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Pepsi MidAmerica Reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(368 total reviews)

Harry L. Crisp II

66% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Pepsi MidAmerica has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 368 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pepsi MidAmerica employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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368 reviews
1.0
9 Feb 2014

Owners and upper management have no clue

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good local people to work with. Both Pepsi employees and customers.

Cons

Working with out-of-touch management. Expecting anyone on salary to work very long hours, with little compensation. Crisp family professes to care about family, but this is a lie.

1.0
9 Aug 2018

Stay away!!

Recommend
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Pros

The freedom to not apply and ability to walk away before you regret accepting a job. Odds are, you’ll be hired. Staying a year, not likely. You’ll quit or be fired. That’s your two choices. Witnessed this in reality over and over.

Cons

Advice: DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CURRENT JOB FOR ANY JOB AT PMA. Shockingly high turnover. Very poor leadership at HQ. They even fire their own family. Most of employees I started with are now gone. And that is around 60 to 70 or more employees. The same for their home office and most of their depots. The Senior Managers blame local managers for poor leadership. When in fact, as the reviews prove, it’s senior managers that are poor leaders. It doesn’t take long or a genius to figure this out quickly. Family is stressed, it’s a facade. Family is not first, work is first regardless of how long or impossible your objectives are. They give high salaries, as the high turnover suggest, it appears there is no intention of keeping people to pay that out. Statistically, the long term employees are very few. You’ll be lucky to survive one year, every year thereafter the survival rate gets lower. Employees are constantly subjected to recon. Even if they are not sure, they will deduct your paycheck and figure it out later. Horrible ties in the community. Family not allowed unless you’re in upper management. Inconsistent in following policies. Loose canon leadership. If you’re on an account and that account is lost, normally by understaffing, poor hiring, poor training, which happens because they are desperate, so almost everyone is hired, you will be blamed for the loss of the account. It’s not required to be guilty of anything. You will be the fall person and will be written up and if it happens again, likely fired. Never mind the fact that you don’t staff the department or have control over it. PMA is hated by so many businesses and it becomes an embarrassment to you! They depend and rely on the National Pepsi name. PMA is a franchise, not Pepsi cola. Read the reviews, poor leadership, long hours, work like a dog and turnover is a constant in most of the reviews! Ask yourself, why so many people say it. There are so many wrongs with this company I could write for hours. Do your homework, then come to your own conclusions. You’ll find, I’m spot on!

1.0
28 July 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Some of my accounts...My favorite part of the job is actually talk to my customers and sharing the same hatred towards Pepsi...They Know!

Cons

The pay is horrendous as is evident with the astronomical turnover rate although Pepsi thinks its in line. Pepsi Mid-America breaks federal and state labor laws although don't expect much to happen because Harry Crisp has some deep pockets. The dreaded recon department looks for any way to try and take money out of your paycheck by claiming some bogus losses. And don't think that Pepsi will go through the proper channels to collect that money from you. Never mind the fact that they either need your signature or a court summons they'll just take take money out of your paycheck basically out of their discretion. And should you be lucky to put your two weeks in don't expect your final two paychecks. I never heard of a route driver who left the company getting paid those last two pay checks. Did I mention that Harry Crisp has deep pockets. They call us route salesmen as a way to get around the overtime laws even though my position never entails sales. I believe that says it all about this company.

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