laborer

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Mountaire Farms

If you need a job in a hurry, this job will fulfill that need, but if you have other options, I’d advise you to take them. The pay cheque is the only reason I’m still there but my family is moving in a few months and that is the only thing keeping me sane...and the few friends I‘ve made. I’ve been there 9 months and I’d have left already if we weren’t moving soon. Besides the pay cheque (which is better than most entry level jobs but still nothing to rave about), I find no pleasure in the job whatsoever (only speaking for the general labor positions). 

The supervisors and the other people are all decent but the nature of this work, in my mind, is that we are basically just another piece of equipment. The company is good at creating an atmosphere of caring, but it is mostly superficial. 

You have absolutely no say in what kind of work you will do starting out and even after months. Some people get jobs that are okay, but some of the jobs (the majority of the jobs, and what I do) are grueling on the hands and body, with almost no time to even take a breath between cuts. The breaks are also very tight; I barely finish my food at lunch (because I eat salads and other things that actually require me to chew). 

I will stop ranting, although I could go on, but in conclusion I would not recommend working at Mountaire as general labor unless it is an absolute necessity.

This job can offer you the opportunity for growth, but it will most likely take a long time and it will only happen if you are motivated enough to be proactive about your career and continuously apply for better positions and opportunities.

P.S. I get splashed in the face with raw chicken on a regular basis.

Let me lead by saying that the Human Resources team is incredibly biased toward the management. They aren't there to listen to a word you say. They are there to tell you that the management is right, you are wrong, and nothing management asks of you will ever be considered unreasonable. Everything is 'part of your job', because your job description always has a line at the end saying, "Any task given to you by a supervisor," or something similar.

They will treat you as disposable tools. You will work long hours in poor conditions, constantly exposed to H2S and other harmful airborne particles, and no amount of complaining to management or HR will change your situation. You will be told to do things you don't feel comfortable doing, and to put yourself into dangerous situations to do them, and you will be fired if you say no, as long as HR disagrees with your assessment of what is and is not reasonable.

Despite those conditions, you will be underpaid and underappreciated. You will work your twelve hours a day feeling miserable and despising every second as you choke on the smell of blood and rendered meat and go home smelling like you crawled up from a sewer; and you will do it just to make ends meet, because Mountaire doesn't care how poor your quality of life is, as long as you're slaving away for them so they can continue getting fat on your sacrifice.

And if you think it gets better once you advance within the company, guess again, because Mountaire loves to hire new supervisors and managers from outside the company, meaning you will never rise from being the insignificant garbage they believe you to be.

bsolutely DISGUSTING company to work for with no moral compass. I advise, DO NOT WORK HERE. This company gave everyone a “dollar pay increase” during the Pandemic and right as the state of North Carolina  started to reopen, they took back the dollar. Those workers should be getting paid $15 anyways with all the BULLCRAP they put up with from supervisors who abuse their authority on a regular basis. They take advantage of hard workers and will work the devil out of you. If you cannot help it, DO NOT AGREE TO WORK IN THIGH DEBONE. The “supervisor” is an immature, petty, UNPROFESSIONAL, GHETTO and miserable woman who obviously hates her life. She comes into work everyday with the NASTIEST attitude for no reason. I’ve gone to HR multiple times, with no resolve to this disgusting behavior. This lady is a thousand years older than me and I have more maturity and professionalism in my right thumb than she has in her whole body. Very ghetto, 10/10 would NOT recommend. Don’t waste your time, have better standards for yourself.

ALSO VERY UNSANITARY HYGIENE PRACTICES... I wouldn’t dare feed my family anything produced by this company 🤮 There are no working sinks on the production floor... most chicken manufacturing plants REQUIRE you to wash your hands before heading to your work station.  This company does not. They only require you to wash and sanitize your hands as you LEAVE the bathroom. As soon as you walk out of the bathroom, employees are touching their phones and any other personal items before heading out to the floor so it’s really pointless. and they only made it mandatory to wash your hands during the Pandemic. Before the pandemic? They could give no effs. VERY DISGUSTING.

What is the best part of working at the company?
It's a job. Cons outweigh the pros.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with immature hotheaded young supervisors who don't have good people skills 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work you to death to the point of your body aching. If your a man prepare to have yourself worked to death physically. If your slow you get berated and yelled at. Supervisors wantvto work instead of actually doing thier role which in turn means no support when situations arise involving other supervisors. Every dept fights one another instead of supporting one another making each individual job tiresome and unfurfilling. I was in the Navy and felt like I was more valued than working with this company. Avoid at all costs.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in dress up in smock and hardhat and gloves. Pull chicken breaststroke in a repetitive motion for 9 hours. Go home and try to get my hands to stop spamming. No joke it's hard work but what they don't tell you is how the PAA waterctheyvrun the chicken through messes your sinuses up so you can breath or smell anything. You hands hurt constantly. You have to shovel chicken if the belts breakdown and then when fixed have to shovel it all back on the belt which is above waist level. I've never been in more pain at a job in my entire life. Glad I got a better more easier and more money.

