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To be successful you have to be raised in the area attended school in area live in the area practically all your life and not be of another ethnicity . If you are new to the area or you are of another ethnic background the other employees will treat you with disrespect, spread rumors about you to others and fellow management, the environment basically becomes a battle at work to push all the negative energy, drama and gossip away from you. Other employees  including management who been there for a long time will see that you don’t grow quick in the company and defame you to keep you down from leaving their shift or department. The owners of the company aren’t in touch with what goes on in the plant. There is discrimination against other ethnic groups the majority of employees there  are not ready to take orders from you if you are of another ethnicity. Management there some are related some are close friends, one hand washes the other and equal opportunities are nonexistent. Everyone wants to be the leader despite if they are wrong. Stay away from employees that have the know it all personality they are never wrong and will blame you. If you get a opportunity for an interview stay away from 3rd shift on the production side. Nobody wants to work it it’s the worst shift to get on, I’ve watched people come and go in the past 2 years because of the manager and the staff.

I’m only speaking on behalf of Tuffy’s. I will say KLN up north seems like a well established organization. Although, Tuffy’s is being held back at every corner by upper management and unable to develop a culture. Everyday I gave all I had to this place only to be shoved aside for people whom shouldn’t be in roles. They will promote internal, but only if it highly benefits them and they have no other option. 

There is a large separation from upper management to the rest of the team. Turnover is also extremely high. Take a vacation and look around, when you’re back some of the same faces won’t be there. The problem is no one cares enough to combat this or is afraid to speak up. KLN speaks highly of “people first” and their demonic ritual chants before meetings yet never adheres to their own core beliefs. Try to do that and you’re shunned for speaking out. There are plenty of other jobs out there. I did love this plant and I hope the management culture changes in the near future. 

There are some wonderful people here. Again though, all being held back. With recent layoff’s and some unethical ways of handling things I decided it was it. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. 

I’ve been working here for almost 3 years and it seems like every each year things have gotten so hard and strict, I did enjoy the job until this year I seem to had enough with it. 10 hours seems too much especially dealing with rude toxic people in the area, I have tried to report these certain types of people but it feels like I’m getting ignored and not being understood.

It’s mentally draining when they would report you on every small little thing you do that either annoys them or by accident.


I do not dislike or hate the management or supervisors but it feels like they’re also not paying attention on what’s happening on the back side of the building, so I sort of just gave up and put my two weeks in. Can’t trust no one at all.

Okay benefits and insurance but poor toxic stressing environment to work in.  I just kinda wish things would have gotten better. I will deeply miss the ones who I’ve worked with for years.

Started out around the pandemic with lots of hours and steady work. The company was doing well. There is always a lot of advancement but there is a lot of favoritism; unless you’re kissing up, you probably won’t move around.  Pay is so so. They gave lots of raises for a year or so but it has slowed down. They also try and keep employees around with perham bucks and incentives like employee appreciation meals or sweets.
They have been good for a while but lost lots of employees and can’t find more help. They hire papered help and the culture is more like high school.  Cliques.
It’s all gravy work for lazy people but also mindless work.
Management is cut throat and only care about productivity and pushing product. Not the ergonomics of work either.
If you’re lucky to get in the right building you will probably get 40 hours a week. The company can’t guarantee hours or your job. Lots of furlough the last year and a half.  Wish things were better. 

A typical day at work is punching in early and bagging on one machine for an hour or two hours and rotating every hour or two hours to the next machine. We did paperwork and cleaned as we went along. We got two 15 minute breaks for an eight hour shift. We had to wait until someone took our place and then we punched out and went home. We worked 40 hours 5 days a week. I learned to be quick, endurance, and how to pass the time along faster. Our manager was terrible. He wouldn't know what was going on. He seemed to be rude to people for no apparent reason. Co-workers were okay. I made a few friends but people loved to start drama and not like each other for no apparent reason. It was childish. The hardest part of the job was that it was boring doing the same thing for 8 hours a day. The most enjoyable part were some of my co-workers that were nice.

This company is absolutely terrible to work for. They will bring you on and tell you your not just another number when you truly are. The management is abusive and don’t understand personal things in their employees lives. The supervisor on first shift will get in your face swear at you and act so unprofessional. They will attack your mental health and if you are a single mother they expect you to get care if your child is sick. They say they want to build you up and want you to move up in the company but they don’t even care if you are a hard worker. They care about your attendance and that is it. If you want to find a job that cares about you this company does not. The pay is terrible and they treat all of their employees like slaves. The WORSE company to work for! 

Supervisors are all buddies, Disciplinary action based on personal relationships, Employees input not valued, Repetitive brainless work, Production speed favored over food safety, Runs on Point System, Benefits withheld for "too many" points, Employees will not recieve time off for funerals, Supervisors however will receive one paid week off for a funeral of someone in the same relation to them as that of the employee's. HR is minimally helpful to employees. Management is pushing to expand certain ethnic communities in the area, based on race alone.

Tuffys Treats is a fast-growing startup company that is continuously providing room for advancement to our employees, and great perks to any future candidates. I have met both management and production employees that are very driven, passionate, and fun-loving individuals. Our leadership is supportive and hands-on to make sure our production runs efficiently and although we have some hiccups at times, we can guarantee we are fixing them each day. My favorite part of work is sharing pet stories with many of our employees and getting to hire amazing individuals from many surrounding communities. 

No strategy, frantic (everything is behind from the beginning) to show activity vs. engaging in productive activity, a few people make all decisions but avoid responsibility, many people are in the wrong roles, place needs to be shut down, reorganized (not based on nepotism) with competent leaders, and restarted. The company does make an effort to develop employees (in part because of a huge turnover problem), but is stuck in the past in many ways. 

Worked here for 5 years and it’s only gotten worse supervisors who micromanage but don’t know how to do the job themselves to HR not handling situations correctly to management running around making everything worse with there panic rush to get everything done as fast as possible to not having anything to do but clean the same things for months because they ran out of orders to maintenance not being able to actually fix anything and the same problem happens over and over again to taking shortcuts that are not safe but they get the job done to using expired ingredients and just keep pushing the date back so it’s “ good again “ this place has it all the only positive is the pay 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 21 salaries reported	$22.15 per hour
Laborer 14 salaries reported	$19.58 per hour
Operator 5 salaries reported	$24.32 per hour
Forklift operator 7 salaries reported	$21.88 per hour
Mill operator 7 salaries reported	$22.62 per hour

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