maintenance mechanic

production worker

maintenance manager

production supervisor

forklift operator

Shasta Beverages, Inc.

Shasta has decent pay, more than most warehouse jobs. The upper management is very poor, thinks they know what they are doing when they don't. All of their focus goes towards earplugs and beard nets instead of the equipment. They have meetings among themselves every day, and never try to get input from the other employees whatsoever. The machines are out dated and are not kept up with whatsoever. The same mechanical issues persist without getting fixed, and you still get yelled at for not producing.  The maintenance team is a joke, instead of taking care of the machines and fixing them properly, they just spray lube on them and take forever to arrive when you call for them. When they finally do come, they yell at you and give you an attitude like you broke the machine. We are always out of something; no cans, no concentrate. The supervisors are actually great, and try their best to keep the plant afloat, but they can only do so much. When an employee quits, instead of getting new people, they just add their duties to someone else, with no extra pay. You get points for using sick time, even when you bring a doctor's note. The shipping department are always confused on what they need to make their orders and struggle to properly communicate. You think you're covered for the day, then at the last second, shipping comes saying they are short 20 pallets and they need them ASAP. Overall, the plant is in terrible shape, and is on a steady decline until capable upper management comes into play and puts their attention into solving real issues. Other than that, you get free sodas, and paid holidays.

Work-life balance
Work-life balance at Shasta Beverages is non-existent. They don't care how often they work you, and you get punished for taking sick days. Mandatory overtime, 50-60 hours a week are the norm. Can't plan anything as the schedule is posted only 2 days in advance.

Pay & benefits
The pay is great, but the benefits are terrible. Extremely expensive, and call-offs work on a point system that is unforgiving

Job security and advancement
Everything is seniority based, so moving up is almost impossible as all of management has been working there for 20+ years. Everyone in each department is paid the same regardless of time of employment

Management
In general, managers at Shasta Beverages care about the output of product, but care very little about the employees themselves. You are viewed as just another number, and they will do nothing for you whatsoever unless it helps the company. You are replaceable and it's obvious.

Culture
The people are okay for the most part. But as a company that will literally hire anyone, there are people with attitudes, egos, and likely mental issues running the show. I've seen people get screamed at over small issues, and showing off that you're mad about something is par for the course.

Overall
My experience working at Shasta Beverages is pretty bad. The job isn't bad, but the culture is one of the worst I've ever been exposed to. Things are constantly broken, and people are just looking to blame someone rather than fix it. Be prepared to deal with these headaches daily

Your average day working here can be a toss up. Some days you're working a simple 10 hour shift and other days you're required to stay a full 12 hours, overnight mind you, to finish running whatever flavors we had left to run. A day usually consists of clocking in, going to your workstation and just take over from first shifts place. You do what you got to do and then towards the end of the shift, just clean up so it looks nice for first shift to come back in. I learned a lot from this job though. Learned how a production line works and flows and what my part and my job has to do with that production line. I learned how to operate two machines that package and wrap our sodas into cases to be sent and put on wooden pallets. Management is questionable at times. Sometimes they are going around and doing what they meed to be doing, basically making sure that everyone else is doing their job. And other times they just kind of flop. Schedules are always made up what seems to be last second almost, they are not as understanding either. I promise you could be in a hospital bed and they would still ask if you can come in. The difficult part? Mostly the hours, 10 hours almost everyday and that's not counting in the days where they pull a 12 hour shift out of no where. Most enjoyable part? Other than the free soda, just being able to experience and learn from this position so that i may use it in the future in whatever I plan to do.

Shasta is the worst experience I ever had in a work place. Management sucks. All the management level, think they can yell at you, and belittle you, and one of the supervisors can't spell.  And they hire close family and friends,  and put them in better situations on the job, over you, even though you have been there longer than them. A lot of employees which is the good ole boys club are doing getting high their breaks, and coming back high as a kite, and management knows about it.One supervisor and lead, be outside working on their cars or some one else cars, while production is going on.
The company benefits sucks and no matching 401k. You will pay 200 dollars a week for insurance for you and your family,  and work you 60 to 70 hours a week to make you feel like you are making great money. This is a billion dollar company and the benefits are awful. The management do not care about SAFETY,  all they care about is numbers. They play favorites. Stay away if you don't  get high and you care about safety,  and you want be treated fairly,  and have decent benefits for you and your family. And most of all,  if you want your supervisors to be competent,  and not think they are better than you, and can't spell .And the headquarters HR, will never call you back.

