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Frito-lay doesn't care 1st they over work their employees.The task as a Frito rep is to much not enough time to do the job right.if you notice they always look rushed. 2nd they take chips out of the bags and rise the price over three yeas that i worked there i notice less chip in the bags and the price going up about $2.89 to $3.99.the bag are bigger but they weight less.

they are making millons of profit. so way can they give us are money worth of chips per bag.don't buy frito-lay

Location: Irvine, California

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sorry to inform you but that's the way every big corp. is duh

Guest

Iโ€™m a frito lay sanitor and that job sucks, my team lead doesnโ€™t care about me or my life at all, Iโ€™m a single dad that has no time as it is to get things done at home, Iโ€™m seeing people who are lazy and are *** workers getting bid promotions before me and I bust my *** I wonder whoโ€™s kissing *** lol. Iโ€™m about to take a *** day just to get away from that place itโ€™s too much and they treat people like theyโ€™re idiots

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While you can make some decent money here you have to beware of becoming full-time. I am part-time and have been for 4.5 years.

I don't need Full-time pay and my schedule is sun-wed off thurs-sat. The money is good. you get 401k and stock purchase options. You get 5 days UN-paid vacation no matter how long you work for the company.

You must go full-time to get a few weeks paid. As a forklift driver you have to complete your work within a system called LM. You must be positive or else you get write-ups which lead to you getting fired for not meeting their efficiency requirements. You have leads who most of the time won't approve your hot keys when you have to fix a pallet or find boards if you're unloading a trailer.

Supervisors are mainly college folks who never worked on the floor to begin with and they are the ones who constantly keep changing the way things are doing without even knowing how it would affect the work because they dont work on the floor. Management says you're safety is priority and that they welcome suggestions to help improve the site. They never listen. The company is cheap and doesn't want to replace machinery and lifts that are beyond their lifespan.

Lifts are only supposed to be used for so many hours yet many of them are well beyond that time span. Racking systems are jacked up and rollers stick especially on upper levels making it impossible to get a pallet unless the audit person is literally right there pushing pallets forward. Once you pick one up it sticks again. The company is implementing inventory counts once a week.

With product rotating in and out every second counts get jacked up and product gets mixed. Management seems to think though that one inventory count once a week will suffice. Most of the people who do the inventory dont even really count. they scan the location and go to the next one.

You will be required to work overtime even when they say there is NO overtime. If you are full-time you will have no life. They dont care if you are married, single, getting married, have kids, adopting. you're there to work and make them money.

At the site I am at we had a guy lose his foot in a forklift accident and another die near the automated induction lanes. they just wanted you to keep working. I mean just forget that there's a dead guy on the floor. If you work in Core or GES warehouse as a material handler its hot in summer.

especially in Texas. about 10 months of the year expect it to be 100 degrees or more in the warehouse. they rarely run the fans to try and get a breeze going in there. dont expect sympathy from the management.

had a family emergency and went to tell the lead. all he said was, "what you want me to do about it, go if you want and take a half." while that's really how it goes, no consideration at all. didn't even ask what was wrong. remember you're just a laborer there.

At Frito-Lay you are expendable. even if you go above and beyond your job duties you dont get thanked for it. dont do more than your job description or else they will expect you to do it when its not in your job code and probably pays more to begin with. dont give them the opportunity to use you while not paying you what the job should pay.

My job changed to doing inventory but I had to use the stock picker/lift to get to the upper racks. Management promised me the "A" pay that comes with the job. I am a B technician and the A pay is about $2.50 more an hour. I never received this pay and spoke to management who told me I wasn't supposed to get A pay.

So I quit doing that work and was nearly written up for insubordination. LOL. I had to go to HR to get nearly 6 months of back pay I never received. Like I say its a decent place to work.

The pay is good. The friends you make are great. Fun times at times but the management and their constant change and ignorance to things makes it difficult to consider making this place long term career. Of course the overtime and the pay is great as some really like working OT while others may not.

You'll make great money and get bonuses twice a year. Many of my friends including myself drive nice new cars. We got some Mercedes, BMWs, Corvettes, Camaros, Challengers, F350s, etc out there. Nice new custom rides and motorcycles but consider the fact that you will give up all your freedom and family time to this company.

Full-time and they own you. As part-time you cannot be forced in or stay over and can't be called in on days off. oh and you start off as part-time and you are only allowed 1500 hours total for the entire year. if you go over they make you take time off until they see fit to allow you to come back.

Full-time you get starting 2 weeks paid vacay and it goes up with time. You also get floating holidays(days off). As part-time you literally get 5 days unpaid vacation and depending on your management you may be forced to take all 5 days at once. I am allowed to split mine up.

As for seniority most of the time jobs are distributed by seniority. if you're new expect to be unloading trucks and loading all shift. you get yearly uniform allowance and once a year steel toe shoe allowance. you get less as part-time.

once you get in as a laborer dont expect to apply for office positions. They outsource these and many supervisor jobs to mainly young college aged people. many who work at FL will tell you as a new person to bid on anything and everything with job bids.

Tread carefully and research the jobs first. depending on the job it has a restriction and once your locked in you might not be able to bid out of that job for a long while.

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Question, I know someone who started working there approximately 2 weeks ago(Maryland) said he was let go because he backed into another forklift... not a major incident. That sounds odd.

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Frito Lay will flat out work you to death without blinking an eye. Avg work week for an RSR is 60+ hours and the OT is a total joke/slap in the face and equals approx.

