Mandatory overtime due to poor management. This job has its perks but this will be the thing that drives you away from this job in the long run. They run a skeleton crew that falters the second ONE person is sick, decides they can’t make it in, or they just quit. This is primarily prevalent during the night shift, but can also be present in the day shift depending on the plant itself. Instead of hiring more people to cover the operators, they’d rather just force their operators, who are already being worked to the bone, to come in and fill those gaps. Especially during the busy season around the summer, they will end up making you come in even more than usual. It’s so disingenuous to the point that when you get onboarded and they tell you that you’ll be working a 2-2-3 schedule, it is basically a lie, they are lying to you. Forcing your operators to work six day weeks, 12 hours a day, against their will isn’t a fun time, and doesn’t make your workers feel appreciated. As long as Niagara keeps running their plants this way, their turnover rate will always remain as high a it is.