I have written a review before but now I must update it. Shasta is by far the worst place you will ever want to work. The managment is the worst I have ever worked for in 45 years of working. They will not and have not once shown any appreciation for the employees that work 12 hrs. A day 4,5, and sometimes 6 days a week to fullfill the production orders. Not once have they bought pizza or done anything to show how much they appreciate what you do for making the company hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Nor have they said thank you for sacrificing your time with family, your sleep from long days, or your health from working long and hard days. If you enjoy time with your family or expect this company to appreciate what you sacrifice for them then for gods sake do not apply here. If you dont mind being disrespected and stabbed in the back by managment then go ahead and apply.

 The pay is terrible. You work until you are finished way past 8 hours and you are not paid for it. You work over time and are not paid for it. The cars are not commercial vehicles, the owner is cheap and does not register them correctly to avoid fees so you get tickets when working the owner makes you pay. low pay never no raises. place just super sucks other then a truck you get to take home but has a gps monitor so you have to drive and park that's it. The owners tell you to flush and brake the faucets and the lines but they NEVER do. all the work required would be 10 hour days, the kids he usually hires do no problem but they are only paid 8 hours every day nothing more...THE PLACE IS A JOKE. trust me..Oh yeah once a week we have a meeting at the behind the goodwill building in mira mesa for an hour sometimes 2. We dont get paid extra and have to drive home after. 

I loved the hours. The work is so easy and my immediate supervisor was amazing. The problem lies within corporate. I was hired on and started work within a few days. But after two weeks of training, they fired me because they hired on too many people. Two weeks is what it took for them to figure out they couldn't afford more people. 

They also hired on my husband. After a week of waiting on a start date, they told him that he was not able to because we are married. Here's the thing. My brother works for the company too and he lives with me but I was hired. 

They have no idea what this does to families because we left jobs to be employed here and now we have no income coming in due to their constant clerical issues and miscommunication in their own office.

Basically I worked hard learned a lot. But when it came to team work it seemed as if everyone was on the same page as the machines. If everything was going good then everyone was great but if a problem happened and stoped production. It was forget you and I hope you get fired and they would do things to purposely make you mad. 

So my mother-in-law caught a rare disease in the brain. She became instantly bed bound, which was very hard to adjust to for our whole family. In short I ended up getting fired due to getting to many points in to short of time. Within a month my mother-in-law passed and here we are on hardship still because they would not spare our family a few minutes a week for my mother's needs. Any donations for xmas would be so much help right now.
Please ring ...816... .. 267... ..2038 in regards to this matter.

I worked there for 6 months before I left to return to my previous employer. Shasta gave me a 90 days review where I exceeded expectations so I'm not a bad employee complaining. Their parts inventory was under stocked and the shop was under funded. They couldn't keep management in place from plant manager to maintaince manager. The senior guys there are miserable people who hold their knowledge close to their chest and don't want to show you anything because they need to be needed. The company pays well but their insurance was higher than some other good companies I've experienced, but probably better than most I'd admit. I feared they would close that place down because of its condition an poor production rates and I hated the culture and decaying shop so I ran before I was caught in that. 

Lack of communication from top to bottom. There is a 401k but they do not contribute anything. The place is not up to gmp standards. No real safety program guidelines. Operator's always going inside machines to clear jams without locking out equipment (OSHA violation), scheduling production is a nightmare. They waste too much product. HR questions must be made by email or calling office in Florida. No advancement opportunity. The ops manager is clueless and never engages with employees. Mandatory overtime announced as soon as you come in. They write it on a board that you have to stay till 4am as soon as you come in. Worst company/job I have ever had!

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