, wake up early Sunday afternoon and putting yourself in the mindset of "I have to go to bed early today" because If you fall asleep by 7:00pm and need to wake up for work at 2:30am to leave for work by 3:30am when you switch to days then you can get 7hrs of sleep. That was your "time off" just trying to acclimate back into standard time. This happens every two weeks.

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Pros

Easthampton, MA facility. Default overtime built into the first week of your rotation. Big on safety. Descent training. Mostly a low skill job, but they do a good job training. If you can walk and sign your name, no education, they'll hire you. Pay is mediocre $21 / hour compared to other manufacturing jobs in Western Massachusetts. Friendly coworkers.

Cons

Panama Schedule 12 hours overnights 7pm-7am gives a lot of time off, but hard to adjust to and your first day off is a waste as your body tries to reset to daylight hours. Impacts your health physiologically and mentally and hurts social relationships. One week you work 60 hours and the next 24. The worst is doing 36 hours over three nights. Management does not care about burnout and when it happens, they blame staff for not knowing how to deal with it. Management has no concerns about staff work / life balance. Stand for 12 hours. First 90 days you get penalized for taking time off. No sick or personal time until after 90 days. Plant shut downs during holidays is nice, but you don't get paid so your paycheck suffers. There's no employee wellness program. If you like to think and feel like you're making a difference in society, this is not the job for you. You'll feel frustrated and mentally bored. Feel like you're a cog in the corporate wheel. Can't listen to music via ear buds, which would help time go by. To be expected babysitting a machine due to safety, but it's the principle. 12 hours is ROUGH with limited mental stimulation. If you have a college degree they usually won't hire you. They mostly hire people with nothing more than a high school diploma and sometimes not even that, so the people you work with aren't cream of the crop. Latest thing is hiring immigrants because nobody wants to work at Easthampton. Amcor claims they hire top notch people. I beg to differ. They could legit automate 90% of operations using robots. Bulk of what people do is babysit the machine they're assigned to. Low skill, but management drums it up it's higher skilled because they give you a ruler and protractor to do periodic product quality control checks. Easthampton MA facility is struggling financially and that comes from someone connected to corporate management. Staff morale is low. Nobody loves their job. Lifers I think this is all they have to work based on a limited skill set. Working overnight you will gain weight.

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