forklift operator

mechanic

laborer

maintenance technician

maintenance mechanic

Lakeside Foods, Inc.

I worked there every other summer while in college and held multiple positions. This is a frozen vegetable production facility so a typical day for me involved boxing frozen bags of veggies and stacking pallets. I also performed QC check on bag seals, lot and barcode labels, expiration dates, product mixing and consistency, machine operation and product grade selection. I learned much about the function of a frozen vegetable packaging facility and some quality/food safety.
Management was not the greatest as some people in management were really good, while others were not good at all. Supervisors yelled at their employees and would drag/pull on their arms and point fingers as if they cannot comprehend directions. HR was not informative and at time held information from those who do not understand English well, such as that there is FMLA when an employee needs to use it. The hardest part of the job is to see supervisors yell at old minority women and not treating them with respect. The most enjoyable is that they let me hold multiple positions and I got to learn much from working there.

I have worked for this company off an on for 15 years and untill 2019 it had been an enjoyable place to work. After loosing one of its most valuable managers in 2019 due to retirement , the company has hired new employees that are not qualified for their position in supervisor roles and the facility at new richmond has taken a devestating turn in the wrong way. In 2019 almost half of the feild department has quit, ready to quit, or will not return next year. This was due to bad employment hires and lack of suporvisors doing their roles and ensuring a fair , freindly , and comfertable place to work.  I hope they can figure out how to get back on the right path but its sad to say after many years of devoting my life to this company  because i enjoyed my job and the people that i worked with, im feeling strongly i do not want to be an employee of lakeside for much longer.

In the frozen warehouse my duties are to pull orders from stock and stage them to be loaded on outbound truck lines after they are counted and checked over.  I also load trucks and take care of all the paper work that needs to be signed by myself and the truck driver before departure.  Other duties include receiving inbound loads and stocking them in the warehouse.
The management is good and willing to listen and consider my suggestions to make improvements.  Most of the management have been with the company for more than 20 years.
The hardest part of the job is dealing with the temperature of the environment which is -10 degrees.
The most enjoyable part is the camaraderie I have with my co workers.

Pay is fairly good. Place is so missed managed and everyone just does their own thing with no communication. If they find out you’re a good worker, they’ll put all the work on you, and let the bad workers sit around and do nothing. You can get so much over time if you want because no one is watching you. Handful of people go find places to hide and sleep on the job. When they’re caught, management try’s to play it off as if it’s no big deal. All they really want is cans, don’t fully care about employees. Break downs happen every day, but they find the cheapest and quickest bandaid fix, which usually results in another bigger break down within a week. 

I was working for Lakeside Foods last July, my first day there I was injured on the job and was put on restricted work duty. Well the manager told me that this would not affect my pay rate as long as I was still logging the hours. Well for two days I still logged in the right amount of hours and worked hard doing what I was supposed to do, I was then cleared by the doctor to work again and was told by the general manager that he would call me the next time he wanted me to come into work. I'm still waiting for that call, and when I went to pick up my pay check I received only half of what I was told I would receive.

i came inot work like 20 mins befor i had to start at 8:00am  thne when 8:00am came i puch in and theni work tell 4:00pm What i learned is to get long with people even if you realy do not like them try to be reaily nice  to them at work. My coworkers were reaily nice to me and i was reaily nice to them back and i would talk to them when i was working to pass some time at work.The hardest part of the job was when a a mechine back up  because then all ther green beans would fall on the floor and it would take a long time to pick them up and it would take a lot of trips back and foreth with the wheelbarrow. What i liked the most at work was get to talk to the peole there to pass the time.

must love to do nothing but work in horrible conditions.

70+ hrs. a week.

lack of proper equipment.

no access to tools needed to complete tasks.

hack techniques used to save time and waste money.

machines torn apart, no parts to repair them till may and expected to have whole plant running 2 weeks later. 12 hr. shifts mandatory to get it done. ridiculous !!!

language barrier, summer migrant workers.  yup from down south, most spoke no english whatsoever.

When I started at Lakeside in 2011 the Supervisor and Human  resource coordinator were great and it was a fun place to work. But it went down hill Fast after a new supervisor and human resource coordinator. Machines rarely work right, so you end up working more hours because of it. Very stressful place to work and Alot of favoritism.
     The Human Resource Coordinator doesn't help at all but make you feel worse, she raises her voice to you and doesn't keep anything confidential at all. The plant manager does nothing to fix anything within the plant rather it be from machines or people.

A typical day of work would consist of bagging corn and peas and boxing them putting into cooler to be shipped out to the customers. What I learned is that the demand of produce and customer demand is healthy and satisfying. Management was great upbeat. my co workers were great easy to get a long with , people that really cared. The hardest part of the job was the 16 hour shifts. The most enjoyable part of the job was knowing that I was making a difference in the life of someone else. 

My time in Lakeside foods had it's ups and downs. Me and the front end lead didn't see eye to eye all the time, but when I went back to meat it was great. The store was fairly clean, the management was alright, but if you are gonna work in the meat department, get ready to hear nothing but the sound of water hitting a sink. The music in the store isn't loud enough for you to hear back there, and you aren't allowed to listen to your own so I hope you are ready for hours of listening to water without conversation, unless someone needs help finding something in the store.

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