route sales representative

merchandiser

production associate

maintenance technician

maintenance mechanic

Grupo Bimbo

I applied for a vacation relief route position with Bimbo back in October 2013 in Oklahoma City. I received a phone call in July of 2014 about this position and if I was still interested. So be prepared to wait a while once you apply. I interviews 3 different times before I was hired. 

Vacation relief drivers work 6 days a week. So be prepared. You'll have either Wednesday or Sunday off. 

Bimbo does have a union, so advancement opportunity is seniority based, so don't look to move up too soon.

The DM I interviewed with told me that I would have my own route within 6 months because of my previous vending experience. This unfortunately, was not the truth. I had 5 vacation relief drivers ahead of me, so I wasn't going to get a route anytime soon. 

Pros:

Out of all the vending jobs I've had, the bread business is the best paid once you get a route. And its and easy job. IT'S BREAD.

A typical day will start you out around 3 am to 5 am depending on the route you have. You load and unload your truck everyday and you are responsible for most of the ordering. Only a few account call in there orders. Depending on how fast on are, you could be done anywhere from noon to 5 pm. 

The nice this is that most accounts, you don't have to worry about getting checked in. So that saves a ton of time. 

Working here, you'll never have to buy bread or snack cakes ever again. You're encourage to take home product. PERK!!!


Cons:

As a vacation relief driver, you will work 6 days a week either have Wednesday or Sunday off. Which ever of these two days you work, you will be doing pull ups only making $90 for the entire day. 

Be ready to be contacted by management at anytime of day or night to run a route. An you will only get about a hours notice ahead of time.

I was warned by one of the DM's prior to starting that communication was a ongoing issue between management and employees. This was a huge exaggeration. There is little to no communication between the groups. You can't have drivers starting between 3 am and 5 am and management shows up between 8 am and 10 am. And most of the managers are gone well before the drivers get back to settle out for the day. 

For Pay, I was told when I was on a route, I would get paid 10 % of what the route made and if I wasn't on a route, I would only make $90 a day. Every route person there will tell you that they make $1,000 a week which is a lie, most routes make $60,000 plus a year. They don't wanna tell you the truth because most are affair that you will take over there route.

Needless to say with all of the miscommunication and incorrect information I was given, I decided to look elsewhere for employment.


In closing. If you don't mind being given incorrect information, working crazy hours, having no life and only speaking to management when they need you for something. This is the job for you.

This job was the WORST I've ever had. 

When I was hired I was promised at least 20 hours a week to get medical benefits and I was told that school wasn't a problem. So I signed up for classes and I thought everything was fine. 

I didn't get those hours. They kept me at 18 hours a week because upper management didn't want to provide a part-timer health benefits.There was the odd occasion that I worked over 18 hours I was only supposed to get a week of benefits. Which doesn't make sense but my health insurance literally turned off and on depending on how many hours I worked.

The other thing was I was only working 18 hours which was great for school because I had plenty of time for my class work. It was only during the end of the term that things got worse. I was nearing my 3 month probationary period and I got called in for a review. 

I want to say first off that I am an exceptionally hard worker. I arrived on time everyday, I always communicated to make sure that I am doing things right, and I have a really strong work ethic. 

This was the worst review I have ever had, ever. They blamed my schooling for not doing the job correctly. Which was untrue because the manager kept changing her mind. I had to ask everyday what she wanted me to do because everyday it was different. She even got mad when I did something that SHE asked me to do. My manager also blamed me for having to schedule around my school even though she said it was fine when I gave her my school schedule. She called my character into question by saying that I lied about a task that I did when she wasn't there which was untrue. They expected me to SKIP SCHOOL if someone was on vacation and it needed to be covered! I have never been in a job that wanted me to skip something that I was paying for that wasn't interfering with my job. They also told me that I couldn't go back to school in winter or spring because it would interfere with vacations. I couldn't believe what I experienced. I went home that night and I cried my eyes out.  

I HATED going into work. In fact I dreaded it. It was awful. I was on a full job hunt to get out of this awful place. I felt like I was being slowly poisoned and that everyday was just getting worse and not getting better.

However, a week before Thanksgiving they decided that "I wasn't a good fit" and let me go. I guess that was a blessing in disguise because that was an awful, awful job.

Everything about it was just horrible and I highly recommend to avoid this place like the plague. Save yourself, there are better places to work.

