How to get a job at FRITO LAY.

Do you work at FRITO LAY? How did you find the job? How did you get that first interview?

Any advice for someone trying to get in?

I would like to have in merchandise with frito-lay.

Picture this said with a strong WWII type German accent:

To apply for a job mit Frito-Lay, you MUST use ze online

application ONLY!!!!! You CANNOT fax or email ANYTHINK!

www.frito-lay.com/fl/flstore/cgi-bin/comp_info_careers.htm?

Bunch of jerks!

Host said: Do you work at FRITO LAY? How did you find the job? How did you get that first interview?

Any advice for someone trying to get in?

no but I was a merchandizer

Please...

Why do most people not know how to spell, at all??? I would suspect that the majority of the people on here are in about second grade...

Go back to school first, then apply for a job. I'd hate to think that people who can't even spell their own name are getting the good jobs, instead of me! I know, I am mean, but it is highly annoying!

Anonymously Annoyed in Minneapolis, Minnesota said: Please...

Why do most people not know how to spell, at all??? I would suspect that the majority of the people on here are in about second grade...please sir just because someone miss one letter do not throw stone.you with fault cast the first stone.you may have other problem on your work history need working on.such as pride. pride comes before fall. all kings that had pride and education and could spell were always miserable.because they saw no fault about themselves.let the let people have fault;and you be free.because many kings falled and the servant that could not spell help them up.IT;S ALL A SET UP.LIFE IS A FLOW THE VERY JOB MAY PAY FOR THEY CHILDREN EDUCATION AND LATER ON THEIR;S.AND THAT CHILD MAY BE YOUR BOSS.WHO IN THE END BLESS YOU BE THE HEAD OF THEIR COMPANY.WHERE YOU GO PLACE YOU NEVER DREAM.THAT;S LIFE FOR YOU.ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT THEIR IS A HIGH POWER.READ ABOUT MOSES WHO ARGUEWITH GOD ABOUT HIS TONGUE.HIS SPEECH HE HAD NONE.YET HE HE WAS LEAD A WHOLE NATION.ACROSS RED SEA.IT;S VERY GOOD TO HAVE EDUCATION.LONG AS YOU DON,T LET IT CONTROL YOU.THAT YOU BELIVE IT;S LIFE WHOLE REASON.JUST ASK SOME OF AMERICAN HOLMESS.WITH DEGREES AND WENT TO WAR FOR THIS COUNTRY.AND ALL HE WILL GET FOR HIS INCOME THE REST OF HIS LIFE IS 636 DOLLAR REST HIS LIFE.AND AMAN THAT CAN NOT SPELL GETTING 8THOUSAND AND700 A MTH.THE JUST SHOW HIS PRIDE WHAT HE HAD DEGREES TO DO.AND NOW THE MAN THAT SPELL.HELP BY LETTING THE EDUCATION MAN LIVE WITH HIM.WHO CAN FIN A JOB.SO BE BLESS YOU CAN SPELL AND MAKE IN THIS WORLD AND LET EVERYONE HAVE FAULTS. LOVE SISTER PRECIOUS.

Go back to school first, then apply for a job. I'd hate to think that people who can't even spell their own name are getting the good jobs, instead of me! I know, I am mean, but it is highly annoying!

IF THAT BOTHER YOU. KEEP LIVING BECAUSE LIFE GOT SURPRISE.YOUR PRIDE WILL HAVE TO FALL FIRST.

Anonymously Annoyed in Minneapolis, Minnesota said: Please...

Why do most people not know how to spell, at all??? I would suspect that the majority of the people on here are in about second grade...please sir just because someone miss one letter do not throw stone.you with fault cast the first stone.you may have other problem on your work history need working on.such as pride. pride comes before fall. all kings that had pride and education and could spell were always miserable.because they saw no fault about themselves.let the let people have fault;and you be free.because many kings falled and the servant that could not spell help them up.IT;S ALL A SET UP.LIFE IS A FLOW THE VERY JOB MAY PAY FOR THEY CHILDREN EDUCATION AND LATER ON THEIR;S.AND THAT CHILD MAY BE YOUR BOSS.WHO IN THE END BLESS YOU BE THE HEAD OF THEIR COMPANY.WHERE YOU GO PLACE YOU NEVER DREAM.THAT;S LIFE FOR YOU.ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT THEIR IS A HIGH POWER.READ ABOUT MOSES WHO ARGUE WITH GOD ABOUT HIS TONGUE.HIS SPEECH HE HAD NONE.YET HE HE ALSO LEAD A WHOLE NATION;ACROSS RED SEA.IT;S VERY GOOD TO HAVE EDUCATION.LONG AS YOU DON,T LET IT CONTROL YOU.THAT YOU BELIVE IT;S LIFE WHOLE REASON.JUST ASK SOME OF AMERICAN HOLMESS.WITH DEGREES AND WENT TO WAR FOR THIS COUNTRY.AND ALL HE WILL GET FOR HIS INCOME THE REST OF HIS LIFE IS 636 DOLLAR REST HIS LIFE.AND A MAN THAT CAN NOT SPELL GETTING 8THOUSAND AND700 A MTH.THESE JUST SHOW HIS DEGREES TO DO GOOD.AND NOW THE MAN THAT CAN NOT SPELL.HELP BY LETTING THE EDUCATION MAN LIVE WITH HIM.WHO CAN NOT FIND A JOB.SO BE BLESS YOU CAN SPELL AND MAKE IN THIS WORLD AND LET EVERYONE HAVE FAULTS. LOVE SISTER PRECIOUS.

