Q&A With RR Donnelley Employees

Stingy. 10 days for first 5 years. 15 days after 5 years. I don't imagine I'll be here 25 years to hit 20 weeks of vacation time.

Kind of stingy. You get 2 weeks, after 5 years you get an extra week. Then after 20 years later you get one more week. No sick days unless required by local or state law.

decent

Planed time or person time insurance

Same as any large corporate company

Large platform of services

I'm salaried exempt, so I can supplement my insufficient and undervalued salary with overtime pay. Of course, that means I'm missing out on my home life and my work/life balance suffers. Been way out of whack for years, but that's the only way I can keep my bills paid.

Polite and sincere

Be able to fog a mirror, and they'll keep you around for quite a while. Skills seem to be irrelevant, based on my interactions with shop floor and supv mgr contacts.

More about their services

Culture and "leadership" are terrible. Management makes uninformed and poorly thought out decisions that result in more messes than they solve, only to follow on with layers upon layers of "band aid" solutions, rather than reverting from, or scrapping bad ideas entirely. They're beholden to a decision, no matter how bad, poorly thought out, or improperly trained and executed. I wish I could tell my younger self not to work here.

2-3 days

I heard back the next business day.

Yes

Yes to both.

Only in off hours/weekends. Not allowed to work from home during business hours.

Depends upon the boss. Some work 3 days a week from home others 2 and some only a day.

Medical dental vision 401k vacation and holiday

Not very good ones. Whatever they offer you get in writing - if they say 401k match, make sure it's not *at discretion of mgmt. If they say bonuses, make sure it's not *depending on the success of all business units whose success over which you have no control. Highball your salary. Don't take their first #

Suit and tie

Professional attire

Acting like it's still 2008 and there's a recession.

1990s

CEO is out of touch with the people, and closed-minded when it comes to innovation. Runs every business unit as if it were a plant, when many divisions are nowhere near that type of scenario. Restructure raises so that they truly reward those who contribute, and not just 1% to everyone, whether a superstar or utterly mediocre. Stop outsourcing benefits to lowest bidder. They're terrible and just keep getting worse. Stop buying companies that have one marginally useful thing (that was probably only relevant 10 years ago), and focus on modernizing and innovating from within.

Not an adventurous or modern thinker. Makes money for shareholders, but doesn't value the backs upon whose work he profits.

Yearly-1% across the board no matter how great or mediocre you are. Doesn't keep up with: Cost of Living, benefits cost increases. It's more of a pay cut every year. No announcement. It just sort of shows up on your first paycheck in April.

1% increase only - yearly, regardless of performance.

Adequate. People don't work harder than they have to.

decent

It's definitely the coworkers.

My coworkers

Clunky and infrequent.

none

Could be worse.

OK

Not difficult at all, unless you want to go out to dinner or drinks. They don't pay enough to afford that very often.

not at all

Show you can follow directions and not question them

Demonstrate you can be obedient to all processes and not question.

There are none.

none

White guys at the top, everyone else is a bunch of diverse cogs.

Fairly diverse

"Purchasing Power" program that enables you to buy things you can't afford and don't need at outrageous interest rates. So horrible that they know their workforce is underpaid, so they send out these exploitative mailers as "benefits" that further entrap workers in a cycle of debt and desperation.

Less than most other companies.

15-20% under market rates

lower than industry average

too many meetings