maintenance mechanic

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National Frozen Foods

So, to be honest, I never even started working there per se. I went to the orientation which consisted of just me and the supervisor leading it. She told me that their computers were down and they were doing schedules by day and would call me if a position opened up due to someone calling out. I explained to her that in my current situation I cannot be on call becuase I am reliant on somebody for transportation until I can afford to repair my own vehicle. She told me just let them know I can't, and all is well. I was hired on. What she failed to mention to me is that they only do daily scheduling and it had nothing to do with the computers being down (I don't know if its just for the 90 day probation period or what) and like to call you half an hour to an hour before they expect you to come in if someone calls out. I've never even heard of an employer pulling something like that... Its just wildy inconsiderate of people's daily lives to expect them not to plan anything at any point in time and just stay up all night waiting to see if you get called to come in at the crack of dawn. They called me one day at 6 when the start time is like 6:30 and I told them I can't come in and again stressed my situation and said I need to know the day before. They said they would do their best. About 4 days later they did it again, needless to say, I told them that is very inconvenient and I will be looking for a different job. Even if you have your own transportation that is just a horrible way to schedule and its disrespectful to employees. No wonder they are always hiring cause no one wants to just go into work at the drop of a hat like that without notice. If you plan to have a life outside of work, I do not recommend it...

I have worked there for a long time, and this is the truth about National Frozen Foods Albany OR plant.Typically an inspection worker spends 7 to 8 hours on their feet in a cold, and often wet environment. The pace is far too fast and the product on the belt is far too thick to effectively do the job at all. Our bi-weekly safety meetings often turn into angry complaint sessions about how this, or that got past the inspection workers. If we disagree with anything they say we are bullied into silence. As for benefits, our insurance is decent, but our PTO is very slow to accumulate, and with our almost constant MANDATORY weekend work it's extremely hard to get a day off for personal, or family time. When our contracts end the situation becomes even more stressful. The company always offers ridiculous pay increases of 1 or 2%.  We've nearly gone on strike several times just to get them to come up to 3%. Our newly hired workers aren't worked steady, and are more often on call than not. If I were trying to get a start in this area, or I were about to lose my home, I would do this while I looked for a better job.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I found the people are nice to work with, the pay and benefits are good but all the equipment is junk 30 to 40 + years old. Maintenence on the equipment is abismal. During season they want u to work 7 days a week till season is over. And if you enjoy being UA'd every 2 weeks this is the place for you!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Durning season they want u to work 7 days a week till season is over, as fast as you can go till ur shift is over.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
During off season things can be pretty relaxed, much slower pace and even a little boring a few months before season starts 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I'd start with a dispatch of about 2 to 4 loads of product from our outside cold storage warehouse 7 miles away, find the product, load the trailer w/forklift, return to main warehouse unload w/forklift and repeat till the loads are completed. During off season no overtime.

Typical day varied at times which for me was fun in ways, cuz I got to do something new or different everyday. I learned a lot of my skills from this company as well as values. I would love more than anything to return to this company but I quit due to one of there only down falls; I never knew for a while if I was going to still have a job the next day or not, could work or might not. Co-workers where like my friends and we all got along and had a great time! Hardest part for me was trying to adapt in many ways to increase job performance which I failed at many times trying to get it right. I can honestly say though I left my mark there as I put up structures and other things that I will always be known for during my time there and I am very proud to have done the work I did do. I hope I can get another opportunity to work there in the future

This is the worst place that I have ever worked at. The Renton office was filled with bullying, racial verbal harassment and discrimination. They hired incompetent person as controller to ruin the company. Lots of turnover here, no one has ever worked here more than 2 years. The company cannot hire new employees and instead bringing on lots of temps. The company wrongful terminated employees and using employees as scapegoats for any mistakes from incompetence management. Corporate management ignore any harassment report and slowly push you out of the company or wrongful terminate your job. The entire time of working here, I have no job security because every friday, either they terminated someone or someone else quit.
I highly recommend potential candidate to avoid this place at all cost if you care about your career and your dignity. 

Micromanagement has increased significantly since the change in ownership. Several longstanding policies and benefits that supported frontline employees have been altered or removed, which has negatively impacted morale.

The family-oriented culture that once defined this company has largely disappeared. Employees now feel easily replaceable and undervalued, regardless of tenure or performance. Leadership appears more focused on office directives than understanding day-to-day plant operations. Hands-on experience seems lacking in some decision-making roles, leading to unrealistic expectations for production teams.

While this was once a great place to work, the corporate changes have made it much more challenging. I hope leadership will prioritize listening to the people who actually run the plant.


productive when given vital information before or at shift change. productive when computer updates were made. {learned}, ask other employees for updates,product movements,inventory control.{management}, sometimes employees that are some what liked were heard,never to get "way to go" if right, but, if wrong, management is right.{co-workers},keep friends close, enemies closer, they had their packs. hope for the best picking a friend, others, one false move, sign this write up and go talk to management. {hardest},knowing, {but needing the income}, that you were the minority.{enjoyable}, knowing that there were two good persons I could dependently get assistance from.

I worked in the tote room for most of my employment, and a bit in packaging in the beginning which Fast pace, stressful. When I switched to the tote room it changed a bit still fast most of the time especially if you fall behind and I was being trained later down the road to become the next room supervisor which just about everyday something goes wrong with one or more of the lines and you need to think fast and act fast which can get stressful especially to an unmotivated individual but to me I had a good crew behind me, my supervisor was someone I looked up to  and it was exciting to work in that room. Looked forward to it everyday. Due to lower pay and my living situation at the time I had to move out of state and that was the only reason I had quit.

Simple enough work. Loading trucks, patting bags, whatever you are doing here, the work isn't truly difficult. The management cares nothing about you, from the bottom to the top, what used to be a great Family company, is now like rolling a boulder uphill by yourself. Workplace culture is every man for himself. There are a few good seeds that try to push for the betterment of the company, but they just get chewed up and spit back out until they are too mangled to move anymore. 

It was tough which I assume to be the case in all first jobs for anyone but I had the graveyard shift from 12 to 10:30 and had to work 60-70 hour weeks. Sure come payday I would get a nice amount of money from all the overtime but in the end I would have killed for more days off. 

That being said the management wasn't so bad and my co-workers were all incredibly nice and good people. Really lucky to work with them.

The hardest part of the job I would say is washing machines in the smaller areas because the odds of your getting wet are high and if you do you will feel very uncomfortable, cold, and miserable if your near the freezer.

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