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Worst career move you can make - Anonymous employee WestRock Employee Review

1.0
Feb 1, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The only benefit to working here is that you collect a paycheck.

Cons

WestRock runs on who you know and who likes you. Nepotism is rife as is the number of managers who are not capable of working at the level they have been promoted to. Senior management is tone deaf and incredibly short sighted. The CEO says he cares about diversity and about the BLM movement; he doesn't. Just look at the make up of the senior management team. He is a good ole boy inherited by acquisition. This is a company that was declared essential in March 2020 by the US government and continued to make a good profit throughout the year and yet, very quietly laid people off at the end of the year to look good on paper to their investors. What a despicable move to contribute to the Nation's unemployment plight when your business has not been affected.

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Cons

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Pros

Great pay, easy work, plenty of hours.

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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