Pros
The people at Eastman are some of the nicest, hardest working people I've ever had the opportunity to work with.
Cons
Responsibility and accountabiliy are ever increasing upon middle and lower management. In addition to the heightened sense of accountability, we are given more and more directives, goals, and tasks, however the support staff, funding and resources are not provided in order to either keep the people safe nor achieve the goals we have set. Eastman has a lot of great 'ideals' and 'acheivements' they share with the world, but within the gates we are all burdened with more work than we can handle, are asked to raise the concerns which we do, and then are told to work 'more efficiently.' At some point if this company is serious about keeping people safe and acheiving world class chemical company goals around safety, reliability, asset integrity etc, it will need to provide the staff, capital funding, and knowledge rentetion to enable their people to do this. It a great place to be surrounded by wonderful people while you burn yourself out trying to meet unachievable goals and expectations.