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Management is the biggest problem! The favoritism is absolutely crazy, they aren't willing to work with any newly hired employees, instead they find any way possible to screw employees around making them feel like they can never do as good as the people who have been with the company more then 7years or AKA the favorites. You get punished for the stupidest things like being 1 min late they will take one of your PEL days and also give you a discipline which goes on your record and effects pay raise and ability to move within the company no matter how hard you work on a daily basis and this makes it easy to terminate employment and creats a lot of sour employees. They are so unorganized you are expected to have work instructions that tell you how to do the job but 75% of the time there are non or the ones you have are so outdated they make no sense. You are punished as an employee for the company's lack of purchasing equipment from this day and age, you are forced to work overtime when their 40 year old machine cant spit out the amount of product they need. The team leaders and human resources are all one big happy family with management so you cannot go to anyone with any kind of issue or complaint and expect it to be kept confidential. It is a family owned company with no union for the workers, they will change rules in the employee hand book whenever they so please and however it will benefit them. I can go on and on but over all if you are looking for full time employment ha good luck! And if you are just looking for part time or temp work dont bother applying cause they will probably get rid of you in a month anyways because the team leader doesn't like you or if you are a young women you are now competition and you will never be liked.

This company is diametrically opposed to change. 

The old school practices of treating employees like a mere number, using nepotism to determine promotions, and flat out denying the need for a comprehensive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion plan has Napoleon stuck somewhere in the early 1980's.

I have never worked for a company that is more obsessed with hierarchy than Napoleon. The Org Chart is their bible. The sun rises and sets with Senior Leadership, however when it comes to the needs of the average operations Associate, they are usually told to go kick rocks - even though they are quite literally the people who keep the lights on.

During my time at Napoleon I was given absolutely no autonomy over my job. Every single project I worked on was scrutinized and micromanaged to death. I quickly lost interest in my position because I felt more like a secretary than an educated professional in my field.

The physical working environment of the plants and offices are an AODA nightmare. Stairs everywhere. No accessibility buttons for doors. 

A psychologically safe workplace this most definitely is not. No recognition of the diverse workforce within their doors. Zero mention of Pride Month, Black History Month, Indigenous History Month, International Women's Day, etc. Choosing to remain silent in the face of injustice is siding with the oppressor. And that is the side Napoleon chooses with every passing day.

This company has the audacity to constantly ask, "why can't we retain talent?". A massive trim of the fat from the top with replacements of fresh new minds who value people over profit would be a good place to start.

(I worked at the 214 Bayview establishment) If I had to some up my experience in one word, it would be Nepotism. The level NEPOTISM is crazy.


The team leaders will treat the fully employed associates way better than people on contract.

Your experience is dependent on a coin flip. 

Either you land on line 3 where your team leader is laid back and you get to do easy jobs 85% of the time and almost never have to go to NOX line, OR you get put with NOX line's team leader where everything is over 3x faster (I'm not exaggerating, NOX line is expected to make over 100 BBQ's everyday where as on line 3 making 18 BBQ's is a "good amount.") which is probably why the line 3's team leader is the complete opposite- being laid back and all because not that much is expected of him.


people CONSTANTLY talk trash behind each other's back, everybody whispers rumours to me about other people. e.g. "this guy is a cigarette-pirate," or "this person is an ^%$ hole" etc etc, humans will be humans I guess and you'll probably get that everywhere, t'is life.


If you are late at all for work (5min) they will in fact take an entire PEL day from you. (8hours)

You work your butt off just to never get told you are doing great work. If you fall behind because of a lazy team member too bad you are getting scrutiny for it too because hey ‘accountability’ matters. When bad workers are brought to managements attention, they will still hold on to those employees even if the work will always be horrible.  They will tell you they are taking people off of contacts and hiring them, but they don’t and they won’t. Benefits you do not get any when you are on contract, don’t let them fool you, that’s  where they like to keep you. Work-Life balance should matter right? Nope! They claim it does, but once it’s put to the test they fall short.  I feel bad for a lot of the long term employees because of the stories I have been told and also the situations I have seen. Terrible HR, Supervisors and Team Leads  that don’t care about the employees. 
The job was hard, but it was easy work and the workers were amazing. That’s about it.

