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This place is not meant for upwardly mobile young minds. If all you want in life is to be within the confinement of the plant without any plan to spend good time with family and friends, then, this is the place for you. The management has a way of manipulating the shop floor personnel into working excessive and mandatory overtime. You could be penalized or given a point for not coming to work overtime during the weekend.
When the sales are not moving or when an audit is to take place, the management will discourage working overtime that exceeds a limit set by themselves, claiming that they care about the health of their workers. However, after the audit is over, or when sales volume skyrocket, they will change the narrative again, saying that  workers can work without taking a break; including the weekends. This is manipulative! 
The management, both at the departmental and plant level do not care about the health of the worker; if you are sick, you would still be told that overtime is mandatory, not minding your health status.
One bad thing again, is the fact that the medium of communication is very outdated; information that could easily be sent via an email to everyone, including the shop floor employees, would be done via a 'town hall meeting' in a noisy line that one can barely hear what is being said. Every employee should have an email. There is no plan for improvement and upgrading of hardworking and deserving shop floor personnel even if they upgraded by having a college degree; the management prefers to hire external applicant that would still get trained by these same shop floor personnel that are not considered good enough to occupy same positions they hired for. 
This is a stern warning for upwardly mobile youth that believe in critical thinking, want to have good sense of self-worth, and get respected never to consider working for this organization. One important thing again is that the conflict management mechanism of some units is close to zero. if two individuals have an issue, there won't be any deliberate attempt to find out what the issues are,and settle the matter.Rather, they will simply take side with one person, separate the two individuals from working together, and remain biased towards the second individual without hearing from his/her own side.
Some of the older personnel with longer years of service tend to be very rude and bullish. Some of these old peeps are very mean towards new employees.
All in all, Vijon, Smyrna, is a place you should plan to work in with your plans in your forehead; save from the earnings, put food on your table, pay your bills, upgrade your skill set and flee to other responsible organization. 
This write up is a summary of what a regular non-management, shop floor personnel faces, depending on their location. Peace

a typical day at work will require a lot of coffee and patience . Like any job there  the company you keep can determine the type of day,week, year you have at work.  There is gossip and back stabbing, therefore it is important to keep and email trail and CYOB and make sure you have notes from every meeting and or conversation.  The culture seems very open and relaxed. I loved the open area with low cubicles and windows throughout the Albereci building . The view was the best part about the job. The hardest part the the job was keeping up with the workload with not enough employees to complete every project management task. This meant that sometimes you would have to take work home and or stay late so that you would not fall behind. I certainly enjoyed the healthy lunches that were provided for $5.00 a day that included a protein, veggies, desert, a full salad bar, and choice of soups with free tea and or coffee.  They also would have company stores and allow you to collect home necessities such as soaps, lotions, sanitizes and all other products Vijon created and sold.

Company feels financially secure.  Continues to make capital investments. Management in Smyrna wants yes people only.  Works hourly to death but says it cares for its people.   Will not ask salaried employees for their input if it is not going to be completely in line with theirs.  Salaried gets same yearly raise whether they perform above and beyond expectations or barely hanging on. From top down there isn't a short 6-12 month or long 1-3 year plan communicated.  When business gets chaotic due to great business management's plan is always work harder which is necessary but never seek ways to work smarter.   The executive level has lots of letters behind their name but never spend time with all their greatness to introduce a better way or ask the worker bees for input. Their solution is to keep working harder.  This will work because they have some veterans that know how to keep the place going.  They should work smarter and they would realize even more growth.  This place has a lot of untapped potential. 

This company has a very poor reputation in Smyrna, TN. They put on a good front, when they are trying to hire you, but after you are hired it all changes. They send you home alot due to company errors, machine breakdowns,and poor production scheduling. Management treats you like dirt. Upper management act like they are gods and when they do come out on the floor they are condescending and talk to you like they own you. This company has a tremendous worker turnover due to the way you get treated and the working hours that get cut short w/o pay. If you get sent to work in building #2 it is a disgusting rat hole that no one wants to work in. The working conditions in that building are like they were in the 1920's. Hot, dirty, violate OSHA laws for health, safety, etc. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!! I am a former employee that knows what she's talking about. My new job is 100% better than the one at Vi-Jon.

