Full disclosure: this review is only reflecting the culture at the McDonough plant. It seems to be much better at other locations.
Want to work at a place where nearly every associate is disgruntled at something or someone? Well, Ecolab McDonough is the place for you! Everyone is either overworked (12 hour shifts all week) or hasn’t received full time pay in weeks due to production slowing to a crawl on later shifts. On top of that, there is a divide between associates and management that is larger than it ever has been. Management used to reward associates for hard work and dedication, but now associates get nothing while management get catering and other perks every week. They have even taken managers meetings at “fun” locations off site. When they do have meetings onsite, they are to attempt to blame associates for the failures of the location and take no responsibility for themselves and the lax management style. Of course, the associates in question are never at these meetings. The accusers lie to the accused, but fortunately information is passed along regularly by people who have moved up from associate level to a higher level.
Speaking of moving up to a higher lever, Ecolab prides itself on being a company that allows its employees to use their skills and talents to progress up the company ladder. People used to be able to progress at this facility as well, but due to shady upper management and hr practices, this has slowed to a crawl. Have a person with 15 years experience and all the necessary qualifications and a degree express interest in moving up in his or her role? Management deliberately posts the role for LDPs and soon a brand new college graduate appears! Or, when qualified internal applicants are interested management finds reason to hold them back and insert their own friends from other companies into upper level roles. Often, these people don’t have the qualifications that the internal applicants have.
In conclusion, unless you want to be stuck in your current role, lied to by management, and either overworked or underworked, stay away from McDonough. This place is about to be run to the ground when many of its dedicated employees leave.
