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Good Intentions - Safety Manager WestRock Employee Review

4.0
15 May 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Westrock, now called Smurfit Westrock has many locations throughout the USA, Canada and Mexico. There are three divisions; Mills, Consumer Packaging and Corrugated. I work in the Corrugated division in a box plant. The site is around 120 total people. The site leadership wants to be successful and see a path forward on how to be successful, but there are limitations from budget and supply and demand. Pros - Good pay for the area where I live for the role. They take safety as a top value in making sure everyone goes home the same way they came into work.

Cons

Budget, Demand and Supply can either make or break a business, and the site went through a rough patch recently and it was difficult to overcome those obstacles. If people are not willing to step up and make changes, then it puts pressure on those that are willing and able to make changes and they get burn out and leave or have health issues causing them to be gone for excessive amounts of time. Communcation at the production level can be improved, and upper management are making improvements, but it takes time.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
29 May 2025
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Pros

Great pay, easy work, plenty of hours.

Cons

Some of the people who work in the warehouses are lazy and they have the so called manager wrapped around their finger, So you end up doing their job and yours. The manager won’t do anything because he is just as lazy as the warehouse guy. And is scared of the consequences if he actually does his job and disciplines the sorry ———‘s So the real workers are the only ones that suffer. That very manager told me two weeks before becoming the manager over the shipping department that he didn’t think he would become the manager because he had already told the other managers that we have to stop over working our real workers to cover up for our non workers. I told him that night he would be the same way as soon as he got the position, And if he did that I would be the first to tell him. Point being: If you are a lazy piece of trash and have no self respect or work ethics this is the place for you. Bad thing is that you can not get in touch with anyone that has any interest in cleaning up (this particular terminal ) of a very good company.

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