Mountaire is very family and customer oriented, which is one the many reasons it is a great company to work for.

The accounting department in Selbyville has 20 employees.  Upon arriving at work and getting settled, a typical day consist of reviewing and answering emails, completing any daily, weekly, or monthly job responsibilities, as well as those assigned by management.  Once these things have been completed I check with follow employees to see if there is anything they may need help with.  

Over the past 5 years I have learned to be patient with technology and IT, especially when going through upgrades.  I have cross educated in some of the cost accounting job responsibilities which helped during the time we were short a cost accountant.

Management at Mountaire, and in the Accounting Department are great. I have a manager I can go to anytime with anything and she will address my concern appropriately.

My co-workers are like family. We are a very tight knit group which works like a well oiled machine.  If someone is out we jump right in to make sure work that needs to be done gets done.

I enjoy my job very much and look forward to going to work on a daily basis.  I can't think of anything that makes my job hard.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Management is terrible they will work you till your body is breaking down physically, they will talk to you any kind of way like you’re just a machine and not a human. They give promotions to only the people who are always up in the office with the higher ups. There are employees who are drunk working on the job every day that management does nothing about. They lie to employees telling them they will get promoted just to have them do a higher paid job and never get the compensation from it they just have to do all the hard work. I worked there for 4 years my shoulders have muscle spasms all the time they go numb all the way down to my hands. It’s not a job it’s a death sentence. HIGHLY don’t recommend working here. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything. The management the people around you, the job itself especially. There’s nothing about this job that isn’t stressful. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible. You either have to suck up to management to get treated fairly or they’ll try to get you out the door as fast as you came in. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful, exhausting, and just not worth it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Leaving, they put product over human lives and treat people like garbage! Worst and dirtiest place I've ever been to let alone worked at!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Your life is literally on the line from the moment you get out of your car to the second you get back in to go home. The equipment is held together with shoe strings and tape and I'm surprised every day no one died from electrical shock 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Horrible,  they push you until you literally fall over then find a way to fire you so they don't have to pay you. It's sick I've never seen anything like it! Everyone us lying or cheating and trying to find someone doing something rhe wrong way so tgeh can stab then in the back.  I've never seen a company promoting  people who will cut any corner and never care about safety over quality decent human beings anywhere ever!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
They Herd you in and from the second you get in the door someone us yelling at you to hurry up and pushing you into a wall or screaming at you to move faster

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working with the team and learning about the machines that was assigned to me! Coming in on first shift to rebuild the  machines that was assigned to me in timely manner,putting a smile on my supervisor and managers!!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Coming in on the Saturdays want suppose to be off!! Can't make plans cause something might comes up and then it's mandatory to come in or you will receive a point  cause they work on a point system, 7 point and then you get fired.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was good because of the people I worked with and every day you learn  something!! P.M days was a good thing which usually on a Saturday unless they kill on that day which we would have to work on Sunday, which means no day off for the week 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
On the floor  making sure that everything that is being use stay in working order!!!besides keeping my area running smoothly

At Mountaire Farms a typical day involves a lot of hard work, and acceptable compensation.  While there,I have learned a great deal about food processing and shipping.  

The management team at Mountaire seems capable, but is caught-up in the same types of political favors and disfavors that are observed at many large corporations.  

The most enjoyable part of working there is the relationships between employees and the willingness to help each other.  This is complicated, of course, by the attempts by management to control every possible aspect of the employee life.  If you ever make a manager mad, they will begin to watch you for anything they can use to get rid of you.  They try to pit employees against each other, and will overlook terrible violations of company policy by one employee, while picking-apart another employee who is not one of their favorites.  This is the hardest part of the job...favoritism and politics.

A typical day consists of operations checks, answering radio calls from production and various other plant personnel. After production finishes we shift systems to run in sanitation mode for the cleanup crews. 

At this job I have learned How industrial refrigiration works, production plant operations, and continued to inprove my mechanical knowledge with pumps, motors and other mechanical devices.

Management for my department is mainly on dayshift so we work closely with supervisors from production and maintenance to meet the needs of the plant. 

The hardest part about the job is constantly being understaffed due to a high burn out rate. Personnel do not tend to stay long and it takes several months to find replacements after they leave. 

The most enjoyable part of the job was learning about how industrial refrigiration works, and restoring/ rebuilding neglected equipment and getting it back online.

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