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Perrigo

If you have a college degree this is the place to work. I am reviewing Perrigo Allegan.

However, if you do not have a college degree and get stuck working operations (Manufacturing/Packaging) you will most likely be miserable. Most of the positive reviews this company has received are most likely from those whom have worked at Perrigo for 10+ years or work in an office/management position. 

Perrigo's motto is quality of life, quality of work. This is only true if you do NOT work operations. If you work in operations do not plan to get your days off from the weekends. Most of Perrigo in Allegan is doing mandatory weekend overtime. Meaning, you will be working every other weekend. This isn't bad when they only do this on occasions. However, in some departments it's going on 2+ years of nonstop you get 4 days off a month. Instead of improving this for employee's, they change their transfer policies for operation personnel to make it harder for you to switch to a slower department. Not too long ago they also changed their weekend write up policy. You used to be able to call in on weekend (Both Saturday and Sunday) and get 1 write up separated from your weekday absence hours attendance write ups. However, operation personnel were using this due to the high mandating rate to their advantage. So Perrigo once again "Made our lives better at work" by changing the write up policy. Now weekend call-in go toward your straight absence hours. You also cannot use paid time off for weekend days.

For the departments that do not mandate every weekend... plan some of your weekend plans messed up because they will mandate you for no reason and randomly. (I've never seen a company willing to pay someone $40 an hour to stand around because their inventory system goes down and you're not allowed to do anything.)

Perrigo's Paid Time Off(PTO) is kind of a joke. Perrigo will do everything in their power to make you exhaust your PTO. Perrigo states that they give you 3 weeks of vacation for new hires. What they don't tell you is that you earn your 3 weeks of vacation at a rate of 2.31 hours per week. (For new hires) Perrigo changed their policies about 5 years ago with PTO, Absence hours, and unpaid excused time off. Employee's used to receive 40 hours of PTO plus weekly accumulation, 40 hours of absence time, and 40 hours of unpaid excused time off. However, they got rid of this system and banked everything into 1. Now employee's receive 24.1 hours of absence time before a level 1 write up occurs. Then another 24.1 hours for a level 2 to occur. Then 16.1 hours for a level 3 followed with a 2 day suspension. Then another 16.1 hours before a level 4 and you beg for your job. Older employee's are grandfathered into the PTO system to receive higher weekly PTO rates. So there are currently 2 sets of PTO hours going on. 

For example:
Current new hires PTO rates years 1-5 earn 2.31 hours per week.
Grandfathered in employee's 1-5 earn 2.7 hours per week.

Current new hires PTO rates years 5-12 earn 3.08 hours per week.
Grandfather in employee's 5-12 ears 3.54 hours per week.

Current new hires PTO rates years 12-18 earn 3.8 hours per week.
Grandfather in employee's 12-18 earn 4.3 hours per week.

Perrigo is the pharmaceutical company that tries to operation on the Pfizer level of things. However, Perrigo is much smaller and does it way worse than Pfizer. If you want to work at a pharmaceutical company as operations go to Pfizer. They do things much better.

A typical work day is engaging enough to be satisfactory. Employees can expect to learn more responsibilities than their initial job position requirements. 

Management and Human Resources do a terrible job of protecting their employees' interests in their job. In my case, I was injured on the job, had proof and was not qualified for Leave and Workman's compensation. Expect to be seen first by a Perrigo employed Medical Center for any injury incurred on the job. This is problematic for injured workers as seeing a Doctor of the employee's choice is seen as not acceptable which lends a biased viewpoint in favor of Perrigo. Management itself has also shown a lack of compassion and understanding for many its employee's needs. There is no consideration for special situations that doesn't fall within Perrigo's policy. For example: An individual that needs FMLA for a sibling is not able to qualify for Leave despite being the only Family member able or alive to care for them.

 I have worked there myself for many years and have seen a consistent turnover of good management and Engineer roles. Perrigo has been having issues with employment and keeping a fully staffed crew amongst all shifts due to employees being unsatisfied with their ability to grow. Long term, highly qualified Employees usually complain of being of being over looked or beat to job positions by outside hiring. 

I used to really enjoy the job at Perrigo and they definitely seemed to be in tune with their employee's interests at the time. However this culture has moved away and a more corporate style of handling matters and company interests has taken root in it's place.

