production associate

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office assistant

NICKLES BAKERY

Bread driver's are the rock stars of the delivery industry. My trainer was Awesome!!, But time on by yourself not so much. Learn a different route on the fly.. Or with a paper in hand from the normal driver, Again not so much. They tell you it will be a year before you get the hang of it all... But what they don't tell you, They lay you off during the off season ( December to March) Than terminate you for BS reasons. That you have no control over, Once again not a route your familiar with. Lower and middle management is a joke, They tell you one thing and do another. I came here to provide a better life for my family and that's it, No other reason and with one fell swoop you crushed it. No investigation, No looking at my documentation (which I kept) Not even with my Union Rep who wasn't even included on my letter. Didn't even call me in ( I live 2 minutes away from the branch) and tell me face to face, Did it thru a BS letter. The worst thing is my manager saw everyday my route paperwork ( who encourage me to keep up what I was doing) provided by the driver who was on vacation, And didn't do a thing to help the situation, And by the way is no longer there.This may be long but it's imperative, Ask the questions, Cause I don't want you to make the mistakes i did. It's a great job, I love almost everybody I came in contact with,But watch your back cause it's sometimes not always what it seems.

Start at midnight to 7 am depending on the route. Work incessantly, never resting, while dealing with large numbers of mostly female, rude and obnoxious receivers that make your job vastly more difficult than necessary.  Benefits are the best around. Never expect to see your family ever again. Off Sundays and Wednesdays, but not really, you go to bed at 5 pm utterly exhausted so you can get up and do it all over again.  Holidays are off, and paid, but you work twice as hard for up to a week before and up to a week afterwards to have that one day off. The other delivery drivers are vicious, condescending, angry, bitter and petty people that make your life more difficult than necessary.

Solutions-focused, dedicated and accomplished professional with broad experience in logistical oversight, route planning/management, improving efficiency of operations and supporting organizational goals. Able to identify areas of strength and weakness and implement new processes that optimize productivity, resulting in measurable improvements to overall efficiency and quality. Demonstrated ability to manage, coach, motivate and mentor staff. Skilled in logistics operations, including inventory management/tracking, distribution planning, customer relations, sales/marketing and quality control. Dynamic leader, with the ability to set, achieve and exceed operational goals

I supervised 5-14 route salesman.  This job included handling all customer concerns, insuring proper route ordering and setting up route structure.  The hardest part of the job was letting good people go due to company losing business through company price increase.  The best part of the job was my interaction with customers and my route men.  I was able to set up route structures to cover 6 counties through changes from 14 to 5 routes.

In 17 years I've only missed 1 days work.  I have kept my employees attitudes positive through all the changes and have insured a professional work attitude towards our customers.

A typical day at work could be smooth and on track or VERY stressful depending on where your working. while working there I've learned a great deal I feel would be useful in the future. Such as operating an over and learning to scale up dry and wet ingredients and using a mixer. Management is not at all good PERIOD!! But the workplace in a whole is ok like i said before, depends on where your working. The hardest part about the job is the pay, especially in the summer months. Where you may work 6 to 7 day a week. The most days I worked where around 20 days in a row.

I worked on a donut belt. They would send down thousands of packages of donuts a day and I work put them on certain racks that were labeled to go to certain cities. Each rack could have 28 trays and each tray had 8 packages of donuts on them. We also would load up packages into boxes and stack them up on anywhere from 5-15 skids 3 days a week. I worked the box machine when doing this, I loaded a box in the machine, added the packages of donuts then sent it through the machine to get stamps and taped.

Job duties is to make daily work sheets assignment is ready for employees to do each day. I learned different types of need skills. Like leadership, repair small machinery painting, strip and waxing of floors, Our management is good we work on improving safety, and communication. my co-worker is nice to be around in our department we work good as teamwork. The hardest part of the job is when we are short help and we got to cover multiple areas when there is downtime. The most enjoyable part of the job is when shift is running smoothly.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There was nothing good about working here.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The heat and not being treated like a human being.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment and culture at nickels bakery is very toxic.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
8-10 hours of extreme heat and everyone taking a break but you.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing at all. This is a bad place to work. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with bosses who don't  care about the workers. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Your coworkers will stab you in the back and throw you under the bus .

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get there and do your job. Then in your down time do other people's jobs even though it's not your job.

It's a good place to start and get some experience driving. The pay is very low and way behind the national average. They are union and have good health insurance, but you'll pay for it. The pension is only good for the older guys that have been there for years. The new guys get the shaft. Very outdated building and the docks are horrible. Coming from the senior employees the company has really went downhill when it comes to taking care of employees. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production associate 12 salaries reported	$16.02 per hour
Transport driver 21 salaries reported	$22.00 per hour
Truck driver 5 salaries reported	$22.00 per hour
Shipper 1 salary reported	$20,000 per year
Office assistant 1 salary reported	$13.00 per hour

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