Meadow Gold Dairy

Its always a early morning day start time 3am. Start by tee-coming hand held and reviewing workload. Log onto Xanax in truck and start pre-trip truck inspection. Separate and load product. Head out to customer's for delivery's. When at locations set out pallets. First sign in and start Inventory. Start unloading by using a hook pull crates 6 high out onto lift gate lower lift gate and pull crates onto pallets shrink wrap pallet. Using a pallet jack pull pallet close to chill box begin pulling crates with hook off of pallets into chill box. Rotate and stock merchandise. Place new order for next day delivery. Count all incoming crates and out going empty crates. Set up handheld to customer's system and dex all invoices. Load all empty crates and sign out.

I've learned with working with Meadow Gold the efficiently of handling a large loads takes concentration and a lot of coordination. Working with the hand held computer system was a good experience. Sales was indeed a good experience.  

Management and co-workers were very pleasant to work with. 

Toughest part of the job. It wasn't so much the physical part although it definitely is a physical job but, the challenge was the sales part of not having so much dumps.

Most enjoyable part of my job was working with people and seeing people appreciate my service and work ethics.

A safety oriented company who made great use of the limited area of space and equipment in a town that grew up all around it. It was a twenty four hour operation with great management. They wore many hats and I learn just how much one could do to complete the job and stay within D.O.T. regulations. Again the most enjoyable part of my job was the long drives through some very hostel climate but pleasant to beautiful country sides such as Yellowstone national parks, Glacier national parks and the whole area. It was a pleasure learning new hand held computers and management was really helpful. While the long hours were so seldom lacking. Winter only seem to make those days longer. We would pull pallets of milk off a truck by the pallets or individual cases or stacked up on four wheel dollies which sometime was a intimidating task, but they were good at it.

-Lack of training..
-Attitude/Unhappy Employees 
-Busy, messy, cold, wet, smells rotten..
-Old/Dirty/leaking/moldy/
mildew
smelly building...
-Some employees are rude to new employees..
-people talk about new employees like they've never been new themselves.
-clicks
-mostly overseas employees with many years there..
-A few of the Blue hats, yell at you..like who are you to yell at anybody here, it's just milk..calm down..
-laziness employees that make the new people do all the work, when we don't know what to do & expect us to learn this whirlwind of loads of stuff, for pennies on the dollar per hour In a fast paced inviroment.. work to hard at MGD/DFA..
Waste of product (milk) & nit to mention..They don't recycle at all..such a waste of a plant..
This place is downhill..
I wouldn't send anybody here to work..12+ hours daily & u have to life whatever is important to you, if you work there.
2p-2am & 2am-2pm.
2 shifts & nothing in between...with mostly rude co-workers just to 
Sacrifice your whole life to work there....no thanks..
MGD/DFA you can keep your job...
-Im a new employee here at MGD/DFA, & im currently seeking employment elsewhere..
    ...This place is too much of a let down...



Meadow Gold Dairy in salt lake city is unionized, so positions are bid for based on seniority; overtime is also given based on seniority, top-down or bottom-up, on the list. The daily overtime limit is now 16 hours, and they can require you to stay that long. There is double-time after 14 hours. The break room is small and includes an expensive shop the company makes a little side income from(no discounts) and is a third party. 
 Air conditioning and heating are sometimes a joke. 
Pay is fair based on your position, Maintenance, Pausterizers, and vacation relief are still underpaid.
Day shift receives preferential treatment, donuts,pizza, and has less pressure to complete your work in a timely manner than other shifts.
Swing shifts often have the most difficult and long shifts, especially on the weekends. 
Managers may not know or understand how your machines work, or be unempathetic to your plights, and tell you to get the work done faster, or do maintenance work, or even normal work without the proper or enough training. 

A typical day at work: Show up when you want to, get your equipment, pretrip, deliver your milk, drop equipment off, post trip, go home. I've developed better customer service skills.
Management is all about that bottom line. No incentives or bonuses for performance. All you get for keeping your route numbers in the green are twenty-five dollar gift cards...ONCE a year. Pension sucks too.
Hardest part of the job is when other drivers screw you over, or when you dump a pallet of milk.
Most enjoyable part of the job is the customer interactions. Bottom line, there are MUCH better places to work, trust me.

There is absolutely NO  Management or Communication whatsoever! This place is stuck in the past! TONS of favoritism even though they say there’s not. If you work Swing shift be prepared to get screwed over all the time! This places works off of “seniority” so unless your a major kiss Butt be prepared to stay in your roll for 5+ years. There are NO personal day, so if you want a day off you have to call in sick and then get docked for it. Vacation is horrible, as they make you take a week at a time and you can’t take a day here or there. And again it’s by Seniority so the the vacation times are filled up when posted. When you bring up issues to management they just shrug their shoulders and do nothing! Equipment is always breaking and it takes forever to get fixed. Just STAY AWAY from this place! Money and benefits aren’t everything

As a caser operator at the Salt Lake location you'll work mostly by yourself in 40 degree conditions. I was in charge of 6 different casing machines alongside of 6 other casing machines that feed the casing machines. 

It is a fairy physical job, mostly walking from area to area and up and down levels. Lifting isn't common besides down stacking some cases of milk, but don't be deceived 4 gals of 8lbs of milk jugs gets pretty heavy. I really enjoyed this job because I was mostly working by myself. Maintenance was very helpful when machines didn't work properly and took over that machine so you could focus on your job. 

This job is fairly easy if you prioritize what needs to be done first and have a systematic mindset. Once in a while you'll have a terrible day, but it only come once in awhile. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Plenty to do because everything is always broken.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No work/life balance as coming in early and staying late are expected and required.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Poor. Promoting from within is almost non existent. Communication between departments is abysmal. Maintenance department is laughably underpaid, understaffed, and disorganized.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Throwing all planned maintenance and projects out the window to deal with whatever the emergency of the day is.

Unionized, so the ONLY good thing here is pay. 
Everything breaks down alot, the building is super old. No employee accountability, fingers get pointed. No organization. No tools for success or growth. No official training, you're expected to learn to drive a forklift to do your job, but won't be certified or actually trained. Benefits are great but you don't choose what you're getting, so you pay for it all even if you don't need/want a certain coverage. Management is biased, and you don't see them much. The company doesn't keep up very well with union contract, and like to blow smoke just to appease any issues. 
Attendance is a point system and they are proud of it, bc that's the only thing they can control. 


What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing when I was there everything was pretty bad 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The managers didn’t know what to do most times when I had a question didn’t have a license first time I got on there pallets and everything was covered in old milk 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s kinda like your on your own but they also follow you sometimes not knowing exactly what they are trying to have you do but that’s also on the blue hats 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Just horrible confusion wishing you got another job wishing everything didn’t smell like rotten milk and everything wasn’t so slippery that if you fall you might be out maybe even without pay

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