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OSI Group

Where to begin. The Owner and the CEO are so old school and focus on just whether their "investment" is making money. The executive team operates the company through a balance sheet and it shows. There is no cohesive strategy or leadership, the culture is toxic and always seeks scapegoats instead of seeking improvements, operations leadership is the worst and treats people horribly (demeaning, abusive, dictatorial), and every operations VP, manager, supervisor on down emulates this leadership. The company operates as it has 30 years ago. Benefits and compensation has not kept up with industry standards - no work life balance, flexible schedule or work from home, benefits are barely minimal, 401k matching is minimal - not competitive at all. Compensation is low, even in the food & beverage industry, and other incentives (like bonuses) are limited to upper management. Vacation time is 2 weeks with extremely limited exceptions, and 5 sick days. Depending on your work location, 10 paid holidays, but the plants often work holidays. Plant management is full of micro-managers with egos to rival Napoleon himself. There is zero accountability, unless they need someone to blame. Upward mobility, career path, succession planning, investment in employee training and education is non-existent. Your training consists of sitting in a room and watching videos every month, but that's only if you are at the plant. Corporate people have ethics training but that's it. The company values - which are stated on their website - are just words. Leadership does not act with integrity, does not continuously improve or innovate ("we've been doing it this way for the past 25 years, blah blah blah..."), and they only do what's best for the bottom line. The singular focus is cost and money - they only care about production, and have little regard for compliance with legal requirements and treat their people like they are expendable. My advice to Management... RETIRE! REPLACE THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM! You have people in executive positions that are completely unqualified. Your culture is toxic. People that stay do so because they either lack the ability or intelligence. Your  simply tell you what you want to hear. The people that do stick their necks out to tell you honestly what is going on and what the risks are to the company are vilified, ostracized and driven out of the inner circle or company.

Working for a fast pace company is nothing new in this era.  Working for OSI during the pandemic was nothing short of that.  Each day was full of increasing demands, meeting with management and staff and the underlining pressure to make it happen daily.  From a management viewpoint, the environment was full of stressful situations, both from peer level and staff.  As it was my first stint as Manager, it was a learning experience for me.  The food industry is fast paced (much faster than other industries).  The culture can be tight sometimes (even cutthroat) which makes for the environment being tense on many days.  The hardest part of the job (as with any management position) was having to terminate someone's employment.  Another difficult part of the job is working with difficult peers.  It's already hard enough doing your own job.
Prior to working for OSI, I read their previous reviews.  There was some reported issues about management.  Unfortunately, I found a lot of them to be accurate.  Being the Materials Manager, it was my job to accomplish all my individual tasks while building up and working with my team to be more efficient.   As the management culture around my department continued to deteriorate (eventually ending in the termination of the Plant Manager), I found it increasingly difficult to keep my team focused.  Management decisions begin to come from all directions, causing miscommunication and negative production efficiency.  The environment didn't improve while I was there.  This situation just  gave those looking for an advantage the opportunity to gain momentum.  
As I am no longer with OSI (of my own accord to pursue personal venture), I cannot speak about 2022, however I hope and pray that the environment has improved both for the sake of the workers and for those coming into the company as managers.   

You get paid decent. Mostly because you will not get time off. Downtime is looked as money lost. No it enough days in the week for them. If they could they would make an 8th day to work also.
Upper management won't care about your issues. Won't or can't fix issues. Even when they are told it goes against a law. ( They already now about it but are pushing the issue to see how far they can take it. )
Lower level Supervisors are great. A few bad apples. 
The people on the floor are decent workers fun to work with. 
Lots of talk about being a team. Unfortunately it's not really a team. Managers only say that in an attempt to motivate you. The team doesn't include them. They are above such things.
Talk to about getting actually getting screamed at when you climb higher up the ladder. No real motivation to climb up in the company because of it.
I have a seen people fired when taking complaints up to the corporate level. They are never really anonymous. Even if they are true.so no real motivation to improve the workplace or the workplace experience.
Good thing the workers on the floor are your average Joe and great to get along with. 
 Corporate tends to be detached and unaware of how their facilities are run. Sure they take walks through them. But that's about it. Since they are so unaware of what's going on and the upper management can not / will not offer any push back it can cause stress on the non management workers and lower management workers.

i enjoyed my job responsiblities tremendously,i learned how to successful operator the cryovac machine in that plant (kokomo,IN. )company's fastest time frame,i quickly became known as one of the compamy's more successful and efficient operators in a record time thanks to the assistance of great training and assistance provided by other cryovac operators and plant manager (Richard Parker),who always was willing to lend any and all help and knowledge needed. OSI Group park100 quickly became a focal point in my life and was a workplace that i embraced as a second home and family, i am proud and thankful for the opportunities provided by this company and it's staff,that openly acknowledged my hard work ethic and eagerness to excess and learn. In truth there was never a job or opportunity that i considered too hard or difficult,thanks to the staff and their willingness to go above and beyond to make sure that the employee\me knew how to properly and effectively perform their job responsiblities and duties. the most enjoyable part of the job was being able to effectively and efficiently perform and complete the assignments given to me on a daily bases.

