Taylor Corporation Reviews

Pros

Steady employment, close to Mpls

Cons

no advancement, old equipment, needs to upgrade

Pros

Decent benefits, but most cost the employees significant portions of their income to obtain. Normal PTO availability and flexibility in taking those days.

Cons

Highly male dominated, with managers that have been with the company forever. Do not acknowledge or reward good performance with praise or compensation. Top management talks about being a "family", but no one I knew felt like it was a family, unless you consider it a highly disfunctional family with in-fighting, backstabbing, and lying.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep your political and religious beliefs to yourself. Clean up your vulgar language. Fulfill promises of performance rewards instead of renigging on them. Set realistic goals and then provide the necessary resources for employees to achieve them.

Pros

Chance to work on many different technologies ... only because they are under staffed.

Cons

Use to be a great place to work ... but over the years Taylor has not had a clear vision for technology within their organization. They also seem to think that just because you work in southern mn you have to settle for far less than national average pay compensation.
Over worked and under paid with added stress of poor IT direction does not equal "Opportunity and Security for it's Employees"

Advice to Senior Management

Look and listen to your employee's ...
Over worked and under paid with added stress of poor IT direction does not equal "Opportunity and Security for your Employees"
And this is even after Glenn Taylor (owner and founder) took over from his daughter after she drove the company into the ground.

Pros

The salary is very comparable or slightly higher than the average salary for similar jobs in my local surrounding areas.

Cons

Not advisable to work here if you have a choice, workload is unreasonable and unrealistic just to save the company a few bucks by not hiring the accurate number of employees per department.

Advice to Senior Management

Please take more concern over your employees. Employees will work harder if you show more appreciation by showing much more effort in offering a balanced workload. There are employees who have taken on the work of 3-4 employees that have been let go in the many rounds of lay offs. It is unfair to assume this amount of work. It's unfortunate that an employees health and well being is not a concern. It's all about the budget and making it work for the company at all costs.

Pros

There are many good changes happening within the corporation, which are resulting in great opportunities for those that ask for them. Management encourages and rewards initiative. Very competitive salaries for the area. Located in the small community of North Mankato.

Cons

There are many places where Taylor Corporation remains behind in technology. Many of the changes currently occurring probably should have happened years ago.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to emphasize having the right people in the right place and paying them fairly. More transparency from the executive level would be appreciated. Experiment more with proof-of-concept projects and failing fast.

Pros

easy to get a job there

Cons

low pay and bad morale,

Advice to Senior Management

get a clue

Pros

Lots of variety and places to move around within the corporation due to ownership of many companies within the corporation.

Cons

Technology hasn't kept up. Ever changing direction. Tons of layoffs continuously throughout the years.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop kneejerk reactions and think through to the long run.

Pros

Opportunity to grow professionally. Promoted from within

Cons

Over worked management. Had to where too many hats

Advice to Senior Management

Web Presence is non existence poor customer satisfaction

Pros

Very flexible in work schedule and understanding when family emergencies come up. Reasonable opportunity for advancement if you know the right people.

Cons

This company is run by a bunch of people who are only there because they have an "in" with the Taylor family. Senior management has a history of making bad decisions, but are pretty much untouchable because they have friends in high places.

Taylor Corporation operates on fear. They bully their employees into believing that there is nothing better for them out there. They give their employees horrible raises or no raises at all, and then tell them that they should just be happy to have a job.

They are extremely cheap, not sure if they spend too much money on salaries for Timberwolves' players or what. Just getting an office chair that isn't broken or a working stapler is a major accomplishment. Getting a new computer is pretty much an act of God.

They don't value their employees. My supervisor told me many times of meetings where management would put down employees. How management thought employees were just being greedy whiners and didn't deserve anything. Very frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Get rid of the "good ol' boys" and find some competent management who is able to come up with some new ideas, values the work their employees do, and treats their employees with respect.

2. Two words- Consumer Website. Quit trying to get Carlson Craft binders into more stores and wasting time revising and revising what already isn't working. Wake up. Most people don't buy their invitations in stores anymore. They make them themselves or do them online. Get blank stock for sale online and offer printing services online. Create your OWN STORE. I don't know why no one has done this yet. It seems so obvious.

3. Value your employees. Treat them with respect. Quit thinking you are better than they are. Try positive reinforcement instead of negative. You've heard the saying "You attract more flies with honey than vinegar." It's true.

Pros

There are lots of opportunities to grow professionally. There are also a decent number of opportunities to advance your career. People willing to transfer between Taylor companies have an even better chance at advancing. Employees are encouraged to explore opportunities in all Taylor companies. Career mentors are available for employees if they ask for them.

Cons

The organization is slightly behind from a technology standpoint but that leaves a lot of room for opportunity. The organization is moving in the right direction but it seems to be a slow change.

Advice to Senior Management

I think it would be worthwhile to invest in some internal "experimental" kinds of projects to research how we can leverage our capabilities in new ways to help customers express their uniqueness. In order to do that I think the company would need to hire additional people because it seems like we run fairly lean.