Needs new management - Anonymous employee Keystone Foods Employee Review

1.0
10 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay is competitive, benefits are great, and job is nice.

Cons

After ten years here, I will be leaving soon due to lack of staffing resulting from poor management. Our entire mill is depleted and exhausted from working constant twelve hour shifts to make up for all the positions that are not being filled. Eight hour shifts for three shifts have turned to two twelve hour shifts in almost every department due to lack of staffing. Management is buying 8 hours of overtime pay rather than straight pay because they are too lazy to meet our staffing requirements. They don't seem to mind though since they aren't the ones spending their life at work and missing everything important at home with their families. It sure is sad that they have let so many employees leave lately because they just couldn't take the hours anymore. Why doesn't corporate realize that they are paying out so much overtime pay that its ridiculous.

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5.0
26 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Keystone was a great place to work, but Tyson bought it out and removed the Keystone name entirely.

Cons

That it's now gone and is part of Tyson nopw

1.0
24 Sept 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Keystone had decent pay and benefits for the area. Work wasn't too awful like most chicken plants.

Cons

Expected a lot of overtime. No work/life balance. They know they are one of the "good paying jobs" in Gadsden and overleverage it. Toxic coworkers consistently out to snake each other. No teamwork. Management lied about raises saying you get one every so often, then would come up with excuses why you didn't get a raise this time. Pretty much a dead end place with no opportunity for growth. Management did some pretty sketchy/borderline illegal things to squeeze employees into doing things. They call maintenance technicians "management" so they don't have to give them union benefits, but strip them of any management benefits. The good ole boy system is not open to any new ideas or better ways of improving. You must do the job to an arrogant few's standards or be positioned as an outcast in the culture. Kissing butt goes a long way here but is still a very 'dog eat dog' environment.

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