Good company to work for if you are looking for a lot of hours and don’t have a family/don’t mind being away from family. The QA tech position is straightforward. Also, previous QA experience is not needed for the tech position. Regardless, of what they tell you. If you have no QA experience you can come in and learn everything rather quickly. The fellow technicians, assistant supervisors and supervisors are very helpful and will help guide you if you have any questions or concerns. Same can’t be said about the upper QA management (Sr. QA Manager, QA Manager and HACCP/Assistant QA Manager). If they need something they will reach out via text, phone call or email. If you need something and reach out to them they will not answer. If they don’t need anything they won’t reply. If you want days off, this isn’t the company for it. Some of the locations treat the employees rather poorly when it comes to days off and take advantage of others that work long hours.

It was the most horrible experience in my career,  new plant manager has no integrity along with operations/ leadership team. If an employee speaks up they retaliate against every employee including their HR manager who quit in just 5months.  Retaliation is their expertise. They have so many violations including a union that might not be legit. Ops managers are horrible they treat employees like slaves working 20 consecutive days 12 hours. In order to fit in the Ashland CULTURE you MUST not have integrity,  MUST be able to lie on a day to day basis, sabotage your peer's talent, violate labor laws like ODRISA, and OSHA MUST love to expose employees to hazardous chemicals and work conditions.  MUST obey the union and  MUST agree to not follow the CBA. MUST make up lies, MUST plot against others within the leadership, MUST be able and promote  a TOXIC environment.

I worked here for several years. The big policy change this year was the men got to stop wearing a tie everyday. Come on it's 2018 not 1970. They like to push the free lunch. How about you keep the lunch, the food is not that good anyway and kick up salaries a bit. Or better yet how about a computer that actually works or a cleaning company that cleans the bathrooms. They keep hiring more and more Human Resource people but the policies are so far behind. If you are considered a "hourly" office employee you will never see work from home or any type of flex time or summer hours. People are leaving at the rate of 2-3 per month. Management says they are leaving because they are "bored". No they are leaving for companies with modern policies. Also, if you need HR good luck. They sit behind a locked door that you can't even get in the department. Your supervisor turns on you like a shark and you can't even have a conversation with HR about it.

This was my first food manufacturing job, and I have since worked at 3 others. I can now say this was the most streamlined smooth-running facility with the newest technology. It's easy repetitive work, the day goes by fast, there are 7 lines so can ask to be moved around, promotions are to more challenging positions are offered quickly. It had just the right amount of employees, where after a year you still might not know everyone's name, but you'll recognize them all. Not like those so small that you're hearing daily dramas, not like those so large you're constantly having new hires with no training put on the line. I worked here in 2021, and the hours were insane. It was "mandatory overtime" only every other Sunday off. That means we worked 13 days straight and had one day off, work another 13 days. Repeat. After a year of that I couldn't do it any longer, I was utterly exhausted. 

I worked here for only about six months and in that time all I saw from the managers is how much they’ll complain when something doesn’t go right and will do absolutely nothing but breath down your neck and complain every step of the way that it doesn’t get done. The plant manager will talk trash behind your back to everybody and complain about the work you finish he has no respect for anyone. When I first got hired I told all the managers I was gonna go back to school so I can sit for my state exam and they said they would be willing to work with my time and when the time came they all lied and claimed I never told them anything and said I could not go as they said it would be unfair for the other employees who cannot go to school. STAY AWAY FROM HERE!

My schedule has been changed 3 times without proper notice to accommodate their lack of Human Resources planning.  The management is without clear communication.  The training is abysmal and they expect you to know everything without proper training.  Management verbally disrespects you, talks down to you and gives you unrealistic expectations of your workload.  You receive new tasks without proper training and when you ask for that training, they get upset.  Their system is outdated  and requires a lot of updates.  The turnover rate here is extremely high. Overall,  the work culture here is toxic and I do not recommend it. 

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