quality assurance technician

forklift operator

maintenance technician

shift leader

sanitation worker

Dole Food Company

I enjoyed most of my time here. More older mexicans which makes the environment a pleasure when you get along. This is both a fast and slow paced job . It gets stressful and hard labored or super easy and boring. Some departments on off season have little for you to do and have you do miscellaneous things outside like clean and/ or throw away barrels or replace broken pallets and frames. Sometimes they even moved you to another plant. It really is easy money which makes the pay worth it. The annoying part is the schedule is posted towards the end of shift everyday and inconsistent (one day in the freezer, the next outside, the next in a stuffy, hot boiler room). What i enjoyed was the friendly coworkers, the many birthday parties and the different work experiences within the plants. I enjoyed stacking boxes the most. The most trouble i had was advancing to a new position. I had worked there for 9 months and applied for many jobs and was even recommended by a coworker and supervisor but never received any call from HR. Another coworker was there for 4 months and got a forklift job in a matter of weeks of applying. I was also injured during work and the lady supervisor was mad about it(wasnt the first time) during the process of getting checked out by the nurse, the safety guy came off very unpleased and unconcerned. as if he didn't believe my injury. A month went by and i still had pain on my thumb. I had asked another supervisor to see the nurse and he straight up gave me a smirk as if i was being dramatic. the same sup that said "We're gonna have problems" because i was having trouble wrapping the pallets with a delicate paper that i had never used before. OVERALL, i recommend Dole, There are many great supervisors that are happy to see you. it really turns into a family like environment

Get to work, clock in, change into company supplied Personal Protective Equipment, grab company supplied tools, and go into production room where I will use plastic bags to cover anything electrical with plastic bags so that they don't get damaged, disassemble anything that can be taken apart to make easier to clean, and proceed to clean every inch of equipment with high pressure water hoses, alkaline based cleaners, and sanitizer. After everything is completely clean of bacteria, everything is to be inspected by professional supervisor for leftover materials, and disassembled parts are to be put back together for production. Finally, the break room, hallways, shipping/receiving docks, and freezers are to be cleaned: wipe surfaces, sweep, mop, vacuum, stock, and taking out trash. It's quite an easy job, but I've learned that no matter where you work, there will always be issues that put you down. None of my co-workers know what teamwork is because they have grown accustomed to working on their own in their respective areas alone. Also, vulgar "factory talk" is becoming more and more of an issue. Finally, the supervisor is the typical "supervisor"; sits in his office, plays games, barely watches cameras, blows things out of proportion, takes personal issues out on employees, and never compliments good work but instead treats you like improvements can be made in a bad way no matter how good the job was done. Employees are expendable, yet overvalued, compensated decently, yet under-appreciated.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working a 4 day workweek is nice. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The work is repetitive and very fast paced. Temp agency said you had to lift 40 pounds consistently but I didn't realize that meant 20lbs every 15 seconds.

It's overall just exhausting on a daily basis and I don't feel any of the employees are compensated well enough for this. I've made more working standard retail jobs in the past without commission.  


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment itself isn't all that bad. The people are nice and everyone I've worked with functions well as a team. In down times or when people are ahead they'll gladly help out others at different stations. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
We show up at 6 and work until 4:30pm, usually. There are different machines and tasks to be completed and the teams for the day alternate back and forth. The people who stack boxes on pallets alternate between the two stacking lines so they get a break from the different methods and the people who unbox frozen fruit alternate between the fruits and different stations throughout the day, usually after breaks. It seems that in the summer months the work day gets less though. We've gone home early multiple times yet in February we were super busy.

When you start you have to go to the office and sign in and fill out your VIR card. I learned just about every job. Unloading the trucks of product,label it and scan it then put it away in the warehouse. Dropping off film to the packing department, setting up the film for first shift production most of the rolls are 40 to 60 lbs give or take. Unloaded the box trucks and replenished the box room for production. Also make sure the area you worked in is cleaned and picked up.
Also worked on the Line where you have to load bin dumpers with raw product so they can make the salad. The Supervisors make sure everyone is doing what they are suppose to do. Had a tail gate just about every week to insure safety. The Training is pretty good and you have to learn a lot of team work to get the job done.

The Hardest part is keeping production happy you see they use radios and if a certain product is not delivered Production calls about it and this will cause down time. Honestly what hurt the most is when they added 2 more production lines that created a high demand in work load. The most enjoyable part is the people and the special awards that was given to the workers like having food parties and all kinds of functions.

