Tricks Not Treats - Assistant Manager Kayem Foods Employee Review

Great pay & management. Very flexible

Outsourcing to other companies. Not keeping their good employees that help build their name

A lot of great hard working people work for Kayem

The culture of Kayem has been failing the past few years. The pay is at the bottom of the pay range for a lot of positions and they seem to be unwilling to increase the range to find better help. They won’t hire to fill certain positions then say we need to do better when a lot of us are burnt out and over worked while covering positions that remain empty. They took away options for insurance to include only family or individual coverage. They do consistently give yearly pay increases but it is limited to 3% max but the insurance cost increase is 6-7% so on some level it actually will cost you money to work there. They brought in efficiency experts to help them figure out how to run more efficiently which is good, but experts are mainly repeating most of what the employees have been recommending for the past few years. So they brought people in to tell them what they already know. There is a lot of finger pointing between departments. No one seems to want to take responsibility for decisions that are being made or actions being taken. Management does not communicate well with each other at all. They are dismissive of any suggestion that would improve morale or culture. You are scheduled to work 8 hours a day but can be forced to work 10 or face disciplinary action. A lot of departments in production are scheduled 6 days mandatory. If your department doesn’t complete a weeks production in 5 days for what ever reason, you are working Saturday. They don’t ask. They tell you that you need to work or you face disciplinary action. They care more about the product going out the door than the people that are making sure it happens.