truck driver

maintenance person

accounting clerk

mill operator

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Cal-Maine Foods

At 5:00 am one would review the inventory from the day before and ensure the daily production sheet for orders to be shipped out that day are correct. If there were any variances or indifferences with any of the inventory than a reconciliation will need to be found and corrected. Ensure the machine was set up properly and correctly, ensuring each grade and size was matched up properly with it's packers within USDA grade and specs. Ensure all packaging is ergonomically placed for all workers and packaging is correct to production sheet. Check all product in coolers and on trailers to ensure product is within the acceptable range for temperatures, humidity, and quality of packaging. Check all e-mails and respond to all properly and efficiently. Make proper computer adjustments to optimize productivity while maintaining quality. Check and review employee schedules daily and ensure proper scheduling of personnel and to review any and all employee requests. Once the daily's production has been completed, ensure all packaging has been replenished, all orders have been loaded and recieved, ensure all paperwork for SQF has been completed and turned in. Check over the inventory and the daily productivity paperwork is matching withminimal loss. Check over the employee scheduling for the next days production to ensure proper scheduling. Check over all orders and ensure for accuracy.

A typical work day starts at 5 a.m. It takes about an hour to set up the egg packers and case packers to complete orders to be shipped out throughout the day. Machine functions also had to be tested in order to ensure proper operation. Various repairs to the Diamond 8400 machine were also made first thing in the morning. During the day, the supervisors are responsible for bringing cartons from warehouse to packing area, doing miscellaneous repairs to machinery, and making adjustments to computer settings in order for product to meet USDA standards. 

I honed my skills of time management by learning how to change setting on both egg packers and case packers before a total machine jam occurred. Also, I have been trained in safe forklift and pallet jack operation.

The management in the company is substandard. Instead of basing responsibilities on merit and qualifications, they prefer to micromanage and give special treatment based on who they knew.   

My coworkers made it a point to make me feel unwelcome in the processing area when I began working with them.    

The hardest part of my job was maintaining enthusiasm for the position while being forced to learn various details in a "crash course" style training method.

The most enjoyable part of the job is working with the people on the floor.

Only people who actually keep the plant running are supervisor and lower. I worked for the company for 2 1/2 years at two different locations (Bushnell and mascott) and both were basically the same work you rear end off get criticized for taking time off even for a emergency. Even though managers are supposed to be held to the same time off standards it’s not that way at all basically they may show up and they may not when they want to and sure won’t give you notice that they are taking the day off so if you need them to help you or train you on something good luck! Basically all the offer you is hopes and dreams and give you a bunch of broken promises! Only good thing is the bonus that comes once a year and it’s split up into 2 payments but really it’s just incentive to keep you there working and putting up with all the hours. You keep thinking I’m gonna leave after I get my bonus then you get your bonus right about the time things slow down and when they pick back up and you wanna leave again you end up saying it again I will just stay till I get my bonus it’s a never ending circle.Stay away if you want any kind of family life!!!!! I repeat not a job for someone with a family! Also keep in mind if they offer high annual salary it’s going to actually be a lot less based off of the amount of hours you will actually work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Absolutely deplorable. I was being "trained" by someone with almost no English. He could grunt and point. Not an exaggerated claim. He became sullen when I learned and delighted when things were difficult . Not a good place to work . I was out on the migrant workers contract , (no overtime) and the company whi held the. Contract bounced 2 , count them ,TWO PAYROLL CHECKS and was constantly "short"  when the check could be cashed.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Ineptitude in training . Lack of basic communication due largely to very poor English.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If you are not Latino you will not thrive.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Different shifts would present different challenges but I was hired as a prevention maintenance person and was allowed to do very little of that.

What is the best part of working at the company?
All of the staff are very helpful and understanding  knowledgeable they know how to communicate the job qualifications and they treat you with respect and kindness 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Early morning when you are signing employees in and you have trucks coming in that you also have to sign in which is a totally different process now you've gotta sing in employees and trucks two different process at the same time 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
In my opinion both are very well if you have a valid issue they will promptly get on it now it may be that they can't do anything about it but they will communicate that with you in a timely manner 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy I like to keep a positive attitude and greet everyone with a good morning and a smile

A typical day at Cal-Maine for is starting off by unlocking all the doors that I use along with machines that I use. While working at Cal-Maine I learned how to drive a forklift, tractor, and a backhoe. The management at Cal-Maine is pretty fair. We have a manager that can tell you everything about the mill and another that handles the business part far as any employee that needs anything such as boots, uniforms, days off, and etc. My co-workers and I get along pretty well.
 I work well with my co-workers and it kind of makes the day go buy pretty fast. The hardest part of working at Cal-Maine is when elevators overload. When the elevators over flow that cause for the entire feed mill crew to get shovels and clean up the mess. The most enjoyable part for me at Cal-Maine is when I'm able to do inventory and go clock out.

What is the best part of working at the company?
A very disgusting environment to work in with management that cuss you out when angry, which is often, and expect you to drive with out air conditioning in your truck for months at a time when trucks break down. Equipment is old and poorly maintained.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Poor management and poorly maintained equipment

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
There are maggots on the ground, flies everywhere and hot head managers who disrespect employees

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Driving around without air conditioning and swapping trucks and trailers at the shop when they break down which is often

Sure the pay is okay and getting 3 dozen eggs a week is definitely cool but what I wasn’t fond of is the person training me spoke no English. It isn’t all his fault but how do you expect to train someone on how to do something correctly and they can’t even communicate? The “Holidays they recognize” leave out two of the most important ones for most Americans. Easter and Christmas Day I was told are not recognized holidays. There are no holidays off, just extra pay. For a company that preached how important family is when you get hired sure forgets about all that when it’s their bottom line at risk. Just another typical corporation operating under the guise of wanting to be the best at everything

The management lacks just that management skills there is next to none. The pay is poor for the type of work that is being done. There is almost no training at all and when you are required to use chemicals for cleaning no instructions are given on how to use them and no label instructions is seen on the bottle. Most of the people you work with have a record the very next day of being hired I wanted out of the job. You get no overtime pay no holiday pay but you can get all the "overtime" you want. They will put you where ever they want to put you and expect you to know how to do the job without proper training.

A typical day at Cal-Maine was very hot. not just outside because it was summer but inside the houses as well. I learned a lot of things about chickens and how they eggs I eat are processed. The management that I dealt with was pretty cool and laid back. The houses where full of chickens so what exactly is there to expect inside a chicken house other than eggs and a place full of these loud birds. The hardest part of this job though would have had to been chasing the chickens to return them back to their cages and removing all the egg blocks from the conveyor belts. Howeb=ver on the bright side, it was a laid-back environment full of people just like me trying to make a living for their family.

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