machine operator

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maintenance technician

production supervisor

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TreeHouse Foods

This company was the most cutthroat company I ever had to work for. You could be the best worker in there but if you go against them in any way shape or form  you will be on their chopping block. Management does not like criticism even if its meant well. Their motto is do as I say not as you think even if your ideas are better. This company works its employees to death, they don't care about your home life. What they need is a permanent weekend shift so everyone doesn't have to work every weekend for 8 to 9 months straight. This company goes thru alot of temps, this company goes thru alot of employees. They like Mexicans because they work them like dogs. Treehouse needs to let unions come in so the workers can have some rights instead of being treated like slaves. I have seen employees with bone exposed due to a injury they received in the work place and the safety manager would not let the employee go to the hospital until she was done her investigation which could take up to an hour or more. Violence and Stress is very high in this place, management does not care if employees threaten and hit one another, if you say something they will get rid of you. You are nothing but a number. 

Floor leads and management are the most disrespectful people I've come in contact with in any job. The work environment is completely hostile and racially imbalanced. A great deal of attention is paid to non-hispanic minorities who are forced out of their positions or giving an unfair share of the work. You may be told today five minutes before the end of your shift that you expected to work 12 hours no warning no consideration for what you might have to do or plan. You are spoken to like you a small child being disciplined for some horrendous act that you committed. The problem is not the workers the problem is the management the floor leads and HR who turns a blind eye to its staff and their behavior. The job isn't that bad it's just mismanaged micro managed and it's workers taking completely foot for granted. It's a lousy place to work. The pay is good but not worth the aggravation you have to take in order to get it. The plant is closing by April 2017. So anyone starting now should know that is short term don't know about other tree house plants but the Azusa plant the worst job I ever worked anywhere!

I was a processor 2 which was responsible for preparing all of the ingredients for the batches to be mixed the next day. It was a lot of heavy lifting (I am a female but my two coworkers were females too and they did the job just fine.) Lifting 50 pound bags and boxes repeatedly. The warehouse is very unorganized and they don't have all of the tools required to make job as easy as possible.

Treehouse, if you happen to read this PLEASE organize that warehouse ASAP and also look into ways that would make it easier to the liquid ingredients such as the mustard, honey, anchovies, ect. One day I had literally 60% of my body inside of the mustard barrel attempting to collect the condiment with a small scoop. A nice cup style scoop would be better for the ingredients like that they also have a machine that holds the barrels and tilts them as well. That would also help.

First the bad stuff.

There are no fatigue mats even though we spend 12 hours on concrete floors. We can't have water out on the floor, so we go two hours or more in a hot environment without being able to drink. There's a water fountain but some leads get mad if you go drink since they seem to care more about how much product we're pushing out than the workers.  A lot of leads are yelling at their workers which isn't cool and yelling won't make a person go faster, especially if they're new. 

But it's not all bad. We work 3.5 days a week so it has a good work/life balance. And it's good pay.

And the people on my line are really cool and nice so I'm not hating the job. Just certain aspects of it that I think could be better. Lots of good and bad things about it. The pay is good and as long as you're doing your work, you're left alone. The people you work with are pretty cool but I think that depends on where you're put at. The job itself is pretty easy, just need to be able to stand and be bent over for 12 hours which is awful on your back if you're tall. 

So yeah, not a bad place to work. I plan for staying as long as possible. 

Poor management and advancement comes only from sleeping with upper management or kissing butt (which everyone is aware of and pretends isn’t happening). They don’t value their employees at all, you’re a dime a dozen in this place. They don’t do performance reviews, hold anyone accountable for their actions, or place any corrective action on people who can’t do their job properly. They rush to validate employees, because they have such a high turnover rate that they need validated operators now now now. They beat the life out of intelligent people and those with minimal intelligence get away with whatever they want. You’re smart? Here’s the worst machine possible, fix it. You’re ignorant? Here’s the smoothest machine on the line, stare at it all night and don’t break a sweat. You work hard? Here, have other people’s work to finish. The pay is decent and the insurance is good and that’s the ONLY reason they have employees to begin with. No one in their right mind would allow themselves to be treated the way they treat people otherwise.

