Poor leadership in planning - Strategic Planning Niagara Bottling Employee Review

2.0
13 June 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As others have mentioned in their reviews, the people are great to work with and the small team/family oriented culture (or at least what it used be before the company expanded so much). The amount of experience one can gain is tremendous and will definitely help towards building a solid resume. The perk of being able to work from home once a week was very helpful if your commute is long. There are multiple opportunities to grow within the company as they are expanding very rapidly. The company does provide you with a new phone (because you're on call 24-7) so that helps cutting down your current phone bill. The coffee machines are great and provides you multiple options to select from (until they take it away due to high maintenance cost from expansion).

Cons

Since 2015, the leadership has been very poor as there has been a new director in the team and the planning team has had suffered numerous setbacks and team members departing. The average lifespan of a planner is 18-24 months as people get burnt out due to lack of work life balance. Within the last year at least 10 people have left, including 4 managers so that shows the revolving door nature of the team. As a result of this, people are constantly being hired and trained and that takes time away and effort away on training for current team members. There is absolutely no work-life balance as a planner because you are expected on call 24-7 since the plants run 24-7. There is a bit favoritism within the company and they are able to move up quicker even though they may not the suitable person for the position. The compensation and benefits is definitely NOT competitive as they like to boast in their job postings. The company used to provide free lunches on Wednesdays during the summer months and bagels on Mondays, but that is no longer the case since they have gotten so much bigger (yet they can add multiple new Vice Presidents). The Logility implementation has been a failure due to a lack of IT resources dedicated for the project. You couldn't provide proper feedback on the project without the fear of getting fired as the planning leadership disapproved any such feedback.

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Niagara Bottling Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are sorry to hear that you are no longer with Niagara. Please know that your experience was shared with leadership to discuss ways to improve.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
7 Apr 2026
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Pros

There are a few good workers left, for now.

Cons

the management doesn’t know what they are doing They fire people who have put absolute hard work in by finding ways to fire them They don’t care about the hard work you put in for them, or the overtime. They won’t have your back, and it’s a very stressful invironment You walk around a concrete floor ALL DAY! And they endeavor to fire you if they see you sitting for just a few minutes after you’ve run around like a mad man/woman for HOURS all the while they observe you working hard… they just don’t care about your well being. You can get injured and they will fire you for being a “liability”. You could get a stratch and your jobs on the line. The hours are grueling long and when you say no to overtime because you’ve already exhausted yourself they will, again, seek to terminate your employment The new manager of line 3 and injection will be the fall of those areas. He started a fight with a female employee his first week( she was breaking records in line 3 and he had her moved to another shift a line because he couldn’t work with her) DO NOT WORK HERE!! The maintenance team is worse! Their manager doesn’t discipline them at all, hours and hours of break time and the operators get fired for an extra 10 minutes through the whole 12 hour shift… DO NOT WORK HERE

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