As expressed in other reviews, there is nothing "innovative" about Young Innovations. Young is only one of many companies owned by the Jordan Company, an equity firm which goes around the country buying up already successful businesses. If you are an existing employee of one of these businesses or are someone considering working for Young, I'm hoping my experience will help you in your decision:
1)Young/Jordan will buy your smooth running, profitable company and will immediately proceed to fire half of the employees to cut expenses. In my case, this was done before they even took control of the company and knew what was required to run the business. This behavior places those few remaining employees to become so stressed out and concerned for their own jobs, that they will do anything. So Young takes those few remaining employees (most of whom are already underpaid) and then has them perform both their original jobs as well as the jobs of the fired employees.
2)After the mass firings, there is now a lack of qualified, experienced help. But have no fear, because Young will (at great expense), fly in their management teams and specialists to come to your rescue. Unfortunately, their management turnover rate is so high, that you'd be lucky to ever see the same people twice. My first thought after Young acquired the company was "too many chiefs, not enough Indians".
3)Were you a salaried employee? Well, not anymore. Young states that only "managers" are salaried now. So after building a nice career for yourself, you have now been reduced to a McDonalds/Home Depot type hourly worker who must punch a time clock (up to 6 times a day) like a 15 year old. Now that's respect!
3)It took Young less than 2 years to reverse the positive growth we had made, and instead of "innovating" new products to help expand the business (as our previous owner had done) actually went the opposite route and discontinued products in an effort to cut expenses even further.
4)Young acquired our company just before employee reviews were due. Instead of honoring our reviews, Young made us wait almost 2 ADDITIONAL years (making it almost 3 years since our last raises). So after getting what I was told by management was a good review, I received a $26/week (before taxes!) insult.
5)Young will offer health insurance, dental and vision. But here is what they don't tell you:
YOU, the employee pay for it! Young makes me pay almost $5,000/year for these "benefits". How can any company who cares about their employees in even the slightest sense take almost $5,000/year from an employee who brings home $35k/year?
6)No Christmas bonus. Young eliminated that.
In closing I would like to state that I worked for my company for 7 years. For 5 years, it was a dream job (even with the substandard salary). I actually looked forward to retiring there someday. After Young took over, that dream turned into a dead end nightmare.
