Airgas Reviews

Pros

Decent benefits, work schedule and flexibility.

Cons

Old boys network, inaccessible management, older average age in general, resistant to change. Corporate HQ buys out small mom-and-pop stores to add to their national conglomerate with little transition plan or additional incentive to stay. Poor earnings potential/opportunity for advancement. They don't invest in creating a uniform infrastructure or company culture, instead preferring to let the companies they buy out do business as usual under the Airgas name. Employees' opinions not heard.

Pros

Great opportunities to grow to new positions in your career, it's the best way to increase your earning power. Airgas does a great job at promoting from within.

Cons

Poor overall compensation plan. Annual salary increases are low enough that long term employees fall below market value and are lured away.

Advice to Senior Management

Put together a compensation plan that keeps long term employees in similar positions in line with what the market offers.

Pros

It was a good overall experience.

Cons

Top mgt. and CEO had a bit of a good-old-boys network that was hard to crack.

Advice to Senior Management

A good overall experience.

Pros

It has been going through lots of jobs consolidation and changes, it could be a pro and con. It all depends on the location and the manager you work for.
Pay: Comparable to industry

Cons

Your job may be going away due to consolidations of business operations.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget the employees who worked hard for the companies while taking care of shareholders and investors.

Pros

Good culture and many good people who work hard and respect each other. Strong sense of teamwork and camaraderie among associates.

Cons

There are limited opportunities for professional development and there can be limited opportunities for career advancement. Culture does not encourage good work life balance.

Pros

stock purchase plan, some good people that care. Does offer tutition coverage as benefit, also a "recession proof' type job in tanker division.

Cons

poor pay, high benefit costs to employee, limited advancement opportunitty unless you are a "yes man" to management. Hours change so often it is hard to have family life, more and more work is dumped on the ones doing work that those lazy have it easy. WIll not fire anyone.

Advice to Senior Management

Seriously evalute your mid management and send them to training school. Lot of low level employees are smart and understand more of what is good and wrong with the company, but cannot be heard because of the many layers of management. Start living up to the ethic training we go through each year.

Pros

The company is fiscally strong

Cons

Company culture poor. Very cold, sterile environment

Advice to Senior Management

Drastically change work environment.

Pros

The company offers average benefits with above average salaries. Compared to other industries, the pay is higher than one would expect.

Cons

They commend themselves on customer service and communication within the company. The reality is customer service is always secondary. They will communicate with the associates on important matters but the communication lacks pertinent information.

Advice to Senior Management

It appears their is a lack of respect and trust of the upper management in all divisions. The negative culture among all companies needs to be changed for this company to move forward

Pros

Airgas is a good company with diverse product base able to serve a large customer base. Nation wide company with room for advancement and opportunities offering competitive pay and benifits. If you work hard for them they will give you a chance to grow in the company. I love my job and feel I am treated fairly and I have respect for my management team.

Cons

There are issues when working within a large company, there are departments that handle issues and functions that you need to rely on to do your job. There are any people to answer to and focus on sales and performance..

Advice to Senior Management

Positive reinforcement goes a long way, even though we are a large company with all the overhead to manage it, there are thousands of drivers, counter sales, branch associates that face customers daily, with a positive attitude and communication from the top, it will project through the employees right to the customers.

Pros

$16.50 starting pay is good, So much OT that you hide from it. Averaged 55 hours a week

Cons

Your medical will cost you $230.00 every 2 weeks and it is below average at that. You will get hurt just a matter of time.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend some money on the facilites it looks like Russia 30 years ago.