Pros
Hires from within, your experience with the company is worth more than a degree. Has programs that promote worker health. Paid breaks, except lunch. Incentives encourages hard work for rewarding pay. Immigrant work program helps people from other countries find jobs in USA.
Cons
You either work 30 or 50+ hours a week. The schedule fluctuates so bad you rarely get 40. Management/supervisor communication is atrocious! Inter department communication especially. Some managers and supervisors have worked in multiple departments and know the frustrations, and yet they carry on the tradition of withholding info that could save a department 1-2 hours of labor. The new owners have added rules that make working a more stressful environment, and certain rewards and incentives have been reduced or removed. Management have lost sight of the fact that people flocked to BYF originally because they made working as stress free and rewarding as possible to counter the sheer heat stress. Extremely hot during the summer and the uniforms aren't temperature friendly. Their safety trainings on heat exhaustion would make more sense if the uniforms weren't a cause, just saying. Recently some departments are understaffed while others are overstaffed. Better distribution of employees would bring smoother workflow. The immigrant hiring program covers up the fact that the turnover rate it way too high. As long as there's a steady stream of immigrants to work there management won't address this serious issue. Supervisors work an insane amount of hours, probably why their positivity is non-existent when they reach manager. Incentive rates for various tasks could use a revamp, but I don't think current management should handle it. Current management doesn't balance budget properly. They bought expensive bikes to traverse a greenhouse half the size of their peers' because "other greenhouses do it" and favor lower employee review scores to shave a few cents off their yearly raise. Shameful.
