Fastest way to Burn-out is being employed here
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
The immediate coworkers are amazing and I wish them nothing but the best.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Pretty much everything.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Replace your top leadership with people who don't see employees as lazy machines. Maybe try some empathy. Stop clinging to temporary solutions and fixes.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Everyone feels taken advantage of or hounded by the higher ups. Everything (especially in production) is held together with duct tape and a dream and the higher ups make no indication of wanting to change that. All they talk about is "the bigger picture" and "future endeavours" while it feels like everyday there are new (and predictable) fires to put out.
Kommunikation
Communication between departments is pretty horrible and if an emergency arises (which is basically everyday) you have to literally run and hunt down someone capable of fixing it. If you work in production you are lucky if you know about what the other department are up to at all. There are some kind of meetings every couple of weeks, but the shifts sometimes make it impossible to be there and I'm for sure not watching that in my free time.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Since production gets treated pretty horribly by higher ups we stick together like glue.
Work-Life-Balance
Absolutely nonexistent. There was a time I came in for overtime three weekends in a row, not so we could reach our goals, but to not fail them AS miserably. Coming in on weekends is basically expected of you and most employees have a ridiculous amount of overtime hours collected.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Usually the direct team leaders are great, but the ones at the top are actually horrible. I've seen them berate my team leader and even team member in a really inappropriate way in front of the entire team, even to the point of yelling at them. It got to the point where the one person holding the production team together got terribly burned out and quit. It only got worse after.
Also if you tell your employees that at company parties everyone is welcome, at least try to not exclude your production team.
Interessante Aufgaben
That's the sad part, the work was hella interesting and fun. If leadership wasn't so incompetent I could have seen myself doing this for years.
The expectations and workload were ridiculous though. The impossible kind of ridiculous. Leadership gave you a goal, you gave them 16 reasons for why achieving it was literally impossible and they would interrupt you 17 times claiming you are giving them "excuses". Once the team inevitably doesn't reach the goal leadership throws a hissy fit accusing you to be lazy and unwilling to be efficient. Great way to motivate your team guys, good job.
There were also a ton of responsibilities that should not have been expected of us (especially for the pay we got), but were.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Workplace is a wreck and the equipment breaks if you just look at it wrong. Some equipment is also really outdated.
Gehalt/Benefits
We get the minimum for what they need to pay us for this job type. There's free coffee and apples. There were three benefits from which you can choose only one, but if you have to commute by car you basically have to pick cheaper parking. Which, also wild that it isn't even free parking.
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Even the employees think the company is a sad joke.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
You only have a chance to rise in the ranks if you are willing to burn yourself out and are okay with developing an anxiety disorder.