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Rush2112 wrote:
Had a few beers with a rep from SR at Patrick's Pub in Gilford. He's based out of Texas but was up on business at the location in NH. Sounded like a great place to work, if only I wasn't a full time student.
He must be a subcontractor because Ruger has no plants or offices in Taxes. They have a plant in Newport,NH and one in Prescott, AZ. Now Newport is a crap hole of a town with a major major drug problem. Ruger has a plant in Newport NH consisting of three buildings. Building A is the office in the front and in the back is Pine Tree castings and across the brook and over the bridge is building C that's the main plant where everything is made. Then back across the brook next to building A is building B and that's the wood working building where they make all the stocks and grips and other wood products for the firearms.
Working for Rugers is a whole other story your record has to be clean as a bell and you have to pass background and drug testing. If you break so much as one rule they fire you on the spot. When and if you get a job there your given photo ID name badge with a color code for your department. Now a red badge is like a VIP badge and you can go into any part of the building you want. You are searched when entering the building and when leaving( even your lunch box) If you set off the metal detector you are set through again and then you are searched with a hand detector. If you argue with security you are reported and lose your job.
You are given a parking permit that must be displayed in your car windshield at all times. If you cant see the numbers you are given a warning by security that's left on your windshield if you get so many warnings you are given a parking ticket and may lose your parking privileges to park on company property. If you do park on company land and you have a rifle or bow in your car on a gun rack and security sees it while making it's rounds they stand by your car and call it in while another guard takes you to the parking lot to remove the rifle or bow from eye sight.
They use to have a smoking room for you to smoke in but they just made the whole place a smoke free work place. They use to allow you to smoke out in front of the building but now your not allowed to smoke on company land. I hear they are now letting you smoke on company land again because people where taking to long on break. They no longer give out bonuses and you can no longer get one FREE firearm a year. But you still get a discount after a year of working for them. You get a great big turkey on thanksgiving and Christmas.
I know all this because I use to work as a security guard at the Newport,NH plant. Ruger subcontracts it's security out to Allied Barton security and that's who I worked for. That's how I know so much about it on top of the fact that I know a lot of people who have worked/still work for Ruger as well as pine tree castings. Sorry I forgot about Southport, CT
