Essential Industries reviews

This is a toxic environment. Meetings full of F-bombs, vulgar references to add "color" to conversations, and generally lacks professionalism in most internal situations. The senior leadership of the company will be the reason that the company is bought out or closed. Not sure if that is the ultimate goal, but in either case, with declining year-over-year sales, and perspectives that are condescending and vulgar, it may be that they want to try to get everyone to leave the company, and then close it. The turnover in the shop is high, much of it because the wages paid for staff are not competitive, and the equipment is so old that people resort to filling bottles by hand. Awhile back, there was leadership that worked to put a vision in place, but that person was let go, and beyond that, there has been no focus for improvement other than to measure job times and scold people for not moving fast enough. Turnover in the rest of the company is high because of the environment, and specific people who are empowered to do whatever they want. A few years ago, my perspective changed, and I thought things were going to be getting better--we heard about projects and plans for expansion, and the shop team was getting better at quality and delivering on-time. Since the leadership there changed, it went back to the old ways of doing things. The only bright spot is the Fernley plant--which is growing, but none of that work comes to Merton. Plain and simple for anyone considering a job here--go someplace else. Unless the things I've written above are acceptable working conditions for you. I could not rate anything zero stars, so I gave it a 1. Check out their youtube recruiting video--it is definitely acting. There is a retaliation culture at this company, so I'm sure that when this review is posted, HR will respond with the typical "I can't believe you didn't tell me" and "you're the only one with a problem" response. They will then try to figure out who wrote it and make it difficult for that person. So many good people have left this company one way or another, and it's due to the people running it.

One of the awesome things about coming to work every day is seeing people you know and become friends with. When everyone is fired, what do you have to look forward to? This place is not nearly as fun to work at as when I started here. Add to that the worry about who they are going to fire next. I don't know what they tell themselves, but no one else is buying their lame excuses to fire anyone who doesn't fall in their cookie cutter mold of what an employee should be. They have fired or driven out some really awesome people who were assets to the company and helped the rest of us out all the time. Not to mention, these people were great to work with, and helped to build a sense of community in this place. Instead of giving credit where credit is due, they shower inefficient employees with praise. What kind of message does that send to the rest of the employees? A very discouraging one. I have literally had a friend ask me if we had an opening for a position she was looking for and I have discouraged her from applying here because I didn't want to subject a friend of mine to the working environment in the department she was interested in.