Great Company, Great People, Really Caring - Machine Operator Continental Employee Review

I love the people there. You had to put in your dues before becoming a machine Operator, but nothing that you wouldn't find anywhere else and to be expected. You had to be a packer for the requisite three months if you weren't a direct hire, but par for the course. I found the people, culture, and company as a whole to be encouraging, supportive, and laid back. The work was not generally physically demanding. They let you have a speaker to listen to music and you could have drinks at your station. Everyone there went above and beyond to make me feel part of the gang. Even though it's been a few months since I was there I still miss everybody :( The schedule was fifteen 12-hour days on and fifteen days off which I will list as both a pro and a con as every 2-3 days you swung from days to nights, but you only worked two weekends a month (one on days and one on nights) and the nature of this schedule tended to give you longer than average time off for the holidays. Oh, I almost forgot- they like to do special things for their employees once a month, like they will get some kind of food truck. One month it might be tenderloins and burgers and the next it could be ice cream. Sometimes, they would take all our orders for a local eatery or they would treat us to pizza. The long haulers would grumble about management or certain policies that maybe I didn't have insight into not having worked there for very long, but on the whole it seemed that management and the company was very caring for their employees.