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Yancey's-Fancy

Start around 5:15 am. Some mornings I have to load the truck because night warehouseman had to work in other departments. I have to take raw product to processing area to be shredded for cooking. During the day I have to unload and reload company truck. Also on some days have to move the semi several times out and move back in to finish loading or unloading. They have only 1 dock to use. I have to clean up storage trailors of cardboard, broken pallets, empty pallets. I have to right down in logs or out-going or in-coming product. They use cheese so I have to take vat numbers and manufacturing dates to lab and get moistures, butterfat, and PH. I do this for 4 different cheeses. I also take finished product from packaging to warehouse to wrap for shipment to another warehouse. I also do orders and deliver orders to store. I have to scan them using Extreme System when it works. I sometimes have to order product from Batavia warehouse. I tag and put raw product in racks for storage. Majority of the co-workers are good people. But you have that everywhere. The hardest part of the job there are supposed to be 2 people in warehouse. The other guy is the back up driver. I spend about 90% of the time alone. Right now, I'm on my 2nd. week of being alone. The regular driver is out because of repetitive motion driving. Out for 30 days. Supposed to have help last Tuesday. Still haven't got anyone. So I generally don't get breaks or I get 10 min. lunches. It comes with the job. The most enjoyable part of the job is all the physical exercise I get. Just took my blood pressure at Walmart and it's 138 over 60. Most of the people are a lot of fun to be with. Joke around and say pretty much what you want.

- Greatest part of the job are the folks you will meet and the things you learn about the dairy industry.

- Downfall is higher management seems to be incapable of making decisions and following through with decisions when they are made, especially in a timely manner. It will, they will, make you look like the incompetent one - while you are waiting for them.

- Huge downfall - when providing tasks to employees they do not provide management oversight for tasks and in fact prefer to be left out of it due to their busy lives and then become bothered when they were left out of the picture (even when nothing has gone wrong). Furthermore they butt heads on management styles on whether there should or should not be oversight which makes it even more confusing.

- communication is awful. 
- turnover is awful.
- You will not have a warning so forget about security. If you get canned, you will be coming in for work as usual and never see it coming. We saw it a lot.
- You will not be compensated fairly for your work you put in.

You will love it at first.
Your first weeks there you will also hear all your new co-workers say, "welcome to Yancey's" and "That's the Yancey's way" in sarcastic ways when you ask, "wait, but why do you do it this way?" That should be your red flag before years of pain and hurt.

Not worth it. You will bring it home to your family.

It is a good place to work

But the management and the higher ups don't really seem to care about their employees. They care about numbers more than people there. They tend to get mad if you call in even if it's for a good reason. They see it as your not there to work you just want a paycheck so we will write you up for calling in.
It was a good job for me for a bit but when the stress of being there for almost 12 hours a day when they tell you that you should be able to get out around 330, unless it's their "busy season" then you'll never know when your actually getting out. Your home life, especially if you have kids hurts because of it.

If you want to work here then it's your choice to do so but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone from everything that I had to deal with. Don't get me wrong the benefits are nice to a point but it takes forever for you to get them when your hired on. Yeah you have a 90 day probation period but working 6 days a week isn't great and only having one day off a week hurts you in the long run. 

And heaven forbid you call in after your hired on they use your personal time if you have any which then takes away from when you actually need it.  And of you request it for a reason you might not get it if someone else wants it off that they think deserves it more than you do. 

This company needs a complete root cause analysis so the owners can see that the lack of responsibility is the spear head of leadership. 

Everyone has their own agenda and those agenda's do not align with the next. there is no clear direction provided, but then you are expected to maintain a level of success that is not measurable unless the key leadership deems it to be unsuccessful. Your successes will not be recognized, but your failures (known or unknown) will be publicly scrutinized. You will not be provided metrics to work towards, but will be expected to capitalize on those metrics. 

The top leader has created an everyone for themselves mentality.  Management by fear instead of creating the ability to listen and execute on core issues. The leadership refused to hear or attempt to understand the constraints because that leader does not understand the inner workings of what it takes to complete the tasks they are expecting of their "disciples" to complete. Yes, he walks around with a godlike attitude then wonders why he is not respected. 
Other managers will go out of their way to help, teach, learn, contribute, but that is all done in secrecy due to fear.

Best of luck to those who want success but are kept from achieving that success.  


Yancey's Fancy is a great opportunity, if you can deal with management that belittles employees and an HR department whose only goal is to keep the Plant Manager happy.  I saw many people here fired for ridiculous reasons, and many who should have been, but weren't do to friendships with management.  Safety protocols are routinely overlooked, and managers look the other way and even encourage it, unless they don't like you, and then they will use these reasons for termination.  I absolutely loved my job here, as well as the crew under my supervision.  However the hours were brutal, sometimes up to 80 hours per week, and most overtime was mandatory.  As a family man, this was unacceptable.  Overall, great experience with the actual job, but playing favorites, lying and letting quality fall by the wayside in favor of quantity ultimately rule the day here.

Started off reasonable. If in Natural Department, you will regularly be lifting hundreds cheese blocks that weight 50-70lbs at a very fast pace. You will be hunched over a long trough cutting and flipping large pieces of cheese. Overall very hot, physical work that takes a role on your back. Upper management is a joke. If in Natural, you are the bottom rung to them. You will work weekends at Brickhouse up the road and any other time they are short on workers, usually due to them quitting or getting fired. Way too many managers/line leads up there and it is filled with drama. A lot of the 30-40 year olds in both departments act like highschoolers. However, if you can deal with all that, the pay is great and if you want exercise without a gym membership you’ll get it. Also, expect 10+ hour days regularly. You will be doing jobs that aren’t yours and the days never run smoothly

Some days can be very busy, others can be dull depending on the season (summer's are extremely busy). Not many resources are put aside for the everyday workers with fairly low pay compared to similar positions in the region. Most of the upper management no longer works on site which gives a very disjointed opinion towards personnel decisions. It seems quite difficult to be reprimanded at this company, which is a detriment to the employee morale. Most co-workers are good, honest people who take their job seriously and are a joy to work with, however there are a few "poison pills" which bring down the dynamic as a whole. Some very simple changes could make all the difference but in it's current form it is quite dysfunctional.

The job itself can turn into a career if you so choose. Some departments are a cakewalk while some are pretty intense. It’s a factory, it’s what you would expect. The employees are very down to earth and hardworking, caring individuals. Then the head on crash happened. One’s personal ambitions has turned a nice company to work for into the Titanic. The culture has been toxic for years with no antidote in sight. Because people are in positions they shouldn’t be in, you may be required to do their job for them. Rules only apply when it serves a purpose. Be prepared to have your character tested if you choose to work here.

Yanceys is a sad story. It could be a decent place to work, except the upper management is very incompetent, and the pay is not worth the work involved. The Natural department is mildly demanding physical labor on most days, but very taxing on your lower back. The summer months are very very hot, reaching temps of near 100 degrees or more sometimes in the room. The winter months are tolerable. The pay is awful for the type of work you’ll be doing. Avoid this place unless you want to deal with a lot of drama and unfairness coming from management. 

Job is not hard work but does have its cons like all factorys, it is a stressful environment at times among employess and upper management, all hands on some not being qualified,  others very qualified, hard to move up but only as an operator if they want to keep you as one, I'd say training, communication amongst upper management and employees is one of the biggest down falls of this company. Not really any raises, can't necessarily move forward in the company.

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