Hours in manufacturing are long and involve mandatory OT and weekends. There is little to no regard for work life balance or any personal commitments for employees. If you cannot stay late or work a weekend due to personal commitments you have to use vacation time to cover hours/days missed. Lots of micro-management and office politics. Little autonomy Metrics are meaningless. Management establishes easily attainable goals or warps metrics to make it appear that they always reach their goals rather than having stretch or challenging goals for everything except maybe output. Super sensitive "I'm offended" environment has everyone scared of saying the wrong thing and management enables this. Management shows up to work sporadically at best.