• SCHEDULE CHANGES-- be prepared to have to shift your schedule about with barely little to no notice. I personally watched people have to switch schedules within a week of the change occurring. These were people on medicines with set time schedules, people with kids-- it didn't matter.
• YOU WILL BE LIED TO-- HR will tell you just about anything in your interview, covering their own mistakes, lack of understanding of job duties, and get you to sign on with the company anyway under false pretense. Additionally, do not ever expect most management to care when you have a concern. If you report an issue or conflict to your manager it will likely be swept "under the rug"-- your best hope is to go to HR directly and report the issue (though be prepared for backlash from the manager).
• LITTLE TO NO NOTICE OF OVERTIME/SCHEDULE CONFLICTS-- again, they do not care if you have an appointment/prior engagements/need to leave work on time. It doesn't matter to management what your scheduled time off is. In not so few words had a manager say she "owned me" and should have known to not schedule a doctor's appointment ON MY SCHEDULED DAY OFF.
• UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT-- Health code violations, safety violations... Unsafe environment mentally for many employees. Saw many people have breakdowns/leave for better employment due to job insecurity/constant threats they were going to lose their job if they didn't do ___________ (things outside their job code or above and beyond expectations set forth by HR/in handbooks/in job description). Notified multiple higher ups of situations such as chemicals being poured into the water, people being forced to still work with injuries, not enough people to help with workloads in the work areas, not being given breaks/lunch breaks, not being able to use the restroom or get water in almost 100 degree weather, being harassed if you have health issues already relayed to your superiors which may require you to have a break or lunch for medicines or other related countermeasures... The list could go on and on.
• IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER ALREADY IN A GOOD POSITION HERE THEN DO NOT EXPECT TO EVER ADVANCE IN YOUR FIELD-- Managers/supervisors/"leads" are very much "buddy-buddy" types. If you do not suck up/brown nose managers then you will purposely be given the run around on training to advance to the next level. If you could be seen as a liability, even once (for instance reporting a supervisor for verbal harassment to your manager) you will be promptly ignored in your efforts to be an exemplary employee and also likely face additional harassment and backlash.
• RIFE WITH RACISM/SEXISM/ISLAMOPHOBIA/HOMOPHOBIA/PREJUDICE AGAINST THOSE WITH DISABILITIES OR A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENT MENTAL ILLNESSES-- again, if you do not fit in with whatever qualities management considers to be those befitting an "ideal employee" then do not expect any sort of treatment you receive to go well. You have whites not being promoted under black supervisors, blacks being discriminated under white supervisors, women being physically harassed and having to quit because management victim blames the women, a fair amount of religious persecution, personally witnessed an employee saying another employee was one day "going to shoot this place up because they have that bipolar/biwhatever disease-- that makes you mental and want to kill everyone", management was notified, and nothing was done to correct the actions of the employee who spoke in such a way. In fact, the person who reported the issue to management was, in turn, told to not speak up next time, "learn to get along and accept that was their coworker's point of view", and "not cause waves".
• THEY WILL WORK YOU TO THE BONE-- Again, because they expect more from you than they admit in initial interviews, you will be working much harder than you were told. Hard work is not a bad thing but physical/mental/emotional abuse is entirely a different subject.
• NO FUTURE-- if your goal is to advance in a field which they specialize in then either expect it to take twenty years to reach the job code you want (no lie-- saw this of many employees) or expect it to never happen at all. Many people will receive the training you ask for or people with less experience or education will be promoted before you.
• NO FUTURE (pt.2-- company has been falling for years)-- do not expect this company to be here in ten years unless they do a serious overhaul on the entire company's character/ways of business. They have been experiencing an ever-increasing number of issues over the years and multiple divisions/groups have already been lost. Company looks to be on the edge of a precipice awaiting the freefall to tanking.
