Above average Experience as a casual worker - Machine Operator Prima Printing Employee Review

Good for students who is looking for part time.

Not good work culture. You will get bored of repetitive tasks

Loved the freedom I had in the wire binding dept, (tho possibly due to oversight, not trust) I was allowed to wear headphones while working, provided I was still attentive Management presented employee of the month awards and provided lunches fairly regularly; seemed generally approachable and down-to-earth; also hosted a christmas party, and a costume competition for halloween

I personally had an awful experience with another employee there, which I did not know how to deal with & felt very isolated by everyone working there during said awful experience. My attempt to discuss the problem was met with further distance until I stopped receiving shifts. Still not sure if my communication was the problem, or if I was simply not wanted there. They seem to really prioritise team building now, so hopefully no one else has the same experience as mine. No standard for training. I was teaching newbies after only one week of working there (I didn't mind doing it but I think it speaks to a level of disorganisation and inconsistency in training new staff that can create complications). The floor manager seemed more interested in demeaning my coworkers and disrupting production, rather than teaching or helping. His response to minor mistakes was lecturing someone to the point of tears without making any effort to resolve the mistake or avoid it reoccurring. He once brought someone in from another area to help with an urgent order, then moved that worker back without telling anyone, which resulted in the urgent order sitting incomplete because everyone thought it was being done. Small things like that kept adding up. Perhaps I just didn't see the work he contributed but I found his input to actively work against workers; including blocking a doorway with a table and cable at one point, which I moved again slightly due to the safety hazard it posed. Another former employee said the same floor manager was really good to him, however. Maybe that floor manager just saves his demeaning and lecturing responses for the female employees. Only one engineer to service their many machines meant often making do without machine automation, unless you can figure out how to fix them.