If I could only give zero stars! As a professional, worst career move ever - Management Lactalis USA Employee Review

1.0
Jan 31, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits are top notch - if you can make it that long to stomach the toxic environment by the time it fully kicks in... Discounted cheese - that's about to expire.. You will think the pay is good initially, until you realize the amount of hours they will expect you to work (while kicking yourself for not taking that 40hour a week job you passed on that paid less annually but gave you your sanity). As a manager, you get roped in with a nice salary which btw is the only way they could initially get talent to ever come here, but has a hard time retaining that talent, when the talent figures out on an hour for hour basis staying here, one will make way less in the long run. As far as they are concerned, salary means an endless bucket of hours that they get to use at your expense. There are opportunities (I wouldn't say career opportunities, unless you are a glutton for punishment) - due to turnover being so high at virtually every level

Cons

Too many expected hours - no family life (don't believe HR that everyone's a happy family) Large Corporation - The French have unrealistic, unattainable expectations - there is no pleasing these arrogant people. You have corporate French managers, and then you have the underling American plant managers asking how high they need to jump. Overall a toxic environment with garbage that rolls downhill to the next level. Always a head will roll instead of someone higher up taking any accountability for actions they initiated themselves. The overall employee attitudes here are demoralized - nobody is really happy to be working here, nor do they really care - just a paycheck. Very Questionable business practices - if you are a professional, seriously consider this, especially if its your name on the line, which it will be here.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Being French guarantees you a management job. If you look at any of the really important positions in management all the best titles are held by French persons. They give promotions to who they like and not who deserves it. The company makes billions every year but run the company by cutting supplies, staff, maintenance and expect you to hit your targets and act like your the problem. A lot of jobs in this place is a revolving door. They fired past HR representatives for doing their job correctly and refusing to break the law. They fully staff day shift with nurses and safety management but leave nights to fend for themselves. They don’t give employees Christmas bonuses but you bet they do for management. The only employees that are treated fairly are managers and they still don’t have it great. Maintenance is a joke, most of the mechanics can’t fix anything not because they don’t know how but because the company cut funding to parts room and we never have things in stock. You cannot run a company by cutting costs every year. The company will eventually be so bad and impossible to run

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