machine operator

maintenance mechanic

sanitation worker

production supervisor

production operator

Blommer Chocolate Company

What is the best part of working at the company?
The amount of money we were able to make as supervisors because of overtime 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The poor leadership team in place. 
Also being threatened to be fired in weekly meetings by our operations manager. He was someone who was clearly lacking in the ability to lead and motivate a team. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is stressful due to being tossed right into your job without proper or adequate training. Especially as a supervisor. 
Basically had to learn on the fly and it’s hard to be a supervisor while learning the entire facility through and through. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
12-16 hour day depending on if there are any safety incidents to report. 
Constant running up and down stairs. 
No organization of warehouse materials, so we have to source things as they are either running low or gone. Manage spills and clean up if there are any. All while trying to manage production and processes.

Are you struggling to find a job? Maybe you are a reformed felon or drug addict and need some quick cash. Blommer is the place for you and you will love interacting with your peers.

What to expect: 
Working in extreme heat, 110-120 degrees, with air that is contaminated with cocoa powder and dust, sugar, chemicals you’ve never heard of, and machinery that has been around since the industrial age. Half of the people you work with won’t speak or write in English and you will be expected to pick up the slack.
Toxic leadership that has expectations which far exceed reality and the capability you can attain.
Long shifts with little breaks and no access to the outside world.
No career advancement and the educational reimbursement is an antiquated concept from 4 decades ago.

This job is just a job, if you have no other option in life and you need money asap, then apply. If you have any sort of self-respect or goals in life then run far away.

Hr doesn't ever get back to you. You won't be paid for all of the time you are on the clock. They skip an hour here and there and then make it such a hassle to get back you'll eventually just accept it. I got fired after getting hurt at work even though all I asked for was a bit of accommodating. They sent me home and said no. I was refused workers comp and also refused to come back until I was 100%. Supervisors are hired that don't understand the job they are supervising. I started training someone else my first few weeks of being hired on from being a temp. My shift ended up having only two or three people to run conche/refining when other shifts had up to seven or people. We were expected to get the same productivity output. Overall the place is just heartless. I wanted to keep my job because I thought things could get better and I desperately needed income. But wow. This company has so much to fix. 

If you notice the reviews on Blommer chocolate from former or current employees. Most of the good reviews come from office workers, while the bad reviews come from factory workers. That's to be expected since the office workers are sitting in the nice comfortable air condition office and only work 8 hour days and never have to work overtime or weekends. That's becouse office workers perform none value added services. In contrast factory workers 
have to work in a hot, dirty, and unsafe working conditions, are force to work overtime and come in on the weekends and sometimes on holidays. But factory workers perform value added work in that they a produce a product that sells very well and is in high demand. Blommer chocolate is not the worst place to work, but is also not nowhere near the best. I worked at better places, but have also worked at worst.

The two managers in the cs departments are on totally different pages. No direction, they are making up rules as they go
No SOPS, senior management in cs is ABSOLUTELY clueless about the job and what we do and how we do it.

Did I mention micromanaging and control issues within management!! 
Management is Very secretive. 
Pointless meetings. 
No follow ups on complaints or issues. Current processes make no sense whatsoever. Not enough resources to support customer service. Everyone is unhappy in this department. 
HIGH TURNOVER!!!!!
Business is in shambles 
Sales department is very unhelpful and uneducated on products.
Terrible internal communication 
The company uses 6 different erp systems 
Each plant ran like a separate company 
Management does not listen but constantly asks for ideas to turn dept around



A typical day we would come in and take up for whatever day shift hadn't completed plus our work for the day. I started as a chocolate molder, where 10 pound bars of chocalate are coming from the freezer, we rum them through the metal detector and package them in 50 pound boxes or 2500 pound jumbo boxes. the goal was to do 25000 pounds a night, I consistently did 30000, and in so I was promoted to flex person due to the fact I began to be trained in almost every department, really eager to learn, and also drive the forklift. Then I was promoted to batch maker and cross trained as refiner, both prised positions at the job in production. I lost 40 pounds in 3 months at that employer, I worked really hard. Hardest part may have been the 12 hour shift and the most enjoyable was the co workers in that environment and job detail.

The company is a horrible company to work for. They once had Christmas parties, great management, and helpful people. Everything in the past year has just gone downhill. Management does not care about the wellbeing of their employees, only how much money they can make off of production. They started to raise the starting wage to 19 an hour to get more people suckered into working here which just made moving up for the people whom have been her longer impossible. People who are just starting are coming in as much or as close to people who have suffered here for over 10 years. Management is only nice to you if you are a favorite. No one gets treated equal here and the company is just a poor company to work for all around.

While the workers that i worked with were great people and the floor management team were kind and understanding of personal issues that a person may have, the upper management were not. The upper echelons of the company often felt as though they cared nothing for the people who made them money. They often brought people into the company with the promise of one position and after a bit of time there( the six-week probation period) not even give them the job they had promised and trained an individual for. Forcing them to choose a different job that often times would be less money than the one they were trained to do in the first place. 

This company is thee worst place I ever worked they don’t care about there employees work environment is very unorganized and unprofessional they don’t care about your well being they care more about production on top of that they have rodents, machines contaminated with mold and recently they had a department contaminated with listeria and they have sanitation workers clean them and don’t inform them of the contamination I can’t believe they are still open Chicago plant needs to be shut down I’m surprised the board of health haven’t closed them down yet 15 years ago it was a good company to work for sense new ownership it’s the worst place to work for stay far away from this company don’t waste your time!!!

Very POOR LEADERSHIP. Highturn over
Every few months the org structure changes. The culture is terrible. HR IS RUDE and acts naive to the things going on. Leadership makes excuses and blames others for their incompetence. No growth 
We are not heard. have been short staffed for years. No processes and structure. SAP ROLL OUT HAS The COMPANY IN SHAMBLES. No communication 
Sales team undermines the cs reps 
The senior manager in cs in clueless 
Leadership can’t provide the tools to get the job done but they give you more work but no more money. Very high email volume 
Constant arguing in emails and pointless meetings
Everyone is miserable 


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