At least I'm still working: for now - Anonymous employee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
Sep 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very, very, very safety conscious. Willing to spend money on certain equipment upgrades. Interesting style of training.

Cons

Lack of common sense. Claim to be willing to spend money to improve or maintain the machinery, but deny most expense requests for replacement parts. High management turnover. Have trouble telling the truth to unionized employees. Seem to always be looking for ways to reduce wage expenditures, without overtly trying to break the union. Keep local management in the dark about future plans. Have lied at least twice since corporate take-over 3 years ago. First about reducing the work force, and second about laying off union employees. Seem to think we are just group of under educated half-wits that need to be lead by the hand and shown how to do things "THE GREAT AMERICAN WAY!!!!!" Ugh. Our future here is very uncertain. 100 plus years of Canadian business down the drain.

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A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

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