Pros
Good benefits. Pay is reasonably competitive
Cons
If you work in a plant be prepared for long hours. 50 hour weeks are about the best you'll get (no overtime for salaried of course), and you're always on call anyway. VPs and directors constantly ask for more results even as they push back on requesting basic resources. Plant budgetary targets are fantasy numbers dreamed up by corporate accountants and completely unachievable. Managers spend more time getting blasted in meetings than we do managing the floor, which inevitably leads to more blasting. Open positions go unfilled for months, that is if a replacement is even approved at all after a termination or retirement. Those of us who are left are asked to pick up more and more tasks until we eventually start dropping balls. If a problem requires increased spending to solve, upper management doesn't want to hear anything about it. Do more with less is the prevailing attitude.
