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Aunt Millies Bakeries

The wrong mentality of management and lack of taking basic steps towards fixing it because of personal feelings of hearing what steps are being done are not the solution. Making maintenance a mess and turn over in department is outrageous I have never seen anything like it. The smart ones leave as soon as it’s realized that the chaos is not gonna change until they change management that has known only that way. The others that come with the good intentions to help better the team, do excellent work and bring knowledge of experience and try to help in turning around the mess that it is. Well even though you are trying to make a better job for everyone it is noticed that you are a possible threat to the management who’s running it into the ground and they don’t want it or to hear that they have implemented failure and helping them is impossible because they eliminate the threat

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some of the employees that has routes will help you as you need it, some of the people on the route in other stores that you service are nice 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of training on programs to organize and properly order products,management will lie to you and set you up to fail just to make there self look good for upper management.long hours 12/15 hr days no overtime just regular pay days off are not back to back you get Wed and Sunday off ,management will change your orders for stores and not tell you so you have left over trays of bread on the truck that you get in trouble for then tell you it’s fine and not a big deal then you get written up saying the managers talk to about it when they didn’t so if you’re applying to work here I would think twice and work somewhere else 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Shady at best and long hours away from family and personal life is not good 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get up at 3am work until 2or 3:00 pm stocking stores with bread,long hours

Typically I arrive to work, punch in, ask if there's been any price changes on any of the products (because we have to memorize the price of everything 100+ products). I then go to the back room to unwrap new shipment of bread, move old bread to "Animal Feed" section, and make back room look organized and presentable. I then get help stacking metal dollies. Then I stock bread, stock and date other products, answer phones, and ring people up until we close the store. After store is closed we lock up, count cash drawers, record on daily report sheets, I sweep and vacuum, make sure all doors are locked. Then punch out and go home. None of it is hard, which makes it kind of boring for me because I like to use my brain. The most enjoyable part is talking to the one or two interestingly quirky customers. The only things I've really learned at this job were how the tie colors of the bread relate to the dates of which they expire and who to send which paperwork to in the inter-office mail.

What is the best part of working at the company?
As a contractor for 7 months I found it very unique that maintenance management work a alongside their crew, getting dirty and supporting their guys the whole shift.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everyone at the plant as well as the community was very friendly and polite. No stress.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
4 shifts 12 hour days. If you needed tools, parts, or material the inventory specialist was on it quick and very effective. The general manager was very involved as well as the district manager helping out and very supportive.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Put on your PPE, punch in and get started. They usually had work outlined and ready. If the previous shift was working on a repair they would usually stay and finish it or have it almost complete and give you an easy turnover. It was a fast paced plant but we'll organized so's not to stress you out.

Pros:
The pay is good. The benefits are good as well. $1 breads and discount on gym membership. They do not test for marijuana in the pre employment process.

Cons:
The people there like to tell on one another and gossip so you have to be extra careful what you say. There is a lot of favoritism and nepotism there so unless you're related to someone in upper management or having relations with them you're not going to climb too high. If your a person of color your going to be micromanaged so be prepared for that. The attendance policy is rigid. Only a week vacation a year and you have to take that whole week off. Points don't drop off until a year from the occurrence. The first 60 days try not to get 2 points or else they'll fire you. After that you have 6 points until your fired. It is extremely hot in there so if your sensitive to heat be mindful. 

Overall, if you have to take care of your business and you can avoid these landmines then it's not a bad job. 

I worked 1 shift and decided that for the work speed and type required it's not enough pay. You get a break every 2 hours however it's not enough for how fast you have to move to keep everything moving. My 1st and only shift I was thrown immediately on the packing line (sticking bread in the boxes then after a break switching to stacking the boxes on a pallet) I was given little to no instruction, was expected to immediately be up to the same speed as everyone else that's been there, not to mention I'm 6'2 and the conveyor for the boxes was only up to my shins and the conveyor for the bread was stomach level so I had to stay at a leaned position putting unnecessary stress on my spine and back muscles, the conveyor the packed boxes came out on was also shin level and we were required to stack said boxes above my head on a pallet, overall not ergonomic environment for anyone and overall not great pay for the speed and strain on the body.

Owner and Family run the Company. They were above average in terms of cash flow for a Large Baking Company when I started in 2013. Trying to capitolize  on a void in the Midwest market after Wonder/Hostess went under and was liquidated.  
Some contracts with come failing grocery chains/distribution centers bit into the cash and changed the future operations with restrictions on hiring that put some operations severly short of staff.
Those that could weather the storm took on extra responsibility, along with extra time needed. Pay was good for managers but driver's were behind the area average for similiar work. Quick expansion during the period the company had a 3 year contract to supply a Kroger Subsidiary, resulted in poorly trained new hires for delivery. 
The end of the contract with Kroger brought massive cut backs to route sales operation and more expense cutbacks to the operation that was retained. Managers were constantly covering for drivers and or missing loaders. 




This is a review for the Coldwater MI Distribution Center.

Overall, great people to work with and a great company to work for but the (non-ForkLift and Supervisory/Management) positions are very physically demanding. I can't fault the company that I wasn't physically capable, I underesimated it..

The worst part is ergonomics. Conveyors were either too high/too far or you had to keep your body contorted for 2-2/12 hrs to load product on the conveyor. After the 3rd day I couldn't get out of bed. The racks of bread weighed a lot more than I was able to handle...

Three 20-minute breaks paid, can't argue about that, except when having to negotiate every time who and when takes their break. They give you a water bottle but you don't even have time to take a sip, never needed the restroom because you're dehydrated.

I wasn't too impressed with the lady who did my hiring. Her FB Messenger went off a lot and that was her #1 priority.

110% turnover of production floor employees, extremely hot on production floor with forced overtime, employee conflicts on the production floor.  Very small filthy breakroom.  They will hire anyone with a pulse for the production floor because they are so desperate.  Employees miss constantly - and because they are so desperate for workers to stay, attendance is not tracked. Employees break the rules on the production floor and no write ups given because they are afraid of losing them. Supervisors get no help from upper management because upper management doesn't want to go out the the very hot production floor.  Some supervisors call in sick regularly because they know they won't get fired - leaving the other supervisors to work extra days to cover their absence.  It was a terrible place to work.  No vacation days for over a year, and no sick days or personal days.  

My initial impression was promising - but I bought into their sunshine and roses packaging. Micromanaging like I’ve never experienced. No breaks until your work is finished - especially after a holiday.  It’s hard to be excited about a job when no good deed goes unpunished. Overtime is expected, not suggested. The stress of workload can be incredibly overwhelming - salary is not in line with the volume of duties expected. Training is done at a bare minimum and proficiency is expected immediately. Mistakes happen, human error is a real thing, but absolutely not understood when working for Aunt Millie’s. So many coaching moments were available but instead employees are left to feel belittled and unworthy of true training. 

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Merchandiser 199 salaries reported	$15.41 per hour
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Clerk 76 salaries reported	$13.23 per hour
Maintenance technician 44 salaries reported	$30.07 per hour
Loader 24 salaries reported	$21.84 per hour

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