DZ Atlantic Group

[shovelheadred]

...You might need  to get a point of view from some of the Atlantic techs at Monticello, before you go to patting Atlantic's back.....

[LaFeet]

...You might need  to get a point of view from some of the Atlantic techs at Monticello, before you go to patting Atlantic's back.....

  I don't think so.  I am only expressing how well the company has treated me to date.   Individually I have had no problems, and at the sites I have worked for Atlantic there have been none either.  Can't talk about what someone else is experiencing without being there.  But thanks for the tip... I'll look into the Monticello conspiracy.

[RAD-GHOST]

Thanks Lafeet,

Glad to hear they're treating you right and I hope it continues.  I guess you can assign an OUCH to my posting, due to its directness, but the management team isn't reading anything their ears haven't already heard!  It seems apparent that the company believes it can exist and sustain itself with a small group of loyal assets, an excellent venue for a mom and pop operation, but not a formatable business plan for a serious staffing contender.  This may come as a surprise to some managers and recruiters, but the Technicians NOT working for you, are your prime recruiting interest.  Placement of an employee already committed to your company is assigning, not recruiting!     

One thing I left out from my prior posting, the inability to make decisions!  Calls to the house, chats in the parking lot and idle conversations in the hallway are meaningless, unless you have the authority to validate your conversations!  If you have to call Tweetle Dee and get back to me, you're wasting my time!

Lafeet, I also like working the Entergy system.  I also like working with the many Technicians who routinely staff their sites, lots of good quality people!

My Humble Opinion, RG





 

[Paladin]

Rad-ghost, your March 24 comments were right on target. Perfect! I'll vote for you. I especially liked the part about bait-and-switch tactics, shell games, disloved commitments, and blaming all on us when it goes south. We all know who those people are and who they work for. There's no need to name names. Not here anyway. There are lots of good recruiters out there and I'd rather spend my ink on praising them.

But, man you were right on!

[RAD-GHOST]

Thanks for the feed back Paladin and sorry for your distastefull experience's with the management team. 

Hopefully the parent company will enter the picture and refocus the Ego's!

Luck at You, RG

[Paladin]

My pleasure. Actually, my critique was of another company. Atlantic recruiters have the patience of JOB when it comes to me.  The "A" team is great. The "B" team has the ....

[nugent_oh]

I have only worked for them once but the way that John Edwards and the rest of the company treated me was fantastic! They went above and beyond normal to help me out. The other people would not have done near as much. Iwill work for Atlantic any time, any where.

[Mike McFarlin]

...You might need  to get a point of view from some of the Atlantic techs at Monticello, before you go to patting Atlantic's back.....

Hey Red, what are you trying to say?

[shovelheadred]

..Spankee....I said alot more, but it got deleted.....the brass out of their office was at Monticello this week,,,,,he made some promises..shook some hands...kissed some#$%^,,babies,,,,,,and now they are happy, until next outage,,,,,

[Nuclear NASCAR]

I can image. When ya coming home?

Have you noticed the PM feature of the site which allows you to hold personal off-topic conversations? 

[RAD-GHOST]

Now I am Impressed..... !

I am ecstatic to see the positive feedback for this company. 

Interesting how this thread was dead for so many months, with the many satisfied customers.

RG

[mach]

Now I am Impressed..... !

I am ecstatic to see the positive feedback for this company. 

Interesting how this thread was dead for so many months, with the many satisfied customers.

RG

HUH? I'm fighting like a beagled Tiger just to get my pay. Yes I did finish the contract. I finally got my last check from them (Only 2.5 weeks late). The fight continues for my per diem. I guess I have to make another call Tuesday. They give me the run around so much. This is the first time I did work for this company. Is this normal? My pay out, and in was ok. They also pay pretty low.

[LaFeet]

Mach,

I am sorry for your troubles..... I have worked for Atlantic and have had no problems (yet).   I do not understand what is going on with you.... were you at some location where the site coordiantor was all but useless??

[mach]

Mach,

I am sorry for your troubles..... I have worked for Atlantic and have had no problems (yet).   I do not understand what is going on with you.... were you at some location where the site coordiantor was all but useless??

Typical work environment, I think what happened is a big confusion, and the I&C guys are getting the short end of the stick. This organization is extremely unorganized. I won't work for them again unless they start paying going rates. To much other work going on to deal with this BS.

