Pros
Good pay and close to town, this used to be a solid place to work. The coworkers are great and most management is superb in my experience. The company has slid a lot since the merger though. 2 years ago I would have rated this a 4.5 star company. My half star off would have been due to irresponsible waste of money
Cons
Senior manager should have been moved out when the merger happened. I have experienced on multiple occasions where he was touring a new supervisor or and will introduce a supervisor standing right beside you and just say 'he works in the mill' about the person on the tools, even though he knows their name. Pretty insulting. I have seen a look of shock on the face of the person being toured as they introduce themselves. My supervisor is great, but I am getting a new one. I feel like I am a bit handcuffed into staying because I have been there so long, but I really wish I could leave easier. He is widely known to be untrustworthy, disregards code, tries to circumvent the union and has multiple harassment complaints registered against him, but he is in the old boys club with the Sr manager, so those seem to go nowhere. There is no respect for a work/home balance. You are a number. It appears that now that the company is so good they are doing things like rolling back benefits. Who saw this coming? Merger was not good for the province not the average worker, only shareholders.