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The plant in Irving, TX has been poorly run and led for years and the results show in the poor performance of most personnel / production lines at the plant.  Product output has been dropping for 15 years as new hires are hired and retained due to their skin color rather than merit.   New hires are getting large pay increases (Equity) so that their pay becomes a little less than veteran workers who've been there for 10-20 years and the veterans are still way more productive and have less problems relating to infractions and lower work ethics.  HR is driving this, from corporate down to the plant level, and they seem to be accountable to no one.  HR always tries to dominate conversations and are frequently disrespectful and like to humiliate many members of management as well as the workforce.  Their decisions are capricious in how they apply company rules.  In some cases they allow behavior / rule violations while in others they immediately take action.   If HR does not like you, you will be treated as a serial offender and they go out of their way to make your life unpleasant and employment short as possible.   Senior plant management are not held accountable for seriously bad decisions.  Corporate level departments over Operations and Quality bury their heads under the sand or get superficially involved with issues and quickly focus elsewhere.   There are many programs and procedures but many are not followed very well.  Department and plant morale are low.  No one seems to care.  Personal relationships reign supreme and frequently taking priority over job performance, productivity, and acting on major problems.
I learned a great deal on how bad a company can be run.  The spice business is hugely profitable and as a result the company is complacent / lazy which leads to waste, low productivity, high labor, and low morale.   True Leadership is minimal.  

Putting out fires was a daily task as something was always going wrong (usually multiple problems at the same time).   DEI narratives at corporate and plant level are always being pushed and enforced.   Workers are hired, paid, and promoted with this in mind and management's job performance reviews are partly based on proof that this is being done.   After hire I continued looking for other employment outside the company as the realization of how poorly the company is being run and the lack of accountability at all levels.  The veteran employees do not show respect to management as they know that the management turnover rate is high and most managers will soon be gone.   Most management who stay are skilled at working the system and avoiding accountability for mistakes and redirecting blame onto others.  HR applies company rules when they see fit and typically target managers when managers are performing needed disciplinary action.  As a result, many managers do little to discipline employees as they know that they will be targeted and the employees given chance after chance.   Hire of employees is based on DEI requirements and has little to do with merit.   Merit is applied only after DEI is fulfilled so the selection criteria is limited.   I learned that other plant locations are in the same situation and the company remains profitable only because the sale of retail and corporate level spices is so profitable.    Morale is low and everyone is afraid to speak their mind.    I left the company and was not paid my bonus which was rightfully earned.   I hated coming to work daily and couldn't wait to leave every day. 

This company expresses this great business ethics policy, but their salary leaders don't know anything about it. If you bring anything unethical you will be meant with retaliation. Make sure to document everything. Be careful who you ask for help, everyone is practically related, HR is definitely not for you. You bring up osha related things the safety managers don't consider fatigue a hazard and say they're osha complainant. I asked my salary manager do you agree with anything I say? The dust, air ventalation bad, people are getting dizzy, light headed  breathing through their mask while working and trying to communicate which could lead to injuries. He put his hands behind his back and say "to be honest I don't" so much for caring about our safety. He did this with another crewleader in the room. 

This company is worth 20 plus billion dollars and don't have any written policy. So the business ethics is all you got. What's everyone doing? This company is so top heavy not sure what the salary folks are doing beside being abusive to low in workers.
I can't blame corporate for everything here. It's just unfortunate the leadership is weak, and hide things from them. Most of the people in the HR department aren't even HR certified and don't know most law, osha policies. 
This place and culture is extremely disturbing.   If you're not a boot licker or a yes person it's impossible to move up. They don't like people too smart. 
I will give credit to corporate office. They hear the employees (the ones who don't have family or friends there) complaints and seem to move on things. They can't fix what they don't know.

If you value spending time with family on your days off this is not the place for you. You’re scheduled to work “8 hour days” 5 days a week and having the weekends “off” but in reality you’re told there’s a 2 hour overtime call the moment you walk in each day and at the end of the week you’re told you have a mandatory weekend that you HAVE to work so don’t both making any plans for the weekend or the next one either cause they’re calling it all the time. 

Raises are supposed to be every year but upper management, like clockwork, are no where to be seen and are hard to get ahold of so you end up waiting over a year for a raise that isn’t based off of your individual work ethic but how the team did as a whole. Promotions are just as bad. Opportunities for advancement do open up to give everyone a “fair chance” but upper management has already filled the position with who they wanted in the first place. 

Getting trained on new equipment is only happening if your crew leader or manager likes you which doesn’t help towards your raise since you have to learn different equipment to get said raise. 

If you do decide to work here just do the minimum that you have to do to keep your job and nothing more because the moment you go beyond complacency sets in and now you’re stuck doing the job of 2-3 other people while everyone else gets to relax. 

