electrician

administrator

Don-and-Low-Ltd

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some genuinely nice folk to work with in a very challenging and morale draining environment

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of resources.
Some places are "out of sight out of mind" and you are easily forgotten about.
Expectations are way too high for the manpower available and the wages.
Some people make constant mistakes that effect your job but they are NEVER picked up for it.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The transport office at Broadcroft is actually a great place to work, "family" and "team" is banded around a lot these days but it definitely fits here. 

The rest of the company is the polar opposite however, people either can't wait to throw you under the bus or simply don't care about you or your personal circumstances.

Upper management need a long hard look at themselves and maybe a bit of honesty and introspection wouldn't go a miss. Experienced people are leaving every week and still, they fail to react or change things. 

Morale is low and confidence in the company is rock bottom. This could be sorted quickly with a bit of humility. But it isn't.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
In transport, no two days are the same and forward planning is nearly impossible in most cases due to the way the company works. There's usually plenty of problems needing tackled early doors and these problems evolve over the hours as the stress levels increase.

Job security is decent. Work tends to go unappreciated. Salary has been getting worse as years go on. Shifts are understaffed and new hires are few and far between. Far more paperwork than a machine Operator should have, they've been claiming they want to paperless for over 10 years and have actually introduced MORE paperwork as time goes on. Accomplishments are generally ignored and mistakes are never forgotten. Even some of the management recognise there are issues in the way things are run but are either too apathetic to do anything or just don't see the point in saying anything.

Overall most of the floor staff are friendly and willing to help each other out. But management seem to have an air of arrogance around them.

Promotions are generally few and far between and will generally come down to who you know as opposed to what you can do.

A typical day at work consists of looking after 3 rows of 8 machines, when the machines break down, a flashing light appears to show you which machines are not running, you have to work as quickly as you can because the machines are timed how long there running and how long each one of them are off, you need to get the problem fixed and get the machine running as quickly as possible....if they are off for too long the management come down on you like a tonne of bricks. if all the machines are run ning you have to patrol each row and make sure all workspaces are clean and tidy and hazard free....I also work 12 hour shifts in very hot temperatures, when all is said and done I enjoy my work but am desperate for a chance of a career offshore.

I used to work at Don n low for 10ish years before leaving 2003.i worked both finishing and beaming dept. Pay back then was decent but I was young and for a continental shift pattern it was in reality pretty rubbish. HR and management are clueless and bullies and offer no incentive or opportunity to progress. Shift leaders are worse and I bet the same sad faces are still there doing same mediocre jobs.stay away unless your brain dead and have no desire to progress in life... And omg those sad workers who woop woop about getting 20/30/40 year service awards... How sad when they been doing same job for that long!!!... My advise and end it before that place ends you!!!

The work is very hot and the management literally don't care about those below them, you are very replaceable here. The days off are good and money is mediocre. Very cliquey here. The company spends money on stuff that is losing them loads yet don't spend money to improve workplace. Minimum care to employees to get by attitude. Old way of thinking by most staff and management

Yes you get a lot of days off but you can't choose a single day off or holiday

You will only advance here if you are mates with the manager even if you are the best skilled person for the role

Management don’t seem to have a clue what they’re doing.   Constant changes which puts stress onto their operators.   The shifts are dreadful especially for the pay you get,  different departments get paid more than others which I find ridiculous.   No air-con which makes it absolutely torture on a hot summers day and just get told to get on with it.   The toilets are disgusting with signs saying ‘don’t wipe your number 2  on the walls’.    The operators all b*tch amongst one another it’s literally like being back at school.     Overall not a nice work environment,   do not recommend whatsoever. 

My job at don and lows is to look after a set of 24 machines, these machines constantly break down and i am responsible for gewtting them back on in the quickest time possible. All the times the machines are stopped is logged so you are constantly working as quick as you can, although it is a tough job i enjoy the daily challenge of trying to better myself but i dont see any advancement in the position so i am looking for work elsewhere.

Not the place it was even 2 years ago nevermind longer. It's been hard going with long hours and management trying to get more out of the employees for less rather than taking on more staff. Wages are not as attractive as they once were. I believe in the saying 'never bite the hand' but I've earned every penny.  Atmosphere is not good .Sure, there are still many good people there but many that believed that they deserve better treatment/incentives and have left for something better.  

Rubbish and unhealthy place to work. Most people including most of the men gossip like women. Nobody listens to the weaving department at all. Management think we are all moronic and like being pushed around and treated like trash. Union..... Lmao what a joke (anybody part of it or used to be you know who you are) We also got half a percent pay raise recently..........  yaaaaay NOT, absolute insult. 

Company has taken a nose dive in recent years, unbelievable company that absolutely don't care about the staff and also run machine far faster than intended meaning they constantly break down and the answer is always to, just make it work, just get it going, they always gloss over problems rather than actually fixing things

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