Weatherford's communication is horrible! As machinist you are kept in the dark on everything. If you are looking for advancement, LOOK elsewhere, because you will find none here! Once they see you are a good machinist you will retire there. The only way to advance in the shop, is to kiss butt or be a female with a cute one! Rules are constantly being changed to benefit whoever is in charge that day. We do have a bunch of safety meetings , but they don't mean anything, when production is suffering for safety's sake, safety is out the window and everyone turns a blind eye toward it. Management talks about fatigue as a safety hazard all the time and today we were informed that it will be mandatory for the machinist to work 7 days a week for the better part of the next month! They are hiring short service employees right out of high school with no experience to run very dangerous and expensive equipment! This is an accident waiting to happen. We have no maintenance to speak of on the machines and they expect us to work magic with crappy tooling, when you can find any! Inspection is a joke and they have as many indirect labor people (secratarys) employed there as direct labor (machinist) . There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. You will never hear of any good things you do for management, but they have no problem informing you of the bad. It doesn't matter how much you do,it is never good enough! Our facility is nothing more than a glorified training facility for young guys, they come get a good machining education from very knowledgable experienced machinist and then leave after a year or two when Weatherford will not pay them what they are worth. Supervisors are not the brightest bulbs in the pack either, most of the older hands know more than both of them put together.