Dole Packaged Foods, LLC was the division of Dole Company, and had the best work environment. The separation started in 2013. This was a difficult period. Keeping all things together while developing a new company was not the simple task. Now it is a new company, with new ambitions, but with very good old traditions to keep. 
The customer oriented food production and services are still the major goal. The shareholders well being is an everyday task for all and each person in the company. 
Dole Packaged Foods, LLC traditionally has multicultural environment and it creates a lot of benefits: open minded discussions, friendliness, and eagerness to try something new. This includes generating new working ideas and testing authentic meals made by coworkers.
It was normal for Dole Company to celebrate the 30 and 20 years of personal working experience, I think, this tradition will be the number one to keep. 
The 85% of workforce, from top to bottom, are great people, who are dedicated to the company's mission and goals.

Dole Company Headquarter has the best working environment, as well, as best working traditions. Many people work there all their life. It is the global company and multicultural environment is build in. I have learned that multicultural environment opens horizons in accepting life as is. I gained the experience of working with people from high- and low-context cultures; working with people from individualistic cultures and from collectivist cultures. I have learned the benefits of self-managing working environment in contrast with micromanaging.
I fall in love with my job and it was hard to stop working and go home. I was not alone.
The CEO, Mr. Murdock made the working environment the healthiest place I ever experienced. It includes glass sealing in a huge hall and live plants all over the building. We enjoyed everyday freshly cocked healthy meals, for a very small price to pay. They are served in local cafeteria that has the open area with waterfall and pond with lilies and fish.

I liked very much working for Dole Fresh Vegetables.  I was hired to work in the Yuma AZ Plant where I had to hire/rehire 900 employees every time the season started in that location.   It was very stressful at the beginning since I had never had that many employees in the previous companies but I ended up enjoying the company and its workers.  I had to deal with the Union and stay in long meetings, which took a long time to take care of my office activities but the important thing that we always were able to fix problems at the grievances levels without have to go to arbitrations. I enjoyed working for Dole but unfortunately the company decided not to open the Yuma Plant anymore and process all the operations from the Soledad Plant and my position was eliminated. Nevertheless, I was still working for Global Mushrooms helping them on weekend and taking care of their business only on holidays and weekends.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of working at dole was nothing the environment there is bad and there is no team work and the supervisosrs and managers dont do right there work alot of people works there and gets pht because they dont have respect and they dont threat you how you need to be threated , i would like to go back with those supervisors working there they should change all the department that works there , there is alot of favoritism there and thats bad for a company

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
the morr stressful part was about not letting you work always be on back of you not letting you do your job

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
its really bad becasue any body takes along with each other how it should br and thats really bad

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
nothing they dont want to give you work and no pay for it

What is the best part of working at the company?
The company is horrible. The worst I ever seen. They have favorites.. The policy is if you are sick do not come to work.. Considering working around food.. If you get sick you best believe you are fired when you get back.. If you looking for a job I Advise you not to make that mistake. The best part of the day is breaks.. They will literally make up points on your attendance. The sad thing about it you don’t have anyone to go to over their heads because they are the ones who are doing it.. 😞😢

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with the management. Who don’t care at all about their employees 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Did cultures. The work environment is cold and unorganized 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Overwhelming. I was lead so I really enjoyed my workers but it was always stressful environment to be in

This place is by far the worst place to work if your on first shift you work 11 hours a day while the other 2 shifts only work 5 or 6 hours n you only get paid $8.25 an hour with no bonus or raise and unless your kissing somebodys butt you won't get nowhere in there and on top of it all hr is nothing but a bunch of lies they only wanna hire illegal immigrants you start off in a temp service n after 90 days your suppose to get rolled over nope I was there for 9 months n nothing they kept telling me I would be rolled over soon n nothing ever happened so I found me another job that pays a lot better n every person in there is ether dating or married n they have s** in the parking lot n security won't do anything about it you are literally having to work your butt off for 5 hours at a time with no break cause everybody wants to take hour long breaks n not get in trouble for it so unless your illegal don't work here

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Quality assurance technician 2 salaries reported	$18.20 per hour
Forklift operator 3 salaries reported	$22.22 per hour
Maintenance technician 9 salaries reported	$28.76 per hour
Shift leader 2 salaries reported	$18.23 per hour
Sanitation worker 2 salaries reported	$20.55 per hour

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