Go back to school first, then apply for a job. I'd hate to think that people who can't even spell their own name are getting the good jobs, instead of me! I know, I am mean, but it is highly annoying!

IF THAT BOTHER YOU. KEEP LIVING BECAUSE LIFE GOT SURPRISE.YOUR PRIDE WILL HAVE TO FALL FIRST.
DO NOT FEEL BAD WHERE IA'M FROM THE ON

LOOKING YO BE ON THE WINNING TEAM FRITO LAY.

Host said: Do you work at FRITO LAY? How did you find the job? How did you get that first interview?

Any advice for someone trying to get in?

I am very interested in working with a reputable company such as Frito-Lay. I would love to get my foot in the door at a young age and build a future with Frito-lay.
I have never worked with this company but I was a helper to a route person for Frito-lay when I was in school and I loved it. I will take any advice on how to get in with this company.

cool

trying to get ,and be on. the winning team.

manuel fajardo in Fresno, California said: trying to get ,and be on. the winning team.

Trust ME... Its not a winning team. Hope you like to give your life to Fritos. I spent way to long of life there trying to take many steps towards a different direction and ended up going back to the industry that had a solid career fit. Frito Lay is not all what it cracks up to be... Trust Me... U make it or break it in the training. I was a certifed trainer and DSL with them and its the pits...Ask me more facts people... I will share. I was in the top 5% in sales in country with them...and slowly moved up but....

Hey Captain,

1.Can you tell me if it is possible to move on up from a RSR position to a Manager and do you have to transfer to another warehouse once you become a Manager? (some companies will not allow a newly appointed Mgr to stay in the same office where he was a worker because he has built relationships and friendships with other RSR workers)

2.How is one's pay determined? Any annual raises?

3.Is it easy to relocate and if so how long before one can?

4.How long ago did you work for them?

Thank you for your answers.

deansuraci in Cornwall On Hudson, New York said: Hey Captain,

1.Can you tell me if it is possible to move on up from a RSR position to a Manager and do you have to transfer to another warehouse once you become a Manager? (some companies will not allow a newly appointed Mgr to stay in the same office where he was a worker because he has built relationships and friendships with other RSR workers)

2.How is one's pay determined? Any annual raises?

3.Is it easy to relocate and if so how long before one can?

4.How long ago did you work for them?

Thank you for your answers.

DEANSURACI... First of all Fritos either promotes at the same Zone office you are in. They balance out the choices. First Opening, Diversity/ Minority, Second Opening, Female and Third Opening RSR (current Sales) Fritos does not pay any location and will not move you to another Zone as a DSL. Usually when you you are determined a canidate for DSL, they put you into a Sales Specialist position. Basically you become the All the DSL's Goffer for about 6 months. U cover all the "trashed routes", fill in for injuries, and cover vacations. U basically dont really have a set schedule but, you really work a ton of hours. U are paid a salary vs commission. U might run someones route and come back the DC(Dist. Center) and have to go do a reset or build some racks. The warehouse crew is separted from sales people. After that time as a sales specialist, if and opening occurs, they make you a mini- district manager. Ususally very low performace RSR's and poor performace stores. This then is your next test. It might last a short 6 months and go to 24 months. U basically are committed to Frito Lay to come in around 4am and might be home by 6pm. U as the new mini-district guy usually is the first management guy to cover a vacant route as well. What this does is see if you can multitask alot of stress, presure, still management your few RSR's and complete your frito lay plans to

DEANSURACI : Complete your plans to the Zone Manager. It is not as easy as it sounds. It shows if you can deal with fustration of RSR's who has real trouble dealing with Grocery Store Managers, Product Rotation, Stales, and Route Management as well as leadership. DSL's are responsible for Stale Plans, Sales Growth, Display promotions, category growth and route sucess. This is about most of your salary. You have a DSL Salary Base plus % of commission of all your RSR's. Basically you will spend alot of time on Fritos time. About 70 to 80 hours a week. You are evaluated on performance of the mini district for a period of time. If you make this a success, they send your to DSL Academy which is in Dallas Tx for about 2 weeks where you learn how they make plans and numbers by facts and how you "force your team" to execute items such as add them to orders, call the managers and tell them your RSR is bring this and selling large amounts into the stores. This adds a major work load on the RSR because all the rotation, tear down, relocation of product and so forth. If you have low volume stores that RSR's have, The RSR is required now after you sold this display in to "Roll" the product out, box it up and take it to another account and try to keep it from staling out. They cannot return the product to the warehouse and its not yours to deal with. You are trained to do everthing it is to have your stuff "All" over the grocery store. U are also taught to never accept excuses from your RSR. If the RSR stales the product out cause you as the DSL sold it in, the RSR has to now spend and extra hour on a Zone Conference Call explaining and submitting a question report as to why he did not do this. YOU as the District Sales Manager become a firing target from your fellow RSR's. It is always the RSR's responsibility and you as a Frito Lay DSL never take responsibility to the Zone Manager. You are trying to PUMP sales products on the floor of stores know as "POUNDS ON THE FLOOR"

You also as a DSL must spend time finding more and more for the stores. I remember when I had some "low volume" stores that had all these displays required and as a DSL I would go to the store, ask the manager, key into the computer the add on product and displays always "bulking up" more than it would take. Then I would voice mail the RSR who might have a smooth running day only to find out the next morning that he has now a major display to put up in the store to go along with his extra route work. It would "p" them off because they knew that Frito never gives help to get it done. They show up to the store and manager ask about the display only making the day worse on the RSR. We as DSL's always had jar dips with displays. During Superbowl, All Routes had to get 50 to 100 cases of dip. Now we as DSl's knew that no store would sell 1200 jars of dip in a weekend period. After Superbowl, all the product was yours. You could not return it to the warehouse. and grocery managers dont want 1000 jars of salsa dip pile in the back room. Its about the numbers game. PERIOD.....

