Natren Reviews

where do I start! Read other reviews! I agree with most of them. I worked at Natren for a long time and watched great people come and go, the owners act unprofessional, rude, attack people personally, play favorites, and more. The "Old Man" falls asleep, and seems to be suffering from Dementia. He forgets things that he discusses with you in a matter of days and then explodes at you as if you did something wrong. No training programs,.....they throw people into two-three positions at once and give them so much responsibility, then demand all of your time in meetings and reports, so you never get to do your job and eventually get chewed out for that too. It is really sad to see such a great Probiotic get wasted with poor Micro-managing Owners that trust NO ONE. Owners that hire you to do a job, then never let you actually do it. They have some committed Employees but do not appreciate them! They will go under soon. No future here. Go to another company! Save yourself.

1.) Husband and wife team, both are losing it, getting old and need to retire. Natren is in the process of merging or being acquired this will either help or destroy Natren. 2.) Complete lack of trust in their employees. One example, just to sign in to work each day you have to scan your hand, log into a "sign in/out" book, then send an email to "attendance". You may also be expected to send daily reports on what you think you will do at the start of the day and what you actually accomplished at the end of the day. Waste of your time, waste of their money, but they don't trust you so they don't care. They do not value employees time. 3.) Lots of favoritism among employees and management you can enjoy being the golden child during your first few months, but watch out after that, someone else will dethrone you eventually. 4.) The owners will try to use you to get other employees in trouble. Be careful. 5.) Look up the owners names, look up the company name and take a trip over to the county court website to see their history of lawsuits, the search results are enlightening. 6.) Husband falls asleep in meetings every day, then wakes up and yells at you for not keeping him informed while his wife ignores him and will not back you up even if you are right. Rude. Annoying, Unprofessional. Need I go on? 7.) Husband is currently spending money on manufacturing and refuses to realize that ramping up manufacturing won't save the company if they are unwilling to spend money in acquiring the right employees, or in marketing and sales initiatives, it is a constant battle. 8.) Wife is all knowing and doesn't know how to educate people without yelling at them. Favorite lines include "No, no, no, listen!" And don't be surprised if she spends your meeting time playing on her iPhone and telling you not to worry she can multitask. 9.) They actually believe that every other probiotic company in the world is stealing their ideas, their marketing techniques, their slogans. They refuse to accept the fact that other companies are actually just evolving and growing as well. 10.) The office space is depressing, you can look forward to tarps covering your cubicle from the lovely stuff that falls from the ceiling. Not joking. The owners work in a separate building of course. If you're interviewing here you might want to ask for a tour of the building you would be working in. Hint: it is not the one they interview you at. 11.) Micromanagement is the name of the game. 12.) There is too much work and not enough time. To work in a creative field and not have any time to create is depressing.