Smithfield Foods
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Respectfull, educational, and definitely a safety conscious company
Have been on tour and orientation at other plants and this company in crete is amazing!!! Personally I think orientation is a bit long, but.... safety and policy is very important, and they are doing the most they can to educate and orientate new hires, very clean and open door policy is true, plus HR is on top of their game. Upper management is amazing, trainers seem to be very helpful.
Obviously the pay and benefits are great with Smithfield's, very happy with my career at Smithfield.
Obviously the pay and benefits are great with Smithfield's, very happy with my career at Smithfield.
Pros
Pay, benefits, advancement opportunities, and management is very involved
Cons
My only complaint is my own problem, im relocating, and I drive 1hr 20min one way... but that is not Smithfield's fault.
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Decent pay, Horrible management
Spent nearly 10 years working for Smithfield. The management has greatly declined in the last 5 or so years. You can expect plenty of little buddy relationships. So if you aren’t part of one of those little “cliques” don’t expect to advance or be heard. Benefits are probably the only true Pro of working here because no matter how much you get paid it will not be worth the mental strain this place has on you
Productive
Firstly, on a typical work day, I would take measurements of the materials within the silos. Secondly, I would log that data, within my first hour of the shift, by using Micro Soft Excel. Lastly, I would note what feed was needed, via the production reports, and make the required feed.
You have to be self-motivated
You're on your own on your route so you have to be self-motivated. My manager is NOT helpful at all. I went about 2 months never hearing from him. I haven't seen him in over 3 months. He is supposed to be out in the field helping the reps periodically, but can never be reached. Does all communicating through text messages, NEVER as a phone call. I don't know how other areas in the company are run, but my area is run horribly.
I would never tell any body to go there not even my worse enemy
terrible place to work they tell you do what you are told or leave we will hire some else we do not care the plant manager calls himself GOD he does not even try to hide it they do not care I had a supervisor tell me and not just me there were several of us there he said the only thing that matters and how long you will be able to stay is how well the management likes you it does not matter how well you do your job
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They don’t listen to staff
They definitely have changed over the years and not for the good. Management doesn’t like to be questioned even though they are new and the workers have been there for a while. Job use to be enjoyable, but now is a dread to go too
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Management
Production stress bothers some supervisors.
Some of the supervisors have poor personnel skills.They don't know how to properly deal with the stress of the job and will occasionally take it out on workers.
This is not all of the supervisors just a minority of them.
This is not all of the supervisors just a minority of them.
Wouldn’t Recommend
This job changed drastically over 6 months for the WORSE ..they fired majority of management and supervisors and started a new rate system that very few employees could meet. The new management have little experience in this field and sent this place into a whole..
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