Pros
You get paid. There are some good people if you seek them out. Entry level work experience might be ok.
Cons
Worst of the Pareto principle, 20% of the employees do 80% of the work, but 80% of the rewards go to an undeserving 20%. Excessive layer cake of delegating managers who add no value, they are constantly scheming to justify their existence. Lots of micromanaging of the people who actually accomplish work. When in doubt they will create unnecessary meetings just to fill their schedule, the more of your time wasted the better for them. MBA favoritism/nepotism/good old boys club, all others are second class citizens who will be thrown under the bus. Many employees have been let go for questioning the internal status quo and culture of mediocracy. Ridiculously high turnover rate, most of the hard workers leave, some are just holding out for retirement. Many low performers remain and get promoted by being YES-men, or the company hires YES-men with zero useful experience. Supervisors for the floor workers come and go with the seasons, no consistency or proper guidance. This only exacerbates the infighting between technicians and undermines attempts to keep up with production quotas. The dictatorial “Quality department” runs wild throughout the company, constantly drumming up demand for unnecessary changes. They behave like disrespectful children but they demand your full attention, and if you do not oblige then their friends in management will punish you. No clear goals or smart leadership. Managers champion the rhetoric of progress, but they hinder actual progress by creating a TOXIC passive aggressive climate. Horrible incentives structure, amazingly short-sighted business plan. Corporate RBC is just monopolizing the bearing industry and turning it into one big sweat shop. Sargent is just along for the ride. Weird cult of personality surrounding the RBC CEO known as the “Doctor”. Management bends over backwards for this man, but he/they are cheap when it comes to investing in the businesses or employees. Nice to watch CEO cash out tens of millions of dollars in stock options, but good luck to hard workers trying to justify the most basic yearly pay raise.