$10/hr ( they have a formula based on what your route ran divided by blah blah blah) And you think ANY supervisor would see you putting those hours in and ask how you're doing? Hows the family? Not ever in my 6 years have I been asked how Im doing. You are a number, a usually next to impossible number to reach and even if you missed it but put in 60+ hours you will be made to feel like you didn't even show up to work.

I wouldn't recommend this job to ANYONE. And they have the balls to have a class about why the RSRs shouldn't go union!!! Its clearly because if they were protected by a union there would be no way in *** Management would be able to get away with what they throw at us to do.

Many I know have contacted local union reps of other vendor companies and a meeting is taking place soon. I would vote union in a heartbeat and pray to see it.

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Iโ€™m with you. For my area we need a union big time.

We have management who doesnโ€™t have a clue but yet wants us to do what it takes to make the numbers.

On my previous route, when I made plan, my DSL flat out told me Iโ€™m only doing the bare minimum. Weโ€™re just a number

Guest

I totally disagree, I love this company and they take care of its employees

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reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1257211

Do you love Frito Lay now that theyve gone to performance based pay? Its nice to get a check for $75.00 when it used to be $650 after all taxes, bills, n such were deducted.

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reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1307112

You are so right. Indra Nooyi, CEO of the frito lay is running this company on the ground.

She is showing profit gains in the company by cutting everything. Mainly going to performance pay, taking money from the employees. Thatโ€™s not taking care of itโ€™s employees! Remember this, she will resign in the next couple of years when there is nothing else to cut out, and she can show no more profit, at which time the company will have lost its market share.

And it will take years to build back up. It takes a long time to turn the titanic around!

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Your full of it, they don't care about us workers. Nothing is ever good enough.

Take take take. When they get caught taking to much they buy us of with some *** bonus.

Most of us need the money so we stay. But this place is *** on Earth.

Guest

Wow, impressive grammar !!

Guest

If you were up that much, & they did the dirty to you, it's because you didn't "fit in" with hiding the truth. When you say you worked 16 hr days, I have NO trouble believing that, but also will note with DOT you can NOT work longer than 14.

So you must have been like so many others, working "OFF THE CLOCK" to get the job done, yet STILL conform to the BS DOT Frito-Lay policies that MANAGEMENT KNOWS you falsify documents to "GET THE JOB DONE"!

My heart goes out to you for losing your job before Christmas. Herman Lay was a good man, & would have FIRED those mgrs that allowed you to work so many hours selling his products without proper compensation, or recognition.

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reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1216629

Sorry to hear. What State and what are the labor laws there?

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Dollar General makes their employees punch out and keep working until the work is done also.

Guest

Been with Frito-Lay over 20 years. 20 years ago, I used to say ~ "Short of winning the lottery, I'm doing what I love to do!" In this day of age of corporate pressure, sales goals, & most of all, electronics & computer tracking, Frito-Lay just plain SUCKS!

This company is in NO WAY what I imagine Herman Lay intended for his employees, or his product, & with the stock market, Corporate has lost what Herman Lay originally intended. Making money selling his products, & improving his & other's lives from the quality of the products, & the proceeds of their sales. Since the company does not have to pay "Time & half" or "Extra Pay" for holidays, it takes advantage of the REAL drivers of the business~ the workers that MAKE, SELL, & Deliver the product! Variable Rate Overtime are 3 words to substitute for what is acceptable to SCREW your employees out of TIME with their family, & proper compensation for that time!

There are countless positions of corporate employees & management that have very little or in fact NOTHING to do with the success of the sales of the companies products, but they make the most money. It is a FLEECING of hard working people. In the end, this will no doubt come to light, but until then, those making money for doing very little will ride the wave. I have done MANY different things to sell this company's products, & have been very successful for it, & am sure there are many like me that have done the same.

At the end of the day, it no longer matters. Go home to your family, & enjoy what very little you have left of your life, before you perish to the BIG FISH!

Guest

Long term manager that just left....company has gone crazy with expectations to do the job the correct way. The innovation they shove at the sales people with no direction is rediculus. Job has changed drastically in the last 5 years, not fun any more.

Guest

Fritolay is good paying job, but have to sell your soul. Not worth it.

Guest

Good job your right

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I've been with Frito for over seven years . Started as an RSA and worked my way to a RSR .

I truly enjoy working with my customers and the company ,Don't get me wrong hours are long and you work inmost cases every weekend but with all that i enjoy the work. Fast foward frito today. There is the implamentaion of GES . Those who recognize these letter know what the system is those taht don't get ready.

Basically this means less money for those RSR and also a majority of the RSR will loose there position and be concerted to Full time Merchandiser . In our situation in the northeast it will mean up to a 40% pay reduction . I have been employee of the year NO# in unsalable No# 1 Route in sale and in plan. It took alot of hours and a good support team,(My swing ).

So My reward for a good Job is a pay reduction . This is a fact no exagerating it's happening as we speak . We are only to Two in the country going through this new system of full time Merchandisers . the only difference between this and RSR is you will not be driving a truck And a significant lose of income You will check orders in .,service scan holes,scan backstock ,but no insentive to grow .

This system will come your way . If you are in the union and haven't neg. your contract watch out for full Merch position Make sure ther is an increase stipulation on there that adds an increase to the amount of service per year in the company or you will be making the same as someone starting with the company .

And small format watch out for Merch/ driver same scenerio . Good Luck to all

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Frito-Lay today is not the same company that I started work for back in the 80's. They at least used to respect you back then.

Today they are just a over priced company that cares more about Wall Street than the Human Race.

On the bright note they do make great leaders for other company's. Corporate America is full of former PepsiCo Management Level Employees.

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