Seems great at first, but..... - Anonymous employee Winder Farms Employee Review

2.0
13 Aug 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great co-workers. There are great people that work here and they can make the company a fun place to be. Sometimes there are free Winder products in the office, and employees get discounts on home delivery service.

Cons

It takes forever to hire anyone outside of sales. They hire door-to-door salesmen like crazy, but it takes months for them to hire anyone for the office jobs. This leads to responsibilities getting shunted over to other, existing employees, creating overloaded workers. Frequently when an office employee quits, the senior management needs to "evaluate" whether they need to hire a new person for that position. This takes months. Basically, they attempt to see if they can dump the responsibilities of that employee onto other employees, and then when things start to fall apart they frantically hire someone. Many people are overworked, especially in Finance and IT (our IT guy is crazy busy). The benefits are, frankly, terrible. A high-deductible health plan (there's only one option) that still has ridiculously high premiums; it makes you wonder if Winder is actually contributing much at all. PTO is also ridiculously low, I've seen similar positions with at least twice as much. All in all I frequently get the feeling that the company is falling apart - there is high turnover and it seems like there's always someone in the office who "just quit" or was "just hired". Additionally, frequently the company seems to try to keep employees working even after they leave - people leave but then are still contacted frequently because the company didn't hire anyone soon enough for them to get trained. I can't really recommend working here in good conscience, although it's too bad because I feel like it has the potential to be a great environment, but poor management decisions are harming that. I also don't feel like the company is headed in a good direction - I'd be surprised if it's still around in 10 to 15 years.

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Cons

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Pros

Get to have snacks that are defective (seals and containers broken) to eat. Get to drive a truck, I guess.

Cons

Driver manager sucked. Especially the old driver manager. Make jokes about you and talk crap behind your back. Stuff you could report to HR but you would have to go straight to HR or else it would never be reported. New guy sucks too, acts "tough" and looks like they'll go power tripping. Hard work and fast paced, with low pay. Making more now sitting around on a computer. Upper management would promise things but never follow through. Always praise about how much was made this quarter and that quarter, but wouldn't use any excess towards drivers. A lot of benefits have been taken away from years ago. Management is told to leave reviews here to make it look nice, I know because I heard one complaining about having to do so. Sales position isnt great as well, favoritism and seniority over events, long hours. Warehouse work is too much and disorganized. Shipments come in late sometimes and goods are damaged. Driver position is worst, turnover is ridiculous. People just training don't even last the training period or two weeks after.

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