Worst place I have ever worked - Extrusion Operator Shaw Industries Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2016
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Pros

The swing shift I was on was set up to where you always got a week off every month

Cons

The people here would lie about you to the manager just so that it makes them look better. When I started there and that mess started I was wondering if I had went back to high school it was literally that bad. They say that they care about safety, but when they tried to enforce that employees must wear gloves. It was shut down because there were employees running to HR because they felt like they felt like they could do their job better being unsafe. The whole 12 hour shift is you sitting there waiting for a spool of thread to pop out of a machine so that you can package it. If you try to read something or play a game on your phone they will wright you up. Unless you are certain people who are real good with the shift supervisor. Then you can get away with anything. Also they screw you out of pay. You work 36 hours one week and 44 hours the next. They say that they have built in overtime when you work night shift so that they don't have to pay you over time when you go over 40 hours, but it never adds up to what it is suppose to be. I was so depressed here I actually considered killing myself.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Shaw offers a lot of opportunities for growth, great work life balance, very flexible, and has great values.

Cons

Very hard to get pay bumps / raises due to not having a standard annual review. They use "pay for performance" which allows them to dictate WHEN you receive a raise. Even if you're going above and beyond you really have to document every little thing you do here to argue for a raise.

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