ASCO Florham Park's engineering department culture of backstabbing, bias, low pay, poor raises and fear of outsourcing.
If you want to work in an engineering department that does mostly reverse engineering of competitor products and is built on a culture of unfairness and backstabbing, this is the place for you.
ASCO is run by white men, few employees are female or minorities.
Emerson Electric CEO is the king of outsourcing. Just look it up and see for yourself.
Low level, non-management employees who propose solutions are ignored. The same solutions introduced by management is hailed as a great idea by the many kiss ups and implemented immediately. A culture of mini dictatorships prevail. Lower level employees are systematically silenced.
Monthly "communication" meetings are mandatory for all groups. These consist of a manager speaking down to HIS employees. It's a one way monologue, designed to invoke the ever present pecking order which hangs over every low level employee like a French guillotine.
Most major engineering decisions come from a former engineering VP in France who dislikes Americans in general.
Morale has steadily declined since the buyout from a family owned business to Emerson Electric in the 1980's. Long term employees have the lowest morale, following years of disrespect, broken promises, small raises and corporate bullying.
Engineering department is patrolled by the VP and Director to find people who look like they're not working. Solid performance is never enough, and discipline is sent down through manager and supervisor to the "guilty" emplo
ProsCompany and department parties are held at great places.
I work there as a temp for close to 8 months. The facility was nice and easy to navigate. Both the supervisor and IB3s there were friendly and helpful though arrogant at times but they are very professional ppl and are always willing to lend a hand. They had me work on the line doing hipot and calibration as well as making tag and assembling parts to units.
It was a fun thorough job, the problem is its also require a lot of accurate memorization and procedure look-up as there are many different units or product that required different parts to be assemble. The only problem I had while working there was the lack of team effort in some of the co-workers, though I say 40% of the employees there are helpful, the rest are either arrogant or just plain too sarcastic. It's really hard to work with the arrogant or sarcastic ones but whenever I get the chance to work with the more helpful ones, it really made my day.
The work hours are great, I work on a ten hour shift with three breaks in between each and with two more stretch breaks in between those too. In all, there were really five breaks altogether, quite a lot if you ask me and the paid was generously good too about $13 per hour. Fortunately my time there wasn't without problem. There are way too many foreigners working there, usually it's hard to tell whether they are criticizing you or talking trash about you. Other than the arrogant co-workers, I say the job there was great. I really have fun working there, the paid w
ProsGreat management, good breaks, superb paid, enjoyable works, hours are straight on.
ConsCo-workers shows lack of team spirits, parking are limited.
Work-life balance
Shifts are 10 hours long. You get a total of 3 breaks. The first one is 15 minutes, second is lunch (30 minutes), and last is 10 minutes.
Overtime is mandatory. Normal work week is Monday thru Thursday, 10 hour shifts. Some Fridays and/or Saturdays are worked.
You start getting vacation days after 90 days of being employed. You also get emergency vacation days (3 a year, you can only use one a month). Insurance starts on the first day of each month.
Pay increases every 3 months. If your scheduled work week is less than 40 hours any given week, it's called a "shared work week". Meaning you get unemployment for the hours that week was short. The company handles that so you don't have to. For instance occasionally you will only work 3 days (30 hours).
Paid holidays starts after 30 days.
Pay & benefits
They offer really good medical insurance at decent rates. They will pay for you prescription glasses if you need them once a year. All you have to do is get the eye exam.
Job security and advancement
After being employed for 90 days in good standing you can bid on different jobs or shift. During this time you can get training to operate fork lifts and such.
They will pay for you to go to school for something that you would be doing there at Emerson. Such as weld tech.
Management
Some of the lines are all or mostly men employees. The team leader on my line was also a man and there was only one other woman working our line. The team leader would constantly
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Customer Service Representative | Florence, KY | Sep 29, 2013
DON'T WORK HERE-IT'S A TRUE NIGHTMARE!
