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When I started there I had experience in construction, but little mechanical knowledge. By the 2 year mark I was very knowledgeable mechanical and had electrical knowledge as well. It has a bunch of good and bad.  It just matters what is important to you.  Upper management is horrendous, sneaky, vindictive and are control freaks. One in particular is the absolute worst and if you ever get there and remember this review it won’t take you long to figure out who.  Lower management that I dealt with were all good people. They were supportive, had good leadership skills, very positive and helpful.  Sometimes they would come in at almost quitting time with a last minute job that could have clearly been communicated earlier to allow mechanics to adjust and handle the task more efficiently and comfortably, but all in all they are some of the best managers I have ever dealt with.  You are scheduled 6 days a week and will get very little time off until you get your seniority up, but are very well compensated for it monetarily.  I can’t say the rest of the benefits amount to much. I never really used the health insurance and the free college benefit is very limited on the courses you can get and they are odd courses.  I got discounted AAA coverage and some sort of package with my Costco membership and they have discounted meat available to employees. I enjoyed the people I worked with and you will be there so much they eventually become something like family.  They have an overpriced cafeteria, but you can buy anything without cash in hand it’ll come off your next check, drink machines included.  I would recommend anyone that wants to bring basic skills up to the next level to give them a shot.  I learned quite a bit there and if you want to make a bunch of money while learning a bunch it’s a good place to do it. Seeing all those dead pigs though can turn people away it’s a little gruesome.

QA's are overworked and underappreciated. Management holds you responsible for all Quality and Food Safety issues. Production staff tend to not correct mistakes, you get blamed for it. Floor staff gets annoyed when asked to comply with SOPs and other Safety/quality rules. You will often pick up the slack when the floor employes aren't performing. The QA job is a burn out position.

The hours are unpredictable; you never know whether your're working an 8 hour day, 12 hour day or anything in between. This makes it hard to have a life outside of work. This results in you using a lot of vacation time to cover personal appointments. 

The pay seems okay at first, then when you realize all of your responsibilities, it is really not enough. The starting pay is only .50 more than the starting pay for a floor employee, but you have infinitely more responsibilities and are not able to slack of as the floor employees tend to do.

The point system for QA's is also more strict compared to standard floor employees. Floor employees get 6 points, which drop off after 6 months. QA's also get 6 points, but theirs take a whole year to expire. You'll need to use your vacation time to cover illness if you will be out multiple days .

Management (Green Hats) spend a lot of their time micromanaging or watching the cameras in their offices. They tend to not improve situations unless somebody from corporate complains. There is a lot of favoritism going on with promotions and the assignment of more desirable positions. Employees are treated as disposable.

The building is dirty, wet, cold, and overcrowded. Employees leave the cafeteria and lockers rooms filthy. They do not have enough toilets and sinks for the amount of employees on site. Toilets frequently overflow and cause a nasty mess in the locker rooms.

Overall, I DO NOT recommend working as a QA or for the company in general.

It's a very large company with 1,200 + employees.  They do a very thorough job interviewing - Interviews, Background check, drug tests. etc. 
They do a great job with perks and incentives for their employees. They are always recruiting...does this mean they have a high turnover?  
The company is located in Greeley, Only three big buildings around and huge parking lots on the front/back of the building.  It maybe a long commute depending on where you live.  They have a large full cafeteria for their staff with breakfast/lunch menus.
I was very impressed with the size of the company, friendly smiles and welcoming feeling, but in reality people are not that happy or thrilled with the work they do.  They have low cubicle walls so their is free-flowing communication between staff.  Staff mainly communicate to each other if it's work related, otherwise everyone is heads down working.  They allow family members to work there as long as they work in different departments and are reporting to different managers.
Large corporation with a lot of information to track. Jobs are very unique and require a heavy use of Excel.  Unless you are a numbers person, this may not be very stimulating or rewarding work.  They in turn are very flexible with your schedule, off course depending on what your job requirements are.  They seem to value employees more if they are from with in the meat industry.  Compensation is very much tied to that more then experience and education.  Compensation is on the low side for administrative jobs, which is the majority of the work in this industry.  Management is cordial, but it's difficult talking to the majority of them outside of the scope of work.  After all you are there to work not socialize.

You are required to work 8-5 with mandatory hour lunch.  No overtime allowed 
No real training basically learn as you go 
No training documents 
Pay is horrible 
Team building is non existent 
High turn over rate 
Managers wives and girlfriends work in HR so don’t file a complaint 
Managers accept gifts from employees as favors
Some team members get special hours most do not 
Managers and supervisors have friends working under them so lots of special treatment 
Conflict ignored 
Managers severely favor certain employees 
Expect strict work environment 
Breaks monitored 
Zero phone usage in corp offices or bonus taken away
Benefits are cheap and decent 
There is a high deductible $3000 for 2 people 
Everyone is constantly sick
No working from home so sickness just goes around and around 
Very clicky 
High school mentality is very strong 
Meat sales are usually for expired meat and are not often 
Meat discount isn’t great 
Supervisors have a full plate and not much training on how to supervise 
Managers don’t interact with team much if at all
Hold you accountable for issues out of your control 
Work life depends on which department you are hired into 
Culture is horrible 
Using the “free” school is difficult and there was no resources to help and the hours don’t work for going to school 
Zero fire drill or evacuation drills.  No one knows what to do in Emergencies 
No weather closures report to corporate even in bad weather 
You will work Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Only 2 people can have time off at one time 








A typical day of work is usually just walk to the locker rooms change into white clothes, hard hat, safety glasses, steel toe boots, and equipment if I have to work with knifes. PPE includes: mesh glove, mesh apron, blue apron, knifes, safety glasses, hard hat, cotton gloves, safety glove, steel toe boots.

