What are perks and other benefits like at Reynolds Consumer Products?

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, overtime.

Cons

Shift work, bad management, working holidays.

Advice to Management

Be more engaged with people on the floor. Quit worrying about covering your butt all the time and have your workers’ backs.

Pros

Good pay and very good benefits

Cons

A lot of over time

Pros

The pay and benefits are second to none. Very hard to find better. The insurance is not free but very inexpensive and the coverage is very good. They also give you a company funded medical debit card to cover your deductible and co-pays. Reynolds is a very generous company. Because of the union environment, you are protected from being easily fired and you cannot be forced to work your off-days ever. They have a strong safety emphasis and you are allowed to refuse to do work that you feel is too dangerous and needs correcting.

Cons

The work environment can very dangerous and grueling. You have to wear a ton of p.p.e. to keep from getting cut by the aluminum. You can be forced to come to work 4 hours early or over 4 hours late. So don't plan anything for your work days. Not a good job for a single parent with young kids. They are a 24/7 facility in Louisville, KY. Except for a handful of M-F jobs, all jobs work the weekends. You get 13 weekends off a year. The rest of your off-days are during the week. Also, management is cowardly and won't confront bad/lazy employees. The company gets by on the good will of the mediocre and hard working employees. There are a large amount of shockingly lazy employees . Some might work 4-5 hours (if you can even call it work) out of an 8 hour shift. They frequently disappear and go sleep in their cars or play on their phones or hang out in the break room. When said employees aren't doing their work, management comes to the hard worker and just makes he/she do extra, effectively allowing the others to continue their irresponsible behavior. It makes it very difficult to not be resentful.

Advice to Management

Since we all make the same pay, we should all be held to the same standard. We should all be expected to work hard and do our part. Stop trying to be buddies and lead the team. Demand respect. Check on employees and stop sitting in your office acting like you are busy. The action is out on the production floor. That's where the supervisor should be as well.

Pros

Decent pay, good benefits, most major holidays off.

Cons

Long work hours, overtime is a full 12 hr shift, terrible leadership, terrible machines to even do the job efficiently

Pros

The pay and benefits are by far top tier for the work performed.

Cons

12hr days 7 days a week will take a toll on anyone. If you have a family or kids you'll never see them much because you'll be at work. Management was somewhat reasonable depending on the situation and the individual. Very physical, Excessively HOT 🥵

Advice to Management

Treat your employees better. Boost morale

Pros

Lots of good people and great benefits.

Cons

Lots of micromanagement and playing the blame game.

Advice to Management

Train managers to lead people instead of micromanaging and second guessing.

Pros

Pay is good and good benefits

Cons

No work/life balance forced OT, management only cares about numbers. No advancement. Union is useless, management doesn’t address issues at all. HR ignores issues also. One weekend off a month. Employees are like children, always some drama going on between people. You get no sick days no personal days, and if you have Fmla they treat you like garbage. Hr and management allow a hostile work environment. Place is a joke, lazy employees get to do whatever they want.

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees more. Stop trying to be friends with your employees and make them be held accountable. Learn to communicate.

Pros

collaborative learning, wants to meet your career goals, competitive pay, benefits

Cons

employee turnover is rare. Difficult to find other positions

Pros

RCP is a fantastic place to work. Upper management and C Suite are down-to-Earth. Your work matters and you see it’s effects. The people are amazing. It’s not a toxic work environment. Pay and benefits are excellent.

Cons

There is a heavy workload. Sometimes timelines are unreasonable.

Advice to Management

Slow down. Let employees catch their breath so they don’t feel overwhelmed.

Pros

good benefits and fair salaries. Friendly environments to work in. Great place to retire your career. not many cons with the company

Cons

still some operational tech lacking behind some of the other companies in the chicagoland area. It may be a con for some folks to have complete wfh but really was a benefit in my case