production associate

packer

maintenance technician

industrial mechanic

general worker

Sugar Creek Packing Co.

First off, the "good." For being 18 at the time, making $9.45 an hour didnt seem like too bad of a deal to me. If you did have to work Saturday or Sunday, you got paid X1.5 and X2 pay. Also, after receiving mandatory "union" membership after your probabtionary time of 31 days (workdays, not calendar days) you are eligible for benefits, such as health insurance, dental, etc.

That's where the good ends. There is no tangible advancement in the company. Many employees who worked there (who were very hard workers) had been there on the floor doing grunt work for 2, 4, 10+ years. You constantly have managers on power trips coming up to you and yelling at you because you're not good enough, fast enough, etc. During break time, they didn't even allow you to take your full breaks. If you didn't cut your break 5 minutes early, you would get yelled at and threatened with termination. You had to scramble amongst ~40 other employees to get your work smock, apron, gloves, and be ready. However, the time between the end break buzzer and production begin buzzer was only about 15 seconds. Not ready by then, and you have a 6' 8" manager stride over to you, yell at you, and threaten you. The work is non-stop, on your toes, fast-paced until the buzzer rings. The only time management will approach you if you screwed up on something and if your numbers don't align with their expected figures. There is just no enjoyment from working there.

I thought this job was going to be good for me, that’s what the interview seemed like and orientation. But I soon learned that is not the case you are there more than you see your own home. Say bye to your loved ones especially if you work on seconds because you have no life. Most weeks are 6-7 days 4pm to 3am. You aren't seen as a person. Management is a completely mess they all hate each other and show pettiness on the daily, that snowballs down. The only constant thing there is that you will be overworked and undervalued. All the people that actually care have either left or are leaving. I’ve always been a hard worker and enjoyed working but this is the worst place I’ve ever been employed by. Unfair expectations to some without expecting it from others of the same positions. The people that “run” the place aren’t on the floor with you and definitely aren’t there nearly as long as you and under no circumstances do they work weekends even though it’s expected every single week of everyone else. No support just demands. Most of employees are through temp agencies and not actually hired on. High turnover rate for the company hired employees. 

A typical day at work is very hasty, fast pace, and kept sanitary. When doing line work, I scaled the cards of bacon before they were packed. I did this to make sure the right amount of the product was packed, the product looked neat and organized, and threw out the wastes.

I learned how to handle food products at this job.

Management fell under keeping the floor clean, cleaning off the line after product was spilled, and making sure the cards came down the line evenly so they wouldn't cluster up.

My co-workers were around the same age as me and younger. They liked to goof off a lot, which I didn't like.I think people should take their job more seriously when it comes to production and timing. Other then that they were friendly and hard working.

The hardest part of the job was keeping the product flow organized in the line. You had to constantly keep and eye on the line because of how many times things would so easily get messed up. It took me a little while to get used to it, on top of me scaling the product. It was definitely a multitasking job. Which I no longer have a problem with sense I have gotten used to it more.

The most enjoyable part of the job was when I got things down clearly and understood things more. After a while the job was a cake walk, and there was no more stress.

This company has some great potential. The biggest issue is do as I say not what I do. The managers sweep a lot under the rug for friends and relatives. There is a maintenance boss  who is late almost every day and when he finally arrives he is drunk. This is noticeable but when complaints happen the person gets retaliated against harshly. The bosses will demean and belittle you out right calling employees retards and P.O.S. As the summery says they will watch you on camera 24/7 they even approached a employee and told him he is not allowed to use the restroom. On average everyone I met is between 6 months to two years overdue for promised raises. There is a lot of racism at white employees on night shift. This company needs to be torn down and restructured starting at the top and working down. (all these experiences reflect on the Kansas plant) I wish the best to corporate and only advice send someone undercover.

There are not enough words to describe how badly this place treated me. I was overtimed to oblivion only hearing about staying late literally ten minutes before I left. the management looked out for themselves and whenever you have a legitimate issue they nod their head and act like they'll help you and a month later they will act like they either never talked to you about an issue at all or lie to you and said they fixed the problem or at least tried. Don't try when working here, they will take a good worker and slam more and more responsibility and work on you without any extra pay until you are doing the work of three people and when you say you can't do it then you are a lazy worker or a whiner and then nothing is done. I hope that someone sees this and doesn't think I am just another dumb ticked off worker that is trying to slander his old job. I am genuinely trying to save people from this terrible job. Just do the bare minimum and take the check and go home is my only advice if you are unfortunate to work here.