Districts (DSL's) rely on bonuses as well. Its a structure that Fritos sets up each period. Meet the requirements for your RSR and you get it. I spent about 10 years with Frito Lay. I was an RSR with college degree. It got to the point that I was so tired of lying and holding people accountable for things that I forced them to do that I knew was wrong. Example: An RSR would have a 1000 a week store sales products with Frito Lay. Not a heavy volume store. I would have to send certain items for certain markets that were promos if the RSR failed to meet his plan. If it was a weekday route and on Thursday the RSR was off plan, I would have to find out from his stores if all his support diplays were there. If not, he could end up on Friday with the difference to cover his sales plans. Then when the RSR in a few weeks would come to me and tell me that his stores were slow and not selling, its his plan to get it credited and taken to another account. This doubles the task of just maintaining the shelve space. But its sales for the company and the zone. The RSR is never givin anything but a shirt or maybe a dinner card for all his hard work to the Zone, The DSL gets all the perks and leaves his team with more task to keep going. I hated seeing people continue to function like this in a job. The old timers will tell you that they get nothing but a paycheck and little to no incinitives. That is right. If you have a good distict manager he might treat you to lunch on his own money but very rare. As time went on it was tough on me personally as but you are taught that its about YOU the DSL and the Zone Manager, not your RSR's Everything was like a roatating cycle coming down from someone in Dallas. Another time I remember when the Zone was not performing like in the past years and when we had district meetings we were not allowed to order food for the RSR's You would have a District Meeting on like a Thursday at 5pm til 7pm... go home and have to be back to run your rout

Route at 4:00am. Imagine that you just busted butt for 12 hours, came back to the DC and had a scheduled zone meeting for 2 hours and was really hungry. It was like this was used towards the RSR's because of everyones poor performance. Get my drift yet... If you have a great positive working repor with your managers at the Zone, you could have a shot at it. If you do things above and beyond, dress professionally above other RSR and set an example. YOu might have a shot at it. If you pick up other stores that they call "farmed out" you might have a shot too. I was an RSR for about 6 years. I never wore a pair of shorts and always looked really clean. My route truck was spotless. I remember taking it to a high powered do it yourself carwash and cleaning the inside so that it showed my pride. I had my hair always cut, shaven and looked the part( not grubby) When I did get through all that it was not all cracked up to be what it is to be. When I left, it really did not help that much because I did learn how to really respect and treat the litte guy and learn that people are people and they are all different and are not all going to be like me. \

Let me know your thoughts and what you are looking for.....CAPT

Another interesting fact that I failed to share was when I was the Zone Sales RSR of the Year, Fritos gave me a Plaque, a Frito Lay Jacket, A Frito Watch and a $50.00 gift certificate to Outback and A trip to Dallas Texas a three day company RSR's who won this award. 55 RSR's in the company won this award each year. In Dallas the company gave us a campus tour of Fritos, A Plant tour, BBQ Picnic, A veiwing of a commerical being taped and a seat at the Dallas Cowboys Football Game (Monday Night Game-Home) It valued about $1000 a person cause they flew all of us there. When I became A distict Manager, I discovered that my District many years back got a full paid family vacation for 4 to Walt Disney World for 6 days that was valued at 5000 dollars or more all because I had won the award which showed the managers that he was a big part of my success which was truly BOLOGNA.....

Think about it.. The size of Fritos, all the grocery stores and all the RSR's and this happens to only 55 people a year..... My Zone had more than 120 operating RSR's and 14 DSL's Do you see my point.... PLEASE SHARE WITH THE CAPTAIN

Capt,

Thank you for your in depth answers. It is appreciated.

2 more things if you don't mind:

As a RSR, is it easy to relocate to another state? How long after I start would you say they would allow me to do this?

How is the RSR's pay determined?

Thanks again and enjoy your weekend Sir.

deansuraci in Cornwall On Hudson, New York said: Capt,

Thank you for your in depth answers. It is appreciated.

2 more things if you don't mind:

As a RSR, is it easy to relocate to another state? How long after I start would you say they would allow me to do this?

How is the RSR's pay determined?

Thanks again and enjoy your weekend Sir.

