brand manager

project engineer

sanitation worker

senior business analyst

machine operator

Ruiz Foods

What is the best part of working at the company?
Unfortunately the weekly pay, and paid holidays

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management is horrible, the company itself is not what it seems to be. None of the machines have worked properly since I’ve been there. There is lot of favoritism with certain people. The company has rules that they so call stand on but they don’t follow. The work is hard on your body and stressful to. They don’t give you the proper training and nor do you pay you to train someone. They have a point system that makes no sense.  If you bring a doctors note they still give you a point. You only get 8 points at that. The breaks are all over the place and they refuse to have a second shift for line 3 bakery so you don’t go home until finished. Even when your schedule is set for 5-2 pm you can sometimes leave pass 3 sometimes 4pm. I don’t like that we are forced to stay until finished. I’d like the option of staying instead. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
A lot of foreign employees on visa. So it’s hard to communicate sometimes. The environment is very stressful! Management is always rude unless your a favorite.

Pay levels are a joke. What’s the point of working hard if you just make the same amount as someone who is lazy. It’s very hard to advance because no one really leaves. You’ll wait 5 years to get your chance at a good promotion but it doesn’t matter because there’s always someone who’s been waiting longer. More often then not they pick the person with more seniority. You don’t really get noticed unless you’ve been there for years. I’ve seen so many great workers come through and leave because they get tired of being overlooked. Myself included. Benefits are pretty good compared to other places around here. But the vacation accumulates very slow. The measly .35 cent raises plus .05 cents for every year of service are not much. Management is decent. Not too much overtime. Mostly 8 hours. Every once in a while 10. Extra day here and there. Pay is just okay. Most of the factories in the area are better. They would keep better employees if they paid better and actually advanced the people that deserve it.

Where to begin. They have a point system. 3 points and you get fired. If you clock in even a minute late, thats 1/2 a point. Any absence, even if you have a doctora note is 1 point. In my husband's case, he had a doctors note but then clocked in from lunch 60 seconds late. They fired him the next day. The benefits are relatively cheap, thag is the only plus. If you have a conflicting schedule (like an important phone call you need to take) they are unwilling to let you change your breaks at all. This company does not care about its employees. You are simply a minion to do their bidding, and if you don't do everything they exact way they want, then good bye. Rumors around that advancement is based on favoritism. The guy training me husband was even told he wouldn't get promoted by a supervisor "as long as I'm here", and the dude had been there 7 years. This place is a joke and showed that they have absolutely no integrity. Not only do I loath this place now, I will ensure my family never buys any of their products. 

Typical day was focus on product quality, training,and interfacing with team members at all levels regardig the daily process.
There was not a day that some thing new was not learned the organization was growing, new proudcts, training on going for new SOP's quality, sanitation, & safety.
Managment was very strong and supportive, communication was open, and coaching was excellent.
Co worker were very supportive, strong team spirit, knowledgeable of the job tasks, and cheerful.
Hardest part of the job was afew team members that had been with the organization for a lone period of time had resentment to new comers coming in and making changes to process standards they developed and now being chsnged.
Enjoyable in that there was team spirit, cooperation, support, leadership, and effective training.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The job is easy but the new management is terrible. They fired people that been there for years without any real reasons.New management is ruining the planet in the ground always thinking they know everything when only been at the plant for less then 6 months or a year they hate getting real fee back from people that know more the turn over is so bad 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Never know when your going to be out of a job they fired people so much just because they can 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Team members are great but most upper management is terrible 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful  because you come to work do a great job and they will still fired you for know reason and keep the people that don’t work

I have a strong feeling this plant will not last very long. Management is not on the same page with each other, one person will tell you something and another will tell you something different. Nobody seems to know what is going on around the plant. Communication with employees is bad, some people have worked at this plant 7 months and still do not know what a good quality product is. More burritos are being thrown away than shipped out because management will not fix issues with bakery producing out of spec tortillas. Tortilla throwers are expected to work miracles and hit every plate even though they are not given acceptable tortillas to work with. You are treated as a number at this plant, not a person. Management only cares if their production numbers are high, but doesn't care about amount of waste or concerns of employees. This is the WORST place I have ever worked.

Very high turnover rate. Locally bad reputation. Strict on attendance. Plenty of overtime avail. No concern for personal life issues. Favortisum was def.ly prevalent, but, just try to ignore it. Senority policy in place, but ignored by mgmt. when it comes to shift assignments.
Enjoyed most people i worked with. Always a few in any manf job, that are thorns, but minimal and just ignore them. Overall, i liked the company and overtime, some others did not. Local companies in Sherman/Denison openly agreed (for 20+ years), not to hire techs away from each other and to pay similar low scale tech wages. I have been told this by 3 seperate companies during interviews, tgru the years. So limit your expectations. This is changing for the better (pay, professionalism, oppourtunites) as Dallas companies have migrated north. I ranked Ruiz a '4'. I believe most other techs would rank Ruiz a 3 (or lower).

They change rules everyday and is very lack in communication all over including upper management. No sense of direction because half the people can’t do there job. Lazy workers making everybody else pick up the slack of others. Employers don’t come to work especially operators and the work hours are long.Operator cannot operate machinery correctly or can they work as a team. The lead and supervisors are never on the same page because one does there job half the time and the other is a joke. Sometimes the machines are not clean properly, will have fouled odors in the machine and leftover product from previous work day which is why I would never purchase any products made by this company. They cut your hours and other time you don’t even get a full week of work hours so I wouldn’t recommend anyone to work here as it’s a unfair, disgusting, and disfunctional place to work!!!!

I have been working for Ruiz Foods for 3 years, Work/Life balance is terrible. Pay is not as truthful and the environment is toxic. I do not recommend. You only get 9 points before termination. (Some people had 15) You work everyday and get 1 hour for vacation. 8 points is a whole day. So imagine.  I work 8 weeks (Equivalent to 1 hour each week) just to have a day off. (This is for unpaid pto (vacation) which you will have to but 2 weeks notice for them to approve you vacation. (You do get paid for it but it's stupid that they call it unpaid) Pto (You don't get paid for) Which they give you 8 hours every 6 months. It's confusing I know. When they laid me off because they didn't have any workers after the Visa People left. It is a dead plant and I don't know if people still work there.

I can't say that I enjoyed Ruiz Foods. My typical day began with a stretch routine. Then I went to the back to get the dumpsters for my area, then proceeded to maintain the area floor having to continuously go back and forth between two rooms with vastly different temperatures, one being kept between 42 and 48 degrees and the other between 90 and 100. I did not learn much during my time there. Management was mediocre at best, they failed to acknowledge health hazards such as cockroaches in the walls running into the dough for the tortillas. My co-workers were good hard working people, always focused on what they were doing.
The hardest part of the job was the constant change in temperature when I had to check up on the other room. The most enjoyable part of the job was when I got to go home.

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