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Lipari Foods

If you want to go back to high school and experience the drama of the he said she said atmosphere then this is the place for you. From the very first day while being trained all my trainer did was complain about the company as a whole then complain about all of his fellow co-workers.

 You are expected to drive a set of doubles from your depot to warren Michigan Sun. thru Thurs. bring back all returns and any back hauls picked up by the route driver during the day. Your compensation is so much a mile depending on your location the further away from warren the less you'll be paid. You also have to expect to transfer pallets from one trailer to the next using busted pallets jacks and excessively large pallets. Most of the time alone.

You'll will be subject to working extra days to make up for any holidays they give you. this is non negotiable it will happen or you'll not be paid for the holiday. Holiday pay is a flat rate not what you earn while working. Since you're paid mileage there is a 2 hrs detention wait before you get paid for any delays. Good luck collecting it you'll have to prove it wasn't your fault and still won't be good enough.

You're expected to make the trek to warren despite any weather conditions. Safety comes last whether They say it isn't or not. They will constantly overload your trailer and the weight sheet never matches the manifest. If you are stuck in bad weather you instructed to shut down and punch out. Then you will be stranded until they see fit to come and get you. We had drivers on more than one occasion strand in frigid weather for over 9 hrs before they were picked up.

So if you thrive on being treated like dirt and enjoy being pressured and threatened to do it or else mentality than this is the place for you. Oh yeah before I forget. They don't pay your local taxes if your city requires it because Michigan don't. They don't tell you this up front but you'll find out the hard way. =)

A typical day at work will be easy at first but once the lazy boss doesn't want to deal with it he will screw you over and you'll be working 12+ hours everyday hand unloading. I learned never go to a job for the money. They have to pay you 6 figures (not worth it after taxes) in order to get people to work there. Still not worth being away from home for sometimes weeks on end. Management is grimy and slimy. Don't trust them they'll find reasons to fire you. Don't trust your co workers they will smile to your face and and back stab you. The hardest part of the job would be hand unloading everything and picking through mixed pallets because they do not separate the stops you'll have. Everything is mixed together. Also they will have you do last minute pickups and send you hours out of the way song hours to your workday. They do not provide you a phone allowance or OT or things for safety like steel toe boots and gloves. If you call off because you want to be safe and not drive in the snow you'll get written up. You're not allowed to use your phone while driving because it's not safe but they constantly call you while you're working.  Then tell you to park on a hill to shimmy a 1000lb pallet to the end of the truck to hand unload. The most enjoyable part of the job was getting my last paycheck knowing that I would not be returning to work with a bunch of narcissists.

Backbreaking work good money. Good equipment they lease everything it's a hard-working type of job. Management is terrible we have had 3 sense I been hear and out of them only 1 I can say cared about his role and for the drivers now we got a guy that just collects a paycheck. Customers can be hard to deal with at times because we will deliver to anyone. If something happens and you need off you better hope there floater isn't covering for someone else because you won't get off unless you're in a hospital. Even then then he will call seeing when the doctor will release you cauze he won't dare get behind the wheel. No freedom of speech if you do they will send higher management down to have a meeting to tell you to keep your mouth shut. Just trying to finish my time up and leave out of here nothing good will change around here. Unless you're the boss pet then you might get lucky and have a helper ride around with you. My opinion is run as fast as you can I think mr Lipari needs to come around and check on how things work around here.  And if you see a good review guarantee it's someone that's a kiss butter trying to work his way up the ladder or they been asked to do it because they can't find decent workers here

Take it from me, I’m writing this review a year afternoon my lay off. I’ve moved on to better things since then, and have no motive to write this other than helping people know whag they’re getting into. They hire, fire and layoff 100+ new people a week luring people in at $17 an hour for the first 3 months, till they put you on “piece pay” where you’re supposed to get paid for the amount of work that you do. Which sounds great on the surface, unless you’re not related to a higher up you got no chance of making the ridiculous 100 case an hour quota when you’re pulling 20 case orders of individual items having to circle the warehouse VS 200+case orders and just having to make 1 trip and not lift a finger because it’s already set and ready to go. It’s literally a prison esque environment, verbal fights are an everyday thing due to people trying to hit their numbers amongst 50 new trainees who may not have the experience or common decency to get out of the way. sometimes physical altercations do occur, but if you know somebody who knows somebody you’re probably pulling the right numbers and they’ll fire the guy who was defending himself (seen it happen). That is all. Happy that place is all behind me.