DEANSURACI... When you are an RSR you have what they call seniority. This is used from the day you begin. As people leave, your number is lowered. Lets say you have 70 people at your DC with Frito Lay. If one or two quit, you move to 69 then 68 and so on. Routes are re-engineered about every year to 15 months. This is cause of geographic changes, new stores open, stores close, volume goes up or down and there are many different types of routes. Bulk Routes, Small Account Routes, Merch Routes and Traid Routes. Your seniority is used for two major things. Vacation selection of weeks each year and choice of route when re-engineer occurs. If you relocate to another area, it will depend if the DC or Area has an opening or not. You do not have to go through the interview process like first being hired but, You will have to be reccommeded by the DSL and Zone Manager. Fritos does not pay to relocate you. Its your out of pocket. You also loose your seniority when you move as well as your chosen vacation dates. Your Vacation TIME is transferred and plugged into where openings are. Sometimes you might be on your own route at one place, relocate and you might be what they call and extra meaning that you run vacation routes and routes people do not want or open routes. This does not necessary mean that you will get the route if you run if cause its open because if its a good route or bad, it will go up for bid. The person that gets the route that bids (placing name on sheet posted for 4 days) has been at THAT DC for awhile. Depends where you want to move. Some cities have very little openings and some

and some have alot of openings. You have to be in contact with both your current DC and future DC to see where they might have the opening. NO RELOCATION PAID....

Second: Salary when you start is about 525.00 a week for 12 weeks of training. When you are done, you are what they call and EXTRA RSR. That pay is about $550.00. When you end up on a route it depends what type you are on. Some routes are straight commission.. Ususally $600 weekly and UP... Bulk Routes are 3% plus about $150 base. Bulk is tough. These are those routes that have 24 ft box trucks that service Walmart Supercenters, Club Stores (Sams, BJ's) and Large Mass Grocery Volume. Ususally only 5 stores on bulk but dont be fooled its tough in these accounts. Then you have Traditional Routes that is a base of $75.00 a week plus like 7% commission. You also have what is called a guarantee pay of $400 a week. Most RSR's make between 600 and 750 a week depending upon what time of year it is. A bulk swing makes a base of $125 and 1.5% of sales but the sales come from two routes. Fritos pays you $30.00 a day for each holiday. there are ususally 10 yearly days on this. You are paid this amount around Christmas time each year. Sometimes people forget and think that Fritos is nice and gives you a Christmas Bonus... Wrong its the holiday pay-out for the year cause you get this around the 17th of December...There are no bonuses at Frito Lay for RSR's Transferring to another zone will not get you any closer to the DSL position that you asked about. Its a long process and they are very slow with this. One good thing is that Fritos pays you weekly and it has some good benefits if you use them. Never ask for any holiday off except Christmas. Most major routes work even on Thanksgiving morning. You can hang it up if you want New Years Day or Eve off, July 4th, Memorial Day or Labor Day or take any vacation during that time vacation weeks are blocked out anyway and you will work really hard on the week of

Week of Superbowl as well as the week after. Superbowl week including Superbowl Sunday is a night-mare week. Its 15 hour days building displays so big your head will spin. Then Superbowl Sunday is all about service all day long. If one messes up on this week or day it will kill your chance of a solid repor with your grocery store managers. I have seen managers PO-ed for months after Superbowl because of poor RSR service and trust me, stores will be blown out. If you are also looking in an area that gets lots of snow or bad weather, this is the same as the stores get wiped out during snowy weather and managers have to work cause little employees all call out. This also is when it counts the most. Fritos wants you to never miss and day and go out and be number one all the time, rain sleet snow or shine. Also if you have stores with backstock, and your shelves are blown out you really get the shaft too from these store managers. Before you decide Please think about all I have told you. Every company and job has its ups and downs. It did pay the bills and I was there for about 10 years. It helped for the future but it certainly was a very stressful job.
Fritos is also not a Union. Never mention it or anything. This is the first sign that you are out to buck the system they have. They hate when this is said. I have seen "fire-starters" in this area and it has killed their careers at Fritos. Fritos has a tight system of checks and balances. One cannot change their system nor can you get any more money out of them. Raises are unheard of here. Its pay grades in Management. Its take it or leave it and experience does not matter here either. Follow their way, they like it, try and do it your way and they hate it. U learn this in RSR training.

Please ask me more.. I will continue to share with those of you who wish to want more.... Just ASK

PLEASE SHARE OR ASK THE CAPTAIN ABOUT FRITO LAY

My plan is to start here where I reside then relocate (at my own expense, I have no problem with that) to a more affordable state. New York is very very expensive. Property taxes are crazy.

With my last job you could relocate to many different affordable states and not have your pay reduced. Some states like Florida you would take a pay-cut, I'm sure Frito is similar.

I've gotten to the point where I can't get the job I want so Frito is the next best thing (mainly cause of the relocation aspect of it).

You've written alot and I appreciate it. Alot to absorb. I probably will have 1 or 2 more questions soon. I hope you have moved on to better things, there are some bigtime negatives with Frito you are right about that but at least I know going in.

deansuraci in Cornwall On Hudson, New York said: My plan is to start here where I reside then relocate (at my own expense, I have no problem with that) to a more affordable state. New York is very very expensive. Property taxes are crazy.

With my last job you could relocate to many different affordable states and not have your pay reduced. Some states like Florida you would take a pay-cut, I'm sure Frito is similar.

I've gotten to the point where I can't get the job I want so Frito is the next best thing (mainly cause of the relocation aspect of it).

You've written alot and I appreciate it. Alot to absorb. I probably will have 1 or 2 more questions soon. I hope you have moved on to better things, there are some bigtime negatives with Frito you are right about that but at least I know going in.