I was hired as a Baker's Helper in the Williamsport Bakery. After quitting my stable job for the lure of $17 an hour (lie), really was ($13.70 for non-stop work), we were told that 3 out of 10 people would not make it past the 60 day Union/Company ponzi scheme known as   probation. This was a Union facility and $286 would be deducted from your pay before the 60 day "probationary" period, yet you had no rights that go along with Union membership and 3 out every 10 people hired are given the boot for no reason & you cannot recoup your $286 Union fees. We were told to not talk back to people that would treat us horribly for merely being the new hires or we'd be fired instantly. I was fired after thirty days of work for no reason, I showed up on time, ran 2 lines by myself because my "Union trainers" would constantly smoke and disappear for hours on end, and never called off sick (if you call of sick even with a doctors note or request a day off in the first 60 days your immediately fired). The place is Union yet it gets to be well over 120F in the facility! I am not making this up. I was let go because of the childish mentality that I would not hang out with grown men on my breaks. I needed to cool down in the locker room in order to keep from passing out and didn't want to hang out with the adulterers that smoked outside, so I was shunned as a non-team player even though I carried the weight of 2 to 3 employees and was merely the "new guy." The company is in with the Union and the Union with the company. What a weird place to work. You're either baking to death by the oven racking pans non stop for hours on end, breathing in flour dust with no masks making up product, standing for 8 hours on a monitoring line while people bicker and argue while no chairs are present or you run ten plus miles in 110F heat with humidity in the shipping area while everyone stabs one another in the back. They flash freeze tons of bread in negative temperatures yet no air conditioning in the facility..makes no sense. The bread and employee cleanliness is a horror. Stay away, I'd rather live in the woods in a tent and be poor as opposed to working here. Thanks for firing me, you saved me the hassle of quitting!

I was hired by Sara Lee/Bimbo Bakeries as a Thrift Store Route Driver. This was an entry level route sales position or so I was told. When I was hired, I was told that I would be on salary pay for the first 12 months, then I would be put on the depot average pay scale or get bumped into sales. When my one year came up, I got put on the back burner for about 3 months then I was told that I would now be an hourly paid employee at about the same pay. I was also told that I would no longer be classified as route sales and be at stand alone seniority and if I wanted to be in route sales I would have to apply just like anyone else. I was there two and a half years making the same amount as when I started. Upper management felt that my store accounts needed to go back to the "traditional routes" so my position was eliminated and I got laid off. A week before my lay-off, a position became available at another depot. I applied, got interviewed, had to come in the following Monday morning 4 hours before I started my route to get a feel of the job responsibilities. Again I was put on the back burner for a week. Then I get a text saying that the company has gone in a different direction and "good luck". Since then several positions have become available, I've applied and called HR and have gotten ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSE!! Management is a joke. They talk bad about things you do wrong but when they make the same exact mistake and get disciplined themselves they become your friend and ask for advice. And don't bother asking how to move into another department because all of a sudden your trying to take someones job. Words get switched around by management and they never back you up!!!

A typical workday could last 8 hours or 14 pay was great. overtime was very available to sanitation workers. you would sit and work on a job the full 10-hour shift, or when you were done with it you were given another job to do. this would continue till you had enough having to ask the power-hungry manager what to do after every job. I leaned I am sensitive to corrosive chemicals and ended up having a pretty bad reaction to them on my face. Some stupid oversights with the chemical made my face swell up, get bumpy, and get really hot to the touch. which the first time was an accident then the second time I was put on a job that had the chemicals dripping onto my face, knowing I had had a reaction to it. Then my manager yelled at me for not reporting it right away and confronted me with his higher up as if I was lying. I was not. I also learned that as long as you acted stupid or slow you could hide in the locker rooms or brake room and not have to do any work all day while having little to no punishment. while the rest of us that actually worked were put on job after job after job. management sucked and the jobs were performed in a completely wrong order almost assuring everything you had cleaned the day before would be dirty again the next or at least full of flower, without production even working. There were a lot of good hard-working employees but also a lot of people who would take 10 hours to finish a 2-hour job. the hardest part of the job was keeping my head straight with nothing to keep my mind off things but cleaning for 10 hours. I have ADD and PTSD not a good combination to have with nothing to distract you. I ended up getting sick and not hearing anything back from my manager for four days... in that time I had found another job. good pay with brakes every two hours. 

Bimbo always has and always will struggle to keep people because they view them as numbers and not asbhuman beings. There was a tier system removed which encourage employees to learn more to get paid more. It guaranteed $25 of pay after 3 years of knowledge. Almost 8 years later and I barely make $24. They replaced it with a quarterly bonus program based upon production numbers. We regularly maxed out this bonus, so they removed it. Have you ever heard of less than 1% 401k match? How about 15 cent shift differential? Well Bimbo has both of those great incentives. 5 pto days off a year for new employees and 2 weeks vacations. 5 years employment to get 3 weeks and 12 years to get to only 4 weeks of vacation. Also they make you pick all vacations time for the following year before this current year is over. Expect to work all summer holidays and have your schedule change during all winter holidays. They can force you to stay 2 hours overtime to cover, based on seniority. This regularly happens since they don't know how to keep people. The majority of supervision and management have the least knowledge of how to do the actual jobs on the floor. They promote people whose removal will impact production less. Also those who are willing to be most unlikable people to get the promotion. There is poor communication between Supervisors per shift and supervisors to employees. Which only causes more stress on the people whom do the work and the process.

