MTS Systems Reviews

Its time again for our yearly benefits cut. In years past we would get a 50% match on 401k up to 6% of salary and then an additional 3% of salary given by the company regardless of what you put in at the end of the year. Last year was the first time that we didn't get the 3% at the end of the year when it magically became optional. All of the literature they were giving new employees said that it was part of the benefits package, but in the official documents (not accessible when deciding to take the job or not) it says that it is optional. This year they increased to a 75% match up to 6% of salary, but it is obvious that we will not be getting the year end 3% ever again. It is a net reduction in our benefits. Next they are completely changing the PTO policy (combined vacation and sick time). It used to be that you could bank up to 204 hours if you were here for a short time and up to 240 hours for > 5 years. This time is accrued monthly at varying rates depending on time of service. Now they have set it up to significantly reduce the bank time over the next 3 years down to only 120 hours. On the 4th year they switch to a carryover where you can only transfer 80 hours between years. Hours are still accrued monthly. That means that now you are basically screwed if you want to take a vacation in the beginning of the year and still have some buffer for sick days. Even worse if if a female employee was to have a child in January. She'd only be able to take 2 weeks paid maternity! What a joke!

1) supervisors - the ones that have been brought in the last year or so are complete waste of space and good air. They think since their title says manager in it that they don’t have to do anything other than sit at there desk pretending to look at graphs and charts but never really doing anything. 2) BUM - wow okay how did individuals get this role with zero education and zero capabilities. This level tends to babble and talk in circles without ever really answering questions. 3) presidents - thought they were brought in to turn this place around but literally zero has changed. Made a couple good fires but still so disconnected from front line employees that there pointless to have here. 4) CEO - there’s words I would use to describe this guy but I don’t think they’d be allowed. I’ll try my best, egotistical, pompous, and walks around with his nose in the air. This guy is a joke and the laughing stock of the company, but honestly in the end he’ll be the one laughing all the way to the bank because long after he’s gone the damage he has done to this company will still linger. 5) practices in general - this place has some funky accounting practices going on. Supervisors encouraged to bring truck loads of materials over from offsite storage only to drop them on the floor and claim a percentage of revenue based on “work started” on the project. Labor is charged and once quarter numbers are up material is either shifted to back of warehouse to not be touched for another month or loaded back up and shipped back off site. Somehow to me this looks like some very serious issues that truly needs to be investigated for fraud and stock manipulation.