I have never felt so unappreciated in a workplace. I was hired to work remotely and we were expected back in the office this year. There are numerous valid reasons why in my life I could not make this happen. 
I was one of the top-performing people on my team, I was working 12-14 hour days, I was working on many projects that were beyond my job description (for the same wage as others who didn't have these extra responsibilities) and when I brought forward my concerns I was completely dismissed by everybody. 

Wolf Steels' salary is embarrassingly too low for the workload they expect from you. That being said, it doesn't appear upper management who approve the salaries are even aware of how much their customer-facing employees really do.

If you don't mind over-working while getting underpaid and having upper management and HR dismiss you entirely, go for it! 

Stay clear of this place at all costs. Turnover almost daily no regard for people they will write you up for anything and everything. They will let people go with no notice at all even if you show up each day and give it all you got.  More work will keep getting piled on they will add more tasks that you never signed up for.   Company only cares about their bottom line and nothing else you are absolutely expendable and in the end you really do feel like nothing but a number. When something is done wrong it's the end of the world when your doing good there is no praise whatsoever.  People are referred to by their clock number not the person's name.  Just go here at your own risk, do not make trust anyone in there and document everything you say and when you said it and who was there when you said it because you can bet they are doing the same thing.

It never fails to astonish when a company that promotes "HEART" as their core values, also lacks a SOUL.
There was never a concrete form of training, to familiarize new hires with the work they'd actually be doing. 
Management is very disillusioned to the amount of volume that comes through calls. On any given day, I was made to feel like the amount of extra work I put in was never enough and towards the end of my time here, I was put in a role with no support for myself, or the other in the same role.
I've spent the last 17 years of my life in various jobs and retail positions and this has by far, been the most unprofessional, toxic and unanimously unacceptable work environment I've experienced so far. 
But hey, don't their BBQs look nice and shiny?

The workplace in general was improving on cleanliness and efficiency so I will give them credit for that, but with improvements should be an overall review of how effective the long time staffers are with supporting and implementing changes to overall better people's experience. There was a lot of resistance and general negativity when it came to changes that were put in place for the safety of the staff. Rules and procedures were ignored because they felt they knew better and there was little to no enforcement from the management teams. 

Work life balance was good, but the shift hours need to be adjusted to follow the bus schedules better, if you can't leave in time because there's a line up at the clock you miss your last ride home. 

Management was friendly and supportive, and caring while pushing to be as efficient as they could. 


A typical day for me at Napoleon, would be getting to work, getting changed and having an assembly team meeting. After all of that, we would all get divided up to go to different lines. This would mean getting to do different types of assembly everday. We got to work only 4 days a week, doing ten hour shifts.

I learned alot from this workplace, including how to use a BBQ, and how to assemble it from scratch. This was very interesting also, because I got to use some pretty cool machinery. 

The hardest part of the job, would have been the physically demanding hours. 

The best part of the job would definitely have been getting to meet such amazing friends.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There are great people that work here. Unfortunately they just don’t have the power to change a toxic culture

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not being rewarded based on your experience, knowledge, and capabilities. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic. There is a lot of favouritism. Those who work the hardest are likely to be taken advantage of to compensate for the  favourites who will be rewarded and promoted past you with half your skill and ability

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and overworked. Imagine a department of equals, all with the same job title, but you do 90 plus % of the work during the day

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Assembler 9 salaries reported	$21.45 per hour
Material handler 3 salaries reported	$23.25 per hour
Machine operator 3 salaries reported	$23.25 per hour
Finisher 1 salary reported	$23.25 per hour
Shipper/receiver 9 salaries reported	$23.79 per hour

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