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Nice company, hard to become a permanent employee - Anonymous employee WestRock Employee Review

3.0
Sep 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great work environment at every office, very flexible, employees are pretty nice. Great benefits for people that are actually "EMPLOYED", cool employee perks like discounts at certain stores and restaurants and entertainment. Many employee socials sponsored by different companies throughout the year.

Cons

WestRock has almost the same amount of contractors as they do employees. To actually become a permanent employee from a contract position is nearly impossible now, it's ridiculous and crazy because it actually cost less to employ people permanently than it does to hire contractors. Salary does start of low but as you do great work your pay will usually increase. It's also very hard for minorities to move up. There is a handful of minorities holding management positions. We just got our first African American woman vice president. I guess they took notice of some complaints. Let's see if we get anymore diversity among the hire-ups.

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Cons

Some of the people who work in the warehouses are lazy and they have the so called manager wrapped around their finger, So you end up doing their job and yours. The manager won’t do anything because he is just as lazy as the warehouse guy. And is scared of the consequences if he actually does his job and disciplines the sorry ———‘s So the real workers are the only ones that suffer. That very manager told me two weeks before becoming the manager over the shipping department that he didn’t think he would become the manager because he had already told the other managers that we have to stop over working our real workers to cover up for our non workers. I told him that night he would be the same way as soon as he got the position, And if he did that I would be the first to tell him. Point being: If you are a lazy piece of trash and have no self respect or work ethics this is the place for you. Bad thing is that you can not get in touch with anyone that has any interest in cleaning up (this particular terminal ) of a very good company.

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