Suggestions for improvement

• Put the present although long term employees through discrimination procedures, bring in a legal team to educate them on the do's and dont's in the workplace. Drug and alcohol awareness. It was a job I so hoped for, but once I got the position the anxiety and lack of professionalism within the company was so very disappointing and disgusting to think that these people could actually get away with the things that were taking place in there. I'm a professional single woman, not gay or black and a mother and grandmother. But because I lived in a town where the gay population was high I was discriminated against and thought to be gay. Which was a terrible experience. And again I was not gay. It was the worse company I ever worked for.

What I dislike about the company

It was a uncomfortable place to work. they expected you to be fast on the job but never provided any training as they said they would. It was a challenge everyday as the managers shipping and receiving guy was supervising the workers and hated it due to the fact he couldn't do his own job and as he said he was tired if babysitting the workers. While I was training I was exposed to workers who hated blacks and gay people and verbally expressed sexual inappropriate things.

Support from management

this was the worse most stressful position I ever had.

Suggestions for improvement

• I could suggest many things but nothing will change at this business they will continue to be racist, homophobic and severely non supportive of workers who they think may be gay. I was divorced and lived in Northampton Mass which is infamous for their gay population. But I was not gay and was treated like garbage. Like I said it was the most stressful and heartbreaking company I've ever worked for. Even til this day I get sick to my stomach even thinking about the opportunity they gave me that only turned into an professional nightmare.

What I dislike about the company

A lot of the people I worked with there were racists and homophobic. And I being a straight white female found this absurd. I was told upon being hired I would be trained for the job and never was trained. The shipping and receiving male employee (who was given the position of my trainer) was never respectful to me as a woman in a male dominated field due to the fact he was in a bad relationship at that time and hated all women, gays and blacks and let it be known. My actual manger had no patience and on one occasion threw a wrench across the room as he was showing me something on a hydraulic pump and made a mistake in its function causing oil to flow all over the work area. which I personally cleaned up. It was the worse job I ever had. I have an incredible work ethic and held onto a previous job as an electronics field tech for 26 years until a layoff in which another company bought out the one I worked for. Thus 8 people were laid off.