Engineer - Anonymous employee Continental Employee Review

Will work you to death, average work week is 6 days (48+ hours) for plant employees 50+ hour weeks for salary employees and constantly on call Revolving door of operators and material handlers through temp agency, management has no intentions of hiring permanent employees and refuses to replace permanents that leave. Lack of technical training mainly due to inadequate staffing. I.e. can't pull technicians off the line to do training and no backups for more than one person on vacation. Only two people can take vacation at a time, but employees have a minimum of 17 days and long time (1st shift) employees have even more. Local management is the single reason this plant is not able to achieve its true potential. They are unskilled and greedy. Morganton management distance themselves from plant employees, set unrealistic goals and will not provide adequate staffing to achieve them. They do not understand what it takes to accomplish their goals and refuse to acknowledge major concerns especially if it is personnel related. They push everything on quality and engineers and if you complain that something they can control will help, you get and a scolding and lengthy explanation that throws the blame back on you. There is no accountability for management and certain departments. If another department screws you over, it is your fault and you are supposed to fix it. Despite being one of the most profitable plants in the world, management operates the plant like it is loosing money. They refuse to invest in facilities and treat preventative maintenance like it is a joke. They plan for a 6 day a week work week, then lets sales people oversell the 6 day capacity making it a 7 day work week. Management then has the audacity to lie to the employees and tell them that if they hit their unachievable production targets Monday-Friday they would not have to work on the weekends.