maintenance technician

production associate

production

quality assurance technician

qa technician

Cti-Foods

Yes you heard right, they forget to tell you that when you start, no raise for 2 years or that is what I was told by a large number of full time people. One lady told me that she has been there for 2 and a half years and she honestly don't know if she ever got her raise cause she couldn't figure out the log in to see her stubs, One guy said that it just magically showed up on his check, not to mention they drop you on the line, and no one wants to show you, train you right, And the favoritism there is a joke. One girl stands around with her hands in her pocket doing lord knows what all day and takes 5000 breaks (No she's not a boss), along with her 5 friends. every time you turn around, they take breaks. When I started it was two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch. They all decided that two 30 minute breaks would be fine, so, shift starts at 8:30, at 9:30 you get your first break, then you might not get lunch til almost 2:00 at times, all the while the in crowd would take a thousand breaks and take the "easy jobs" while you was lucky to get a third little break for the bathroom and you would take the hard jobs that they didn't want. And dress warm, you might be working one area one day, then if the "In Crowd" didn't want to work a certain area that they was sending people. You would get nominated to be sent over to the really cold parts lifting 50 lb boxes all day long, sometimes for 10 hours because the other shift would have meetings and you couldn't leave until they took your spot.  I would talk to HR about the problems with things and for a day or two after, it would get better, then...it would fall back to normal. The day I quit there, told them why I was, and they acted like they could care less. The turn over rate is so high there and its no wonder. No one will work with you, No one wants to train you right. I wasn't even really shown where to go incase of an emergency. The most I was shown was, a map saying to report there...where's there??? And I was shown with the words, go out that door if an emergency. Honestly, there is some people there that's not all bad, One guy did take me and showed me things and another one did too and if it wasn't for them, I would have been lost. But, don't expect good training, and ask every question under the sun when hired, they wont tell you when you need to call in for your insurance, they just expect you to read everything they hand you so they don't have to tell you anything. But to each his/her own. You might get in there and love it, honestly, the job itself that is if you do the job they originally hire you to do, isn't bad. Nothing really hard about it except heavy lifting at times and very cold in some parts of the factory. But that Heavy lifting get old and hard on you when no body wants to help take over and give you a chance to do something else. (Like they say to do but never follow through) I'm not bashing this Company, Everyone has the right to know how I was treated and done. Your experience may be different. Its a lot like an app on a phone, Someone might download it and it might be nothing but problems. Another might download it and have nothing but the best of luck with it.  So Good Luck to you Lady or Sir. Hope you have a better experience than I did.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Benefits are decent and well priced. Friendly employees.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The lack of communication between supervisor and employees. Speaking spanish is a big deal. The morning meetings are in spanish and if you are one of the very few white people working they will take you aside and call you the englishmen and tell you a breif over veiw of what they descused for 30 minutes to everyone else. The HR departments and higher ups behind their desks are not helpful and don't care to do their job and help you with your problems. All of the machinery in the entire place is from the 80s and is breaking down everyday and they slap a bandaid on it so they never fix anything. You work twice as hard to do a simple task. Not to mention the building needs maintenance and the roof leaks when it rains. Worst bathrooms I have ever been in id trust truck stop bathrooms over this place.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Thinking you are in Mexico but you are in the USA

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
If they have work for you you fight the break downs and old equipment but usually they loose contracts and don't have enough work so might send you to a different position where they make you do the jobs nobody wants to do

I start my day by getting all the mechanics lined out on their daily activities and what needs to be done that day. We are a production facility and we consider ourselves fire fighters due to having to constaltly repair machines and equipment. i then do engine room rounds to ensure the Ammonia refrigeration is all up and running appropriately. 
I will check on employees schedules and make sure that their times are correct in the attendance enterprise. If need be and its that time i will make a new schedule for the mechanics
After everyone is lined out on their activities then i will walk the production floor and look for other deficiencies that need attending to. Sometimes i will assist other mechanics in putting out fires and explain to them how to repair or fix a machine.
 I also attend daily meetings on the process of the daily production, complaints, whats coming up in the future or if we have visitors coming to the facility. 
I also host a daily toolbox meeting for the oncoming shifts to give them a over view of what we have done throughout the day and if anything needs to be addressed when they have finished production.   
Best part of my day is when i get to go home to my family.

Typical Day:

Go into work and get nothing done you planned because the leadership is so disorganized and manages by the latest disaster.  Stress, unable to plan on when you get to go home at night or on weekends.  Promise of a 40-45 hour workweek made at interview will be constantly broken.