It's a quick moving job but the people are mostly Spanish speaking other do speak English but are able to help you even if your not bilingual. Training is quick they put you on the floor show you how it's done and let you work with a team memeber watches you and works beside you to make sure your do it right and teach how and where to go it is odd at first but if you keep at it then it will be easy. The other employees will help you if need but it easy to learn great hours pay and benifits. It can be stressful at first but once people get to know you and see your hard working they will laugh, smile ,and joke with you to keep everyone happy. It's chilly any day it can be 42-34 degrees so layer up on clothes will help keep warm you get 3 breaks during the work day 15 min ,30min lunch ,and last break is 10min. 6 days a week Sundays off. If you treat people with respect and are friendly you won't have a problem from anyone.

Can be a decent way to make quick cash since we got paid overtime every week but hours can be long. Depending on what department you are in, you will work 6 or 7 days a week. Mostly women work in the microwave department and while the temperature can be cold, you can easily over heat in your thick clothing due to the hot bacon and ovens as well as moving quickly. The raw department is mostly men and consists of working 7 days a week prepping the pork bellies for bacon. Temperatures are extremely cold and without thick gloves or socks, you definitely will start to feel them become numb. Some of the other employees were nice but there were cliques (as there is at any job) as well as some being straight up rude. Especially if your line was down and you had to help assist another line. Management treated me fairly and my direct supervisors and line leader were great. Great benefits but if you have a family, working 6 or 7 days a week isn’t ideal.

Work-life balance
Working 6 days no matter what. 57 hours a week minimum. Yes 57 not 55 and that’s only minimum. Some departments went 35 days with no days off. So that’s 7 days a week. Work-life balance? What is life? You’ll only know working at Sugarcreek. Family, friends, time outside of work? Forget about it. Your last name is now SugarCreek.

Pay & benefits
Benefits at SugarCreek? HA! Yeah right. That word is banned from that job.

Job security and advancement
Scan your card to get in and out. It’s annoying for the workers but it’s decent.

Culture
The culture is more minus the “ure” in the word “culture”.

Overall
Some spots in the are easy but forget about yours ears, back, feet and neck because those are going down the drain. I worked in the bacon bits area. Workers had to literally take a shovel to a box of bacon bits that weighed out to be like a ton and just keep shoveling the bacon bits onto a machine for 10 hours a day for 15.50. Would you pay someone outside of a job environment 15.50 an hour to shovel a literal (TON) of bacon bits onto a machine?

Great pay! All in all my co-workers were fun, friendly. Team work was not great this was lacking but was not taught well either. People have to be shown teamwork in order to mimick an environment that expells teamwork. Team work starts with trust and I found management micro managing the easiest teamwork steps towards building a well trained team that becomes successful. Being helpful to other lines in your down time wasn't encouraged. I understand needing to know where staff our but it was not always possible to find a supervisor to obtain permission to assist with a major backed up line. Also turn over is the company's fault. I understand that 90 days seem short but drastic changes can happen in 24 hours. They don't want illness in the plant but when I was very I'll and ask if I could take the day off but would come in if there would be penalty. I was asked to not come in until I Heard back from management and 3.5 hours later I finally reached HR and was fired. 

It wasn't uncommon for workers to go through the bootwash without performing full routines required to prevent contamination of the meats.  Many workers wore makeup despite it not being allowed, gum was chewed on the floor, jewelry worn, pretty much if it was a rule to protect food from contamination, it was largely ignored.  New people would pick products off the floor without going through appropriate decontamination procedures, stating "they weren't aware it was a thing" despite going through an orientation that stated it was very much a thing as well.

Add to that the fact that many workers will often approach others and touch each other inappropriately and kiss in full view of the cameras (all again, on the production floor).  Despite all this, no disciplinary actions were taken.  In fact, the only reason it seems someone can be fired from here is attendance issues.

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