Typical day at Bimbo Bakery would be ... make sure you're in the building in time to get your uniform, which was the white bakery outfit, hair net.... and beard net if a male. so you change your clothes in locker room, put hair net on. go out to break room ,, wait till it was time to punch in, which NOONE, was allowed to punch in till 5:40pm, at that time you would go into the meeting room where the RL(resource leader)from the shift before us and our RL and us woud talk about the day and what all needs done , at 5 till 6, we would head on out to our line. i worked in wrap and i would either go to conveyer belt on where the muffins were coming down to be inspected,, or in back, where all the machines. bagger. splitter, medal dectector, boxer, weights measurements and shippers packers, would be there. at break you would switch front to back or vice versa. if i was training i would have a training packet/folder that i would go over and give them a tour from front to back.  
I learned alot from this job. we was always taking classes. and one class i did take was personalities that work together. Very educational. Management was helpful. they would join us in  the meetings, give us ideas on how to make our jobs easier.
Hardest part of the job, to me, was learning all the machines, how they worked, how to fix them...
The most enjoyable part of that job was learning the new lines, bread. and starbucks. and the other employees. Ive never worked with so many employees who all would work together.

I worked their for three months and I met some of the best people to work with,  the lead men were , without a doubt, some of the best I've worked for, the  training regiment is non-existent they send you to the dogs and hopefully,you survive. The hardest part of the job besides loading donuts onto trays and putting them in racks, is trying to work your way through management , some of the most incompetent bunch I've ever seen, every week you had an evaluation, I was placed on five different pieces of machinery and told to listen to the operator. I was the only trainee who did that . Their isn't any Standard Operating Procedures and if your given a bad operator your out of luck . Make sure to get copies of every report that's given to you, I was given good reviews up until the last four days of my ninety day probation. Every word that was said to me was negative and i was mostly evaluated by only two of the 15 Supervisors. It was stated to me if I was positive you would have nothing to work at.Two of  the supervisors that were their everyone would walk on eggshells when they were around they could find something wrong with your PPE or your uniform at any given second. I guarantee you, if you ever work their you will know who they are by the ego that both of those supervisors have I'm surprised they can fit through a door. Any person that is in upper management is treated like royalty by the two yes men.So, if your looking for a place, that pays well and you want Sat. and Sun. off this is not for you.

Unless you are desperate and I mean absolutely desperate......like sleeping under a railroad bridge, I would not seek employment at BBU, especially the Carlisle plant. To start the facility is managed like something out of a turn of the century sweatshop. The management has no respect for the union contract, let alone it's employees. Even beyond the union contract  management still has no respect for their employees or their famalies. Production forced to work overtime and their days off, forced to work in dangerous and unsanitary conditions. There is a real culture of fear generated in the workforce, if you are injured and report it, you will be given a write up possibly fired. Maintenance department is being forced to work 10 day schedules, or forced to work nonsensical "weekend utility shifts" so good chances are if you hire in the best thing you can hope for after 15 years of employment is that you can move from weekend utility graveyard shift, to weekend utility daylight. Management is abusive of their employees in the way they talk to them and treat them, what kind of place have you heard of that bosses go around farting in employees faces. The union cannot do anything for you because they just don't know how to, and they don't care. If somebody comes in here that cares about the union or knows anything about it they fire him.....only person knew anything about the union they just fired for no reason and also his friend. So stay away.......stay far away

Working at Bimbo Bakeries as a Route Sales Professional has been an incredibly rewarding experience. The company has a strong reputation in the industry, and it’s clear they value their employees just as much as their products.

From day one, I felt supported by management and my peers. The training is comprehensive, ensuring that you have all the tools and knowledge you need to succeed. The role involves managing established routes, maintaining relationships with customers, and ensuring product freshness and availability. It’s a job that keeps you on your feet, but the independence and satisfaction of managing your own route is a great perk.

The company culture is another major highlight. Bimbo Bakeries fosters a collaborative environment where hard work is recognized and rewarded. There’s a strong emphasis on safety and work-life balance, which is important in a physically demanding role like this. Additionally, there are plenty of opportunities for career advancement. If you show dedication and results, there’s room to grow within the company.

The pay is competitive, and the benefits package is generous, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. The company also offers incentives and bonuses based on performance, making the effort you put in even more rewarding.

Overall, being a Route Sales Professional at Bimbo Bakeries is a fulfilling job. If you’re looking for a stable, rewarding career in a supportive company, Bimbo Bakeries is a fantastic choice.

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