laborer

production helper

operator

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food service associate

Associated Milk Producers Inc.

90% of the people working on the floor in the cheese department have negative personalities. Most have an axe to grind with themselves (self-hatred projected upon you), or hate the company, or both. It's an extremely hot environment with extremely high humidity, ESPECIALLY in the spring, summer months. Ask to physically go down in the cheese department before you accept the job. The "air conditioning" they provide cools 1% of the cheese production floor. A 12-hour schedule is great, but they provide you with less than 1 hour in breaks for those very physically demanding hours. You paid well for the hours because there are night and weekend differentials besides the base pay. Most of the time, you can work all the overtime you want because new employee turnover is almost instant. Usually, you have to spend the days you have off physically resting to recuperate from the work days. You get good health and dental benefits at a low cost. They do not contribute to your 401 (k) until after a waiting period of about a year. No short-term disability period till after a year.  Less than 2 weeks of pto in the 1st year. I've heard the whey department is another machine altogether and necessarily not for the better. If you are a tough cookie and don't mind working in an environment that will negatively impact your mind, body, and soul most days, apply today. 




If you have a family with younger kids this is not the place to work. Wanting to go to a sporting or school function is frowned upon. Needing to be home with a sick kid is frowned up. Benefits package is really not as great as they make it seem during orientation.  I've worked for a much smaller company that had much more affordable health care and the wait time to start it was 30 days versus 90 days. The employer match in 401K is less than the smaller company I worked for as well. If you ask for something to be provided to make your job more efficient or help with a job function the request is immediately shot down. Coming up with an idea to make a process work better is shot down because "we've always done it this way". If you have COVID symptoms you're required to get tested before you can go back to work. Not a big deal, right? If that test comes back negative you now have a an unexcused absence. It's a requirement to be tested but then you're punished if you're not sick. Big disappointments on many fronts with this company.

I worked for this company for almost 10 years doing everything in the plant from general labor to special skilled jobs. I left this position for a job at ConAgra Foods which had much better wages and benefits. However I should have stayed at this position. The pay is very good for the area, however the benefits are ridiculously over priced! An employee is required to take the health care weather you want it or not and you pay 30% of the premium! On the flip side to that, management is very stupid and knit picks at the employees, and you can get written up for just about anything. The wages are very good however they switched from weekly pay to biweekly pay which is stupid because the management can't get your paycheck right from a one week pay basis let alone a two week payroll. Co-works are about as dumb as they come, the company doesn't require a High School Diploma so with that said some co-workers can't even read! The hardest part of the job is cleaning the dryer and dealing with the hot summer. The schedule is a rotating one, 6 days on then 2 days off and you only get a weekend off every 5th and 6th weekend.

It's a factory job.  It can be hard if you make it hard or it can be easy if you make it easy. All depends on your attitude and willingness to work.  The compensation is decent not best but we are working on changing it and it's awesome for those who cant afford college diplomas.  Get paid over 20 bucks an hour straight out of high school should be every kids dream. Plus incentive pay to work night, being paid double on weekend overtime and double time for holidays is awesome.  There is drama there but let's face it there is drama everywhere. Company is willing to work with employees to make better work home life balance, but it's hard because of those not wanting change.  Paid time off is great if you get a 12 hour job because you can take 2 days off and be off for a week. Health care is amazing. Used over 280000 in one year and only paid out of pocket 5000. We get 2 paid breaks. A 20 min and a 10 min. And honestly if you work well enough you can get a few more 10 min breaks in there if needed. We try and help each other succeed. It's a great place to work and yes it needs improvement, and we are trying to improve it.

