truck driver

order picker

buyer

driver

produce associate

Gold Star Foods

Gold Star foods is a great place to work if you do not mind a poor work life balance and no opportunity to grow. Any semblance of growth opportunity is given to those closest to management. If you are not close friends with them, you won’t get any chance to get anywhere higher than where you applied. In the finance department, people are leaving or being replaced almost on a monthly basis. 
The worst department is Accounts Payable. There is little to no formal training for those that come into the company and they are forced to learn via a vague manual. I have seen nearly a dozen people come and go in the AP department in the one year I have been there because it is a mess or they were not able to handle the constant stress of the job. It had gotten to the point that by the time I left, there was only one person in AP for a 3-4 person department and no one else that was interviewed was “qualified” so all the other departments had to allocate one hour of their own time to help out. In addition, by the time I left I had been working almost 45-50 hours weekly, even during periods of time that was not during month end. 
There is little to no actual support from management and constant babysitting that needs to be done for other departments. Even department managers that have been there for years need to babysat from time to time to get the information needed to do your job. In addition, prepare to be thrown under the bus constantly by management. 
As I stated in the summary, it is Gold Star, not Gold Standard. If you do not mind a very fast paced, disorganized organization with little opportunity to grow, then this place is perfect. 

Depending on the job, a typical day at work is knowing that you will have to do overtime every day on shift. The beginning of the school year is always tough where you know you need to make no other commitments other than work. Expect to work between 60-70 hours a week as a driver. If you are in management you are expected to work between 80-110 hours per week on salary and take the work home. Work needs to be done yesterday if in management. No real work life balance. When in management, you are receiving calls at all hours of the day even when in the hospital attending an ill family member. During your vacations, you will never receive what is called a disconnected vacation even as a driver. Someone is always calling you for the smallest things that can be resolve internally by someone else. The most enjoyable part of the job was training and developing a diverse work culture with a combination of male and female workers for a diverse group of ethnicity. The hardest part of the job was seeing that if you are not with them you are against them. There is no opportunity for advancement if you are not like them. I hope this helps make your decision when considering the job. Otherwise, if you feel like you need the job, take it and make it your own. 

1) Management don’t know what they want or where to start in building a strong supply chain center. They have already lost the Morale and respect of the warehouse workers who are the bread winners in the trenches for the company can’t keep good talent and they abuse the great talent they have until you quit or find better work environment as far as mental health and well being.
2) They Fire the hard workers and people who care about the job and give 1 million chances to bums.
3) hires too many temps and not enough actual full time employees who have responsibilities and families. Some new hires don’t even last a year. Or should I say 2 weeks.
4) takes one year to get PTO and if your in a department like receiving, shipping, or inventory you really can’t miss days cause your team only thinks about self. Or sleep 😴 at work trust me
5) outdated equipment or not enough for the staff.
6) you suppose to take 8-10 hours to finish but when you have upper management hiring bums and no clear direction for your company cause people are being paid a lot of money and don’t know what they doing from the word go. If you get a day where it’s over 12,000 PCs expect 16-18hr days if you go above that it’s over you will be their until daylight 

Working at this company poses significant challenges due to severe disorganization and lack of support from leadership. Direct supervisors offer little to no assistance, while the VP's micromanaging behavior only exacerbates the already toxic work environment. The senior leadership's incompetence leaves employees without crucial guidance or backing.

Colleagues can actively sabotage those they dislike, creating a hostile and demoralizing atmosphere. The company's chaotic structure and nonsensical purchasing strategies result in widespread inefficiencies and redundancies, making day-to-day operations needlessly complicated.

Individuality and constructive criticism are not tolerated, with dissenters swiftly shown the door. The alarming turnover rate serves as a clear warning sign of the detrimental work culture that persists unless decisive action is taken to replace ineffective senior management.

Internal miscommunication fuels a blame game among departments, eroding trust and accountability. Prospective employees should proceed with caution, as the daunting challenges presented by this organization may not be easily overcome without systemic changes at the highest levels.