It all depends on the day, if someone is missing that day, then if I qualify for that job that I will fill in the job, usually during the day I can be move to different jobs. For example I could be in the shaving area, hogs will go by hanging in trolleys, as they go by I would be standing in the production line with my PPE on, and shave the hogs hair off, I can be moved to the hot hair rail where I have to use my PPE and fix hogs that might have a problem such as to much hair I would need to shave there skin off with a hand skinner, or some hogs might come out extra cooked, so I would either cut the part that need to be cut, if it was the whole hog I would have to cut it down into pieces and throw it away. usually work 8 to 10hrs everyday and work saturdays too.

Not all the jobs that I did, included PPE but most of them, during my 1st year and a half, I had the chance to learn a fair amount of jobs with different supervisors, in different areas. I qualify for most of the jobs there in the kill floor, if I didn’t qualify or if that jobs was extremely heavy or hard I would move the employee that was qualify and I would fill for the person. Am able to work with the hand skinner, the wizard knife, the bung gun, knifes, steam vacuum.

0500-0530  If your in management /Supervisor meetings start 1 hour before the shift starts. 
What I have learned here is that no one supervisor or superintendent is more important than your employees (white hats). Safety and food safety is at the forefront of this company obligations, followed by product specifications and make sheet accuracy. 
This company is very diverse with a plethora of ethnicity and family oriented co-workers and team members. 
Relentless follow-up and the Circle of Success are key at this company, along with attention to detail you plan to make this company a career.
Lots of over time if you are looking for the opportunity to increase your financial status whether you want it or not you will WORK!!!
The hardest part of the job is getting everyone to come to work on a consistent basis, without your employees you will not run or be successful in your KPI's or your yields. 
Most enjoyable part of the job is the interaction getting to know everyone on a 1 on 1 basis being able to laugh and enjoy healthy conversations.  Being able to say if you need me I am here to support you. Overall it is the people who make JBS what it is not the management. The people are the IMPORTANT RESOURCE.....

Unless you have nowhere else to go with that amount of pay then I wouldn't go to this job. 

From the time of the interview I was very excited to work for this job. That's what you want from employees, eager workers who can give great feedback on your work environment and love their jobs so your company isn't a revovling door. On the day of my orientation I called the office number and talked with an operated who was rude. I told her that I had the interview on a Monday and had a misunderstanding of what time I was suppose to be there because I had a sticky note that said the plant opened at 7am but there were two bus schedules. One at 4:15am and another at 1:15pm. She then responded rudely asking me if you knew the orientation was at 8 why are you just now calling? However, if you read right I had just said 7am. She left the phone after I gave her my information but by this time I felt bad about how I was talked to and I knew that if an operator could talk to me like that with no regard for my situation then I could only imagine how the supervisors or management would treat me. I dislike people who allow their anger or frustration to carry over into their work and I knew I'd be that person if I worked for this company because of how I was talked to.

Clock in at 6pm. Go to the shop gear up. Meet with 1st shift about the day. What happens to what. What was done. How to prevent it from happing again. Things of that sort. After that, you go take a walk/ride to do your checks/rounds. Check on your department. Your machines. After your checks are done, if everything is good, you see if anyone else needs a hand with something. If not, you star getting ready for your startup. When production leaves for the night, around 11:30/12:30, you do shut downs/teardown your machines and get ready for sanitation to come in and do there thing. While sanitation is sanitizing everything, your doing any work orders or preventive maintenance work you need to do. When done with that it will be time for start up. Start all your departments machinery up and make sure all is doing what it should. Then wait for the production crew to come in and run product. All your hard work you did prior to startup, everyone can tell if you did your job well. You get no calls on your radio telling you this is not running right, or these blades need changed. No calls for you. That’s your day. Go do your paperwork, meet with the next shift to let them know what happens on our shift. Clock out. Go grab a cold one. Kick back at home. Rest. Then do it all again. 

A typical day at work starts with a meeting to review the goals of the day pertaining to customer service. The techs with the highest MPS ratings get recognition then we are deployed to our jobs. 
Once our schedules are received each tech has 7-10 homes to visit for installation or repairs on their cabletv/internet needs. 
Customer service is very important in this industry due to the fact most customers are disgruntled since most customers wont be able to get a technician to their homes earlier than a week after their request is made.
The hardest part of this job is the time management while dealing with a hostile customer. Many times I've experienced customers who become aggressive when I arrived to their home due to price increases and incorrect pricing from customer service/dispatch were given to the customer. What I've learned about this job is to be patient with all customers and service all request if possible. I've learned to proceed to complete my duties while listening to the customers complaints. The most enjoyable part of my job is leaving their home with my duties met and a smile on the customers face from satisfaction of cable services working.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay is good and fair. But you really don’t have time to spend it because of the long hours you work 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Upper management allow a lot of negative things to go on. It’s bullying, racism, discrimination going on in the faculty and when you try to explain to them what’s going they run from like they not want to be bother. They go off what other people are saying about you instead listening and getting to you on their own. It’s a very uncomfortable environment to work in. No one is on the right side.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very divided especially if if you have issue.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Horrible it’s a few ladies that I work gives me problems everyday I have been to Human Resources numerous of times about the situation but they do not won’t to be bothered. But it’s ok because sometimes you have to legal services involve to make the problem resolve and I have time for it.

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