manufacturing supervisor

mechanic

warehouse worker

supply chain specialist

territory manager

Tropicana Brands Group

Recieved poor training and expectations from my manager during month of on-boarding. Received fractured partial instruction for monthly close process and was chastised for less than timely completion of tasks as I was learming as I went. Felt pressured to figure out the process on my own requiring taking personal time on a month to month basis to complete tasks.

Any questions I had for my manager relating to the team's procedures felt very tense, and difficult to receive feedback or answers sufficient for understanding the tasks at hand. 

On more than one occasion issues were addressed through the second-line manager, never had the offer from my immediate manager to discuss concerns or conflics. Knowing I was being discussed among management without hearing from my manager made for an alienating distrusting feeling towards my own team.

Had the unpleasant experience of hearing the second-line manager getting argumentatively vocal with another employee in Finance. 

These interactions more or less sums up the time spent with this group, a very disheartening experience overall dispite the commendable select few positive individuals I can recall.

What is the best part of working at the company?
No supervision or anyone to tell you anything. You already know what your doing and they just give you total freedom to do what I came to lovem

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The 12 hour shifts but besides that it's the best place I have ever worked and I wish I still worked there.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It's a very clean facility and everyone there has been there for years and know what they're doing. As far as the company was very involved you can say with every aspect of the company.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Everyday starts with a meeting of everyone in your department and a break down of where exactly the shift before you left off. So you already know what your in for as for as workload and what you need to know to be successful and have a productive shift.

Director senior management are not supporting. They are not transparent to the whole management team. Human Resources does not follow the policies and are not very concerned about being fair and doing what is right. They take orders from senior management. They don’t believe in work life balance unless it’s for themselves. Hourly employees are forces to work 70-85hrs per week. There’s no communication except for a select few. The director and HR MANAGER give negative feedback about everyone except the actual person. There’s no value for the employees. Nothing discussed during the hiring process is actually practiced in real life. No follow ups. Director never asked how your doing? Do you have problems needed help with. Do you have everything to do your job? To be such a known brand the experience is a nightmare. 

This place will work you to the bone with no work life balance. On average you will work anywhere from 60 to 80hrs a week in 14-21 day stretches without recieveing a day off. Overtime goes based senority leaving the junior man working alot in most cases. A weak union shop that fights harder for the lazy and absentee employees than there good ones. Absolutely no advancement into management or any kind of salaried role for an internal candidate. No matter past experience and knowledge of the job/department. Constant revolving door in management and hr resulting in poor communication at all levels plant wide. If you need to make alot of money quick and don't mind living here this place is for you. If your looking to grow with a company, have a family, have integrity and work ethic I would look elsewhere.

I was an operator/mechanic in the unified filling operation (UFO). Takes 90 days to "qualify" as full time. Pays $33/hr but you get $27 to start then have to wait 5 years (at $27) until full pay. Lots of overtime available.

I liked working there. The machines are complex and interesting. Most of the building is air conditioned. My job was to keep the lines in production. We diagnose and repair problems on the spot by working together with the other operator/mechanics. 

Unfortunately the work culture is nothing like the real world. Senior union employees can make life difficult for you and/or get you fired. 

There is no work ethic here in UFO. and I quote: "Get most money for the least amount of work." 

I believe in telling the truth, following the rules and working for a living. They don't. That was the end of my employment at Tropicana.  

A typical work day for me would be sure to check all machine/systems to be sure everything is ready for use for my shift and log into system. Then I would wait for loads to come in and once loads are in I would then, hook hose to the tanker and i would either load/ unload for juice. Working night shift I would be considered self supervised. What I would say was a bit difficult about my job at tropicana was connecting valves to tanks to load juice into trucks. Being able a team player with my fellow coworkers and management team.

We started off each shift discussing the past events of shift, repairs and installations made and current status.
Tropicana Glass plant was a great job, too bad Glass plants all decided to consolidate and eventually close the Bradenton plant.
We didn't close because the plant was ineffective, we were producing and they implemented new state of the art equipment, which if installed correctly works great when properly maintained as we did at Tropicana. I would have loved to retire at this job working in this position, but sometimes the economy makes another call, and that was to downsize glass in the market and bring in plastic, even though glass is 100% recyclable.

I enjoyed my job as a forklift operator at Tropicana, but I did not like the shift.  I was stuck on midnite shift and as low man in seniority, you will be stuck there for a few years.  Some of the workers there are great people and good workers, then there are some that do as little as possible and are not good people.  I learned alot working at Tropicana.  The pay was decent, and union contract had small increases yearly of about $.65 per hour.  Problem was there is 2 different pay scales.  Some people were getting $6.50 more per hour for top pay as a forklift driver than I was on that union contract.  

Senior "leadership" is a joke and has cultivated a culture of fear, opacity, and more fear. They do not care about doing things the right way. Somehow they only care about bottom line, but don't even do that right. Come here only if you want to be worked to death and watch people get fired for doing the right thing. Thought I would work here until retirement and instead got to watch them fire 100s of years of experience and leave critical roles open for months or just double workloads. Asking if there are enough resources for a project elicits a laugh.

Being an executive assistant was a great experience.  Answering calls, making travel arrangements, sometimes making executive decisions while the boss is away for corporate meetings. Meeting people from all over the U.S. 
While there I was transferred to the Inventory Control. Managed the inventory for about 15-20 trucks plus the warehouse inventory and entering into the system. Also took calls from our clients who needed their inventory to be replenished.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Manufacturing supervisor 3 salaries reported	$92,000 per year
Mechanic 7 salaries reported	$37.36 per hour
Warehouse worker 1 salary reported	$23.25 per hour
Supply chain specialist 1 salary reported	$70,000 per year
Territory manager 5 salaries reported	$71,500 per year

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