I would not wish this place on my worst enemy. They ship jobs over to Manila, regularly. They are always trying to downsize. There is no room for advancement, unless you are a VP, which, are all white men- so if you're a woman or minority, you're pretty much screwed. Management is a complete joke. We had a manager who was finally moved out of our department, but only after someone threatened to sue to company because of his unethical, unprofessional and bizarre behavior. The whole department went to HR to complain and nothing was done. HR is another joke at this place; they only way you can get anything resolved is if you go to the corporate HR or above that, because the normal HR people are against the employees, always on the managers' sides even when unethical behavior is happening. Even if you're being harassed, nothing will be done unless someone threatens to sue to company. In that case, the harassing manager will be moved to another department to manage yet more people. There is also this attendance system, where you get a certain number of attendance points per year, and no matter what the circumstances, you will get a point for being late or absent, even being 15 seconds late. REGARDLESS of the circumstances, you could even be in a car wreck, and they wouldn't care, you would still get an attendance point and possible fired. The management also plays favorites and gives points to only those who they don't like. No one listens to the employees' concerns, and all of t
ProsPay is ok, they offer yearly raises
ConsManagement, the way the company is run, the attendance system, corrupt Human Resources, this place puts very little importance on the employees, not very much PTO
Everyone wants to complain about problems but no one will do anything about them. If anyone speaks up, especially younger employees, they are waved off/ignored/given excuses about time and workload constraints etc. Even if your team thinks it’s a good idea, the boss usually stops it. Young employees are dismissed constantly. You learn to say nothing - no one wants to hear what you have to say. Toxic culture, no job security, you are just a number.
They hire new graduates with bachelor degrees and no experience over promoting anyone with years of experience because of the degree. The graduates are trained and get real world experience and then leave for a higher paying job. Leaving their workload to those with years of experience and not giving them any compensation or second glance for promotion because they lack the formal degree. It’s a good way to lose tribal knowledge.
Cafeteria food is terrible. Expired, undercooked (pink chicken) and overcooked constantly.
Everyone knows everyone in some way so do not talk bad about (or complain about) anyone. They will find out.
Senior employees delay retirement. Middle management is being eliminated slowly and are left with micromanaging and helping their employees with their same work. The title is just fluff and means you work more hours.
Only way to move “up” is to make lateral moves either within or outside of the company. Job-hopping is essential for advancement.
“Flex hours” means nothing. You have to be in the office from 9-3
ProsDress for the day - if you don’t see anyone important you can wear jeans
ConsCafeteria, focus on education level, against collaboration to fix problems - just want to complain about them
First, I worked at a division within Emerson. It was a great place for me to get started. They gave me the opportunity to make decisions on my own and let me face the consequences of those decisions. I learned a myriad of things from how to manage my time, how to deal with different customers and employees, and how to deal with inter department push back, and much more.
Management was not always on top of what was actually going on. Often there would be a new policy passed down with little thought to the outcome and benefits of this. For example, say they wanted all suppliers on a pull system, but some suppliers are operating very well not on pull and placing them on pull would have greatly increased inventory and costs, even though there was no initial issue with this supplier. It would not matter, because management said so, you need to get said item on pull.
The workplace culture was a little outdated, it had a very old school vibe which led to many young people opting to leave after not too long. However, this did not bother me much, I mostly just do my job and do not worry too much about things like that.
The hardest part of the job was easily getting all departments on board with something. There was so much coordinating that needed to be handled across departments for every little decision that was made, this often led to roadblocks when trying implement new processes.
The most enjoyable part was the freedom that I had to make my own choices. I was able
ProsExperience
ConsPay
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Shipping and Receiving Clerk | Lexington, TN | Jan 11, 2016
Was a good place to work. Not so much now. Had planned on retiring from Emerson.
In shipping and receiving there's really no "typical" day. I load and unload trucks as they come in. It operates on a 1st come 1st serve platform. But i like the challenge.
I learned how to dock a trailer with a semi-truck (day cab) on this job. And I learned basic first-aid and CPR when I was asked to be a First Responder.
Management was good and seemed to really care about employees when I first started with the company. But it has changed hands through the years and they only seem to value the bottom line and the almighty dollar now. Since NAFTA was put in place a great many of our jobs have been outsourced to our "sister" plant in Reynosa Mexico. General morale on the floor is bad because we hear, in the Communications meetings, how well Emerson is doing ...in Mexico. Knowing it's because they have half our jobs now. And whenever the customer has a quality issue with their work, it gets sent back to us to fix. The input of "the Process Experts" (as the plant manager likes to call us peons on the floor) is ignored. We constantly feel as though we're being set up to fail. It's really quite sad because the people on the floor getting their hands dirty are hard working, dedicated and actually care about producing a quality product. The company is now up for sale.
My co-workers are awesome! It's rare to find someone on the floor there that is not more than willing to help when and where it is needed. Even outside their team or department.
Hardest part of the job i
ProsClose to home. Onsite cafeteria. Pays well. Great co-workers.
