Austin Industries Reviews

Pros

Great coworkers and ability to work overtime

Cons

Management talks down to employees, unapproachable and rude.

Advice to Management

Treat employees with dignity and kindness. Be available and actually listen.

Pros

Nothing to add here at all.

Cons

- This place is highly political. In order to do well you have to drink the kool-aid. You will only excel if you brown-nose and are in the cliques. - Communication is very poor. - Managers frequently embarrass/belittle their direct reports. - There’s nothing special about working here. The people are so lazy and ignorant. - There’s a lot of turnover in various departments. - They set you up to fail. - People will...

Pros

Co-workers are the best. We look out for each other.

Cons

Management is ignorant, unethical, and deceitful. Insurance costs are insane!! Esop is a joke. You are a worker bee, nothing more.

Pros

Management routinely removed from site by the client.

Cons

Management only exists to put out fires when they arise. They also ignore requests for PPE/ Tools needed( even when hiring) for their own benefit be it financial or political.AESOP program looks good on paper but try withdrawing money from it before you retire or die. Wake up people! They’re keeping the money in that statement they send you every year! Benefits are trumped up to be better than they are and they have increased...

Advice to Management

Stop sending site managers who have no understanding of the trades the people they are overseeing work in but are merely politicians protecting their own interests i.e. :AESOP.

Pros

ESOP can leave you financially set if you manage to retire from the company. They are actively trying to catch up with technology.

Cons

To many chiefs eating overhead not enough going to infrastructure that produces positive ROI.

Advice to Management

Lean out your management and hire more self directed people and let them actually be employee owners and run the company they are apart of. Perhaps have ESOP shares tied to voting rights on bigger decisions in the company similar to public traded companies.

Pros

The daily tasks involve primarily the loading and unloading of liquid hazardous chemicals into and off of cargo trailers and rail cars Pay is $20 hourly and no less, for nearly every new hire regardless of your background. Any age over 21 up to 60 years old has a good chance of getting hired. There is a high amount of turnover for good reason (explained below)!!! Safety is paramount to everything we do. Never a joking...

Cons

The biggest concern is safety. People have died in this position and others will die in the future. However, truck drivers die on the job, so there are inherent dangers in most positions, I suppose. The schedule requires long hours and mostly outside in all types of weather! Each schedule work periods are long 12 hour days and six days straight... (not each week, explained below). The schedule is 6/3 days and 6/3 nights.......

Advice to Management

Management is friendly, however not proactive with regard to tasks which are KNOWN to need attention in the future. It seems nobody takes ownership... neither improvement of equipment, nor maintaining it... until it breaks! Then there are delays for the repairs. It could and should be so much better with just a little hard work and planning.

Pros

Good work environment and plenty of work

Cons

A lot of outage work 12hrs 7days a week

Pros

None at all, except quitting time

Cons

All are cons, literally