Pros
Friendly workers and operators. High pay if you are willing to put in the time
Cons
• The entire department likes to bully the production line. They unload unnecessary work to the production supervisor. The production supervisor should be focused on reaching the target set by the company, but is too busy dealing with errands not related to the goal. • The planners do not discuss with the production line if a product is able to deliver to the customer within a given time. They make their own decision based on unstable theories and promise a time frame which the production and its supervisor has to put all their plans and forecasts aside and chase after. 90% of the time, the production will fail to meet the deadline. • The management’s solution for all their problems is to let the production supervisor deal with it. There is only 1 supervisor per shift, how many things are they expecting for him to look after. It would more efficient and less stressful if they hired 2 supervisors per shift. If the insist on staying at one, then I suggest they back off on the workload! • There is no teamwork between the departments, thus the production supervisor has to run all over the production line to chase down the individuals. • Whatsapp groups are not an efficient way to communicate in a company with this many departments and staffs. • There is no proper training provided by the management. The briefing, training and orientation provided by the HR department is 98% useless and is never used at the production. The training manuals are wordy, confusing and outdated. • The production workers here are over worked because here, numbers is more important than the staff. Target comes, and the well being of the workers comes last. • The workers and operators here work 12 hour shift, but for some strange, weird, unknown and stupid reason, they only get an hour break while the middle and top management, who at the time of writing are cunning and do relatively less work, get an hour and thirty minutes break. • There is so much bureaucracy here that it takes 3 departments over the span of 3 days just to change the filter in drinking water dispenser. • The air-conditioning at the oven side is never truly repaired for good. It is always a temporary patch which fails the next day and takes the equipment department another week to get back to it. Till then, the operators have to suffer the hot and humid temperatures which has caused the feeling of passing out. These are just a handful of examples in a sea of complaints. • For some strange reason, everyone in this company is required by an unwritten law to leave work 2 to 3 hours late. If for some reason, you leave early, you will be judged and considered to be not working. • Adding salt to injury, you will have no life outside of work due to this. The time you spend at home is just enough to rest and recover your energy for tomorrow. On off days, you would still need to keep track of what is going on at work because your boss will ask keep asking you for updates. • There is so much work pressure here that people here never talk anything else other than work when they see each other or at the canteen. There’s no such thing as “hey! Did you watch the game last night” here. • The management here are full of people who look for the cheapest way to run the production even though the cost to fix the mistakes, errors and damages caused by those ways adds up to more than getting the proper equipment to run the production right. • When so many companies are turning to process automation, internet of things and intuitive and clean software, this company stubbornly sticks to manual, tedious, time consuming and difficult processes, using difficult, cumbersome and confusing software, and using whatsapp to share low quality photos of important documents. And if anything goes wrong, they put the blame on the operators and supervisors for the mistakes caused by the process and equipment they refuse to upgrade. • When it comes to promoting to a higher position in the company, you better hope you speak the same language as the boss. • I was told that one of my ideas to reduce the delay time of the process was quote “it won’t look nice”. I’m sorry; I didn’t realize I was working at the Burj Khalifa! • If this is how it is in other production companies then I am not strong enough to work in any. Even if I can’t get a new job for some time, this will still be one of the best decisions I have ever made!