[sealboy]

How can you tell people to update their resume, when you and (name removed by moderator)  never have jobs or return phone calls unless you want that person to go somewhere they don't want to go. And then when that person gets there they don't have a job!!!! Thats pretty F### up.

[LaFeet]

How can you tell people to update their resume, when you and (name removed by moderator) never have jobs or return phone calls unless you want that person to go somewhere they don't want to go. And then when that person gets there they don't have a job!!!! Thats pretty F### up.

Is this in reference to someone's post or something that happened to you?

[RAD-GHOST]

Now that John has left the ranks of TAG, anybody know who's filling in?

RG

[Dream Tar Heel]

Yesterday was a busy day for most of the Atlantic techs at some plant "up north". Seems a "Rival" company called several of them, "interested" in finding our their availability for work in other parts of the country.

General Consensus in the break room today was they can be had, the "rival" just has to meet their needs.

Like exceed the pay rate they are currently enjoying, a "show up bonus" a "completion bonus" and remove some of them from "Double Secret Probation".

Most of the people up north working for the "other company" are only there because some other company didnt want them and now that their "good old boys" cant be in 3 places at the sametime, phone are ringing that are covered in dust.

Maybe Atlantic can throw a party this weekend for all their dedicated techs, who politely said "I'm committed at the moment". Maybe, just maybe........

[dosetek]

I think it amazing that this other company thinks people should not take care of their families or pay their bills to be "loyal to them" you call and call about jobs, work for them for years with an excellent job reputation and they dont care till they are short people. What happened to the days when the companies called you, because they wanted a good tech for their outages. Now you can't even get a returned call or email. Guess playing on the internet takes up too much time.  Those who stay up north  are now on a "da** list" you didnt jump when called. If you are not part of the  good ol boy group which is now calling the shots. then you are out. People are sent to jobs that aren't even returnees, and the plant wants returnees, but who cares they put in who they wanted and that person that the plant would rather have because of their quals and working experience is out of a check. I don't even want a posting from someone saying i am disgruntled so i must be a bad tech. NOT   If reporting to work everyday on time, never late, never calling in sick, and doing my job makes me a bad tech then I'm not the one with the problem. I will not compromise my work ethics to kiss ***, havent done it in 27 years won't now. I also think it is amazing that the statement has been made that Altantic is not a threat to this company, if not why are you trying to steal people those same people that you wouldn't even give the time of day before you needed them. Its ok if a person screws over Atlantic by jumping ship but you had better not do it to the other company. Please people where are our ethics. Oh sorry I forgot its not about how good you do your job, how much the plant wants you, or how much you need to feed your family its about the almighty dollar and not yours. I have heard too much from some really good techs about how they are being treated like crap and worked "loyal" for years and years. I also know for a fact that techs that were on preapproved returnee list were not even gonna be called because they needed to pay their bills and went to work for someone else earlier and bubba wanted to take care of someone else rather than the tech the plant wanted. So if you want to go back to this plant that wants you back you have to go somewhere else for us first, we want to control you life and livelyhood.  Someone is has dropped the ball, and I dont believe it was the techs. Guess this would be why others, myself included, have and are looking for permanent jobs in and out of this business, just aint worth the threats and stress anymore. Just my 2 cents worth.

[Rennhack]

You should have posted that on the Bartlett thread, the way most of your post reads is that you are pissed at "the other company".  I thought you were refering to Atlantic as 'the other company', because this is the atlantic thread.  Now people are gonna think that you hate atlantic.  They just can't get a break, even when people love them, it sounds like they hate them.

By the way, there are 25 outages this fall.  There will be 39 next spring, a record number since I have been keeping track (Spring 2004). 

[dosetek]

No i was following up the last post of how the other company "bartlett" as was previously discussed was trying to do people wrong working for Atlantic. Sorry the first time i really vent and post here, it is missunderstood. This is would be why i havent bothered before. Sorry to waste your space and time.

[shovelheadred]

.....Hey DOSETEK....dont sweat the small stuff...and its all small stuff,,,,we all make mistakes,,,this isnt a perfect world we live in,,,"IS IT".....GIVE THE BROTHER A BREAK,,,,,red

[atomicarcheologist]

No i was following up the last post of how the other company "bartlett" as was previously discussed was trying to do people wrong working for Atlantic. Sorry the first time i really vent and post here, it is missunderstood. This is would be why i havent bothered before. Sorry to waste your space and time.

