truck driver

custom applicator

sprayer

operations technician

agronomy manager

Van-Diest-Supply-Company

A typical day at work usually consists of you clocking in, meeting up, then spreading out to your assigned building. Each area is different and has its own important material you need to read into. I learned that each area daily always has a new challenge.
The culture is a heavily mixed bag, some departments are really happy about the jobs they do and others are constantly pushing the idea that you're going to fail the longer you stick around. The hardest part of the job was dealing with the various environments they put you through (mainly heat). The most enjoyable part of the job was the three breaks you get daily.
 
Cons: Potentially dangerous environments. Long and difficult training due to lack of communication. Chemical hazard information not fully (or correctly) updated in each area. General hygiene not met by all crews so risk of cross contamination is high for each building. Management is all over the place and difficult to contact.

Overall difficult place to work due to strongly poor communication and short staffing.

if you like being taken advantage of, never knowing if you are going to have a job the next day, fearful of making simple mistakes, and don't want to move up in a work place this is the place for you! I have never had a job place have the most messed up management as Van Diest does, this is the job place for you! You'll be asked to help a different shift out for a few months then loose your place on the shift you wanted. You will be pushed around by the management, you wont be good enough for a position you have experience with. I would NEVER recommend this hostile work environment to even my worst enemy! You have a funeral but no personal time saved up? That's too bad, you have to call in and loose a point. Dr's appointment but no personal time? Shucks, you're going to loose a point if you can't make it to work OR have to leave early. Oh even better, you're sick, but have personal time saved up for a FAMILY event in the future? Don't you dare call in because not only will you loose a point, you will also loose 8 hours of that hard earned personal time. Hope they can get some better management in their with some hearts, because who wants to work for a bunch of heartless jack wagons?! 
IF YOU WANT TO WORK FOR A PRISON. THEN PLEASE APPLY

I advise everyone to stay away. The upper management is so God awful it’s unreal. The make rules for the littles and most irrelevant things or situations. They come out with policies for being docked pay for making a mistake but don’t follow their own said policy. They pick and choose who they want to fire. This company has a 30+ percent turnover rate. So far this month in just 15 days there has been at least 7 people quit. It was so bad for some workers they quit without a job lined up. This company needs to make some drastic changes in the near future or there won’t be a Van Diest company around anymore. It has such a bad reputation that the Iowa unemployment office doesn’t even recommend it. The only good things about this place was the pay and the people you worked with. In my opinion the unfairness and stupidity that goes on here isn’t even worth the time.

The work was productive and I adapted to the process quick throughout every different plants I worked at. I learned how to process a product from raw material to a finished and shippable product. Other skills I gained from this job was how to operated a forklift, confine space supervisor, hot work/lockout coordinator, and OSHA 10-hour General Industry Safety and Health certified. So the learning opportunities were available but the under the microscope misused surveillance along with poor management decision made the work place difficult to be comfortable work environment. One of the biggest cons of this job/management is the lack of care of comfort for the work doing all the producing of the product and favoring more management staff. I most enjoyed meeting new coworker and learning new skills.

Van Deist hires people that have no money and no where else to work. they keep people working there buy telling you that you can be fired at anytime and out of fear people feel the need to stay. They say they want everything fixed up but they don't ever have the tool or materials to fix them. you could go months with old ragged tires not being replaced on the fork lifts, and if you complain about it to much they will move you to a different location or tell you that you can be replaced. there is serious neglect happening and no one cares. management will cuss you out even though there is a policy in place for no swearing. they treat you like a dog on a leash and will rip you back for the smallest things. 

Day to day work is normally fast paced and tedious but can feel satisfying with a well balanced  . Most plants/teams have one weak link or one that can’t keep up, nothing is done to remidy this, others always have to pick up the slack. Most team members are friendly. I don’t feel that this family owned company treats their employees the friendly family way. Pay and benefits are the only “great” about this job. There is almost always something negative about wrong things done, almost never positive pats on the back. There are cameras everywhere so I wish whoever the watchman is would point out the hard workers and not just look for negativity and rule breaking.

Most days for me are busy. Lots to do on a daily basis. Definitely a learning curve learning the system and how the day to day works. Overall, I do love my job. I enjoy a fast paced work environment where I feel like I can get lots done throughout the day.  My position was new, and there is a lot to learn on how things go through our Agronomy Center to the main office. I really enjoy my managers, they are so willing to help teach me and learn. Everyone was really flexible when I needed to leave for an out of state funeral and helped catch up my work when I got back. I love working for VDSC, and everyone is nice and helpful. 

Hostile environment always wondering if you were going to be fired.  One guy fired for spilling a mop bucket over. Politics politics.  Chemicals are horrible.  Assembly line equipment was dated in most facilities constantly stopping to attempt to fix the line/equipment to winging it.
Set schedule was nice for life.
Pay was excellent for the area.
Benefits were okay- sick pay and holiday from the same pool of hours so if you are sick you wont get vacation.
People were generally unhappy here. Not a fun place with bickering between peers- between which shifts were causing problems or were not working as hard as others... lots of finger pointing.
Not a great place to work.

If you want to work somewhere where you are given no freedoms and treated as extremely replaceable this is the place for you. Either you are working to hard or doing nothing and board out of your mind. Such lack of freedoms include 6 hours of time off a month that is sick and vacation time combined.  What's also fun is you are reprimanded for taking it. Do you have a cell phone? It's not allowed on the precipice. IF your kid is sick and you need your phone, well you are fired. After awhile at this job I was actually diagnosed with depredation. Accepting this job was the biggest regret of my life.

The company is stuck in 1980. Very minimal growth because upper management is uneducated. They are protecting their retirement so zero trust between management - worker. They will throw you under the bus in every situation. They can't retain youth so the average age of employee has to be 50+. They don't care about your health or family whatsoever. Expect to get penny pinched in every situation possible. Horrible training, it's new hires thrown in with new hires, and 1 experienced personal drowning from the workload. Lots of manual labor and outdated equipment. Overall the work conditions are extremely poor and you are not cared about but "hey you get paid xx, isn't that enough to suck it up?"

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