Pass - Welder Advex Employee Review

Great place, good people, meaningful wok.

This economy under Biden sucks.

The pay wasn't bad, 19 an hour for entry level during the labor shortage. 401k matching half up to 3% (1.5% total) , health care is expensive but it is everywhere, dental, life insurance, can listen to music, work isn't crazy hard, breaks and lunches are set up nicely, parking right next to the building, coworkers were really nice (very "guy" oriented talking all day but all in good fun), machine shop has a/c...I liked working there for the most part.

only worked for a 1.5 months in a one man division called "Cooper" making seals. I was entry level with a certification and no experience. The numbers I was expected to hit in a production job were unrealistic based on cycle time. You're expected to setup the machine that can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours (more if your offsets are crazy off) and that time is included in your target. You can make that time up running multiple machines (which they wouldn't let me do) but the CNC Milling machine won't on its own even on my best days hit the numbers they need. Some of my delays were clearly due to me being green in the industry which isn't their fault by any means, but without tasking multiple machines, you're just not going to hit numbers. I was let go, no real hard feelings. Things went downhill really fast, they seemed okay with the job I was doing initially and then after they showed me some numbers that weren't very good, two runs, no feedback, and some major problems with one run that my trainer needed a full day to correct with no fault of anyone...I was gone, no explanation but I'm aware my numbers weren't good, and to be honest I didn't like the work based off of expectations. The work itself isn't nutty hard but even chained to my machine expectations were high and that caused a fair amount of stress and a couple panic attacks. I really liked the guy training me and was trying to stick through it for him so he could move on to something better. Also to be noted, the three guys he to trained before me also were fired. At some point when do you think "it's not you, it's me" as a company? I wasn't good, but the numbers running while only operating the mill aren't feasible without sacrificing your breaks, quality, setup etc. Pretty easy to add up 2.7 cycles an hour on your best days to get X number of parts and determine what those numbers are. While not totally impossible, things have to go almost perfectly just to hit barely making them. Parts that ran 6 at a time or 8 at a time had the same expected hourly rate with a very minimum machine cycle time difference. They do have non production jobs that look like they would be fine. Also, had a supervisor that really talked down to me. Upper management was super nice but he would really be insulting, had no intentions of listening when I would explain a problem, think he was frustrated by me being new to the industry and dismissed me pretty early on, but he spoke like that to basically everyone. I'm 40 and have never been talked down to like that before by any boss I've had.