DEANSURACI....Fritos is not a bad company. The pay structure is very much the same across the board for the RSR position. There might be a little increase in the base pay as to where you live and the cost of living. Example: If you lived n Washington DC you might have a higher base than like Harrisburg, PA. A larger city ususally has a DC where as small towns might have a Bin. Larger Cities have DC's that you pre-order the product and a warehouse loader loads your route truck. In the DC's you have no truck inventory and it is on what they call a pre-pick situation. So when you are in your grocery stores, you order a day out where as many small towns such as Rocky Mount, NC which is 70 miles east of Raleigh, they have a bin. They add what is called RSR load pay for the week. It is not much but, they use it as the expense. Towns like Rocky Mount, the RSR's carry inventory. Fritos changed the DC's to Pre-Pick about 6 years ago to help with truck product rotation and control inventory on route trucks. The Pre=Pick system works great cause you dont have load your truck either in the early Am or when you return to the DC. This was a nice feature fo

CONT: This was a nice feature because on many days you just return with a empty truck, check with the CSR at the DC to make sure your orders for the following day are in the load system. Charge tickets are generated and with your order the next morning. This system was designed to also keep you out in the market place verses spending time loading and doing inventories. The downside to the DC load is sometimes an item or two might be missing but, that can happen at all delivery business. After you are on the actual route for a while, you become very accustom to what you stores sell so you can order by knowing verses having to go to the store. As for the C-Store accounts, you order a few days out and might miss something verses having the inventory on the truck. One thing that really was changed and was nice was an overtime pay called V-Rot. It was calculated from the amount of hours towards the sales after 40 hours. Its not overtime, but gives you a little extra for the work. Example of this would be if you are at 40 hours and have another working day and your sales are $7000 and you do another $1500 in sales on that 5th day your hours worked are factored in. If you work another day and do no sales then the v-rot hours are calculated off of your entire week sales. Bulk Leads and Swing RSR's work some early morning Sundays in large stores they have with backstock. They do not take product in on Sundays but work hours to stock and straighten shelves. Their V-Rot overtime is calculated from the total weekly sales so you do have a day sometimes that there is no sales generated. Keep in mind that V-Rot is NOT an overtime hourly pay, it is a compensation pay that meets the federal motor carrier laws in trucking. Another understanding thing that I would train people would be to make more sales and keep your hours low. The more hours you work and less generated sales, the less per v-rot hours pay you earn per hour. Also keep in mind that most RSR's pay in in a bracke

That bracket keeps you and your fellow RSR's at a range. If someone is really balloning sales and making several thousands of dollars higher than the entire average pay as an RSR when they look at route re-engineering like I explained above, they might cut something or restructure the route to balance the pay and switch out a store based on sales history. They sometimes have what is called "farmed out" accounts, which you could end up with an extra account because of a new store opening, but eventally when the DC or District gets re-engineered with accounts, you could loose that account. They have the system down and ususally you will not have a say into what accounts you keep and which ones you want to get rid of. When I became an experienced RSR I would try to keep my hours at a minium so that the V-Rot would try to benefit me in the pay so keep in mind that its not overtime. After a while, DC's like to have trainers. Its kind of a midstep in the RSR development. U do get paid for this but, only if the trainee RSR stays 90 days. So as a trainer it was important to be honest to your managers about the person you are training as all the effort can be a risk when training as that person might leave before you get paid for training and all that hard efford is not rewarded.

Since you are looking at moving, have you contacted the Frito Zone Office in that area that you are looking to move to. It might be easier to start there. If you dont know, when you apply use the new area's zipcode and apply online. At the top of your resume make sure you put "Relocating to ..City" so they know. I would do that or contact your local Zone Office or go to one of your grocery stores in the area and ask for the DSL phone number and call him to see if you might talk to him or go by the zone office and tell them your plan.

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If you choose to work for Frito Lay or any vending company that handles the grocery stores, I suggest that after you have been there taking care of them for a few weeks, go ask them how you and your company are doing as a whole to take care of their shelves and store. Use their name when speaking to them and remind them of your name every time. They know their employee names and have them to worry about and most often with call you Frito or Fritos as your name. I remember when I first started this annoyed me greatly because I was a person. But every time I went to speak to them I would say: EXAMPLE: Mr. Jones, My Name and Frito Lay Rep. How is my service? How are we doing as a company? This shows that you are above that average RSR vendor that takes care of them. Then as time goes on, Mr. Jones will call you by your name. Professionalizm will benefit you greatly in this job as well as you dress. If one dresses like a sales thug the manager will preceive you as that. I am not saying only a coat and tie will do this, I am saying that sloppy dress and dirty hands from stocking and handling boxes and being un-shaven with your shirt out or no belt and pants dirty will have them look at you as someone that does not care about your personal well being. I would see these sloppy looking RSR's with Frito Lay and they could come to me both as an RSR and DSL and tell me why they could not get a display in and I would look at them and know right then why.......

Captain Kangaroo in Raleigh, North Carolina said: If you choose to work for Frito Lay or any vending company that handles the grocery stores, I suggest that after you have been there taking care of them for a few weeks, go ask them how you and your company are doing as a whole to take care of their shelves and store. Use their name when speaking to them and remind them of your name every time. They know their employee names and have them to worry about and most often with call you Frito or Fritos as your name. I remember when I first started this annoyed me greatly because I was a person. But every time I went to speak to them I would say: EXAMPLE: Mr. Jones, My Name and Frito Lay Rep. How is my service? How are we doing as a company? This shows that you are above that average RSR vendor that takes care of them. Then as time goes on, Mr. Jones will call you by your name. Professionalizm will benefit you greatly in this job as well as you dress. If one dresses like a sales thug the manager will preceive you as that. I am not saying only a coat and tie will do this, I am saying that sloppy dress and dirty hands from stocking and handling boxes and being un-shaven with your shirt out or no belt and pants dirty will have them look at you as someone that does not care about your personal well being. I would see these sloppy looking RSR's with Frito Lay and they could come to me both as an RSR and DSL and tell me why they could not get a display in and I would look at them and know right then why.......

