Marathon Petroleum Employee Reviews about "good pay"

Pros

Good pay benefits and career options

Cons

Long hours, lots of middle managers

Pros

Marathon pays their interns well and gives them a lot of opportunity to prove themselves.

Cons

Their is a lack of communication between departments/groups, especially between engineering and construction.

Pros

Only Pro is the pay and benefits BUT you can achieve better working for yourself or someone else. If you live somewhere that this job is the only thing that pays you this well, MOVE.

Cons

Where do I begin? Let's start with a typical day. Say it is Monday, you walk in at 0545 to clock in but your shift isnt until 0600, youre hit with a 3rd party driver loading on top of product and he/she is lying about what happened, you cant even have a sip of coffee yet , you are trying to prioritize all the stuff this company has you do for such a common mistake, you take care of this driver and realize that youre just a few minutes into your shift and your blood pressure is already up, then your manager walks in and he/she is in a crappy mood because they work monday through friday 9-5 and get paid salary and much more than you......boohoo. A year in and you wonder why manager positions even exist as they have nothing but time to make your work day miserable . Literally all they do is try to fill the schedule in when someone is sick or taking vacation. Which brings me to the first hour of the day. Your manager asks you if you can work a shift or be on call all week and weekend because your coworker is off for whatever reason. You had plans as it is one of the few weeks you actually have off. You tell the manager you need to talk it over with your family and they look at you like you just spit in their face. It is now 2 hours into your shift. Time to go do something physical like hook up railcars in the sun and its nearing 100 degrees. You wonder where so and so is. Well, so and so isnt EVER out there to pitch in help. Why? Because he is entitled. Thats right. Marathon isnt union. However, from personal experience, they do practice seniority. I, myself, have sat in the manager's office with a former coworker talking about how he said he feels he doesnt have to physically gauge a tank because he has seniority. What came of this? Me and the other operator found ourselves gauging all of the terminal's tanks. Fast forward to lunch time. You are sitting there trying to eat but literally every day some truck driver comes in the lunch room and needs something. I have worked here over a decade........3/4 the time my lunch is interrupted. Here is my experience with pay raises: First year I started trainee pay , I was given a year to be evaluated. Where I was at the time had me and one other operator and tone of the most infamous managers the company has. He put me on call with basically zero experience first month and wrote me up any time I made the most minimal error and trust me I made plenty because I was doing 99 % of the work thanks to the other operator sitting on his phone and not training me. He yelled at me with doors closed like I was a child and coworkers and truck drivers told me they wouldnt put up with it. Funny enough every one of them put up with it just alike. Why? Because we all needed a job. Why isnt he fired? Because once youre a manager youre in a club. Might as well quit instead of working for them because if you go to HR and upper management they just allow the manager to push back on you. I have caught the flu, I have caught covid, I have had multiple family members die and have to go back home to bury them.....every time I was treated with disrespect. I called to confirm I had the flu and this manager sighed and hung up on me. Same manager told me I needed to tell him when I was goin to return to work cause he had a business to run when I informed him that a family member died. HR and upper management listened to me go off about this and did absolutely nothing. This manager doesnt deserve to be a manager at a dollar general. If you are a younger guy I would definitely stay away from this job. You will only be subjected to listening to boomers complain about how you don't work when you are in fact working laps around them and pulling way more shifts. When covid happened there were tons of employees taking advantage of having a symptom and getting 10 days off paid. So now year 2022 we lost 3 months off sick with full pay and we only get 14 days off even with covid. The company is getting worse and worse and let me tell you something about a skeleton crew. I have worked this field a baker's dozen years and about 10 of those years my terminal has been ran short staffed. If youre dumb enough to apply after reading this, ask to see a work schedule during the interview , then ask them to explain how they would work it out if one person were to quit or get fired. What's bad is that they hire people that ARE good workers but dont have a college education at first. You look at the schedule and lie to yourself that it isnt miserable because truly it isnt THAT bad fully staffed. Well the inevitable happens and someone is off for a surgery for 3 months or someone quits or someone gets fired. Then all of a sudden you find yourself working your entire life away. I cannot tell you how many times I have worked a full 10 or 12 hour shift during a weekday and had to go home and try to sleep a few hours only to wake back up at 2300 to get back to work to work another 10 or 12 hour shift on only a few hours of sleep. Then you get off of that shift and get home and blow past your wife and kids and shower and try to sleep during the day. How is that healthy!?!?!?!? When someone gets fired or quits ohhhhhhh boy you better just look to work like that a good 6-8 months because THIS company takes FOREVER hiring someone. They usually wont except someone within the company either. They will hire someone off the street or just a driver that has hardly any knowledge on how to do our job and it takes 3 months just to get this person in the door. THEN they need trained before they release them on call. So those 6-8 months as they try to fill in that position you are fighting other coworkers on who gets to be on call and work pipeline or vessels all day and night, work weekends, work holidays, be on call, etc.. Dont feel safe with this company either as they are selling one of the top performing terminals to another company without pension. Why not move up in this company? Because you will just live on the road. Every position other than operations has you living on the road so might as well get a divorce. The only people that truly love this job are those that are in the club. You will see a lot of people with their sons managing better and better terminals.

Pros

Good benefits and well paying job

Cons

Too much workplace politics, it’s all who are u buddies with to get ahead

Pros

Opportunities for Growth Good Work Experience & Pay

Cons

Findlay, OH is small town with not much to do outside of work.

Pros

Good pay and lots of experience

Cons

Big oil hurts the environment

Pros

Good Pay and Yearly Bonus Lots of Free Lunches Invest in their people through training development

Cons

Non-collaborative work environment Promote technical leaders that are not good people leaders No flexible work schedules Micro-managing management Promotions are all political

Pros

Home for a month pay and benefits are good

Cons

People being gone for a month

Pros

The base pay is fine and the company match on the 401K is great. Pension is fantastic as well.

Cons

Absurd sick policy as of 2022 and next to no vacation starting out.

Pros

Tesoro pay and culture along with 1 remote day per week

Cons

Needs a more diverse culture. So many great skill sets have been lost in San Antonio due to the structure that Marathon has laid out.