Working at Genco in Fort Worth, TX: 6 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Fort Worth, TX Area

"The Good.. Genco provides a job. I am a temporary contract worker. I'm on and off with Genco. I come whenever I need quick money. The Bad... Genco utilizes temporary staff to fill a significant portion of its workforce. There are many temps who have worked for the company for several years. With no raises or benefits. The majority of Genco's workforce at the Fort Worth, Texas location are immigrants. Many can not speak any English. They are overwhelmingly Asian and African. Many have little to no education. But they are friendly. It seems that around 80% of the workers are chinese or korean. I'm very suspicious of this high percentage and I wonder where Genco places its job advertisements. These Asians are permanent workers. The black employees are mostly all temps. We make $8.50 an hour. I was talking to a fellow coworker, who was also a temp and from Nigeria and he said he'd been with the company for eight years straight and he was still at $8.50 an hour. This is the majority of temps. The temp offices are on site. The agency has to give their 'approval' for you to even apply directly at the company. The warehouse is the most depressing place ever. It's always dark or dim in there. You have to take off your shoes (even if you have no socks) and place them up on a table when you are entering and leaving. You're warned. There are guards everywhere. You have to be 'escorted' out the building if you need to leave for any reason other than your lunch or break. The turnover rate is very high. It's always been that way. The facility in Fort Worth is in Far North Fort Worth and its a massive facility about 40 miles out from... well, from everything. Very scary driving out there at night because again its so far out. No houses. No apartments. No people. Just open road and then Genco. So people are having to drive 40 miles each way for jobs that pay $8.50 and this also leads to high turnover. I feel sorry for the supervisors. None of them out there seem very happy."

"Worked for Genco and found it to be an overall good company."

"Great company and great people."

"Overall, a good place to work in. Nice environment in which the people come first. Needs to improve for staff personnel the vision / focus on individual growth for setting targets on individual development."

"I've worked for Genco for nearly 5 years, great people, great IT leadership, but not much growth opportunities."

"Enjoyable until I got layed off"

What do you like about working at Genco?

"The people at the company were some of the best and brightest that I've ever met."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Nothing different from interviewing with any other company. Just dress well and be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Genco?

"Sometimes there is a lack of willingness to be realistic with forecast and financial planning."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay attention to people who have a realistic view of where the company is and the trends that you pay them to watch."