Hey, Captain Kangaroo I just got a job offer with Frito Lay & also with A new chip company that just came to my city called UTZ what do think I go need some advice

bootyboxer in Charlotte, North Carolina said: Hey, Captain Kangaroo I just got a job offer with Frito Lay & also with A new chip company that just came to my city called UTZ what do think I go need some advice

Booty, If you are looking for a stable career I would chose Frito Lay. Utz was in the Raleigh Market when I worked for Frito. The thing about Utz is they do not have the company market share and leverage that Frito Lay has. Utz has little space and managers of stores usually do not give those guys alot of space or lea-way. Frito has always had the best product lines and they have alot of company support. Utz gives you alot more stores to call on and because their space is so limited it might seem like a great thing to have but, the fact that Frito has about 70% of the market share makes it a big hit. As for money, they are about the same. If you read above, you will see the different routes that Frito Offers. I would rather have fewer stores with large market shares rather than little space and share with so many more stores. Frito in The large markets have DC's and I know that Charlotte has a DC and your truck is loaded for you. This is nice cause it cuts your phyical work after your work day. You cannot take home the truck cause its loaded between 6pm and 3am in the morning. Limiting your time spent in the truck and more time in the stores. Utz carries inventory on their trucks and you have to load it yourself and keep up with balancing your inventory. Frito has no truck inventory unless you order extra stock. Still you do not have to rotate stock on your truck because when you return to the DC its empty 95% of the time. As for Utz, what you have on board is yours so you have to monitor your dates. Frito pushes you to get displays up and managers of stores many of times allow you to do many extra things to support your products that are on sale. Most stores have gone to authorized items and Fritos does a great job with these as for Utz,

As for Utz, most stores tell you just to keep the shelves full and serviced. I knew some people with Utz that said the worst thing about them was that they had little space. Maybe a four foot section verses Fritos Large 24-50 foot store sections. GO out and look at the stores in your market and you will see. Take a look at Harris Teeter, Food Lion and Lowes and Walmart. This will tell you the difference. Utz guys dont have support like Frito does. Some Utz people work their days off just to keep things full. Most stores will let "Good" Frito Lay reps keep back stock of promotional items in the back room of stores. If you are the small guy, most of the time they will not let you keep any backstock. Backstock can cut your delivery/ check in product time by alot. I knew many Frito Lay reps that could cut their working hours after being very experienced where as I never heard of an Utz rep telling me they cut their working day hours. Remember you are paid commission on the products so it does not matter how many hours your work. When I worked a split route when I started which was off Sundays and Wednesdays it was nice cause on Fridays I would try to get the managers to let me leave backstock and could cut my hours on Saturday with just little deliveries where as with Utz ever day is going to be long because the number of stops and time you spend in the truck pulling product.

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When something is new in the DSD business in grocery, it takes alot of time to prove to them that they have a product that would sell. I remember when UTZ came into Raleigh and they could not take care of all the service in the stores and where put on hold in some chains due to lack of service and keeping their space full. As a Frito Rep you could really take advantage of this and compare what you do verses your competitor.

Hello BootyBoxer,

Up here in New York State the starting pay is $44,000 a year. ($770 plus overtime). This is before you get your own route. Just wondering what the starting pay down in NC is? Thank you.

Hi Capt. how's it going?

deansuraci in Cornwall On Hudson, New York said: Hello BootyBoxer,

Up here in New York State the starting pay is $44,000 a year. ($770 plus overtime). This is before you get your own route. Just wondering what the starting pay down in NC is? Thank you.

Hi Capt. how's it going?

Pay for training is about $625.00 in NC.... Because cost of living is alot cheaper. Don't be fooled because I know the training is a little more but, when you get your own route its alot harder to make that. Sometimes areas make the training pay higher as to turnover and getting people in the door. The training is no cake walk and some of the bins its higher in rate because U have to weekly order out, take care of a bin unit that is assigned to your route as well as load your own truck. When I started in Raleigh, we had to arrive at the DC at 2am in order to get one of the 15 first spots to load. Beacuse there were almost 70 route trucks if you showed up around 4 am U had to wait for others to load by taking a number. Depending on where you were in seniority, you could load between 4pm to 6pm. New guys always had to load early in the AM because some senor people would be back at 4pm load and not come in til around 7am the next morning. Then this changed and the senor guys loaded in the AM and new guys loaded in the PM. In 2004 Frito cut back that load pay and made it Pre-Order which cut into the RSR pay and paided for Warehouse Loaders. This was nice as to you just ran your route and came in and went home. (See Above) Keep in mind its not that fun to be back after a long day and have to load your own truck. There are still some bins in the smaller areas.

The pay ususally drops when you go to an extra. Which means you are done with training and you cover vacations and so on. Most Sales Commissioned Jobs are set up like this. Its called a step down as to they want to even out the pay to commission. Be careful in Route Work as it may sound great at first, but really is alot tougher than one might think.....Good Luck... What did you decide on????

