Simmons Foods reviews

The lack of managerial presence is a key issue. Most supervisors spend their whole day in the office chatting away or on their phone. That leaves the leads to handle EVERYTHING. The worse part is that if something goes wrong the supervisor comes out screaming at any and all that they feel was responsible for the lack of production. I've been on the receiving end of this once or twice, but I'm a big 6'2 guy with an attitude to match, so I've been written up for getting in their face to remind them that I'M NOT THE ONE. Recently we got a raise and I was making $20 an hr, so they decided that since they're always short staffed, (since before Covid) it's was my job to not only marinate in TWO different departments, but also Jackdrive for them as well. We had 10 new hires that week, and had 16 people quit. Some of them being the new hires and some being people that have been here for years. Now on to safety... Pallet jacks don't really work too well ( most have no brakes), the ceiling leaks any time they have rain, most of the heavy machinery isn't bolted down properly, or work properly for that matter. Most "functioning" equipment also has various issues (like a computer will print out a scannable manifest label, but you have to go to another computer to actually scan it, or my favorite the baggers/ spiral freezer constantly having down time ), and the fact that most employees wear sneakers when company policy says nonslip work shoes are some of them off the top of my head. Now the worse part is the food safety... They simply don't care anymore( seen employees pick up chicken off the ground and throw it back on the line, or use chicken that was literally green and smelly with out a care). There was a time when we produced quality over quantity. We had plenty of clients and multiple different products, now they have about five total clients with maybe two or three products each. It's all about pounds per hour now. Quantity just isn't important to them anymore and that bothers me because I used to eat what we produced now I don't buy anything we sell, no more Walmart brand chicken, Popeyes strips or boneless breast, olive garden chicken, champ's chicken, Zaxby's chicken, or Applebee's chicken. Thankfully we don't produce Chick-fil-A so I can still eat that. There are plenty of other issues but I've written long enough, y'all get the idea. If you really need a job with great pay and you don't care about safety, your mental health, food safety/quality or being told your working extra with one day notice, you found the perfect place (as long as you can pass a drug test).

Some people in management show favoritism. New pay increase came with more job duties that are overwhelming on top of what we were already doing.