company - Mechanical EIT Smartrend Manufacturing Group Employee Review

The staff were very friendly.

I'll preface by saying that I have never once in my life felt the need to take time out of my day to write a review of a company I've worked for. That is until now; to warn any potential new hire of the abhorrent behaviour and practices at this company. I will stick to facts alone to not pass along my own personal bias. The turnover rate is incredibly high. Within several months, 18 office staff have come and gone out of roughly 45 +\- office personnel primarily due to dismissal but a few left on their own accord. Approximately 40% turnover in just the office during my time with the company. The quickest turnover I've witnessed was within 4 hours of starting and being let go. I cannot speak for production but rest assured, you'll be told that turnover has stabilized as previously it was even more frequent from what "senior" employees have said. Most tenures at the company are less than 2 years. Hence my "senior" remark in quotations. That's if you make it past 1 year without being wrongfully dismissed; having nothing to do with your performance. Leaving staff to retrain new hires constantly instead of improving their processes. Additionally causing staff to take on extra workloads and to do work outside the scope of their role and/or experience to cover off gaps in operations. Which in turn causes further delays, inefficiencies, worker burnout and increased risk in human error of which you will absolutely be held accountable for. The owners will readily doctor and change control documents to pass external audits, without a second thought. Which is completely unethical and illegal falsification of documents and should be investigated further. Trust me when I say staff have no option not to comply without fear of being reprimanded. If this is how the owners conduct business around an individual that is not in their inner circle at the company, I can only imagine the lengths they'll go to and things that are said behind closed doors. You will absolutely be pressured by the owners to do work on your personal time. In fact it was so prevalent and expected that most office employees would work through their breaks every day, do overtime without pay and would feel obligated to do so to keep up with the ever present and ever changing demands of leadership. On more than 1 occasion I was told "to do the research or work at home in the evening" and not on company time. Which again, is illegal unpaid labour and should be investigated. unfortunately this is the norm here therefore you should absolutely expect to do unpaid work in any office job within this company if you accept their offer. Want to get promoted and work your way up in the company? Expect to be on the clock constantly. Evenings, weekends, early morning, holidays. If the owners are up working, so should you, is the unspoken expectation you'll have looming over your shoulder to get that promotion. The comments from all the other negative reviews over the years are all still relevant today. The favouritism to certain employees, the fake excellent 5 star reviews all left on the same date, the toxic narcissistic, micromanagement from the owners, the hidden discrimination, the pettiness from the VP due to her raging ego, and the overall awful morale of their employees are all still ongoing issues for this company. If I were an investor I would reconsider partnering with them. A message to the many good employees keeping this company functioning: You were some of the most innovative, resourceful, tenacious, and intelligent people I've worked with in my career. You absolutely deserve better. To the owners: pay your staff all their unpaid labour and stop pointing fingers at everyone else for the issues in your company. Take a good hard look in the mirror and know that the toxic and fearful company culture that plagues SMG is directly caused by your leadership. And is not for one second the fault of the staff you repeatedly chew up and spit back out.

Nothing nice to say here

Please listen to the negative reviews. The owners of this company are terrible people and its not worth the money they will offer. I've seen people lose there jobs on the spot for no reason. Avoid, avoid, avoid.