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FreshRealm

4+ year old "start-up" with many good people working harder than they need to because they don't know any better. Upper management squanders their talents with lack of planning, ever changing goals and unreasonable expectations. Mostly reactive operations with little to no proactive planning or desire to understand issues. No interest in reality checks or taking input from experienced employees if it conflicts with upper managements 'vision'. 

Corporate office living in a bubble and are out of touch with field operations actual requirements or issues. Corporate structure lacking basic policies and functional groups and must push those tasks to individual contributors wasting time and money. Using very clumsy google docs for accounting and quality documentation such as there is. Would rather re-invent the wheel at great expense than invest in proven technologies. Corporate nepotism abounds with friends hiring/protecting friends.

No difinitive communication of goals, no clear operational structure, no appearant desire to build infrastructure. Drink the Kool-aide and you'll do fine.

Typical day included:
*computer setups for new hires
*Helpdesk support for HQ and remote loctaions
* IT Purchasing for All location
* Travel (sometimes) to New plants to setup Computer Infrastructure
What i Learned:
*This was a Startup company still in its infancy, So budgeting for systems was key, reusing older hardware and making it useful due to lack of funding. How to adapt to unreasonable deadlines, working with a constantly changing environment.
Management:
My manager was probably the best i have ever served under. That being said, upper management was lacking common sense. Thats why they had to restructure the entire company after 1 year. 
Workplace Culture:
Very progressive, very low key, casual, open, friendly.
Hardest Part Of the Job:
Watching management make poor decisions even after listening to the expert advice coming from the ground up.
Most enjoyable part of the Job:
Knowing that all of my piers respected and acknowledged my skills and felt reassured that i knew how to fix their issues.

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at FreshRealm is almost non-existent. Normal to work over 50+ hours and being on call 24/7.

Pay & benefits
My pay and benefits at FreshRealm are not equal. Getting evaluated for a raise almost never happens.

Job security and advancement
In terms of job security at FreshRealm, I think its lacking. There were multiple rounds of layoffs a year, only for people to be re-hired for those same roles a month later. No one ever knew if they would be next.

Management
In general, managers at FreshRealm do not provide the level of support or interaction that they should.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at FreshRealm is strained. Most departments do not work well with each other due to a "clique" like atmosphere.

Overall
My experience working at FreshRealm was mostly negative. I was able to get some new skills and I've made a couple friends within my department, but otherwise it was too negative of a place.

I worked at FreshRealm at their Riverside location as a member of their salaried team in 2017. The company is small but growing, management team’s overall collaboration was lacking. Expect to work lots of hours when you’re on salary. Back in 2017 their systems wasn’t fully developed. They were using google docs and a cheap MRP system that is not even integrated. Their site in Riverside is a leased space and it’s small. Your workspace will be in a trailer adjacent to the site. If you’re a salaried member expect to work long hours and travel to their other locations for training or relocation. They do not practice accountability and never follows the SOP. Benefits were decent back then, they have no 401k but pto is unlimited as long it doesn’t interfere with business needs. Also I thought the salary is competitive, they pay well for salaried members. Goodluck!

The work is easy. Hours are very short because lots of stores are cancelling their orders. The amount of food they waste daily is ridiculous. Management changes processes daily. Only to change them right back the next day. I am a full time employee yet I only work 3-4 hours a day and if I go over that management will come out on the floor and literally watch you so you’ll hurry up and leave. Management treats everyone unfairly and does not communicate effectively. Half of them don’t know what their doing. Trucks are always late so it slows production down every week. They treat the workers like garbage and there’s no respect for anyone here. The supervisors get to hang out in the office all day with the plant managers while everyone else freezes in the production room, timed when they use the restroom and disciplined for trying to get coffee to stay warm. Ridiculous

What is the best part of working at the company?
The company doesn’t care about the employees, they remove and remove labor and expect the same output of work, I would give 0 star not even 1, they push push and they don’t want to pay their employees better wedges cording to the job they are doing, everyone so tired of doing 3-5 jobs at once bc they don’t want to pay for more employees.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The company and management doesn’t have communication amongst themselves to support their employees 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Associates are very nice and do the job with care and they are like a family 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Always stress due to short staff and short ingredients

12 hour shifts and unorganized work schedules. Management  looks out for friends, associates, and family. No matter how you do your job your hours can be cut short  unexpectedly. Just because they holding a spot for a certain person to get hired on. They can have the help right in front of them but will hire someone in their circle just to knock a dependable  person down.Freshrealm can be a good place of work , only if people of Management  all over would do their job the right way no matter who the team members  is. The reality of it is if they have team members showing up that means that person is willing to work. If things was going right they won't have to use a temp. service for hire.

Not what it is cut out to be. No training, No SOP's, blind leading the blind. Don't be fooled by the illusion of an upscale facility. Very disfunctional site, have to put in 12-20 hour days on average. Endless useless meetings everyday were you learn nothing and are given more unreasonable tasks. Can't even spend time on your own job because your on multiple calls with inexperienced personel. Employees discouraged due to years of running on bad leadership. High turnover in leadership roles. Team leads, supervisors don't want to step up and would rather do the bare minimum. Not sure how the place is still running but not to confident on this company’s future with the current state.

•	Performed the CAPA process and driven CAPAs to closure, following up on progress, tracking time to closure, recurrences and overall CAPA effectiveness.
•	Lead process improvement initiatives including process experimentation, process design, process optimization, process control to reduce waste to achieve continuous improvement and ultimately lead to quantum leap cost reductions
•	Worked within a multidisciplinary quality team to establish and continuously enhance a more comprehensive Quality Management System, with the integration of multiple departments' information databases into a centralized platform for efficient data report generation during CAPA projects.

Company is cheap and constantly cutting corners. Do not work for Freshrealm because you will overworked and undervalued, the company is more concerned with getting the job done cheap instead of done right. They are constantly understaffed and fill up most of the positions with whatever temp workers they can get will all the hourly associates must do the job of 2 to 3 people because the company doesn't want to hire the appropriate number of staff so that they can save money. Freshrealm is more concerned with trying to make a profit and getting contracts with new companies and they care little for fostering a safe and productive work environment.

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