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Depending on the department, it'll change how your day generally goes. If you're a loader then you'll arrive at an ever changing time, fluctuating by up to two hours during any given day. Then, if receiving isn't completed during the night you'll be made to wait, and try to scramble because the docks are already being filled with product you still have to organize yourself to fit in the trailer, and that's if a trailer is even there to start loading while you scramble to get receiving out of the way so your stuff doesn't get mixed in.

That's right, you have to make it fit yourself, and in some cases that is a literal impossibility because the people who organize that mess overfill a trailer, so then you get the joy of arguing with your supervisors that it can't fit, only for them to recount the load, and eventually agree that it can't fit.

Then, assuming all of that aligns, and you finally get it down to enough pallets to fit, and you're blessed with a working trailer, yes they regularly have breakdowns because they don't maintain their equipment, then you can load. If your product is there. That happens a lot too, did I forget that part? You can wait up to four hours for product you need to load in a truck, sometimes getting product that is critical to continue loading after the scheduled departure time, making the load late. 

This in turn has management yelling at you why a load isn't complete when you're still waiting on product, all the while product for the next truck is arriving already due to the delays in departments due to understaffing causing wildly varying start and finish times.

In short, an unorganized mess by upper management that relies on everyone else to fix it while they wander away insisting that people simply don't want to work anymore. Not joking when that's the view upper management has, "Young people just don't want to work anymore.".

Now as to the workplace culture. Supervisors, coworkers, and even middle management are sympathetic to the insanity as they deal with it daily too, which is great because you can at least ramble with them. Past that? Don't expect a life.

That's really the only enjoyable part, is your coworkers know you're not joking when you say you're working 20+ hours two to three days a week, and 16+ every single day.

Takes management 7 days to write you up for something that they wont even talk to you about. That means if you make any mistakes and they catch them and correct them before you do you can easily have 3 or more write ups waiting for you at the end of a 7 day period for you to sign. It only takes 3 write ups for you to be fired. The environment isnt too bad til you upset someone which isnt hard to do. If someone decides they want to fight you even if you have done nothing wrong, both of you will lose your job, reporting someone threatening you does you no good because management will just suspend both you and the other person rather than deal with the problem. If you upset someone avoid areas with limited to no camera visibility. The bathrooms have no cameras and there is a spot near the perishable office with no camera visibility. The way things are done at affiliated foods gives them a high turnover rate and a bad reputation. The pay is pretty good, and the trainers are great and friendly and actually care about you as a person and want to see you succeed. Do not report an on the job injury even if it is in no way your fault, you WILL recieve a major write up if you do.

Typical day clock in at 11:30-12:15 latest I learned how to operate my form but not operate at legitimate time to qualify management never had me in one task anyways trying to find ice cream or lost pallet preventing me from getting pallets to raise my percentage to get qualifying rate if your liked your shown the ropes and how to easily get your call outs to go through without the radio saying repeat command and so on and so forth the hardest part is working around the pickers and having your pallets checked in in a timely manner where you can complete the job and to home for the day instead you have to wait till all the pallets are checked in and by the time all the pallets are checked in is hectic because all the pickers are picking and you trying to load the shelves and aisle so they can pick efficiently but we fall behind because of the checkers most enjoyable part is when you have free reign of the floor stress free without the pickers in the way stalling or honking trying to make you drop your load or pallet to hurt someone

What is the best part of working at the company?
Co workers, work together as a team.  Never feel alone during challenges.  Getting to know customers one on one face to face. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Company requires you to insist services to potential customers.  Even if a potential customer tells you not to come back they will call if they need service you are still required to force yourself upon those potentials.  Company vehicle was in description but one was not available.  Car allowance was not enough for the miles and wear and tear on vehicle.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Team oriented, everyone worked together to achieve goals.  Also able to communicate with one another to ease stress levels.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Placing orders, visiting with customers to address their needs.  Traveling from one location to another.  Collecting payments for accounts, submitting all payments and building order guides  specific to each customer.  Analyzing and funding the correct product with best value for customers.