Their driving position is on-call because they do not tell you your hours you will work until the night before. They do not properly pay overtime and normally short pay hours on payroll. Drivers went on strike and the company did not care. They hired temporary workers to replace the regular drivers. They are never prepared and the drivers are required to load and unload their own trucks at the dock because the warehouse rarely loads it themselves. Everything is unorganized and not in delivery order. Many times the load in the truck falls over and the warehouse does not care -- they just load it wrong the next day. It is not a good working environment for anyone and it only pays $14 per hour to work any shift, day or overnight. They also do not notify drivers before they will be taking a day or week off for a holiday unpaid. Drivers are off work for one month around Christmas unpaid and again for 3 months during the summer. It is unreliable and I would recommend anyone look elsewhere.

Gold Star Foods was a great experience. I had a wonderful learning experience building the renovated warehouse in Dixon ca.  That expanded my horizon from a day to day mechanic to being named Fleet operations and safety supervisor. my day consisted of training new hires. assisting and escorting visitors and suppliers due to the time our warehouse was vacant. address equipment issues with transportation and warehouse and service providers. Verify temp recordings are done. rearranging warehouse forklifts on charge and diagnosing broken and advising of repair or service needed. Ensuring and preparing the sealing of warehouse for SQF. fixing concerns around the warehouse that may not have been renovated or new issues. Facility, Maintenance and Safety. Had many hats and learned from each one of them. Great experience. Fast paced and critical. Kids school food Distribution.  Do it for the Kids!

Expect to have no life working for this company/ dept. You will be expected to work at least 50 hrs a week and for some reason it's normalized. Raises are a joke if you ever get one. Employees that have been there long get paid the worse while new employees have bigger wages. Managers take advantage of you and you will be burned out 100% guaranteed. The expectations are high and my wage was an absolute joke. And every manager at every dept is terrible. A growing company with potential that doesn't know how to use it.

Only good thing to say is that you genuinely learn a lot and the managers at contracts train well. Managers will also approve almost every pto request unless it is in the bidding season in which only emergencies are excusable. I've applied many skills that I learned here at other roles. Benefits are the usual that every company offer so it's not very competitive or compelling.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The co- workers , a lot of drivers will help you out with getting familiar with the routes 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being micro managed by the so- called supervisors. Questioning you why are you taking so long to unload, separate, check with the kitchen staff with the invoices and put away in the coolers or freezer. They expect you to off load 2-3 pallets in 20 minutes 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s better working nights because you don’t have a lot of eyes on you. You have more leeway to get your work done 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get your invoices for your route, check and separate invoices, pre trip truck, head out and complete your route, post trip and give your invoices to your dispatcher

It is an ok job in terms of starting your driving career. Supervisor manny and other driver supervisors are very helpful. Dispatch however is horrible, upper management is no help at all. Union is of no use at all; you’re paying your dues for no reason at all just giving your money away.
Pay for drivers is 25$ an hour class a/ 23 an hour class b. OT after 10. No raises except when union contract deems it so.

Work load is ok for a food service job you verify each stop and item to a paper invoice. However warehouse seems to load the trucks with their feet(aka horribly). But that seems to be a problem at any food service place. Stops are in the worst neighborhoods at schools in  LA at night.

Besides all this it could be a job you would tolerate if you’re a hard worker. I would’ve stayed if they had higher pay.

This could be a great job if they had better priced insurance and predictability with summer furloughs, but sadly I didn't experience it when I was there.
Warehouse was the best I've seen in food service.  Some knuckleheads, but if there was an issue, the head guy addressed it.  
You deliver  95% to schools, so that's the schedule you follow.  Expect to wait if you arrive during drop off or pick up.  You will see every corner of your state.  If crowded parking lots and backroads bother you, this may not be a fit.  There is product handling with some pallet drops.  Depends on the route.  You have a liftgate and usually helpers at the rural schools, so it seemed like foodservice lite compared to US Foods.  Expect at least 1 layover per week with a food per diem.  

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 26 salaries reported	$26.98 per hour
Order picker 16 salaries reported	$21.03 per hour
Buyer 4 salaries reported	$73,663 per year
Driver 8 salaries reported	$24.92 per hour
Produce associate 1 salary reported	$83,500 per year

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