A good company gone rotten! - Sales Georgia-Pacific Employee Review

1.0
May 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only pro is that the people who care (very few) are good people and fun to work with.

Cons

MBM and Koch is killing GP, plain and simple. The management in Gp Professional hide behind MBM in attempts to try and shield them from showing true colors. The management is extremely politics driven and so horribly hypocritical. Countless mediocre and bad employees are promoted while talented employees who speak their mind are pushed down and out. there is supposed to be a challenge process, but it's a joke. Most employees are afraid to challenge management because they've seen what happens to other good people who speak up. They are tarnished and stripped of all advancement opportunities. Disrespect and lack of humility are so rampant you'd almost think they have meetings to promote these concepts. I've seen many talented employees apply for promotions and feel like they have a good chance based on their experience and results, but they are stripped of any chance due to a heavy political culture that kills all positive attitudes.

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Pros

Flexible. Good team. Fulfilling. Kind people

Cons

Plant people can be irritable

2.0
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Pros

Talented and hardworking electricians, operators, mechanics, and plant personnel. Interesting automation and controls work with opportunities to solve challenging technical problems. Significant autonomy at the local level when responding to production issues. Good compensation and benefits. Corporate engineering resources are knowledgeable and generally willing to help.

Cons

Expectations and priorities frequently changed without corresponding adjustments to workload. Performance feedback lacked important operational context, such as competing priorities, project reassignment, and resource constraints. Communication tended to favor frequent meetings over clear written expectations. Accommodation requests and communication support were difficult to navigate and lacked a clear process. Single-engineer staffing model creates a challenging environment for vacations, medical appointments, training, and long-term sustainability. Heavy emphasis on immediate deliverables can make long-term engineering work and root-cause analysis difficult.

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