It is a manufacturing plant at a company called Graphic Packaging International. It is temp-to-hire, but unlike previous temp-to-hire positions that I have worked through staffing agencies, this one doesn't have a 3-month or 6-month specific time period to get hired. Direct hire could be after a month if you go in and show that you're a good worker. Starting pay through the agency is $10/hr and the recruiter told me that "that's just until they see how you do" because apparently they've had a lot of people come in and play around, not show up for work on time, not come to work, etc. Upon direct hire (and the company safety director doing our orientation noted that one lady just got hired after 1.5 months), it goes from $10/hr to $18.65/hr. The staffing recruiter said that's the biggest jump that he has ever seen a company give for hiring someone on and they do that for all of the employees. The company safety director who has been with the company a long time said they have probably interviewed 400 people this year and he can't figure out why people keep leaving, not wanting to come in to work, etc. They've had like 23 orientations so far. They're a union, so you apparently pay like 10% union dues when you're brought on with the company.
So they do generally work 50-hour weeks spread over 4 days. However, there are some people that work 5, 6 or 7 12-hour days some weeks. They get the $28/hr overtime for anything over 40 hours. So the people working 6 days per week are making over $1,400 for the week before taxes.
The safety director said that it isn't because they're getting some crazy amount of orders that they need all of that overtime. It is because they can't keep temp employees there for very long to get hired on, for some reason. So the good employees end up having to work a lot of overtime because of that. Now, there are some company employees there who have been there for a long time, show the proper way to do stuff in training, etc. I see nothing wrong with the company so far. My orientation consisted of 10 people, for instance. The staffing company recruiter shows up on-site for every orientation and he stated that "among the 10 of us there, probably 3 of us will actually be left working" and sort of indicated that the rest would either not do their job, not want to come to work, etc., within a week or two. Unlike a lot of warehouses, this one seems to be heated and has air conditioning. That's typically a lot of complaints in warehouse environments.
Got any advice/general comments about this scenario? They have lots of machines. Some are press operators, some work on machines that glue boxes, some work on printing machines, etc. They print/make the boxes that fast food companies use, so burger/fry boxes and such. I'm on a "former" where you load four rows of small boxes and then grab them at the other end of the machine and pack/seal them in boxes to be put onto a pallet. The machine isn't going very fast, though...we took a tour of the plant. The safety director said the machine is not going very fast because it is of course all throughout the day for 12-hour shifts. 20-minute lunch breaks and you can't leave the building or go anywhere. The outer door for the building is on a timer that locks after each shift change and you can't go out into the parking lot, to your car, etc., anytime throughout the day, including during lunch or breaks. In addition to the 20-minute lunch breaks, you get 6 10-minute breaks spread out every 2 hours. So all of your breaks, including lunch, are paid by the company. During orientation, they asked if anyone thought that the job may not be for them and nobody said anything. Even the staffing agency recruiter said to everyone, "If you don't feel that this is for you, I can find you something else, just let me know."
Why do you suppose so many people would be leaving? Oddly enough, some of the guys in the room during our orientation were talking about wanting to "start right now so that they could make some money" and said they liked all of the overtime and such. But after the orientation, one of the guys was waiting on the porch when I was leaving and he was already talking on his phone about "going to this other agency where they've got two days on the weekends" and such. I presume that he wanted the weekend off. Yet he was one of the main ones talking about wanting to make a bunch of money through overtime and wanted to start "tonight" even though they don't have the schedules ready for us yet. So that makes me wonder if a lot of their employees aren't being sent there as temps and just disappearing because they don't want to work. I'm perfectly fine with all of that overtime and looking for an actual career. The money would greatly help me get out of debt and help my family a lot, as well. Got any thoughts on that scenario?
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