Airgas Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"IT department does not trust anyone and does not provide any good tools to be successful. All ideas to improve the process and data quality are never received with open mind."

"Working directly with Hospitals is such a great opportunity to see how hospitals work behind the scenes. You will get an opportunity to work at your own pace, work on your communication skills with management at the site you work at, and communicate effectively with your peers."

"I worked with Airgas for almost 3 years. In those three years I learned a lot about the welding industry. Management was a bit too concerned with their own personal well being and not that of the companies."

"The atmosphere at Airgas is unlike any other I’ve been around. The focus on the success of the employees is a major factor that drew me in in the first place. When you have a problem, there is ALWAYS someone available to help you solve it, whether it’s you having an issue closing a sale, or one of your customers having a difficult time understanding a solution you have to offer, someone with the answer is always within grasp."

"Good for maintaining a stable life."

"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."

"I work for an amazing manager, but I am in a location where there are other management in the same office, and 2 particular managers are allowed to verbally abuse employees and HR protects them. Corporate should look into the departments with heavy turnover and see that it's the manager that is at fault and deal with her. She should have never been offered upper management position. She doesn't know how to treat people."

"This is one of the worst top heavy driven companies to work for. Beware of upper management. They will lie, chest, mislead, threaten, micromanage, raise prices without notice and fire anyone they don't like. If you soesk up - pack your bags. You will be discharged with little notice. They have no core values. The customer isn't important. Their paycheck and bonus is all that matters. Airgas is s sinking ship. Run, run, run."

"As manager, I ran the day to day operations of my branch/sales. I did all the reports that were required by the company, drove sales everyday, increased sales and gained new customers. I wore many hats as manager. I've done many jobs from warehouseman, driver, salesman, and many other things. I learned that no matter how much you improved, increased profits, worked hard, workedholidays, lose vacation time, take no sick days, work while injured, be accident free, rarely gets raises, and be a part of the company for over 15 years, you can be fired anyway. I also learned not to sign a noncompete form, because Airgas will not allow you to work for their competition. Airgas will fight the fact you signed a noncompete contract even though you did not leave on your own. Management was terrible. They were more worried about how much their bonus was going to be for the year, rather than making sound business decisions. This goes all the way to the President of my division. They micromanaged every branch and worried about the little things too often. Most upper management should not be in the positions they hold. Branch managers for the most part were great. Most do not work very hard and are lazy. Come into work at 10 am and leave by 1 pm. These are the individuals who get promoted. I really appreciated the workers I managed. They work hard and do what was needed to get the job done. Unfortunately, Airgas terminates the best employees and promotes the worst (If they promote from within). The hardest part of the job is being short staffed. We had to work holidays (except Christmas) because of our customer base and lack of employees. Airgas bases the amount of employees by the volume you have not, volume and miles driven to service your customers. Having to work for unqualified upper management was very difficult to deal with. The most enjoyable part of working for Airgas was taking a vacation, going home after a 15 hour day, and getting a paycheck."

"Very poor morale and upper management is not at all supportive of a positive work environment. Sales force works countless hours fixing mistakes one after another. It is a horrible place to work."