Baldor gets less vacation, holidays, bonuses, benefits than ABB even though they call it ABB. Management is the worst I’ve ever seen. You are basically waiting for your turn to get fired. I’ve seen people that work there for 10, 20, even 40+ years get targeted and fired because management didn’t like them (for no reason). Management has the buddy system and if you’re not in the group for the current management, you’re screwed. They will even prove you are replaceable by firing or running off key people with all the knowledge. If they want you gone, they will overload you with work until you fail so they can fire you. Expect to be disrespected, insult, etc, often in a joking way. Expect to never be good enough or appreciated. Expect to be overworked. Expect to always feel you have zero job security. Watched them hide cameras just to catch someone they want to fire (hourly and salary). Salary never gets as good of a raise as hourly’s cost of living raise. And that should be the minimum!!! Only way you’re getting a raise in salary is if you are liked and if you are not liked or disliked, expect little or no raise (0.25-1% per yr). No matter how much you do, it is never enough and you will never be appreciated. You will eventually work 2-3 times as much and still won’t be enough. Expect to work a lot of free overtime and weekends. Due to overtime, the average hourly worker makes much more and even double their boss’s salary pay. They shouldn’t do this!!! Engineering/maintenance manager is an idiot and causes more damage, downtime and cost than anyone in the plant, maybe company. I don’t understand how he keeps his job, oh yes, the buddy system! Engineers and maintenance often leave because they can’t work for him. He messes up things so bad and cost the company so much money because he won’t listen to his employees that know what the correct solution is. Sometimes if you repeat it enough, he will have an idea and parrot back to you what you have been trying to tell him while insulting you. He will call his engineers at all hours of the night including weekends. He will ask them to do other work and put aside their projects only to later get on to them for not having the project done on time. As an engineer, you will never work less than 50hr per week and often much more with zero compensation. PDAs are a joke (performance review). You are judged by the whole plants performance, not yours. You are giving projects to complete but during the year pulled to other goals and penalizes for not completing them. Expect to always be graded as average or below average! Nothing feels better than to work extremely hard all year and be told you suck, you’re replaceable, you’re getting a fraction of the raise hourly employees got and if you work extra hard (carrot) maybe next year! Knowing you could be the next one targeted (fired) leaves you stressed and worried about your finances (mortgage, car payment, bills). Only way you’re getting promoted is if you’re in the buddy system. FYI- your first few years is the honeymoon phase but give it a few years and you start to get treated like the rest. Honestly I’m not sure how the company hasn’t gone bankrupt yet? Extremely wasteful with money, overpriced motors, and rundown old machines to try to keep production running. I expect less and less market share in the future. And I won’t even go into the massive overload of stress! Do yourself a favor and just don’t apply! Everyone that leaves (fired or quits) is always so much happier in their new job at a different company! Just say NO!
