Pros
- Schedule is 12 hour shifts, alternating between four and three days a week.
- Great resume builder job.
- The people are nice; I met one of my best friend there, and the tank operators were all very friendly with me.
Kontras
- Coworkers/managers/leaders largely apathetic, no initiative shown, lack of caring.
- Laziness was always rewarded (could be a pro for some people), "Why would I do the work for that? I won't be punished" was verbatim what many people said, and was a common mindset.
- Most managers were afraid of confrontation, breeding complacency among the team.
- You are often expected to work in unsafe conditions. OSHA was contacted four different times during my two year tenure.
- Communication from managers is very well known to be inefficient at best, negligent at worse.
- Noncompetitive pay. You could make just as much being a mover.
- Team's chemistry knowledge was suboptimal; many were clueless, leaving many projects to more experienced people (I felt taken advantage of). This was not the team's fault at all, but a problem with training and job requirements (which goes back to noncompetitive pay).
- Mountains of bureaucracy and empty promises.
- They only care if you quit.