My understanding was that the pay stays at what I quoted above, in training and even carries over when I would cover vacations and other situations. Once I get my own route which is fast up here then it goes to 100% commision. Everyone I have talked to up here says a person would have to be really brain dead not to make more than the fixed salary once you get your own route. I'll have to ask again.

They have actually just recently raised the beginning starting salary up here.

deansuraci in Cornwall On Hudson, New York said: They have actually just recently raised the beginning starting salary up here.

Deansuraci...Find out or ask why you will end up with a route fast. Most of the time this is because there is a really high turn-over. Sometimes people will say something just to get you on board and then you find out that its the people up there and the way they are treated. Ask some RSR's what the DSL's are like as well as the zone manager. Ask about route support and the reputation can be asked at grocery stores in your area. I would suggest on your own going to some of the large stores and asking "What they think of Frito Lay." If they tell you they always have a new rep or never see management only to beg or push them for things this is usually a good sign that that they have lots of problems in the area with people and support. What you dont want is to have a job that you are always stressed out as to not getting your way or what you want. Then after months of investment with Frito Lay, you discover that all you are is a full time stocker at the will of the company. I knew some DSL's that would badger or bully the RSR's and they were always coming and going in a negative manner. This really takes a tole on you personally. Good management ususally dont have a high turnover rate. That means its hard to work for the DSL and no one with time wants to deal with he or she. Some upper management tend tell and train the DSL's to ignor an RSR's feelings and concerns which leads to them leaving because they expect them to put Fritos first over family and your needs. Dig Deep before you commit. It might sound like great pay, grat fun and opportunity only to find out it will dampen your career. DSD (Route Work) is a tough deal. It was the toughest 10 years of my career and I am thankful I am not still where I was. I feel like ten years of my career was flushed down the toliet. Its like a teeter-totter with Frito Lay. CONT

One minute you are on top of the world cause you did something great that benefitted your DSL or Zone and then next minute you you are down in the dumps cause you cannot make something happen that easy. A DSL cannot accept anything but plan and some will do anything it takes to get what Fritos wants. Key Account managers tend to continously critize people's performance. Remember what I said above. What you do you are responsible including what you dont sell. I am sure that they have selected some good people. Every company has some good to great people performing but sooner or later you max out what you can do for them and it can turn ugly. If you have an awesome week in sales with Frito, you are district king for a few minutes but they never remember what you did for the company from one week to the next or year. I had some really knock out years as an RSR but soon I just could not keep growing the same stores by 10% each year. As a DSL it was all about numbers, numbers, numbers and categories. Lets say I made my numbers but missed the category growth on promo they wanted me to "Spike Up" my sales and do crazy things to the RSR's to get that number.

KEEP ASKING THE CAPTAIN ABOUT THIS COMPANY. HE WILL SHARE WITH YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT FRITO LAY YOU WANT TO KNOW IN HONESTY>>>>>>

Turnover is high in this facility, so that would be why I would be getting a route sooner than later.

I've asked a bunch of RSR's about the DSL's and if they are liked. Most of them are liked.

After talking to different RSR's, One Thing That Does Concern Me!!! Is that up here it seems that one can make 50k first year and 52k year 2. However, guys with 10 year experience seem to only be making 57 or so. It seems that as one puts more time in the pay doesn't really increase that much for at least guys with 7 to 12 years of experience. I understand fully these types of companies. Coke is similar. Alot of companies are like this nowadays. Years ago they took care of their employees, now it's every man for himself! Gotta go for now. Take it easy.

Just would like to say before I sign off, thank you for your comments they are extremely informative.

deansuraci in Cornwall On Hudson, New York said: Just would like to say before I sign off, thank you for your comments they are extremely informative.

DEANSURACI..... Keep in mind that if you relocate to another area, the pay will change drastically. I had an RSR back in 2005 that transferred from North Las Vegas Market. He was with the company for about 8 years in that area. He wanted to relocate to a new area because of family. He packed up and moved across the USA at his expense. When he got to NC he discoved that his pay was so much different than Vegas. He also discovered that Frito Lay in certain markets were not the same. Raleigh had a huge turnover at the time I joined. He came into the company and ended up on a route in a short time. After about 2 years, he was really sorry that relocated to the NC market cause he lost alot. He discovered that people did not work the way they did in Las Vegas. I really got to know the guy and he was a great guy, it just turned sour on him. Because of such a huge turnover, he discovered that routes were always being cut or consolidated. RSR's were constantly un-happy. The negative parts came out from many when he came on board. Because I was always a concerned RSR and then DSL I was constantly trying to get them to put in place some more family friendly time, some great employee appreciations to the RSR's to keep them on board. I was really rejected from zone upper management and it was like a happy place to be just was not in the cards. I am not discourging you to not join Frito Lay. They have some positive things as well as negative things. All companies do. Just take it with stride, do your research and dont start out as a hero. You will find that when you do, it could impact your career greatly with this company.

Find out WHY there is a huge turnover here. There is a reason. Id be interested to know.
Ask them these: Why do you have a large turnover in this market?, What are your custm thought

By the way, that RSR that transferred and relocated only stayed about 10 months and ended up moving back to Las Vegas. I am sharing cause earlier you asked about moving to another area.

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Captain Kangaroo in Raleigh, North Carolina said: When something is new in the DSD business in grocery, it takes alot of time to prove to them that they have a product that would sell. I remember when UTZ came into Raleigh and they could not take care of all the service in the stores and where put on hold in some chains due to lack of service and keeping their space full. As a Frito Rep you could really take advantage of this and compare what you do verses your competitor.

