machine operator

warehouse worker

warehouse supervisor

quality assurance technician

territory sales

Nice-Pak Products

I started out as a temp. They treat their temps badly. I worked my 500 hours & applied for a full time postition. I had 5+ years machine operator experience. Got a phone interview very quickly. Got an in person interview quickly. After my interveiw, I was told that they do all their communications through email.That is/was untrue. They offer jobs to some/most people on the spot after interview is complete. I did not get an email. I had to email them. I was then told I didn't have the skills they were looking for at this time & all the positionsame were filled. That was untrue. They did tell me to apply again at a later date. I had been working there almost three months at that time through a temp service. I had a regular schedule & was asked many times by certain line leads, & other leadership to work on their lines , due to the fact I was a reliable & dependable. My points have always been in good standing. I continued to work there for 4 more months & reapplied 5 more times, due to the fact that they were so short handed on operators. Remember,  they told me that all postions were full. Operators dropping like flies due to lack of & poor training. I finally got a full time job after I talking to several upper management  personnal. 
What I've learned:
It's not how good you work, it who you know.
Example, my first interview(first attemp) I interviewed with 6 other. One had no manufactoring experience at all. They got an offer right on the spot. Ones step father was a line lead, but this would be their 1st job ever, got an offer on the spot. One was a temp just as I was with no operator experience & he got an offer right on the spot  yet I was to to go home & report to work on my next shift through the temp service & they would emaI me. With all this being said, I was giving an awesome recommendation from the temp service I was working through.... What is wrong with this picture? ALOT.
So if you have applied more than one, you are not alone. This place is ALL about who you know. Now that I am full time, I would give any thing to be working back through the temp service. They work with you on ANY problems you have. They are much more understanding  & by far more Professional. Cudoz to the temp service that works with NP.They treated me much more like a human being than NP could dream of. Yet I am currently employed with NP...sigh

Nice pak is like any other production facility. They care about the bottom dollar and how to get the most production out. Several people making decisions from behind a computer screen who don’t know the production floor or care to know the production floor. One good manager out of about 6, and unfortunately he is over scheduling/supply chain, but generally cares about the people on the floor, but still rarely see him. Pay is less than some surrounding facilities, a little more than others for now. Leadership doesn’t make enough for what all we have to do. Rarely have a supervisor, or a say in who gets hired, so it’s babying operators all day and fixing machines for them to keep production flowing when you only make $1 more an hour. No one cares how the product gets out, as long as it does and you’re under budget. Otherwise they start cutting labor because that’s the issue, there’s too many folks. But still required to run more production than you have been. Recently did “upgrades” to lines at the jonesboro plant, they run worse now. Spent over $15 mil on one line that used to hit 120k wipes in a shift, now lucky to get 90k most days. But production Floor is the problem. People are not held to the same accountability. And friends or family move up quickly, not hard work. Sometimes you don’t get your 3 breaks, no one cares about that either. 

Avoid this place like the plague unless you are desperate for work. "Work hard, so you can do others work" is their standard. To call their management terrible would actually be giving them too much credit. I have never seen a group of individuals (from the management to the warehouse associates) as lazy and careless as I saw here. You can make a decent wage...if you spend your life at the warehouse. Their "supervisors" may have a cumulative IQ of 15 between all 4 of them. I worked here for a little over a year and I saw them lose multiple contracts with customers in that short time because of damaged product. Warehouse workers will see a blatant leak of product and still put it on the truck to be shipped. Countless small (but fixable) things go on in the warehouse constantly that the company could benefit/profit from if they would just take the time to address and fix them. If you are a hard worker (a genuine hard worker, not someone that just makes the claim) then avoid this place. It's not worth the headache. The only thing being a hard worker at Nice-Pak will get you is your co-workers work...while they're hiding in the warehouse, sitting in the breakroom, sleeping in their car, or watching a movie/sporting event on their phone somewhere.

Pros
Starting wages are good compared to other companies in the area but sadly there is no going up from there. Work environment is clean and somewhat kept at a constant temperature. There are a lot of good people that work there.
Cons
Turn over rate is insane as nobody wants to work hand packing for 12 hours and then be drafted to work on their days off. Plan on being drafted and work up to 7 days a week for 12 hours each day. Blue hair nets as they are called will threaten you with being fired if you do the slightest thing wrong (not all of them are bad, there are a lot of good people in management but they can't change things). There is absolutely no training, if you cant figure something out and you do it wrong, FIRED! Communication is lacking between management & workers. Want to move up, you are better off updating your resume and finding another job elsewhere.