Working in the Spice Mill I've learned how to be a better team worker to get all my task done. I've also learned how to operate different machines and lines during my job. My co-workers were very friendly and helpful to me, I always was treated respectfully. I've also received good compliments while working with my co-workers. The management was fair I would say better management should be done. To me there were actually no hard parts of the job just make sure you ready for work and ready for any task everyday. The most enjoyable was being able to work with other employees getting the job done at one whole.
A typical day would be, being on time out on the floor at 6:00 am with all your equipment and safety gear on. We meet at the desk to discuss what needs to be done and where were we working each day. Once you given instructions follow those and you wouldn't have any problems. If you need help, help is always round for assistance. You were given two 30 min breaks for rest and lunch. At the end of the day round 2:00 pm everyone cleans up waste and machines. Then, we meet in our office room to discuss whats been accomplish today and what 2nd shift is ready to take over. Everyday was a good one you learned new things and new employees

Temp agency gets 2 stars. Work environment for McCormick gets 4 stars for my position. 
A decent place to work. Job was not stressful. I supplied corrugate into a cartoner machine that boxed the product along with other duties associated with the job.
Worked with a good crew. Work was not hard. Pretty steady. 
I was only a temp and performed my job well. Was trying to get my foot in the door, so I SACRIFICED such a low pay for 4 months, but to no avail. Actually went in reverse financially for 4 months!! I have a proven mechanical background and displayed that capability beyond my job description, but they hired someone from the outside with, I suppose, a flashy resume. 
Maybe wages have gone up since I worked for them in 2017, but I was making less than $9.00 hr. Maybe around $8.00. 
One last mention. During holidays the company would give out (not sure what it was) gifts to only "McCormick" workers. If you had on a white tee shirt they just didn't extend, again, "whatever" it was to us. It was a troubling feeling because take away the temps and they would either have to hire full time employees in our positions or the product would never reach its consumer. 
Reminded me of Parris Island when you first got to boot camp as a recruit.
Can't understand why they couldn't extend that gratitude to everybody.

If you are competent, easy going, friendly and well liked, you will not have any problems getting OT.  However, you will get tired of it and want some time off and that is when you will be told that the OT is mandatory. 
 Schedulers are awful!!  There is no accountability on them.  Schedulers can tell you that you have to work 7 days straight and then at the last minute, cancel the weekend.  It works vise versa as well, so you can never schedule your weekend.  Complete disregard for line workers that actually do the work.
Management is an absolute joke.  You may see them 5-10 times in a year. No Worries because the next year, you will have a new manager.  Crew Leaders are essentially your boss.  Luck of the draw.  If you get a good Crew Leader that likes you and has 50% interest in doing their job, you may succeed.  Crew Leaders and coworkers will push you out if they do not like you.  Every little infraction will be magnified for just you, until you QUIT because they will not Fire anyone unless it is gross misconduct.   

Good managers that care. My biggest problem is the line I work on & who’s there in the environment. (Maybe I just got bad luck with the line placement.) It just feels very hostile & intimidating to a large degree because of work place politics. It’s very severely bad on my line to the point it’s gotten me verbal coaching & fear it could drive me out of the company.  I feel like if your me (On one of the bad lines.) You’re intimated by co workers like all eyes on you. They virtually find reasons to call you out over the most minuscule actions & that’s just demotivating & doesn’t make you want to worker harder but perform worse because you have to constantly feel like you’re being watched over your shoulder under a microscope. It’s a very unhealthy environment to feel as if you’re in fear everyday at work just to be blamed for something wrong even if you’re just doing your job as if they are above you. It’s just so disrespectful & disgraceful on how bad this is & very much needs to be fixed because it’s slowly giving me second thoughts of this place. It’s just absolutely atrocious. Be careful. High standards, unrealistic expectations…

Friendly place to work.  The culture that McCormick instills is one of honesty and integrity.  This is their core values.  Co workers were wonderful.  My direct reports were terrific and very easy to manage.  I could setup tasks and then include training on new skills and by the end of the shift, we would have it all done.  
Management at the upper levels need to revisit their priorities:  Meetings do not mean your working, The number of people you can name drop doesn't mean squat, the number of clubs, groups, associations do matter, but should not take away from your daily tasks.  Do the works your supposed to and not what you can do to make yourself look better.  Get off the board.
 The hardest part of the job was saying goodbye to friends when you worked and got the promotion to a better job.  You create lasting relationships that mean so much more over time.
The overall company is a great place to work for.  If you get into McCormick, make friends at all levels, but don't neglect your line job.

Because of the age of the current workforce at McCormick that  presently hold the positions I'm interested in, I feel that it's in my best interest to explore other opportunities that may come sooner for me in my career. A typical workday consist of a morning meeting with all leaders on an update of the prior days production. There's plenty of interaction with production team members during the day, management has an open door policy to address any concerns employee's may have. The hardest part of my job is ensuring that I meet my deadlines  while coordinating meetings and good communication with team members. The most challenging task I've taken on at McCormick is heading up the start up of the new Distribution Center we built and opened up in June of 2011. The most enjoyable part is going home at the end of the day knowing that I've made a positive difference in helping my company reach its goal of being the number one supplier of condiments.

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