The amount of back and forth/conflicting reviews for Tasty Brands on Glassdoor should be a major RED FLAG for anyone who does their due diligence and checks reviews prior to joining an organization. Unfortunately for me, the company was so small when I joined that I wasn’t given a heads up of the chaotic, hostile environment I was walking into. Employees of the past have learned their lesson, moved on and find it very interesting/suspicious when a positive review pops up right after a negative review. It usually comes from whoever runs HR at the time. The purpose of Glassdoor is to give honest reviews so people making an important, life changing decision to start a new job can have additional insights into the company instead of just what they learned, which are mostly likely the positive aspects during the interview process. So here you go, THE FACTS: 1. Every negative comment about the owner of the company here is 100% true. I’ve worked at a few companies of this size on Long Island in my career and NEVER have worked for someone like this owner. The amount of professional, competent, hardworking people I’ve seen him berate and literally make cry is unbelievable! Yes, it’s understood that not every employee is great with outstanding work ethics, but NO one deserves to be treated the way I’ve seen him treat people. Those with excellent work ethics and slackers alike, all fall into the same bin in his eyes, the disposable bin. If you go into this job after reading these reviews and say, “I can handle a tyrant, I have thick skin”, just don’t. If you do, I guarantee you there will be a time you think back and will say “wow, all those passionate reviews on Glassdoor, I should have listened to them!” 2. Benefits… everyone talks about Monday lunch. A $10-15 dollar lunch weekly is nice little perk but is Monday lunch worth having only 13 DAYS PTO a year (which includes PTO, Vacation and sick time, no ifs, ands or buts!) There are minimal Holidays as well, so don’t think you will make up for it there. 401k has a company match but nothing extraordinary- like 3% and fluctuates based on owners’ mood. 3. Hours of 8:30-5 with an hour lunch break you will be told. Sounds good…. But I tell you if you leave anywhere close to 5PM, don’t show up early and/or take your full lunch break you will be one of his next victims as you clearly “don’t have enough work to do”. I fully understand that as salaried employees, there are times the workload requires you to come in early and/or stay late. Your title does change as does your demands. But I will tell you, there was one time this one person took lunch…. They were a director of a department, came in early every day, left late every day, and worked through lunch every day. One day they physically went out to lunch. The owner came out of his office looking for this person, someone reluctantly told him they stepped out. His entire face went red, and it was like a cartoon where you could see steam coming out of his ears. Maybe you are thinking, oh well there must be a reason it must have been something super urgent… nope. Just regular day to day. At 5 o’clock every day, the entire office sits there waiting to see who will take the heat and get up from their desk and be the first to go home, NO ONE wants to be the first to leave or you'll be next on his list. 4. The turnover I experienced in my years there was absolutely insane, comical really. Averaging at least one person a month - which is a lot considering the size of the office. Its' not the people who "don't work hard" that leave. It's everyone. Your efforts will not be rewarded as many of the fake positive reviews state. Everyone is disposable. So, as I said earlier, the amount of conflicting and passionate reviews posted for such a small place should be a MAJOR RED FLAG for anyone! I will be patiently waiting to next positive post from human resources! Oh yes, don't forget... ONLY 13 DAYS PTO!