Week management (Specially executive and VP level)
I worked at Emerson for about 3 years. My direct manager ( VP level) was a terrible and unpredictable person. He did a lot of verbal and psychological harassment on me and he didn’t respect the people and specially me and a few other new hires. There were a lot of politics in the company and it seems that it is a routine in the company ( at least in Sidney location) that they verbally harass people in the meetings and make some employees uncomfortable. The don’t care about the real work that much and they only care about who knows who and who has a relationship with who.
Executive and VP level Management team is very weak and confused and they don’t have any vision for the future. They don’t have enough technical experience in their past works to be able to communicate effectively with their technical and engineering team. They don’t let people to talk in the meetings and just want to have monologue and impose their authority. The environment is like army and military services!
Also the diversity is not appreciated at all in the company and many International employee including myself are being hurt verbally and by their inappropriate attitude.
Also very weak communication between management and the direct reports and you usually need to guess what to do and what not to do and eventually bring blamed with your actions.
There are some good colleagues in the company who are usually in the technical level, not in the managerial level and many of them didn’t have any chance to
ProsMaybe you find some good technical colleagues
ConsWeak Executive and VP level management, bad culture, low pay and not international friendly
Overall, the best thing I can say about Emerson is that's it's a great name to have on your resume, if you plan on residing in the Engineering/Manufacturing/Technology field. As for the company itself, the benefits are decent, but are mostly headlined by the strong Profit Sharing match. Salaries are mostly average or below. Depending on your job, there are a decent amount of advancement opportunities, but can be tough to come by when things are going well at the company. That said, it is a very volatile environment. After around a decade of service, I've witnessed somewhere between 7-10 layoffs, a significant portion of which came this year; they weren't prepared to handle what this year dished out. But the cycles of ramping up and slowing down are the norm almost every year, and retention has suffered because of it.
The CEO seems a bit tone def, interjecting politics relating to Covid during company updates. Plenty of news articles about the bloated spending, but when it's time to cut costs, lay people off, or don't backfill their positions when they leave, and let others pickup the slack. Management is standard large corporation management; say the right things, but follow through is a coin-flip.
Overall, the organization has transitioned from a place where everyone had friends and family that were co-workers, to a very sterile, stereotypical large corporation, with high turnover. I enjoy my role, and the people I directly work with, but things are so different from group
Social status is dominant in work place on night shift. Day shift strongly recommended.
As a member of a team ruled by social status rather than hard it was extremely difficult for myself and others to do the job efficiently. The social elite were able to do anything without any consequences. Those of us who were there to work instead of be popular and social got in trouble if we did something as simple as get a drink of water or use the restroom. the social elites on the other hand were allowed to leave their post for well over an hour with absolutely no consequences. Night shift runs a broken system that benefits the lazy and harms the hard working. Work conditions are less than ideal for anyone there to work and not be the center of attention. In contrast, day shift is the complete opposite from night shift. work conditions on day shift are better than ideal. When applying for this company in Lebanon Missouri the best thing one can do is request day shift if they want any kind of advancement opportunity. in the entire time i was there i only got one pay raise, but watched people who came in long after myself getting paid $2 and $3 more an hour than myself just because the were brought into the social elite "club". This job will depress any who are there expecting it to be run properly and the way literally any other job is run. Advancement through anything other than ones own hard work and determination is nothing more than a broken system for lazy people to thrive and hard working people to suffer.
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Questions And Answers about Emerson
On average, how many hours do you work a day at Emerson?
Asked Sep 26, 2016
9 hours Monday through Friday and 8 on Saturday
Answered Nov 25, 2021
10 hours 5-6 days a week every week
Answered Mar 2, 2018
How do you feel about going to work each day at Emerson?
Asked Oct 23, 2016
Most days I look forward to work
Answered Aug 9, 2018
Hated it, hated going to this company. Managers and supervsior , need more people skills.
Answered Nov 27, 2017
What benefits does Emerson offer?
Asked Sep 7, 2016
Full benifits
Answered Jul 7, 2018
Gym Membership
401K Match
Answered Jun 15, 2018
How long do you have to work for emerson before you get health insurance?
Asked Jan 31, 2017
After you complete your 90 days
Answered Nov 25, 2021
Right away
Answered Nov 1, 2017
What is Emerson sick leave policy? How many sick days do you get per year?
Asked Sep 21, 2016
It is a point system.
Answered Jun 14, 2018
Typically, if you get sick you are able to leave. You get a week of sick time with compensated pay each year.
