Working at Airgas in Henderson, CO: 1 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Henderson, CO Area

"After working for Airgas for a couple of years as a production operator, the employee turnover continues to be high and for good reasons. They say that they want to reduce turnover but the management continues to do the same things that push people out the door. The management treats you like a number and that is all. They preach safety but it is simply them paying lip-service. The pace that you are expected to work at is not safe. Working with broken equipment is a fact of life here, which is unsafe and lowers production numbers. The training is abysmal and they expect you to be hitting high numbers almost immediately. You are forced to cut corners and not do it the right way because if you do, your numbers will be too low which will result in a reprimand. They panic when the FDA comes in for an audit because they realize that the employees are not doing things the right way. If the FDA knew the truth, they would shut the facility down. Pencil-whipping paperwork is commonplace and a necessity, especially in a certain area. They aren’t concerned with quality but only care about quantity at the expense of employee safety and well-being. We work short-staffed regularly because employees keep quitting. But we are still expected to get everything done in eight hours even though we are short-staffed by two or three people. They expect us to get more done with fewer people and not work past eight hours. They scold people and talk to them like lazy children when the shift goes past eight hours. Their egos are too big to see why employee retention is so poor. Everybody has a breaking point and this place will break most people but the amount of time that it takes varies depending upon the person. On a positive note, the teamwork is one good aspect. The majority of us are so miserable that we stick together and help each other to get through the daily struggle."