Thanks for the info.

hi,

i also work at Frito Lay ( in CT. Naugatuck DC). but, i am in the Warehouse. i am what you call a Full-Time warehouser, which is hard to get in the warehouse. its based on seniority (which is a big downfall to the hard workers). Frito Lay is a great company. but only if you want to make moves and climb the ladder.

Captain Kangaroo - i really didnt know alot of the DSL and RSR stuff. it was interesting to read on the problems they come across and so on. usually the warehousers and the RSRs hate each other because theres a big lack of communication. the chain usually goes to CSR-Lead-Full Timers-Part timers.. so you really dont know what the RSR problems they come across nor do they know what the warehousers problems are. we think they just stock the shelves and they think we just load the trucks. and having a small warehouse, but pushing out the most volume in CT makes it very impossible to get along. (21 prepick routes,6 small accounts, 4 trad merchs and 12 super bulk routes). only 10 prepick dock doors and only 4 bulk/unload doors. they share. .

Jaycen in Thomaston, Connecticut said: hi,

i also work at Frito Lay ( in CT. Naugatuck DC). but, i am in the Warehouse. i am what you call a Full-Time warehouser, which is hard to get in the warehouse. its based on seniority (which is a big downfall to the hard workers). Frito Lay is a great company. but only if you want to make moves and climb the ladder.

Captain Kangaroo - i really didnt know alot of the DSL and RSR stuff. it was interesting to read on the problems they come across and so on. usually the warehousers and the RSRs hate each other because theres a big lack of communication. the chain usually goes to CSR-Lead-Full Timers-Part timers.. so you really dont know what the RSR problems they come across nor do they know what the warehousers problems are. we think they just stock the shelves and they think we just load the trucks. and having a small warehouse, but pushing out the most volume in CT makes it very impossible to get along. (21 prepick routes,6 small accounts, 4 trad merchs and 12 super bulk routes). only 10 prepick dock doors and only 4 bulk/unload doors. they share. .

In Raleigh there were only 9 prepick dock doors and 3 bulk doors and 2 extra doors. I certainly do know this. We had 18 Bulk Routes, 38 prepick routes, 12 small account routes, 6 trad merch routes. There were more than 70 routes and I certainly saw this. There were times when route people were 75 miles from accounts and could come in at 4am and routes were not loaded due to lack of warehouse. When you are in front line sales or front line warehouse its like the company as a whole just ignors these areas unless someone coming to do a major inspection were there then some acted like they knew what was going on. As a DSL and an RSR, I tried to understand our warehouse operations but found that Frito Lay keeps them separate. I thought it was somewhat sneaky the way upper management would force things out and really bulk up the load and send more and more to

more and more to the warehouse, truck after truck and let things sit and then force it out before it goes out of date. Do you remember the day when they have the nation wide Cracker Launch and Go Snacks Launch. They spent so much money on displays and things and no one in the markets were really buying this stuff. They made the warehouse crew force all this out to people. It was so crazy. That GO SNACK deal was such a flop but it never effected what Frito Lay as a company did. Those little "backpack" Car Canisters of GO Snacks were overpriced and I never saw anyone really take off of them in sales. The only place that sold them well were Walmarts because they had them at 99 or 88 each as other places sold them for 1.69 Crackers were crazy. Trying to put Lance at a run for its money but never happened. Zone Managers would tell DSL's to put cases of them on routes to get them out and then ended up holding the RSR;s accountable for all the stales in their markets.

Captain Kangaroo in Raleigh, North Carolina said: In Raleigh there were only 9 prepick dock doors and 3 bulk doors and 2 extra doors. I certainly do know this. We had 18 Bulk Routes, 38 prepick routes, 12 small account routes, 6 trad merch routes. There were more than 70 routes and I certainly saw this. There were times when route people were 75 miles from accounts and could come in at 4am and routes were not loaded due to lack of warehouse. When you are in front line sales or front line warehouse its like the company as a whole just ignors these areas unless someone coming to do a major inspection were there then some acted like they knew what was going on. As a DSL and an RSR, I tried to understand our warehouse operations but found that Frito Lay keeps them separate. I thought it was somewhat sneaky the way upper management would force things out and really bulk up the load and send more and more to

and i thought naugatuck had some problems. 38 prepick routes alone is insane volume. ive only been to 2 other DC's in CT and naugatuck is the biggest one. which naugatuck is moving to a bigger warehouse by April of 2008. theres so much product but no where to put it, so thats causes mispicks and cuts for no reason. we had 17 bulk routes. but we swtichd to super bulk which added more prepick routes and merch, which now leads to no parking. and force outs are very very annoying for the warehouser and the RSR. ive only been working for Frito Lay for a little under 2 years so the Go Snacks might have been before my time. i did notice Sales and Warehouse are very separate. but they both work very long stressful hours. theres been a couple times were ive workd a 15 or 16 hour day and at 3am RSRs start coming in (usually only because its heavy from a holiday). ive been thinking about switching over to Sales.

Captain Kangaroo.

I have an interview with Frito lay as a RSR next monday. Right now I work for Coke as a store merchandiser.I've been reading this forum, and I was wondering if you have an answer to my question.
I heard that they start around 600.00/week. Am I going to make 600/week even if I work 60-65 hours?! That just doesn't sound right.
Please let me know.Thanx.