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United States Steel

A typical day at work for me was sitting in a massive single probe forklift writing down coil numbers and placing them on trucks for delivery. They were 12 hr days and my typical drive to work was an hour and fifteen minutes. I learned that when working for a large company, no one cares for the employees well-being. Pressure is placed on middle management(white hats) to sign people off on pieces of machinery far before they are ready and capable. That's only the beginning of it. My co-workers were fine except for the fact that you could see the unhappiness of being there on their faces and you didn't really have to much contact with your co-workers. I also got the opportunity to work amongst the salary workers for approximately 3 months to help accounts payable and receiving stay current. While I was in the offices, on a daily basis I would hear at least one different person, sometimes multiple people, speak badly about working there, how they are treated, how much work they have to bring home with them just to stay somewhat on top of things. they are not on top of things. They have thousands of dollars of machinery just sitting out on the ground rusting, not in use. They attack the union employees on everything. You are in constant fear of losing your job. You are made to feel like it is a jail while taking part in the new hire orientation. I learned a huge lesson and that is that you can't always go to where the money is and expect to be happy expecially when an extra 2 and a half hours is added on to your 12 hr shift because of the drive home. No life, No happiness, No time to spend the money you make.

With this employer I was required to work 12 hour rotating shifts. During a typical shift I would read the logs from the previous shift and do the various equipment inspections for the shift taking readings from high pressure steam turbines and other systems including HVAC, water, compressed air, oxygen, nitrogen and fuel. Additionally, we would work in teams for gas testing for confined space, safety lockouts for repairs. The role of a utilities tech is to ensure the flow of various energy systems to keep steel production going and find solutions to problems when systems break down and to lockout energy systems so that maintenance can be performed.
Management at this company is under a great deal of pressure to perform and there was often a lot of tension between the salaried management and the union employees. Additionally, there were often contract negotiation issues between the company and the union.
I did not fit in with my coworkers as the workforce as in the midst of turn over and a lot of retirements. I was the youngest person on the team.
The most difficult part of the job was dealing with the industrial dust and dirt, feeling jet-lagged from the rotating shift work as well as dealing with interpersonal politics.
The best part of this job was job stability between contracts, the health and medical benefits, and the rate of pay.

I cannot not say enough bad things about this company. The only trades people that should consider this place are people with no experience or no other option. This company has no interest in investing in their employees. Do not expect any help with advancement. Getting them to sign off on your experience time will be like pulling teeth. The draconian actions of the company as a whole will quickly poison your attititude and it will take years to go away. The place is freezing in the winter, sweltering in the summer and absolutly polluted every day.

I did enjoy my job day to day job, but the company made the work enviroment unbearable. The pay definatly does not compensate for amount of pollution you encounter on a day to day basis.

I am a former employee from the plant in nanticoke ontario. I would not recommend this place to anyone. They preach safety but if it interferes with production it goes right out the window and god forbid if you hurt yourself because you will be to blame regardless of the circumstances. The environment is terrible and the amount of toxins you inhale daily is not worth the money. They supply you with little or no tools to do your job. They rip you off every pay and force you to fight for what's yours. Management has little idea what they are doing. The union does not represent there employees. All in all I'd say unless your starving in the street I would run as far away from this place as you can.

Typical day is to prepare the pay sheet for the present day's bills, investments, credits and debits from bank statements. Figure out how much to transfer to cover bills. Transfer funds. Enter investments. pay bills, enter all days' events in Black Book ledger to balance to zero, deliver and order records storage requests for boxes and HR files daily. Reconcile Records Storage monthly invoices
Create and revise forms and replace into public database.
Co-workers were the best part of the job as well as my manager . The hardest part of the job was to keep a great attitude with this company as we were treated like children. They are un-organized to say the very least as a whole.

I have been a qualified strand operator for 20 years. I have held a permanent position as a strand operator for about 9 years. I work 12 hour shifts, My day consists of working around and monitoring the strand pendant and the mould area supervising ladle changes and other events as well as directing other members of the workforce when required. The hardest part of the job is trying to run a fine line between pacing the shop to what is happening with and in the mould at the strand. Dealing with argon management and mould level control is key to making a good product and continuity of the process .

Great place to work from day to day, but when contracts are being negotiated, this company plays DIRTY!.    They refuse to pay their employees the holiday pay they are entitled to (in contravention of Ontario labour laws).      They refuse to negotiate, and say "This is our offer, take it or leave it".  They also went out of their way to try to stop locked-out employees from getting Unemployment Insurance.

Would not recommend this company unless you are looking for short-term employment.

I was on the coke ovens as an operator. I enjoyed my job very much. US Steel is very safety minded and we went many safety meetings which I learnt alot at them. I enjoyed working with all my foremans and management and never had a problem with any of them. My co workers were a lot of fun to work with. My shifts were 12hr contential shifts which means every other weekend. Getting use to that was hard but was worth it. All in all I enjoyed my 8 yrs there. 

Although the wages are good, they have not got a good reputation and therefore have difficulty hiring and keeping skill trades. Since their takeover of Stelco they have locked out Lake Erie, Hamilton, and again Lake Erie. As you can see Job security sucks. This is a place that you are only a clock number and your reward for doing a good job or going above and beyond is your pay cheque. There is lots of room for improvement and hopefully in the near future they will see this and become a world class operation.

A typical day would be to review the required shipments and insure that they arrived and if b=not contact freight supplier to discuss why and when they would be made. I reported daily to upper management on the supply chain developments. This position was a stand alone position no coworkers. The hardest part of the job was the lack of information flow coming out of Head office in Pittsburgh, I would work in the dark for the most part.

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