truck driver

operations associate

store clerk

laborer

custom applicator

CHS Inc.

I arrived each morning before 8 am to prepare for the day. At the beginning of the assignment, I conferred with the tax department on what the information described and the calculations produced on each of the 76 property tax forms. Then, with the appropriate understanding and knowledge gained, I created a complex and dynamic excel spreadsheet for each location that would calculate a monthly property tax accrual to enter in the company's accounting system. Therefore, if you wanted to determine the property tax accrual as of July, you just select the month of July in the calendar drop-down list and the spreadsheet would display the automatic calculations for each location according to that month. I really appreciated the help I received from the employees in the Tax Department and feel the hardest part of the job was learning the Excel features needed to make the data calculate according the tax forms and produce each monthly property tax accrual correctly. Thus, the most enjoyable aspect of the assignment was being able to learn, improve, and use my Excel skills to create a complex yet dynamic spreadsheet to be easily used when simply selecting any month from a drop-down menu.

On a typical day, I would rise and shine at 5:30a. I would get some breakfast in me and then do some chores around the house beforer deciding to head to work. I would arrive at work around 6:30a when it was busy and later than that when it was not busy. If I was there before my boss was, I would do my duties until he showed up to adivse what the tasks were for the day. Once determined what needed to be done, I would go do them throughout the day.

I learned there are ways I do and think through a job and then another individual comes along and he/she does it differently. The key part is we ended up with the same end result.

The management was understanding and considerate about my needs when it come to health and needing time off for certain personal items. I could not have asked for better management to help me through the days I needed off.

The hardest part of this job was keeping a routine of when parts of the elevator would get cleaned. The co-workers I had did not seem to be too enthused in wanting to clean out a boot pit or clean out a moldy grain bin.

The enjoyable part about the job was watching grain be placed in the elevator for storage. It was a fun experience to watch the bins be completely empty and then two/three days they are full. It was nice to tell that I was getting something done at work.

As a dispatcher/logistics specialist, the things I wish I had known before I started working there are:

- You have no holidays off: No observed holidays and no regular holidays. If it's your scheduled day to work. You work it. Period.
- During peak season (winter, spring and fall), you work extra hours. You work basically all day because you get a cell phone that you have to answer even if you are home at night.
- Hostile work environment: Co-workers are unfriendly. The friendly ones will stab you in the back (for instance if you complain about something you disagree with at work, they will go to tell your managers and the manager scold you or try to intimidate you)
- Other than expensive insurance, you can't take advantage of the benefits: Like I mentioned above, holidays is a no go. Time-off is almost a crime (except in the summer). Paternity leave: your baby must be due in the summer, or they won't allow you to take paternity leave. basically everything is a no go if there is work to do (which is 3/4 of the year).
- No training: Your training and onboarding process is slow and painful. If on peak season, then you're just thrown into the fray and hope for the best because they're going to blame you for every mistake.

if you decide you want to work here, negotiate as high a wage as possible. when hired.   Pay raises are based on  how much you suck up to the managers rather than value you add to company.  Some years you will do good to get a 1% increase.  Unfortunately this is a pretty common aspect of agriculture cooperatives.  
CHS is supposedly owned by farmers but it has a huge amount of overhead and dead weight.  Our facility at one point had 4 management personnel to supervise less than 15 full time employees.
Much of the equipment is old, outdated, and neglegted.  Poor productivity and lack of preventative maintenance has contributed to this decline.
CHS as a corporation has also had some serious issues to deal with.
Without going into detail, they have been under invetigation for some questionable business practices at the corporate and regional levels.
Bottom line it's a job to provide for you and family.  Some of the benefits and perks are,decent and if you are a conscientous, honest employee you should have a degree a job security in a very important industry.  But be prepared to enter a buddy buddy system 
that rewards relationships and not accomplishments.

