Disc Makers

1.0

Feb 13, 2018

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

In a dying industry , They still do give a raise and a bonus if you hadn’t committed any company infractions or been written up for any reason.

Cons

The Company is top-heavy in management which suck up all the salaries leaving crumbs for the regular employees. Besides the upper level management, you have senior directors, directors and then managers of departments. I’m not real sure what a “senior director” does except collect a huge salary. Directors also seem very unnecessary as managers could report directly to the Ops Manager. Once again all collect very substantial salaries, and they continue too. Management does protect themselves and are rarely accountable for dept mistakes. If you work as an hourly employee , You can expect a weekly report card detailing all of your happy times sad times lateness and mistakes etc. all designed to affect your raise or bonus if you get one. You can also expect a low salary . This is bad for employee morale. If your in the print industry go to a union shop and double your pay. Management creates all sorts of busy work to justify their salaries. Upper management has Directors, Directors have managers and managers have team leaders and then you have the people that actually do the work. ,Daily meetings , graphs and charts, which do nothing but highlight the depts inefficiency or the mistakes that get repeated. In their endless quest to be a lean manufacturing company, the management seems clueless at times to their own fate . It is a dying industry.

Disc Makers Response

I get it. You don't like management. However, let me address a few of the concerns you mention. We have a large staff of almost 400 working around the clock. They can't all report to a handful of VPs. We need management infrastructure to make sure our customers are satisfied, our staff gets the development opportunities they deserve, and our improvement projects get done. The busy work you refer to is the all-important task of communicating in every department what is working, what we can do better, and how to get there. I am proud of the management team we have, and of the modern management techniques we use to steer this business through choppy waters. Specific to your print industry comment, we pride ourselves on paying salaries competitive with the market and providing an extensive benefits package that includes PTO, health insurance, 401k and education assistance programs to name a few. In today's economy, if you regularly pay under market you can't attract or retain talent. We have several individuals in our print shop who left, and after some time came back because the grass was actually greener on the Disc Makers side. And we have a bunch more who came here after the print shops they worked at went out of business. With the addition of book publishing, our printing operations are growing and are one of the more exciting departments to work in. Tony van Veen, CEO

Great place until the last 5 years or more. - Anonymous employee Disc Makers Employee Review

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