I do believe that Perrigo can be capable of being a more employee friendly company while being profitable.

Managed $220 MM Walmart/Sam’s business. Served as the primary contact of all buying, marketing, and Private Brand teams. Responsible for meeting/exceeding all key scorecard measures and internal budgets. Developed and implemented business plans that achieves/exceeds Walmart/Sam’s and Perrigo’s objectives. Worked with marketing to develop new product ideas and launch plans in support.
▪	Developed and implemented annual sales & marketing budgets/plans and joint advertisements with PL suppliers.
▪	Increased overall sales 38% from 2006 - 2012, as it relates to Walmart and Sam’s.
▪	Increased company’s margins by increased facings on modular, revised pack sizes, reduced number of shipping days for full truck loads, and implemented price increases across all Infant Formula skus. 
▪	Launched over 50 new sku’s across 3 departments, including a full line of infant/toddler foods and snacks in Supercenters.
▪	Awarded Supplier of the Quarter for outstanding scorecard measures.
▪	Launched all Walmart and Sam’s Club skus on Dotcom. 
▪	Developed and Managed all Parent’s Choice packaging and label redesigns internally and with WM Private Brands.
▪	Worked with Quality Assurance and factories to ensure all products/facilities meet Walmart’s expectations.
▪	Ensured all data was correct and complete across all sku’s in Walmart’s Aspect system.

In addition, worked in RL, analyst, and replenishment to identify opportunities of growth, issues of concerns, and developed plans of action for all team members.

I loved my time at perrigo the reason i left the job was the people making decisions for the people working on the lines are people who don't work on the lines so the people making decisions for us workers don't understand the struggles it puts on the workers we don't have any say on the new rules being enforced and sometimes strategies that work well for the workers get changed and when you work on a production line that is pretty much the same thing everyday and you create a routine then that change it makes it hard to do tasks when you have to constantly worry about doing a task the wrong way because the rules change constantly. another problem is the way everyone is treated we aren't treated bad but the way personal problems are handled changes daily one day you can do a task and then the next day you are getting yelled at for doing that same exact task the same way even though there are strict FDA regulation rules that we follow and we follow well there are certain things that the FDA doesn't regulate  in how the lines work and the reason why is because At perrigo the turnover rate is insane there are constantly new people in and out of the company and that makes it hard on the experienced employees because the factory work is the same thing everyday in the basic scheme of it but there are certain tiny changes that happen based on the customers orders. But i enjoyed my time working at the company and would very much tell anyone i know to search for an opportunity at Perrigo but to me personally i didn't enjoy my time their and wanted to search for a better career opportunity for myself

i learned that perrigo employees can pick a utinsel up off of the floor and throw it in the clean bin , drop a skid, short a tablet, spill the tablets. i learned that a perrigo person does not have to wear gloves or sleeves but a manpower person better. i learned that a manager (in my case a certain manager) can doctor her records to protect a perrigo employee but don't expect her to do the same for you if you're manpower. as a manpower person i had no problems my first six weeks. (no discipline problems, no work performance problems) then during my 7th week i had a lady on my line who did not want me to help her. my boss told me to go do it anyway. i said, she does not like me and she does not want me in her space. my line leader started treating me very badly and started finding fault with everything i did. you can guess who got terminated. i have had a job for 46 years of my life. i have never been fired..................until tonight.
i wanted to work at perrigo. but now...well...not so much. i am a very good employee and i did not deserve this. sometimes supervisors don't do their homework. he was not a mean supervisor.....just nieve.
the line leader made me work on the hopper for 2 hours straight and all she could do was smerk about it. the line leader could do this and she did.
my sister died today. perrigo thinks they caused my biggest heartache. they didn't have a clue. i just handed the supervisor my badge, i shook his hand and i left very quietly.

I've worked for Perrigo for 16 years. I started my career in tablet packaging and moved through multiple roles before landing in IT as a Systems/Business Analyst about 8 years ago.

As far as factory jobs go, the packaging lines are about as easy as it gets. It's a clean environment and it quite low effort in terms of physical exertion. 

Corporate side of things can be a bit idiotic at times. There was a lot of movement in the past few years and many of the key players left the company, leaving gaps that are still not yet backfilled.

