I've tried and tried to get indeed to accept my review of Barnhart Crane but it keeps getting flagged and taken down. I feel like I have a responsibility to put this out somewhere so that nobody makes the mistake I do and works for them if they don't have to. Management doesn't care about you unless they know you outside of work. That or you are entertaining in the office and they find you amusing. Hard work isn't recognized. Talking with the field guys they say there is like a dark cloud that encompasses the office and yard of Barnhart. Pretty much every branch is like this from my research There is a mean girl type of click I'll call it the good ole boys because this is a group of all little boys. I played what I thought was a good team player role, a very vital role that at the time felt important. But now that I think about it they were just using me. They use hourly employee like mules and there is no clear path of moving up. If you are going into a role pretty much anywhere at Barnhart make sure you negotiate your wage and time off then because there is no room for advancement. You are stuck. You will be sold an idea that you will make more with more responsibility. That is not the case. Good workers that are good as gold in my eyes are looked down on and talked about. Never paid any more money. People that actually care about the company and work hard, there are no incentives. Being an amazing a guy that comes in early and leaves late does not have value. I worked so hard here some days my body was physically sore all weekend into the next week. But if you are not Union Hourly or if you don't have a good salary I really don't know why you would work there. Salary guys work 50 hours a week and never really get any lower hours. They get 2 weeks PTO maximum, and usually have responsibilities that have them needing to answer the phone while taking said PTO. Union guys talk a lot about leaving and going somewhere better. Non union hourly guys are the bottom of the barrel. I've witnessed fights, like literal grown men having a bitch fit. I've seen multiple guys quit for better opportunities. I've seen the cancerous idiot who will remain nameless but is kept on because of tenor or being decent at keeping machinery running. I've been close to the room while people bullshit for hours on end and talk shit about everybody and anyone who isn't in that direct room. They "give" money away like a non profit however if you are smart enough to really follow the money most of that is going to lobbying politicians. They aren't really even helping the community anywhere around where they are based out of. I've seen all the money they take from hard working people that they are employing. They then turn around and give it away to make good on taxes so they don't have to pay as much. I'm going to tell you the good stuff now just in case you NEED a job, I wouldn't take it but the good things are the work is steady, you learn a lot and figure out a lot about yourself. There is always something to do. You will learn to work well with a lot of different types of people. You will learn how to set up and signal a crane and a construction sight. Signal and run all sorts of construction machinery. I will say one thing that irritated me more than anything, even more than the 2 days of PTO I was shelled out after being there 15 months. Is that its a culture that rewards the wrong people. Its a place where the problematic, mean, and combative people can continue to work there. Its a place where the guys who stand around in the dispatch office and shoot the breeze can be allowed to do that for hours, I'm not joking hours a week, and not get any repercussions whatsoever. If you want to make your way in a 'Christian" Company go to chick fil a, Fuck this place, I'll never work there or anywhere like it again