machine operator

helper

Country Oven Bakery

It's hard to say anything positive about this place. I have always heard good things about this place growing up and being part of the workforce. Things changed. This company has gone completely downhill. Management treats people like garbage and under pays their workers. There is no communication between management and the workers. They consistently shut down lines and move people around to work shifts they cannot work or do a job that people have never been trained for. HR shows favoritism toward certain people and are lazy at their job. They pawn off their duties on other workers so they can come in and only work little hours while everyone else is over worked. The place loses about six or more people a week due to being miss treated.  It's very disappointing that it has gotten so bad that people who have been here for 20+ years are leaving and starting over at other companies. This place needs a complete overhaul on HR and management.  But just like other companies, nothing will never be done about this. It will keep going on until the place is shut down or management is replaced with better people. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time with this company. The people here deserve a lot better.

Hourly compensation used to be among the best in town. Now it’s a revolving door of people moving on to find better situations. They have lost many long tenured employees in the last few years. Staff leadership at the plant is disfunctional and impersonal, especially the GM. No consideration for opinions of people that actually do the work and make things happen. Leadership preaches associate appreciation, but don’t walk the walk. It’s just something to say. No development for career employees. Training budget and salary levels are not transparent. Tenure and loyalty aren’t valued in regards to advancement and compensation. No clarity on salaried compensation levels and ways to earn more money. The staff, especially HR, actively works to keep salaried wages low and undercut decisions made by supervisors. The plant has lost a lot of business last couple years due to shifting consumer preferences and having not adjusted quickly enough. The equipment is very old and unreliable. The company is finally investing in some areas after many years of struggling reliability.

I enjoy every 5 days i work in a week. 
I learn a lot to deal with people like to be patient and when not to contribute in any negative conversation, and to look at the bad of someone to tell on him or her so he/she can be in trouble. I learn a lot to be at safe first at all and to be honest in every small matters. The management was so good it really make the plant a fun and enjoyable place to work, the order of work was really under good management.My co worker is so friendly and nice we work together as a team and really enjoy working with each other.There is no hardest part of the job there to me is no hard part of job there. The most enjoyable part of the job is to know that the line your working at is really high in production. To me it is the joy of my job knowing the production is high.

I've worked in factories before but...I've never worked for a company where everyone there seems so hostile. The bad outweighs the good here. It's normal to be rude and stare darts into someone. Communication lacks in a huge way. There is a lot of entitlement here as well. The ones who have been here longer don't seem to wanna help out the new hires. They're too good to speak. Too good to help and too good to even smile. I thought I'd wanna stay here until I retire but, I don't think I'll do that. The pay is good...that is the only thing positive that I can say about this place aside from the job being easy.

You will work everyday. Unless the line is down, or unless you have seniority to be off on weekends. 

That will take you about 3-4 months from the date of hire. If you're willing to risk your weekends off entirely and consistently...for good pay for those 3 months, then you will be alright. If not, then this isn't the job for you. Good luck.

HR and upper management constantly make mistakes on checks, payroll, production schedule, etc., with no accountability for themselves. When spoken to about their mistakes, employees are liable to be reprimanded for the smallest things.

Instead of improving the lives of employees they would rather up their production count while mechanically neglecting most of their equipment. 

Upper management also decides to introduce new shift hours, work them for a few months, then revert back to the traditional 8 hour shifts, with no care for how the employee may (again) have to change their schedule. 

Relenting carelessness and a conservative view tells the story of country oven, and how they’re just there for the check, and that’s all.

Country oven is like a teenager with a new phone, careless.

When hired you think okay these people are nice and friendly. Give it a week and you will soon realize that there is so much favoritism. Your co-workers think they are your superior. They will yell and attack you for doing something wrong instead of being helpful. Group leaders are lazy and just want someone to do their job for them. With the exception of a couple of them. HR and management is a joke. This company absolutely does not care about their employees!! No exceptions.  Pay is alright but you definitely have to work alot if OT to bring home decent pay. Save your time look elsewhere. And your cakes suck! 

The mangers show favoritism a lot and also you are not properly trained for any of the lines, full-time workers refused to trained anyone and will just look at you and laughed at you like you are crazy if you asked a simple question. Everyone there screams and freak out over cake, some of the Mangers will let their favourites take a 30-40 minutes lunch break but will forced the non favourites to only take a 20 minute lunch break. The environment and atmosphere is not very friendly.

They pay well because they have to. Turn over rate is extremely high. Communication is non-existent. Maintenance works a rotating schedule that doesn’t make sense. None of us were told about it until after hiring in. If you’re a seasoned mechanic go somewhere else or you’ll be stuck on nights forever.  Hiring kids straight out of trade school left and right. Dayshift is given by seniority not knowledge or work ethic. Lots of favoritism shown concerning overtime. 

COB Maintenance is one of those jobs guys dream of getting. The work doesn’t kill you. It’s steady. Like all plants emergency down time happens. 
The group of guys I worked with were top notch. Everybody helped everyone else when needed, even sometimes when not needed. 
I left for a day shift opportunity at another plant. Let’s just say the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. 
I would go back to COB in a heartbeat if I was able too.

This was the only factory I had ever been employed at. But it took a very short time to learn that Anything that you do or say someone was constantly listening and looking for an opportunity to tell on someone for anything big or small. COB encouraged this type of behavior and masked it as "Safety." Ultimately you have a few hundred grown adults acting like they were in High School.

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