3M reviews

In my 32 years about 7 of it was hell for me and most of us do to very unforgiving management. But after the plant did a plant wide survey, union and non union, 240 surveys were handed in and "ALL" surveys were VERY negative, 3M st Paul was shocked by the survey and the work got back to us that it was the worst survey they ever received. But! I give them credit 3M(st paul) within one year all five plant leadership team were gone, two fired three other moved to other plants. I also give credit to the worker's both union and nonunion for standing up to them, that is what got me in trouble,I was always a few years ahead in my opinion of management and they did not like it. So i paid for that when we had the bad managers. When I left 5 months ago the management was ok, no bad eggs. There are not many cons because when you get hired you know what your in for has far as over time and other things that bother some employee's. BUT THE ONE CON I CAN'T LEAVE OUT, IS THERE IS NO PENSION, THEY STOPPED IT TEN YEARS AGO. THEY DO HAVE 401K AND A LITTLE EXTRA MATCH ON SAVINGS FOR new hires. So if you could find a job with a pension and a 401k and same pay,go for it. 3M doesn't make any promises when it comes to money.

Way, way, way too much overtime. I've been with this company for 15 years, but since 3M bought us about 3 years ago, everything has gone downhill. We work so much OT that the quality of what we make is dreadful. How can it be otherwise when employees are walking around like zombies? We get out of bed, come to work, go home and back to bed and then repeat it all the next day. There is no time for anything else in life. The average employee means nothing to management and I guess the customers don't mean anything to them either if they're willing to lower the quality of our merchandise this much.