Not a horrible job.. in MY opinion very low paid food service job.. food contains alot of back breaking work.. (ramps,100% touch freight, maneuvering in very tight non truck friendly areas) and liparis pay scale being paid by case+mile doesnt seem fair to me.. some days are better then others. I made money every Tuesday and friday.. and mon, wed, thur. I would've rather sat at home then working for 100-150$ each of those days.. they will tell u "we got guys making 90+k a year!!).. I dont think they could explain how tho :) nor why there "top paid guys" are making 30-40k more a year then there other guys that do the exact same work? Like I said it's not the worst job I've had.. health insurance was awesome.. 401k was average.. (50% to 6%) blah blah.. pay scale is so jumpy one stop your making 40 cents a case.. and next stop that seems just as easy/hard as the last your making 18 cents a case.. very hard to gauge what your making..  if you've decided you want to make a career in food.. I'd go to sysco, sygma, reinhart etc.. better pay.. my opinion

$25/hour to do cardio deadlifts in a gigantic cooler where you're racing the best of the worst possible to be hired. Management does not and will not care about your personal needs such as but not limited to; child care, personal sick days, injury, death in the family, etc. You should also expect to work 12 hours minimum every day. 
When management discovers a problem and looks for a solution, they will not consult the people directly affected by the problem, they'll ask some outside source to come in and review the whole warehouse from top to bottom for this consulting firm to tell them exactly what their workers are saying is the problem. Then they will proceed to not fix the problem, but create a completely new one. 
Prepare for any and all  PTO requests to be denied. Time away from work here is a luxury you wont know. The managers will also try to make back door deals with you regarding PTO, attendance, or other things, and then not deliver on said promises because it wasn't written in their policy.
Don't work here.

I have been with the company for 11 years and in that time due to my own personal request was able to go from shuttle in Dayton, to routes in Columbus, to routes in Dayton, to a floater position, and now back on routes.... This is an amazing company that will pay you for the work you do and then some, they will accommodate to your needs to the best of their abilities. This company has all the issues that come along with this type of business but the difference with Lipari Foods is once they know the problem they will do everything in their power to solve it. Anyone that complains about this job is either lazy or ignorant, so if you don't mind doing some hard work and have common sense then this is an excellent a place to start your career. They are a family-owned company that actually care about their employees. All of the other employees, drivers and management, are a great bunch of people to work with.

long 8 hour shifts of standing on a hilo and moving pallets and merchandise and rotating the merchandise to make sure every product is freshly pulled, would be considered a typical day at lipari. what i learned from working for lipari is productivity is crucial for any business to succeed, i learned how to drive a stand up hilo, and i also learned that what you give is what you get.
     
 my management is almost never seen on the floor mostly due to them being in their offices in the other building. In the building i work in there is almost never a supervisor/ manager in sight unless someone is messing up really bad. my co-workers are admittingly very short -tempered because it can get pretty competitive and chaotic in this workplace and thus the reason im seeking other employment, also to follow my dream job. the hardest part about my job is most definitely trying to hit the quota of 15 moves an hour, ive come extremley close on some days but it gets so chaotic in the workplace its hard to hit the numbers.

Unprofessional training group manager gave me wrong work schedule and then terminated me said I wasn’t fast enough for the production work or whatever really disrespected me and talked to me like it was an problem  Workers running around on pallet jacks and hi lo’s I learned nothing ! I got talked to disrespectfully got angry took out on me the hardest part of the job is to keep up with production and find the right routes because it be packed with pallet jacks trying to get there orders the most enjoyable part of the job was the pay and how one of the training mangers tried to teach me I’m just special ed and have iep and have health & dental issues I could’ve got treated better that really made my mental health worse because I’ve really needed the job and got terminated over an mistake they made on the schedules it was very confusing I was told something completely different in person 

This place will drain every bit of life out of you. I worked here twice, the first time I left because I couldn’t do the hours anymore and found something better. The fact they begged me to come back should kind of tell you that the turn over with employees is extremely high. 
Order selecting was probably one of the coolest jobs because you got paid per case. So if you went fast Getting orders done you’d make a lot of money. The problem is they said in my interview it was 1:30PM-11:30PM Sunday through Thursday, but you don’t get to leave until the work load was done - in which my second time around I worked shifts from 1:30PM to 7AM the next day! Sometimes later than that. And you were expected to be back at 1:30 to start your next shift. You literally got no time for anything here so don’t do it. They have to fix their system all over and til they do, they’ll continue to have high turn over, and have 10 new trainees starting Each Monday. 

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