Management is TERRIBLE. The work culture here is trash. You only move up if you're a family member. HR is a joke and they do not protect the employees. They don't train you either. You have to learn everything on your own which doesn't foster collaboration among employees which I believe helps a company thrive. There's always mandatory over time so kiss your free time goodbye. Please believe the other reviews especially ones that emphasize about management. They make or break a job. Is a job EVER worth it if you're not respected or valued?

Overall, I wouldn't recommend working here. If you do, expect to be belittled by management or early termination. Have a backup plan. Vi-jon might respond to this and post their company values/ benefits, but until they are working in a non-management position in the factory, then their response should be taken with a grain of salt. Management there really needs to be cleaned up. 

AS A 2nd SHIFT EMPLOYEE AT VIJON I WOULD CLOCK IN AT 2:40pm, PREPARE FOR THE ROUTINED STRETCHING SESSION, HEAD TO THE ASSIGNED AREA OF WORK FOR THE DAY, THEN BEGAN WORK. MY JOB AS A PALLETIZER WAS TO MAKE SURE THE PACKAGED PRODUCT WAS STACKED NEATLY AND SECURELY ON A PALLET IN SEQUENCE FORM. AFTER AN ORDER IS COMPLETE THE LINE TEAM MEMBERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SURE THE LINE IS CLEANED AND SAFE FOR THE NEXT SHIFT AND/OR ORDER. A PALLETIZER JOB ALSO REQUIRES YOU TO SAFELY WORK WITH MACHINERY, IF THE MACHINE MALFUNCTIONS YOU ARE TRAINED TO REBOOT THE MACHINE AND CONTINUE WORK. TO EACH LINE YOU ARE ASSIGNED AT LEAST 6 WORKERS, THESE WORKERS ARE YOUR TEAM FOR THE NIGHT AND ARE EXPECTED TO WORK TOGETHER. THE HARDEST PART OF THE JOB FOR ME WAS THE HOURS, I WAS A STUDENT AT THE TIME AND THE HOURS WAS OVERWHELMING AT TIMES BUT BESIDES THAT THE JOB WAS GOOD. THE BEST PART OF THE JOB TO ME WAS FEELING SECURE BY MY CO-WORKERS OR TEAM MATES. ONCE THE DAY WAS DONE WE ALL CLOCKED OUT AT 11pm.

The QC is a horrible work environment. The management are liars and play favorites among the workers. Also, one of the most cliche places I have ever worked for. They will find ANY reason to fire you and will also LIE and add other things that are untrue so to make you look like a worse person so HR will fire you. You will get the LITTLEST amount of training and then they will throw you to drown; you won't even have been trained on everything and you will "be on your own". They do not give time lines as to when things need to be finished and then get an attitude when they aren't done. Also, they will not talk to you or even act like you are there if you are on their "radar", like I said, just like high school. The pay is good however and the benefits are good as well, but I would rather get less pay and work with people who don't act so childish and like they are in high school still.

During my time at Vi-Jon (Cumberland Swan- Perrigo) I was able to move between shipping, quality control, consumer affairs, customer service and line quality control. The most enjoyable part of my job was consumer affairs, talking directly to consumers answering questions and helping them satisfy any concerns that had.  The hardest part of the job working on the line checking for quality control and staying objective with employees as many were friends.  The company has changed hands several times and getting new management each time was a challenge but a learning experience.

Come in and get the last 24 hr production logs so you can report on your down time and your learnings from that down time.
Have learned a lot about the cost of day to day operations we have to set are own bugets up, they sit down with upper management for approval. All of mamagement has made me feel at home here.
All my co-workers are a great group to work with.
The phone calls 3am in the morning then trying to go back to sleep.
The most enjoyable part of the job is the interactions with everyone that I work with everyday

As I stated all in all it starts out great until you learn that you're not truly trained , you are thrower in to fill for yourself unless someone is willing to teach you! Also, when you ask to learn a certain job to help out and you learn by watching a person on what You thought was the start to learning how all works to find out that you have been thrown in to figure all out on your on, doesn't sit well when you're touching million dollar equipment 

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