inventory associate

human resources representative

maintenance technician

sanitation worker

director of human resources

Cafe Valley Bakery

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay is good. If you know maintenance. If you think you do and don't then don't waste your time.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Speed! You better be fast! It's a fast pace position in maintenance. You got to troubleshoot it fast and fix it fast. Or your going to send people home. It's not a good feeling when you can repair it fast enough and they have ti send people home early. They depend on their job and need the hours working to put food on their table, and you send them home early for something they didn't do or have control of. That's my worst part of this job. The pressure of a whole line of people sent home cause your to slow. The thought of some child not have enough to eat or able to go to the school skating party cause mom or dad got sent home early and doesn't have the money! Just a example that plays on your head. So I try my best 100 percent when you get sent out on a call. It's just not you thats involved. Enough of that! But like I Said the pay is good and it's a good job if you have the experience, that is...

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's a very diverse company and cleaned environment, cause it deals with food. It's air conditioning in most of the plant. Pleasant environment to work in.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy from when you come in till you get ready to go home, most days. But we work a 12 hour shift, so it helps with the time goes faster being busy. We work a 2-2-3 shift here in maintenance department. Two days on work 2 days of work  and every other weekend 3 days off. Witch is awesome. Once you d get used to the 12 hour shift. Never have to work 5 days in a row and get 3 days off weekends. I like the hours.

I was chosen as the only female in my group on 3rd shift to do cake catching in cake packaging.  While the rest of the males I started with had freedom of movement building boxes etc, I was catching cakes continuously with my body locked in one position for hours at a time.  I would have appreciated being rotated out as I only would want to stretch my neck and back. It was a slow torture for me personally as I am a young 53 who is moving most of the time and stays active.  I choose factory work for this reason.  I had to leave this job because of being forced in one position would ruin my physical body.  I can work circles around men and people half my age but was judged on my gender and age because they figure someone like me is not able to do physical work.  Note to management nobody wants to stay in that position because it’s brutal if you don’t rotate people out especially new people who need to adjust to being locked in place. I was supposed to work a 12 hour shift the next day but I was forced to quit because my body was in pain and  I am unable to endure the inhumane work conditions. OSHA warns employers against this type of repetitive movement but because there are no fixed guidelines, employers will not think to have mercy on its employees stuck in positions like this.  I am so disappointed, really wanted to work there but was forced out.

The work is not bad and the compensation is good. If you have a desire to improve efficiency and reduce problem areas, then you may want to reconsider.  My morale started as hopeful and inquisitive.  I used to love coming to work to learn. Once I learned enough and became comfortable with the systems, I found places that efficiency could be improved.

The problem is when these are brought up, you cannot expect action. I wrote out well documented and thorough analyses for issues we were having.  They were heard, but not listened to. It felt like I was talking to a yes man in my management team. If you find fulfillment in trying to be the best you can be, then you may be disappointed by the management approach here. The buck stops at your manager and will get no further.

I say this is not a bad place to work, but just adjust your expectations accordingly. Disappointment can be brutal and cause you to not want to improve problem areas. Management fights their own battles and just want to please anyone who is above them. They preach core values here, but some of them are ignored. This is probably a common issues in a lot of companies, but it is nice to know what you're getting into.

At this job they can literally see you breaking your back and going the extra mile and it is still not enough, and they only acknowledge when you’re doing something “wrong” but act blind for your hard work. If you enjoy being emotionally neglected , then this is your job! :) The managers are not appreciative or cut anyone any slack (especially the second shift managers). The environment is hostile, the pay is not enough for the ones who actually decide to work, oven workers carry the company on their backs and have to deal with a broken machine on a daily basis. Maintenance don’t wear glasses, beard nets, and walk around on their phones and the managers tell them nothing, on top of that they fix nothing, they have no idea what their doing just like their managers. Everyday it’s understaffed so One person has to work for 3 people, and if you rest because of all the physicality you’re dealing with they take it as if you’re being lazy, so they tell you to continue moving. I feel as if this job needs to have therapist there because I speak for more than one person when I say it is emotionally damaging, this is why everyone quits, it’s not worth it. Drama , problems, trauma, etc. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Clean, bright, work area.  Nice equipment to work with.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Immediate supervisors, Managers, were terrible.  Playing games like children.  Laughing and yelling outside of their offices daily.  Impossible to concentrate.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Environment is harsh.  Office area kept at 62 degree temps year around.  Wore sweatshirts daily even on 100 degree days outside.  Air-conditioning vents above work stations blowing cold air down your neck never stopped running. Corporate was proud of company's culture but locally it was terrible.  Yelling and degrading employees while sitting next to coworkers watching and listening.  And managers yelling were only 20 feet from their private offices that would have been a more appropriate location.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Intense pressure to get more completed than possible in 8 hours.  Especially with management childish and inappropriate games 10 feet behind you all day long.

