Pros: it's a job, "my job is my raise!!!!" or so i have been told.
Cons: no pay raises, no matching 401k funds, expensive insurance, lower priced coverage with high deductables, dependant coverage expensive.
WorkflowOne is a year out of bankruptcy in a dying business, Business Forms. High priced insurance, no matching 401k, no pay increases in the last three years for the best employees. Pay cuts before the bankruptcy did not avoid the failure of a company that spent recklessly acquiring other companies by leveraging and could not make it work. Management
– more... does not listen to expert advice and does it's own thing. Quality improvement games have brought them up to the 25 years ago level. Work levels are currently dropping and layoffs are probably pending.
The press operation is basically self directed except when a hot job is being run, then supervision is micro managing the situation. Supervision is hard to find sometimes when needed.
My coworkers are generally competent with a couple of exceptions. Most of them are demoralized by years of less than competent management. Equipment repairs are generally put off until the machine will not run then they are just rigged.
The hardest part of my job is having to deal with poor communication, errors in the job ticket, bad plates, poor planning.
Most enjoyable part of my job is quitting time, knowing I have 16 hours before I have to return. – less