The pay is fantastic, if you like a lot of hours trust me when I say you will get them, overtime is almost always there. Sometimes it is required. The health, dental, vision, were great and only cost me 80$ for myself and 2 kids, it was a life saver. shifts can be 12-14 hours long but don't feel bad you only work 4 days a week or more if you want or is needed. The labor depending on what you do will catch up with your body though. my coworker was 65 years old and still doing the job so it is manageable as long as you lift smart. Shifts are repetitive, you WILL do the same thing every day all day. Raises are very easy to receive, the company does take care of people they want to stay there. overall its a great work place and will provide you with solid pay 1,200 in 2 weeks for myself after 2 months of working there. if you can manage always being tired and sore you will be fine, from personal experience though I do not recommend to someone with young children, you will loose a lot of time and energy for them, lastly this will not be a 2nd or 3rd job. it will provide by itself.

The people here make it feel like you're a part of a dysfunctional family (in both good and bad ways). They're really nice and wish you the best, but between the nature of the job you're virtually on call at all times. You may work for thirty hours without going home. That being said, during the late spring and summer you may only be working from 8-5, M-F.
The company cares about your well-being and offers great benefits and competitive pay. You won't be jilted on pay, and it's almost impossible to get fired, so if you're looking for a secure job you'll be set. 
I've worked in multiple locations for this company. Keep in mind that it's a corporation. You'll meet and work with good and bad people. Be sure to stand up to management if they try bullying you. Lower management is more concerned about keeping themselves out of the hot seat than your satisfaction in your role.
You'll make great friends here, as well as enemies. The work is back-breaking at times, but if your coworkers help you out, you'll feel like a team. Lower management does their best to tear your team apart though.

A typical day at work included stocking the cooler, waiting on customers and cleaning the machines (pop machine, cappuccino, as well as various other machines), soaking coffee pots and making fresh coffee, sweeping/mopping, taking out the trash and shift paperwork.  

I learned how to manage my time on the graveyard shift to meet my customers needs as well as my fellow employees needs. Management at most stores I worked at was excellent.  They always seemed willing to help me learn in order to advance in the company.  My co-workers were always helpful and hard-working.

The hardest part of the job was trying to get used to the graveyard shift.  I had a hard time sleeping during the day, however, if I had it to do over again I would have stayed on graveyards with this company. The most enjoyable part of the job was my interaction with the customers and seeing to their needs.

The management for the it service center team is less then desires.
The manager has no interaction with the team nor the team lead but will make assumption on members based on what little interaction that occurs.
A typical day consists on Twenty to fifty calls regarding first level troubleshooting.
If escalation is needed the team it gets sent to is not always helpful and will send tickets back with no information as to why even if the ticket is supposed to be sent to them.
The hardest part of the job would be the unbalance of home and work life. The it department is a Twenty four hour ops with Twelve hour Saturday shifts. The Saturday shifts are unfairly assigned as a team of Fourteen employees a single person should not have a Twelve hour shift every month as there are two designated night shift employees that take the second twelve hour shift every Saturday

This entire facility is an absolute train wreck. A typical work day is non stop without so much as a lunch break. You will never get off 12 hour shifts and you swing days to nights so your life is over. Prepare to work holidays,weekends,your kids graduation, your mothers funeral etc.......You work 4 on 4 off but still have weeks with zero overtime as some bean counter has figured out how to not pay you for that. Don't expect to be placed in department you applied for,as this rarely happens. Management is only concerned with lining their own pockets and keeping everything in house on a local level, So no real grievance process. The rank and file workers are top notch but thinning out quickly. It is a revolving door of new hires.The hardest part of job is punching in at start of shift.The most enjoyable part is punching out. Employee turnover is so great most dont making it through initial training.

Management at this company is absolutely appalling, they have lost over half of their sales group in 6 months but refuse to address the high turnover. There's a clear sense of good old boys club as well. The expectations and goals they set are unrealistic. When you approach management about these goals they tell you, direct quote "since we should always be striving to do better we set unattainable goals so that you're always working hard to attain them". There's some shady things going on regarding commission, they still use a paper and pen to track it and when you ask for clarification you're told to do your job. additionally, there is no room for growth or improvement, and you'll be expected to bend over backwards for a company that will replace you with no hesitation. Just look at the amount of job postings the company constantly has.

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Truck driver 1454 salaries reported	$26.81 per hour
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Laborer 268 salaries reported	$20.15 per hour
Custom applicator 107 salaries reported	$24.75 per hour

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