I came to this place thinking it would be something good to be a part of seeing that this company is expanding its business, but I would soon find out it is absolutely horrible. i don't see why it's ran so bad when they have a plant in Arizona. My first day I knew it was going to be bad when my supervisor couldn't even tell me how to do my job. Then it was so short staffed that there would be days where you couldn't get a 10 minute break and even your lunch and if you did it would be late in the shift. Then we had a meeting with the Production Manager and he had no control over the meeting. People made him look foolish and he just stood there and tried to laugh it off. Mediocre production manager at its finest. Out of the two and a half months I worked there I only got 40 hours a week 3 times because they would run out of ingredients because they don't keep track of inventory properly. They waste thousands of pounds of ingredients and the cakes come out bad. Management is going to run this place to the ground and the owner doesn't seem to care.

typical day at work would be if the machines did not go down and everything was packaged and produced  accordingly

what I learned was that everyday things can go wrong when the machines break but also everyday things can go smoothly if all goes well

management in most part is helpful, and show concerns about your learning the area as quickly as possible since everything is very fast paced

workflow culture. this is a bakery  so everything is always has the concept to make the product look and taste good for the client.

hardest part of the job is sometimes you are overwhelmed when things go wrong with the line and you have to stay longer thant 8 hrs of your shift and you have things planned and you are required to stay on the line. 

most enjoyable part of the job is that its is a challenge on a daily basis and sometimes you have good working friends that help  make the time go buy and work together as a team.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Shift time, discounted bakery goods, employee friendships

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being ignored, ideas stolen by upper management, discouraged by ego driven upper management.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Clique driven culture, favoritism, spanish speaking intensive communication, resource hoarding, poorly administrated wasteful practices, poorly managed departmental accountability, 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Check stock cards, complete training courses (when required), complete cycle count section/s, put-away inbound parts, requisition parts required for stock, assist maintenance activity in locating or acquiring required parts (when necessary). Organize work area, locate newly acquired parts, remove old machine line parts. Communicate with scheduler and purchaser to identify areas of opportunity to enhance accessibility of parts.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best thing for me was having the opportunity to excel at my job and being able to move up the corporate ladder so to speak. Management was spot on for me and if I am given the opportunity to work with cafe valley bakery again, then I will be more than willing to accept the offer and then, the skies the limit. Thomas Morton.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
When I first started, the ability to accomplish a few of the jobs, I am a bit of a perfectionist and when I don't accomplish the job at hand, I tend to be a little hard on myself.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I worked the graveyard shift, and I have to say I really enjoyed myself  because everyone works as a team, at least the crew I was on.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very fast paced, once you get the hang of it, "a few days under your belt,) you will appreciate your ability to accomplish the tasks at hand and still have time to smile.

Well I worked there for a few years and can honestly say I never dreaded a job so much everyday. Scheduling extra all the time, saturdays, sometimes sundays, and at one point till 2-2am on 2nd shift. Most of management is very abrasive and refuses to work with people on scheduling if they don't like you. I had friends that could but I couldn't (Single Dad of 2). Some yell and belittle workers in front of everyone. Very tense work environment for me, only did it to support my kids basically at the time. Another huge reason I don't work there anymore is because of supervisors blaming employees for things going wrong when they refuse to fix things properly and get new equipment that actually works. Maintenance does the least possible to fix things and they just cross their fingers and hope it stays working. Way to stressful for me or most anyone probably.

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