The IT project load varies from very light to panic inducing but the company is really good at setting realistic expectations if you are upfront with them on your limitations. Working remote since March of 2020 has been a great shift for the company and as far as IT is concerned, it's a permanent shift in the way we operate.

Turnover is very low in our department, and you can expect to work with the same great team for many years if you are inclined to stay. There are issues with resource availability and projects that shift in priority when you are in the middle of them, but such is life in that department.

Travel expectations are reasonable and as a Business Analyst I can do 99.9% of my job from my home office. Travel is only important on integrations when we purchase a new plant, product, etc.

This is for Perrigo Company Allegan,

Let's just say this... If you have a college degree and do not work in operations this is the place to work. You will get plenty of work life / home life benefits, flexible schedules, pretty much any days off that you want, get amazing breaks and can leave, etc. 



However, if you work in operations (blue collared workers) you will be stepped on, you get treated poorly, and this company does not care about your home life. When it comes to benefits they just keep taking away and don't really do anything to benefit these workers. Perrigo has the mindset that the pay is all they have to do to keep these employees. Currently, Perrigo cannot retain many employees in this work field even with the pay however they see nothing wrong with this. Perrigo needs to change something for these workers because recently there has been a lot of talk between people about trying to become Union. Perrigo, many of your workers have lost faith in you.

For some reason this year Perrigo really threw out how much they support mental health, but yet how many Perrigo employees that work in operations only get four days off a month. if something arises on a mandated weekend you actually get penalized with absence time and possibly wrote up. They used to be more lenient with weekends. However, about two years ago that changed when they got rid of weekend write-ups for operation personnel.

This was about 15 yrs ago, third shift $8 an hour and no benefits. Manpowers christmas bonus was an insulting plastic travel mug with hershey kisses inside which found its way into the trash. The Perrrigo people decided i was supposed to start working weekends as well as the M-F week and sugar coated it by explaining they were doing it for me not for them even though the terms were that i was exempt from weekends. I didn't show up for them and if they had anything to say I was going to walk out. The worst thing about the job is that the word QUALITY SERVICES on the lab door is a sham. I saw daily and serious examples of illicit things done mostly with chromatography manipulation to make out of spec data within limits. It was done quite in the open and the concensus was that you don't want to slow things down by doing exactly what you were supposed to do. I have heard of recalls of superpotent perrigo prod recalls since then and suspect these were examples of this. They don't pay people much so this is what they get in exchange. I myself would not take part in any of this data manipulating and was shunned by the people doing wrong things. I was very unimpressed with what i saw there for 6 months and manpower does nothing for you except make money off you while doing nothing.

A typical day may be summarized as follows: 70% of work hours are spent on planning, conducting and analyzing experimental outcome/results, troubleshooting etc. followed by writing reports and/testing procedures, reviewing protocols, review and update reports from team members, 20% time is spent on team updates, project meetings, facility update meetigs, SOP/Lean sigma trainings and 10% time spent on literature search, prepare presentatiion, summarize and report weekly activities/hours spent on specific project activities, update global QBD site etc. Work is performed individually, however in a team environment, where every individual group member contributes; there is always communication between different team members regarding project related complexities and possible solutions for execution to meet the project needs. The hardest part of the job is to attend several multiple project priorities within a given time but the most enjoyable part is to have the opportunity to get involved into multiple functions/activities and perform according to business/customer needs.

I was let go due to lack of work, mostly due to my lime making seasonal products. I loved my job, despite the negative things going on. The benefits were going to literally going to change my life, and I desperately needed it. There is a clique environment in Plant 7. You may not see it at first, but it is there. Unfortunately, I saw it more than others and had to shut it out.

If you are going to get hired in here, it is all about the luck of the draw. My trainer was great at teaching me, but she tended to favor the opinions of her line and threw me under the bus many times. My line specifically was full of negative attitudes towards new people. Sometimes it is not always like that. I met nice people, and had some great experiences. However, the bad outweighs the good.

Supervisors claim to care about their workers, but nothing is done to fix huge issues. The cycle, unfortunately, will continue until they feel it is a problem. It feels like management has no power, and the employees create an intense environment that supervisors are afraid to change.

Good luck working here. It really is about luck.

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