If you have read a good review of this company, it was written more than likely written by management, they even said in a meeting that they were going to "take care" of the bad online reviews.

I should have questioned this company when I was asked in the interview what I thought of a union and then told that they are not allowed to hire anyone that is for a union. I was also told in that interview that I would be fired if I ever am seen being handed or handing out information about a union.

I know many people that work here. And there is so much abuse in this company. The management will lie about what they have taught you and make you look bad. HR is almost non existent. They are there but do nothing to assist the employees. Getting certified is almost impossible and its due to the fact that you make more when you are. Nothing here is what they tell you in the beginning. The employees that have been there a long time do not care about the product they produce. (Most of them) And not many care about their employees. Its awful and I would not recommend it to anyone. To much abuse. It comes all the way from management and other employees that have been there a long time. i also ran into many problems with their payroll. They will cheat you when they can so watch out for it. Work the same hours every week (alternating week to week) but pay check different amount every time. Thats with not missing any time at all. So be ware of their payroll too!  Revolving employees due to so many bad practices. No way to get help with their payroll software. They say there is but no one knows who it is!
Its a horrible place to work.

If you want a stable reliable good work environment dont bother applying.   The management doesnt know what they are doing and change things way too oftern. they cant keep good staff and they cant keep good managers.  They run all the good employees off because they allow the bad employees to run the place.  No good leadership at all.  I saw people sleep on the job, leave during the night and come back hours later and clock out and not even work.  There is theft.  They are so afraid of a law suit they allow the workers that suck the life out of the good employees to stay there and not be in trouble due to their color.  There is an epidemic of fmla being taken advantage there as well.  After 1 year everyone goes to the doctor and gets an fmla excuse and abuse it.  It forces the good employees to work over and over while the others sit at home not work and still get benefits.....This is not a well run company - dont waste your time

This is a great company. Compensation and benifits are above average for the area I live in and the area it is in. More than anything, there is growth potential. If an employee works hard and has great work ethics, that individual will go far.
The atmosphere is light-hearted and friendly. There is a sense of working diligent but that is, after all, why you are there. No member of management is" looking over your shoulder".
There are days when customer service requires you to go into high gear. Production problems do exist. Nice Pak isn't perfect and you may have to get creative when it comes to accomplishing whatever it takes to do the very best job you can do. As a CDL driver, no one ever expects you to go outside of the law in any way. They do ask you to work with purpose.
As a CDL driver, the worst part of my day would be weather. Winters can be harsh and the rainy season can leave you soaked all shift long. Occupational hazzard.

The jobs that need to be performed are not difficult. It would be a good place to work if they changed all of their upper management, HR department, etc. They have about a 75% turn over rate. This is not good for the employees who try to stay with the company. Long hours, extensive overtime and no one to stand up for the employees welfare. You cannot have a connection with family or friends working those kind of hours. The working conditions are very hard on the human body and a lot of people are let go while out on medical leaves of absence. I have seen many long term employees let go over the five years I have worked for this company. You mean nothing to them. Not a reputable company. Their time system is faulty since the switched from Kronos to Ultipro. Alot of people let go for innaccurate attendance points. The company has been notified of this issue by Supervision and do not acknowledge there is a big problem.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The people you work with NOT the people you work for.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Upper management doesn't care about the employees they treat people like they are second class citizens . Absolutely no recognition or reward for  loyalty or working hard no matter what sacrifices you make.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's exactly like a dictatorship and only getting worse. It's all about money and their bottom line not about the associates who break their backs just trying to earn a living to support their families.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Horrible! I mean who doesn't love working for a company that is constantly on the look out to fire people there's nothing more enjoyable then coming to work every day walking on egg shells wondering if this is the day they try to fire you.

If you enjoy living to work and never having time to do much else this may be the place for you. Long shifts and mandatory overtime are  just two of the many wonderful issues at Nice Pak that let you know on a daily basis just how unimportant your health and welfare are to a company that only cares about their bottom line. Employees are treated more like slaves or indentured servants and less like human beings. The most enjoyable part of the job were the wonderful production and warehouse workers that made the long hours more bearable. The hardest part of any day was listening to managements constant false reassurance that you are important to the company and then hearing the constant threat of termination. The only employees that ever advance are the "yes men." Those employees that have put in the hard work and time are passed by for promotion on a regular basis.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Machine operator 40 salaries reported	$22.26 per hour
Warehouse worker 26 salaries reported	$22.02 per hour
Warehouse supervisor 3 salaries reported	$65,000 per year
Quality assurance technician 1 salary reported	$19.50 per hour
Territory sales 5 salaries reported	$76,000 per year

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