Pros: Relax, the job is not so tough to do. Work.

Cons: It is hard to progress in terms of career progression.

Pros: Some of your coworkers are lovely people that provide positive camaraderie, advice/training, and assistance when needed.

Cons: Training instructors tell you one thing; leads on the floor tell you the opposite. I am convinced that most things are being done wrong or not up to standards here, and they wonder why they have quality issues. You will absolutely be told by leadership to do things the wrong way. If you work on the manufacturing floor, you are treated like half a person. If you are a contractor on the manufacturing floor, you are treated like less than a person. You will be sent home at a moment's notice, constantly get hours cut, and won't get paid while your non-contractor coworkers get a paid day off to party for meeting safety goals that you contributed to. To put things in perspective, Applied has about 40-50% contractors on the floor, probably to more easily dodge cutting full-time labor at a moment's notice. Scheduling is so inconsistent. Want to plan ahead for appointments or family matters? Forget about that. If you are lucky, you will get the schedule for the week on the Friday of the previous week (MAYBE). You will get worked to death for weeks at the end of the quarter just so supervisors get their production bonuses, then have no work to do after due to lack of production planning, meaning you don't get paid. A lot of favoritism. Supervisor, team lead, and focal will absolutely try to lecture you or one of your coworkers for doing something "wrong" while completely ignoring their favorites doing the exact same thing wrong. You can definitely tell that most of the leadership/management are in the positions they are in because they just happened to be around during the pandemic. Apparently, the company had a lot of trouble keeping people around during that time, so they just hired whoever and put people with little experience in the company into leadership positions. Too big to fail? After all I have seen, I am absolutely dumbfounded on how this company has become so large and successful.

Pros: It's almost higher than market price.

Cons: No other allowances for employees on the day shift.