I am a 58 year old black male. I began working for Dillen Plastic on January 07, 2016. I was wrongly (DNR) Do Not Return/Dismissed from my employment with the company on October 12, 2016 at no fault of my own. I requested to pick up a day on my rest day in the Branding Department (D) Shift. The Spartan Staffing HR (Robert L. Ehrhart II) added me to the schedule for Friday, September 16, 2016. My regular assigned position is the CO-EX Department (C) Shift. My Foreman/Manager (Glenn) is great and my fellow workers are great and we all work hard together for the company. On Friday, September 16, 2016, I showed up on time per my request to work in the Branding Department. The white Foreman (Nolan Jones) assigned everyone to a machine except me (MG) and a young white male. While waiting to be assigned to a machine we had a short conversation were he told me that this was his first night working for Dillen and had come from the Bull-Pen. After about (15) fifteen minutes Foreman (Nolan Jones) returned and choice the white male to work on the printing side of Branding and he (Nolan Jones) told me "I was not needed and to go home". I then informed him that I was on the roster to work Branding. He (Nolan Jones) didn't like that I questioned him and walked off. Keep in mind that I had worked all parts of the Branding Department numerous time in my (9) nine months of employment. After about (10) ten minutes a white female floor manager came and told me that (NJ) said that the Thermo Department needed a person and the Retail Department needed a person. Please note the white male that (Nolan Jones) chose was not included in the choices even though I had worked the printing side before. I told the white female that I will take the first direction that the white Foreman (Nolan Jones) had given me which was "to go home" and I did. I had work both of those Departments before and I was not able to complete the shift without help from others which caused them extra anxiety. I have chosen not to work those Departments since because of that. The Spartan Staffing Handbook states: "At times you may be asked if you're interested in work that is different from what you requested. It is up to you (myself/MG) to decide to accept or decline the assignment. Please do not accept any assignment unless you are capable of performing the job and can work for the entire duration of the assignment". If the white Foreman (Nolan Jones) didn't want me to work in his department ever again, that's fine. But to lie and said I walked off the job on my own accord is shameful and racist. Especially when he told me "to go home". Dillen even fired Spartan Staffing On-Site Manager (Robert L. Ehrhart II) for standing up for me. All the managers are white and most of them have no problem in showing their disdain and racist attitude toward non-whites. Now here I am, a 58 year old black male having to seek new employment because of lies. My wife is disable and I am the only bread winner for my family. This is shame especially when my foreman/manger (Glenn) in the CO-EX Department (C) Shift was going to hire me as a regular permeant employee. Marlon Grayer read more

I worked for Dillen Products in 2019. As many of the other companies in the area have done, they quickly released me from my position when the impact(s) of my disabilities became apparent. Of course, there were a few excuses used in the process. Perhaps it comes from having grown up with members of the armed forces on both sides of my family. However, this place showed itself as having a complete lack of leadership and no desire to do anything more than use people for what they could. read more

This place really deserves no stars for several reasons. One of the reasons is when you apply for a job there, it has to be through a temp agency and nobody ever gets hired full time except for the maintenance technicians and supervisors. The second reason is the quality of certain parts that the supervisors say are passable even though most people would say throw it out and then when you do pass certain things that would be considered OK, they'll say your sending bad stuff. Just make up your mind already about what parts are good and which ones are bad. The third reason they deserve no stars was last year when there was still the $2 per hour attendance bonus, I called off only once while I was there and it was for a funeral and they took away my attendance bonus that week. Seriously, its not like I called off just to not show up that day. That really made me hate the dump even more. Also, they need to organize the parts better in the repack building because when you switch from task 1 to task 2, you'll be sweeping for 10 minutes because the supervisor has to find the items for the next job and most of the time the parts aren't even where the papers say its at. Here's a suggestion, how about you have the hangers in one aisle, trays in the second aisle, and pots in the next one. Also, when the 90 day probation ended, I was still just working through the temp agency and when I called Kelly Service and asked why I still wasn't full time, their excuse was you only get hired full time if there is an opening through Dillen which there never really is. In early 2015, it went under new ownership and all they did was change the design of the signs and cut everyone's pay to $9 hour. The best thing that ever happened was when I quit there and got a job somewhere else and then they called me a few weeks after I left and said we have $10 hour wages now like they really think I am going to come back. Please do yourself a favor and do not apply for a job here unless your really desperate for a job and nobody else wants to hire you. read more