Was a good place to work for but not anymore - Inspector TMK Employee Review

2.0
Jul 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good pay & benefits and the men and women I work with are some of the best. We have a few that shouldn't have a job, but you have that everywhere you go. Could be a great place work the work is not bad its the management.

Cons

Don't know where to begin, Start at the beginning. I have been working at the Ambridge plant for over 8 years, loved my job when I started there. TMK took over and we had a change in Plant superintendent and down hill from there. They lie about the there safety numbers to the point its criminal and someone should go to jail. Lower Management is scared of upper and upper is scared of every one above them. I have never seen so much waste in my life, where they would put in a million dollar piece equipment and doesn't work so they just say oh well we will work around it or not use it. They waste so much money at that Ambridge plant I can't see how we make any money. There is no team work at all if you what to work for a place where you feel like part of a team and what to make a company better this is not the place. They have a 1930's style of management, Us against them. honestly this went from being the best job I ever had to the worst job I ever had in less then 8 years. I have seen a guy get crushed by pipe another lose his foot and another guy break both of his wrist. I seen a man die before my eyes when he fell through the roof and landing on concrete but we have a great safety record. How does that happen, well it was the workers fault and the unsafe workplace we work in. We have a saying at the Ambridge plant Keep your head up and watch your back cause if you get hurt the company will find a way to blame you for the accident. I could write 20 pages of bad things about this place but you get the point. That's why I'm looking for a new job every day. I guess this is what it likes working for the Russians.

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Pros

A lot of decent hard working people, mostly in non-management roles.

Cons

This place has one of the worst corporate cultures I have seen. It lacks an identity of their own, their strategy to fix this was to attend a garage sale held by USS & Tenaris and picking up all the 5 cent trinkets they could find and put them in management roles. They also have an absurd amount of Directors, most of them are completely incompetent and came from other companies from lower positions. Their lying and manipulating on safety, company strength and quality is beyond criminal. The only semi-decent thing is that will hire people with no experience as inside sales. Once they have 1 to 2 years of experience they are poached by competitors or customers because everyone knows there are almost no advancement opportunities.....mostly lies about them. The few that have moved up have had to fight extremely hard for it and even then got screwed on compensation. The is so much fighting, backstabbing, and throwing each other under the bus across all departments that its no wonder why priority number 1 is CYA and not to make any decisions that go against the wishes of management, no matter how ridiculous those wishes are. The have a horrible reputation in the marketplace amongst distributors, other mills, and even end users.

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