The last few months, I've watched the turnover rate at this company, and it's honestly blinding how quick employees pass in and out through either frustration, getting fired for nearly nothing, or being laid off because the company has no foresight.I'm only 6 months into employment and I'm already one of the most senior people on shift. I've watched several supervisors come and go for better pay and working conditions. There's still postings for my terminal on indeed because they can't keep people with the amount they ask of you. There are no perks to working harder here. You make what you make, there are no raises, there are no bonuses, there is only threat of termination if the upper management takes a dislike to you. We're constantly signing off documents stating we know how to do things, because things get messed up by frustrated employees so often. They can't see the forest for the trees here, but it's all our fault obviously.
Last night, I got into work, many of the guys on my shift had called in, so it left 3 of us on the floor to complete a night's work, which usually has about 5-6 people at the moment. We used to have 7-8 before the lay-offs last month.HR comes in at 6, starts nitpicking us about why we're so far behind. (take a wild guess)Day shift is also short on personnel, so they tried handing off the dock scan to us, so we have to do it at the end of our shift when we're trying to get done and go home. I've expressed several times that I do not want this responsibility, but it keeps getting handed to me anyway. No extra pay, no benefits, just threats that if I don't do things they'll write me up. Same as everything else at this company.
Today, at the end of my shift, the HR person tried to volunteer me for overtime after nitpicking me over the dock scanning process. I stopped shortly after, noted my progress, handed it off to the day shift super, and walked out. I do not care what they have to say about it. At this point, I am at a level of frustration with this company that if they fired me tomorrow, I'd actually be happier knowing I didn't have to go back.
This is not a healthy workplace.
The standing joke for companies like this, is that if you can think of how to do something well, they'll do the opposite. Speedy makes this so true, it isn't funny, in fact it's dangerous. The warehouse itself is a broken mess, everything is manual and is often either broken or in horrible condition. There is no maintenance staff on site either, so things just break and stay broken. It's a wonder nobody has died or been severely injured yet. Last week, I watched my co-worker's forklift just drop the mast. The pins holding it on sheered off from the weight of a skid of product, because the lift was in bad need of maintenance for who knows how long. The real kicker here is they tried to blame him for it breaking. Everything is done by consequence, it's all reactive instead of pro-active, and it's always the fault of whoever happens to have their name associated with the moment something goes wrong. My best comparison for getting hired at Speedy is like, if you were a blind ant being trained by another blind ant, while trying to navigate a black widow's web.
The sooner I get a reply on one of my several applications elsewhere, the sooner I can escape that hell. But unfortunately, getting into anywhere else has proven difficult.