I was very hesitant to onboard with another company after my Covid layoff in the spring of 2020, I had spent 10 years with my previous company and the layoff was unexpected. When AMPI reached out to me I took time to research the company and talk to HR to ensure it would be a good fit for me. They were happy to answer all of my questions and reassured me time and time again they would be flexible and understanding during these uncertain times. I took the job and they offered me exactly what I asked for! They delivered on the flexibility, letting me choose based on my comfort if I wanted to work in office, from home or both. My manager is a great communicator! So even though I work from home half the week I still feel very in touch with our company as a whole. Lastly, I really appreciate the transparency found in this company! They have been from the beginning and still are very clear about the offer, what the job entailed, and what my day to day duties are. There is no micromanaging just professional management and co workers that work as a team and side by side. SO refreshing! 

Working there for almost a decade I have seen a lot. The hours when I first started we not agreeable and made a lot of people quite. We now work 12 hour rotating schedules with every other weekend off.  They are updating the plant to run with less physical labor to make it easier. There is drama there. But there is drama everywhere. If you come in with the right attitude and willingness to work you will get along just fine.  Yes there is a ton of overtime opportunities and the paychecks with overtime are a great thing to see. Breaks are two 15 min and one 20 min paid lunch.  Pto is good at the beginning and gets great the longer you stay. Some seniority people here can take a whole month off if they want too.  We are a food plant so we will always have work. And yes we are a Union. With some more help this place can be a place that everyone wants to work at and stay at till retirement.  Cheese department has good work/home life balance. Night shift has a premium for working night. Double time pay after 12 hours and overtime guaranteed on every paychecks. 

So this place pays decent wages, but not nearly enough as they are always adding more and more to the job and threatening your job if you don't do it.  Even though this place is union it's a joke.  The union stewards don't do anything anymore and we're constantly getting screwed over.  The management does not care about the employees.  They will fire anyone they can, if they can, for almost no reason.  It may be hard to get fired from a union but I've never seen bosses try harder to prove that wrong.  We're short staffed all year long, forced to work overtime and jobs we're not signed up for.  The benefits are good, but at what cost?  We're getting a new contract 2022, but we'll probably get screwed on that one and they will lose a large number of people.  Management needs to give a big raise or increase the quality of life or they are going to see a lot of people leave.  Please if you're reading this, anyone in management, we're human beings and we deserve some respect and decency.

I have physical demands for my job, no big deal. EXCEPT, when you get hurt doing your job. The upper management is REDICULOUS. The HR does not even do HR duties. All issues get directed to other companies to "solve" your problems. You have a high strung assistant manager, who doesn't really interact with the side of the plant I work on. We never really see the general manager either. She's a sweet lady, but I don't feel like the company is going anywhere. The upper management doesn't really know how things even operate in the plant. The supervisors are hit or miss. There is a lot of favoritism from them, which to me is very unprofessional. You do not get PTO, no sick days. Just vacation you accumulate from working there... which isn't much. 1 week for working there 1-3 years, 2 weeks for working there 3-7 years and so on. The insurance is just okay. The health insurance is pretty pricy. They changed hours as well with out any consent from their workers. Which really displeased a lot of us. The ONE good thing is that you have the union to protect your job.

Every week, it is unknown whether or not you will work on Saturday. 
 They leave it up in the air up to as late as 11 AM on Friday every week, so you can never make plans for a Saturday if you work here. 
 Almost every day is unknown whether you will work 8 or 12 hours for many employees.  You are often moved around to different spots and given a small amount of training in some situations.  You will make a livable wage, but your life outside of work isn't taken into account much.  Employees are taken advantage of.  If you have a family, I would highly recommend searching for work elsewhere.  If you are looking to make a good amount of money, don't mind working a lot of overtime, and have a lot of time to yourself, it isn't a bad place to work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay is competitive with employers in 60 mile radius. Union employees get predetermined raises at specified intervals. Overtime is always available. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management and corporate goals are priority. The facility is old with outdated equipment. The building has cooling issues and the floors are crumbling. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Tense place. Seniority is enforced. Union rules come before company policy. Employees grieve things they are punished for and employees win to get write ups removed and time off for suspension repaid. Employees are able to transfer to other positions based on length of employment rather than knowledge 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get right to business. Lunch break and 2 fifteen minute breaks are paid. Twelve hour shifts

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