Columbus McKinnon Employee Reviews about "good pay"

Pros

good pay from the company

Cons

I dont have any cons yet

Pros

There are a lot of really engaged people, at least in the worker ranks, who want to make great products. My entire staff was dedicated to making safe products that were of high quality (I was in the development realm). Pay was certainly competitive with similar roles /industries. Until the last iteration of upper management, my personal development was something my bosses focused on and actively took an interest in.

Cons

I started with a smaller company that was eventually bought by CMCO. As time moved on after the purchase and CMCO became more involved in our operations, things started trending in the wrong direction. My penultimate boss was wonderful, deeply engaged in my department's work and my development. Then CMCO rolled all of development under one person (my final boss there). While I get the sense he was probably a bit overwhelmed and possibly even a bit out of his league in terms of what he'd taken on, it also became obvious very quickly that me and my team weren't very important. Weekly one-on-ones were something he was either late to or would skip entirely, sometimes without any explanation. This was true for almost every meeting I was in with him, even for meetings he scheduled. There probably is no more effective way to kill a direct report's drive and productivity than to basically ignore him. By the time they closed our office (which has happened to many branches), I couldn't wait to be gone. I've also never worked for a company that was so paralyzed by the idea of a lawsuit. I was even taken to task for raising a potential safety issue due to their fear of a lawsuit. That was one of the final straws for me. This was an assault on my integrity as both a person and an employee. Senior management doesn't really listen, contrary to what they say. By the time I was done, decision making was so short term as to be laughable. Retention seemed to be a growing problem, and sometimes people would suddenly be gone and there would be no explanation as to why. I must've had 8 different HR reps assigned to my department in the last 3 years I was there. One was suddenly gone and the only way I found out was a bounceback from an email I had sent to her. I truly felt if I didn't tell upper management what they wanted to hear I'd have trouble. Honesty was a dangerous trait to have. From a product perspective, the need for sustaining efforts overwhelmed my team. I needed more people or less products, facts I backed up constantly with hard data on hours worked. I'd venture to say I had more data than any other development team there on what we worked on and how long it took to accomplish things. It was mostly ignored. By the time I left, the development efforts were focusing on "new and different" while a massive backlog of safety related activities that needed to be completed were mostly ignored. It felt like everyone was being distracted by shiny objects but not looking at what needed to be done.

Pros

Great floor level personal, Pay is ok

Cons

No life outside the company, decisions made by management cause hourly employees to work more overtime. No recognition or appreciation, only expectations. Don't focus on hiring enough people to do the job, just add to the work load of the employees that perform well in their job.

Pros

Decent pay potential There are no other viable reasons to work for this company.

Cons

Carousel of management leads to carousel of policies All promotions are contingent to relation to a handful of people Lack of scheduling capabilities lead to extensive overtime for hourly employees Middle management is filled with deceit and blame without ever providing constructive thoughts or solutions No reward for hard work, high production rates, low scrap, or advanced education Management is allowed to mistreat employees verbally Complete lack of professionalism

Pros

Not too many pros except that the pay is pretty good depending on what position you hold in the company.

Cons

Management is terrible they favor certain employees. HR don't care about anything and will side with management even when they are in the wrong. If you speak up and management doesn't like what you are telling them they will secretly build a case against you and terminate you out the blue. Management and HR are all one sided and don't give a damn on how the employees feel.

Pros

Good salary- entry level pay is high

Cons

Extremely long hours, lack of growth opportunities

Pros

Decent pay and decent people with good management. These are filler words because i have nothing else to say

Cons

Not a ton of room for advancement, things are pretty set the way they are. These are filler words because i have nothing else to say

Pros

They offer decent pay for that area but you will earn it and then some

Cons

Upper Management is horrible!!! They do not treat their employees fair alot of favortism and 2 faced from management.

Pros

Good place to work with good pay.

Cons

Too much overtime. No family time.

Pros

Decent pay for easy work. Feeling that I can count on the other guys on the floor. Semi-stable employment

Cons

Union contract means nothing when management doesn't follow it anyways. Instead of doing what it says in the book, they will go by "past practice" - aka what makes them look best to corporate. Mindset is not about the employees at all, only what will make management look best!! I would even call the treatment towards employees abusive. I know some of the past practices violate federal laws. And they wonder why employees are confrontational! Management doesnt have a clue what is going on. This goes from Engineering to Human Resources to Operations. Wrong information is given if and when you get any information at all. No praise or incentives for doing good work or more work than required. No reason to try to do well at all. I truly think both salary and hourly employees would flock out the door if given the chance to. The list of bad things about working here is never ending.