You shouldn't be discouraged if some people misunderstand what you are saying.  There are times when I am tempted to pick up a bludgeon to direct interest to my point, exactly.  Sadly, it seldom works.  However, when it does, EUREKA hardly describes the emotion.

[Rennhack]

No i was following up the last post of how the other company "bartlett" as was previously discussed was trying to do people wrong working for Atlantic. Sorry the first time i really vent and post here, it is missunderstood. This is would be why i havent bothered before. Sorry to waste your space and time.

The previous posts were also very confusing to me.  People should just say what they mean, instead of 'the other' crap.  We allow people so say they hate bartlett, atlantic, even that they hate me and nukeworker...

We appreciate your posts, I just wanted to put my confused 2 cents worth in.

[Dream Tar Heel]

Okay, I'll type slowly so noone gets confused.

The Atlantic Group, or DZ Atlantic as they are called now. A company of 200,000 people, millions of $ in payroll weekly and new policies that we as contractors need to be aware of.

#1 No Direct Deposit

When you travel hundreds of miles from home, dont expect your direct deposit to be arranged by the time you get your 1st pay check. A company that big cant possibly be worried about getting you your money in a timely fashon. You people are scum if you "live check by check", or something like that was mentioned. It takes months to set up something like direct deposit, and get this; when you change to a new outage, all your old information is wiped out and you have to start all over (said the Pesident of Radiological Services, last week).

It is insane for a company like Atlantic to think people budget thier 1st paycheck of the fall season for expenses on the road and at home, insane I tell you.

#2 One Check (Pay & Per Diem combined)

Dont think you gonna keep one check and cash the other, for that fact dont think you gonna cash anything at Walmart ($1500 limit), cause it's all in one check. Now I guess thats a good thing if you have DIRECT DEPOSIT, and your just out of luck if you dont. But I guess now you just have to drive over to the company arranged check cashing bank, wherever it is and pay $5 to get your money.

#3 No Bank

Atlantic, having been on site here for a month, never had to forsight to arrange a bank for cashing checks, espically in light of it taking 6 months to set up the DIRECT DEPOSIT. Now how can it be expected that a huge comapny like DZ Atlantic to care if people hundreds of miles from home, with no DIRECT DEPOSIT cant cash their checks. Espically their 1st pay check of the fall season, why should they, these people got hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, they just travel to these outages for the casinos.

But have no fear, the President of DZ Atlantic Radiological services is in town to throw a party to kick off the outage, he will fix everything. He has money, he can cash his check. Supposedly, he spent all day Friday going bank to bank, and could not arrange for his multi-million dollar comapny to get the necessary credit account for the employees to cash their checks.

So, those people, who expected to get paid thier 1st money last thursday, got a piece of paper instead. A piece of paper they can do nothing with. The banks must have heard some old ARC people were running the company or something, that rubber bounces real high you know.

Obviously, this is not the Numanco of old. Sure some old Numanco people are running things, but it must be the wrong ones. Cause never with Numanco, heck never with Bartlett has my direct deposit failed to be in affect by the 1st pay check. Never have I seen perdiem & pay combinded in one. And there was always a bank, espically if you were gonna give people checks, espically if it takes 2 years to set up the DIRECT DEPOSIT.

Last week I heard certian people mention they read nuke worker, that they like to know whats really going on, listen to the heart beat of the techs. I hope the people of DZ who bought Atlantic read this also, espically if they find out one day they cant cash their pay check either.

I had no idea it was like this, and if one person reads this and rethinks their decision to work here or for Atlantic, well that is why I am writing. We as contractors, we got nothing but each other, good or bad, tall or short. We share information and evaluate it as it pertains to us. This is my 1st outage with Atlantic, and I cant say it's my last. But I can say, I am pissed off, and that doesnt happen very often for me.

Maybe this is a company problem, one so big they just dont care. Maybe this is geographical, if so I'm sure the returnee rate will be even less next time. Who knows what drives the problem, but there is a problem.

And it could very well be the next problem that puts everything in the rear view mirror.