I worked for Affiliated Foods grocery store located at 5811 S Western St, Food for Less. The environment was not the typical grocery store. We received damage pallets from the warehouse and stocked the store with the product that was good. 
The had a licence to sell dry expired product. The hardest part of the job for me was working in the freezer. The freezer was cold and  and it was alot of work. The bins came with alot of frozen goods we had to go through and price to put out to be sold. I also stocked ordered items as well. The job was heavy and cold but I did like the postion. I actually asked for the job postion when it came open. 
The workplace consist of all kinds of workers from young to old. The management was fun and did care about their employees. The most enjoyable part of working there was meeting new people and the 20% discount we received. The produce dept was top selling dept. The vegetables and fruit were always cheaper than the normal grocery store. Our prices were lower than the average store, which helped people that were on a budget or just loved the hit and miss sales we had.

Great place to work, the pulling 100% is a little impracticle because you have to learn a large number of stacking techniques and your pallet wont always stack pretty or perfect, also they set the job times too short on certain jobs and the forklift stockers tend to get ln the way frequently. (it may take much longer than 3 months like they claim to pull 100%), but dont worry about pulling 100%, just worry about learning how to stack. They will give you a 3$ raise for pulling 100% but its very physically demanding if you dont know the stacking techniques, ive seen experts unable to pull 100 because they are simply too tired before, but if you memorize the stacks then its much easier to reach your target goal every day. Either way its going to take some hustle, so if you want to wor here i also recommend hitting the gym for a few months and getting in better shape.

A typical day at work means coming in early in the morning and getting started as quick as you can. The day consists of stacking cases on pallets to fill orders, then wrapping the pallet(s) and label it to prep it for shipping at the dock. I learned working hard and doing extra tasks can hep you move up the best and get good relations with your supervisors. The other order selectors and forklift drivers will usually stay on top of their work but others like to stop and talk, so to stay busy is best. It's a tough job but if it was easy everybody would work here. The most enjoyable part is going to lunch, the feeling after 5 minutes of clocking out, and the paycheck. If you take care of the company they'll take care of you.

So i just started at Affiliatedin HBC you come in at 7:30 and finish about 4 or 5 or until work is finished????? they start you at $8.75 :( in the hbc dept. until you pull your 100% after the first pay period or 30 days... then 9.50 after the next 30 days then 11.51 after you pull 112% after the last 30 days which i thought that affiliated would pay well ..... guess not then after 90 days i was told one could make top pay at 11.51..... this is in hair beauty and cosmetics dept. steel toe boots are required!!! we shall see where this goes as i will get that 11.51 regardless!! dress code is  anything goes from tights to sweats shorts tees whatever as long as you wear those steel toe shoes.... they do have positions open within the company you still have to apply and win them over if your doing well there is a position for candy selector which starts at 11.25 and could go up on the same scale up to 14-15$$$... only time will tell here

What I did daily is pull two pellets of orders that I received from my telecom headset, wrapped them and tagged them.  Then I would drop them off at the designated location ready to be loaded and delivered.

Working here helped me to learn about organization and and time management. 

I met many different people working here.  It was a 1M square foot warehouse and on a daily basis I worked on average with 85 to 90 people in our division (perishable, consisting of produce and dairy).  Occasionally we would have to help freezer division when they were shorthanded.  Because I worked at a temperature of 35 degrees and lower daily, this was difficult and I stood a chance of constantly getting ill because of this.  

My pay started at $15 an hour and I left at $17.50 hr.  The pay was good, but the work environment was terrible.  Very bad communication with management.

Management and hours are horrible here.  They could care less about you all they care about is production.  They will work you from 7am to 5 am the next day and expect you to be back that same day at 9 am.   They want you to go rest for 3-4 hours and then come back and do it all over again.  I worked there for about two years and it was decent until they started sending out people to the cold department because the cold department always needed help since they couldn’t keep anyone.  They kept doing it until people started leaving and now all departments are bad. I would not recommend working here unless you really need a job.   It’s a good opportunity if your a felon since they don’t drug test or check peoples backgrounds at all. 

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