shipper/receiver

installer

senior software engineer

responsable assurance qualité

manœuvre

Media Resources Inc

As an assembler, the role is fairly straightforward and simple, not too much heavy lifting but there are plenty of other dangers (moving billboards around can get dangerous, will be in contact with lots of metal shavings, uncovered cables all over the place, sharp metal to be avoided, you'll likely hurt your shins a few times. Management is a joke, I've only heard from upper management once in months and that's when they were telling the team they wanted them to work on a holiday because of poor project scheduling, beyond that, they're ghosts that are only used as threats "don't talk/use your phone/etc or they might see you'll be fired" kinda stuff, won't make eye contact and have never seen one say hello to production staff..

Pros:
- Majority of coworkers are very easy to get along with.
- Can have 1 headphone in while working.
- nice schedule (Mon-Thurs/7:00-5:30)
- Food truck comes at every break/lunch with plenty of options
- Supervisor and team lead can be fairly easy going if you're a good worker (likewise you can expect to be treated poorly if you are not)
- Overtime available
- Provides gloves, facemasks, ear plugs, $100 boot allowance, health+dental, RRSP matching.

Cons:
- The harder you work, the harder they'll work you, and will continuously lie about giving raises to lure candidates and try to hold onto the few that do stay longer than a week. The most senior colleagues (2 people at only a few years, everyone else less than a year) are still making the same, if you're the best worker, you'll get a pat on the back and given all the harder tasks..
- Lots of dust and metal shards will get on you, careful with your eyes
- Very long days with breaks that make you feel like a dog (bell signals start and end of break)
- Other employees (office, QC, etc) get away with taking longer breaks or multiple breaks, however in the assembly team you will be hounded if your stray from the bells.
- entire QC department often speaking in their own language, and pushing work onto the assembly team.
- Poor environment, dusty, lack of airflow, no temperature control (cold in winter, hot in summer)
- No lunchroom available for production staff, instead there's a fridge, 2 dirty microwaves and a garbage can that rarely get emptied.. People eat in their cars or any random place they can find.

A typical day of work involved getting the daily work order assembling your crew and materials and leave the shop to complete work according to the work order. I learned a lot about signage and working with wood and steel. Took courses in first aid, forklift rope rescue and many other safety certification course. I worked with many different people most were pretty awesome and I'm glad to have met them. The hardest part about the job would have to be indefinite finish times with jobs sometime running into the next day. Things I enjoyed was meeting and training new people and being able to use my experience in rope access to complete work in tough to access locations like one the side of buildings

What is the best part of working at the company?
Professional team environment with several tasks to accomplish. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Weekend shifts are challenging due to length, pace yourself for 3 days at 12.5 hrs per shift.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Friendly, professional and open.


What is a typical day like for you at the company?
6:50 am punch-in, production meeting in the morning.   Info from morning meeting used to execute necessary tasks throughout the day.   Keep safety and cleanliness in mind.  Track work order documentation during the day to report before end of shift.  Maintain relationships with fellow workers,  keep it real.  7:30 pm check out.

Management has no unified plan for the business.  Each owner has their own priorities and they conflict, forcing those within the organization to "choose a side" just to get daily tasks completed.  It is expected that employees take and do work from home without being compensated.  Lay-offs are frequent and paygrade reductions take place as well.  If you are not related to or married to upper management, you have no future here.  If you are, you are untouchable.  Some senior members of the company are blatantly unprofessional and downright rude and/or cruel.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Four day work week feels right.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working really hard while the "entitled" workers chat and be lazy all day with no end in sight.The nepotism in this company gets in the way of any success in could have.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment is like high school only more poisonous.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Keep your head down,work at  a reasonable pace,and keep your opinions to yourself.Don't worry about anyone but yourself,teamwork is a fallacy here.

Took a low wage because I was looking for experience. Often found myself working multiple departments, which was alright learning everything and gaining experience. Ended up getting locked in a position I wasn't hired for.
Upper management has little or no communication, but pushes a lot of expectations on floor workers.
Floor team was great, co-workers were awesome to work with. Learned a lot from certain individuals.
Hardest part of the job was getting any direction from upper management.
Most enjoyable part of the job was learning various skills from my supervisor and co workers.

Nice environment. Or so I thought ... aggressive, dangerous shop environment, dirty bathrooms , filthy locker rooms , lots of drama and politics in the workplace .. on a regular 8 hour shift , they’ll expect you to work for longer and ask you to do so last minute .. poor management, not enough training and they expect you to work like a slave. 
The company promised that no one would lose their jobs when Covid first came along , then they laid off a few dozen employees and even let go of people who had been there for many years ... not a secure job environment 

Very easy company to work with and for. All the people make the effort to assist others in there areas of assignments. Very knowledgeable people for the tasks and work performed right from the top manager down to the general workers doing the job 

I was hired as a Red Seal Welder Fitter and also responsable for helping the company in any way they need me.
Worked full. Time and after partime.
Coworkers where nice, lead hand wanted me to stop working so he could suceed.
He will do sometimes good things for me but also will stab me on the back with the supervisor, so I got feed up and one day quit.
Do not need the headache.
Managment was excelent, as well the night supervisor.
Payment rates are as per aplicant experience

Media Maintenance owned by Media Resource International is located in Richmond BC. The company is a Union based company (DC38). The Union stands behind the company and not the workers. Management (son and dad) are not good people to work for. Son spends more time playing with his toys then running the company and dad thinks all the workers are lazy.

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