Pros
You are paid well for your hard work (mid-year bonuses, a raise every year depending on your error ratio, profit share and profit defer) You are offered gym reimbursements and shoe reimbursements. After being with the company for two years, they offer you a plan to help you purchase a home. It’s a physical job and keeps you in shape if you try. You are offered physical therapy on-site occasionally. You work with some great people who are extremely hard working, which motivates MOST to do the same MOST know there is a common goal: increase profit by doing things correctly
Cons
While there are hard workers, there are also slow people who bring down the operation (specifically in team-based departments) Sadly, bad eggs will try to abuse the system (taking disability leave and going on vacation, leaving work early if not monitored, people bossing others around, sitting down on equipment while using their phone). Often times, the tenured people are either the hardest of workers or get comfortable and don’t contribute anymore. The comfortable, tenured worker will focus on their own metrics when assigned instead of the department as a whole, which is mostly teamwork roles (Just because there is no metric for teamwork doesn’t mean they should stop working as hard once it isn’t tracked anymore). The non-contributors stay while people who bust their butt every day for the operation get moved. Wouldn’t you want to reward that hard worker instead of taking them away? After a certain period of time, people will get moved around departments because that’s the nature of the company, taking away hard workers and leaving those still in said department with the often-new and lazy coworkers. (If you really want to weed out the bad workers, put the lazy people in a metric-based timed role and see what they can really do when everyone else isn’t making up for their lack-of-work) If you don’t work hard, you will get talked about among your peers. There are plentiful people that work in each department and everyone notices when someone isn’t “setting their teammates up for success”. If you don’t want to be talked about poorly, focus on your work and get off your phone…simple as that. This happens because it seems like most of management doesn’t realize who these lazy workers are. If you’re not prepared for it, the physicality of the job will take you down.