What I learned:

Get everything in writing.  These guys could care less about you or anything about you and your life.  They lie.

Management:

Uses yelling, intimidation, yelling, cursing, and belittling to 'lead' people.  More like driving people into the ground.  Horrible management practices-- mean, nasty, and unforgiving.  Adults part like the Red Sea when the 'leader' comes into the area.  Abusive and nasty.

Workplace Culture:

Turnover is very high.  The employees have degrees and many years experience-- yet management treats them like juvenile delinquents.

Hardest Part of the Job:

Forcing yourself to go to work in a rotten environment.

Most Enjoyable Part of the Job:

Seeing CTI Foods in the rear-view mirror.

I was told up front, that there was the opportunity to work weekends for extra money. But they failed to mentioned it was mandatory weekends. We are required to work 7 days a week, every week! No vacation, no sick days. If you call out, it is a write up. The managers only work 5 days a week, they work regular schedules M-F and adjust their schedules in order to alternate weekends. Management lies to vendors and says we get weekends off. I had been working 2 months straight with no day off. We were not off for Memorial Day and some people did not get holiday pay. People burnout quickly here. The turnover rate is high. There is one manager who is always yelling at people, using profanity and telling people's personal business. The Union is a joke. Guy comes around in a fancy suit every few months, but does not do anything about our complaints. 

Where are our rights as humans?

Modern day slavery.

Policies always change
Don't care about there employees
Take advantage of hard workers 
Let the lazy be lazy
Accommodate the cheaters and discriminate against married couples
They go by a point system but you never see your points so you can get fired with out a warning
HR does nothing not there for you like they are suppose to be
Has listeria on edible side
Don't get check stubs have to use an app
You have to keep up with your hours in a binder they lay out a couple days a week. Because HR doesn't know what is going on. Your day off will be counted as an absent. That's a point against you
Liars
No sick time. Your vacation time is your sick time
Insurance is no good
Be carful on audit days you can get fired easy. On these days you do what you normally don't do. You do what you should do every day on that day. 
All management are just worried about there selves

Was hired through Adecco to work at this establishment. From the beginning their lack of concern for employees was evident. The atmosphere was cold both literally and metaphorically. I was lucky to get part time hours when I wanted full time. They'd make their temporary employees not work so the full timers could have more hours and then find ridiculous reasons to let temp employees go. Right before I left they had their entire stock of temp employees of for the entire week. Yes I was one of the temps let go, a full timer and myself were joking around and my apron string was broken. The manger suspended me then informed Adecco they didn't want me back. I was on track to be hired, so I'm not sure what the deal was there. Anyways. It's a waste of time, and Adecco doesn't fight for you either.

There is no room for advancement, only work, work, work. No proper PPE given to the maintenance techs, i.e. FR uniforms in a place full of 480VAC and water. Shorthanded constantly, so expect to be overworked and underpaid for your efforts. Management is a joke. They are full of empty promises with no follow through. Unless you speak 10 different languages, communication is difficult. There are no boundaries from the operators, so tools come up missing from personal belongings, plus they'll spray your cart down with food products or water. Operators have no respect for anyone or the machinery. Most equipment is antiquated, so a bunch of bandaid 'fixes' are the norm. It is a dangerous environment to work in. I've personally witnessed a few injuries that required a hospital visit. 

The company wanted to move forward but struggled.  In addition to hiring 3 specialty directors (Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain) to bring antiquated systems forward, they also had a contract company in doing lean/6S evaluations and making recommendations for improvement.  At the end of the day, all of these were ignored; not consistent with "how things were done" and difficult to implement because nobody wanted to rock the boat.  The entire management team turned over during the six months that I was there and all of the improvement initiatives were abandoned in favor of "cook book" approaches.  A lot of backstabbing and everyone was afraid to try something new, to improve, to make genuine change.

Got hired in as a PLC automation specialist expecting to learn more about the field, thinking it was a great opportunity to advance. They didn’t know what to do with me when they didn’t need controls related work. I ended up being told to jump start the company truck and unload a trailer or take inventory in the vast amount of spare time I had. Most of the guys there lacked even the most basic skills so I was tasked with very basic electrical jobs like changing out low and high voltage plugs and receptacles. But ultimately if you take an automation job for CTI foods you’re taking a job with no clear distinction between what they want and what your job actually is.

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