In my position you begin your day going to the lines running oatmeal and grab samples. You take them back the the lab and spend an hour to an hour and a half running samples and recording them in excel or other programs. You then do other tasks that they assign to you such as recording cleaning logs from the other employees on the lines. You then do a second check when you get done with that. You test oats that come in on railcars to make sure they are acceptable. During grabbing your samples you examine all the packaging to make sure it is sufficient for our standards. If there are any problems you stop what you are doing and make a hold. As for co-workers they are all nice to me. They have conversations with me and help me out if I have questions. There is only 1 lab tech working at a time which makes most of the work independent. The hardest part of the job is remembering where all the files are on the computer that you need. My most enjoyable part of the job is how laid back it is. I am never rushed and get to work at my own pace.

I was disappointed by the lack of effective leadership at Treehouse. The operations leadership team, from the plant level to corporate, displayed unprofessional behavior that created a chaotic and demoralizing work environment.

There was a culture of undervaluing employee contributions. Doing a good job often resulted in more work with little recognition.

When mistakes or problems occurred, blame was frequently placed on individuals, even when they weren't responsible.  This included instances of public humiliation by managers.

Unrealistic performance expectations were a major source of stress.  Additionally, management tactics included threats of job security despite meeting established performance metrics.  In some cases, managers used demonstrably false information.

The Treehouse values were not reflected in the day-to-day operations at the plant.  This created a significant disconnect between what the company advertised and the reality for employees.

While choosing to leave some of my coworkers was difficult, the work environment had become so awful that I have had nightmares about returning to work there. 

I started working at this company back in November 2020, and it seemed promising at first. But as the months rolled on and the management started to let us know that there lost alot of business, and people who have been there for years started to look for other jobs, I knew then and there that it was time to find something else before they laid me off. Management almost always was trying to get people in trouble or fired due to either punches not going through, bad badges/broken, and yet wouldn't say anything til the points where at their limit of firing the person or people. Also I was doing a job that I wasn't getting paid for, for 3 months. It wasn't until I spoke up that something was done when the new supervisor knew I wasn't suppose to do said job. And they took away the COVID-19 pay so that just made things more difficult to actually want to work there anymore.

The job culture is horrible here. The people complain any time they have to do their job, there's no teamwork, and Management does nothing about it. They used to pit the different shifts against each other to see who would perform better and because of this, there's no cooperation between shifts and more times than not, they will leave work for the next shift to do. The people that actually care about the job are left doing more work because they are the only ones that will do the work. Again, management does nothing to solve this. If you are new, expect to work 60+ hrs every week, because the OT is based on seniority and most of the seniors won't take the OT, which forces the noobs to kill themselves for a job that won't get you anywhere. Management won't approve time off when you need it, but they do give you 13 days sick per revolving year.  The only things positive are the benefits and okay pay. If I had to do it all over again I wouldn't work here. The stress of it all makes it almost not worth it.

I had no choice about working at Treehouse Foods. They bought the company I worked at and so I was absorbed VS. joining on my own.
I find the inefficiencies and corporate red tape to be a hindrance in my everyday work. I am able to work from home and I'm pretty fairly compensated so those are both wins. Industry standard benefits. 
The company has been in a state of turmoil and chaos for about 2 years. I do like our new CEO and feel he will probably be the one to turn the company around. There are too many middle managers. We don't have enough of the real workers who get stuff done on a daily basis. We are understaffed in QA, graphics, sales, marketing, etc.
I've had 4 different managers in 4 or 5 years, I've actually lost count. Work life balance seems to vary depending on who you report to. Some managers are very laid back and others are very intense and "work-crazy".

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