Armour Reviews

Pros

The company is a great starting point you learn alot. The pay isn't bad for entry level either. Alright work life balance

Cons

Poor treatment if your not in the "in" crowd. Promotions are hard to come by and the co workers are alright depending on your department.

Advice to Senior Management

Give your entry levels more time and stop favoring those people who have been here for years. If your going to favor don't publically do it.

Pros

The company has been in existence over 100 years and will be in business for a very long time. I really have no pro's. I just had to put something in here.

Cons

When interviewed, I was told it was 50 to 60 hours a week, which I really felt was to many to begin with. When I started, I was assigned a man to train me that had been with the company for years. He was )to put it politely) a country type person that had played football in high school and lived on a farm. For some reason, he disliked me from the start. He asked me very personal questions like how much money my family was worth, why I needed an android telephone, and others. It's amazing he didn't ask how often my wife and I made love. When I answered questions that were proper, such as hobbies, I told him of some activities I perform with Government agencies. He would rip my head off about these when most people would find them commendable. He pressured me to work faster with military screaming in my ear, threw boxes at me at rapid succession which caused an injury, cussed at me, called me a (expletive) up, that I could not do anything right and more. This job turned into a 70 hour a week venture. My other half and others I know would tell me I looked like I was dying. I was told I would get help from other drivers to learn, and that help never happened. This job was a total nightmare. I had to quit due to doctor's orders or face a heart attack or a casket. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people like humans, work them less hours, train them better, fire the man that abused me and caused the hostile environment.

Pros

Compensation is above average and they have no issues with allowing you freedom if you need to take care of personal business and allow you to work from home on those occasions

Cons

Promotions are based on who you know, not what you know.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication from Middle Manaagers and above would enhance the enviroment, and maybe allow a team enviroment to flouish.

Pros

Decent Salaries, Finance Departments seem to have a team attitude and work well with others. Line level employees are very helpful and willing to go the extra mile.

Summer hours are a nice perk but are only every 2nd to 3rd Friday.

Cons

Poor management, no feedback, rappant favoritism, no sense of team attitude.

Armour was spun off from Conagra, if you are part of that original group of people you are accepted even if you're not very good at your job. Once the spun off occured many people were made managers who have no management experience. This leads to managers doing all the work without delegating to lower level employees.

Therefore you have 2 classes of people, the original core employees and the new employees. The original core is well respected by the other core employees while the newer employees are not given opportunities to flourish in this company.

It all boils down to poor management and no team atmosphere at all. Its a dog eat dog type of enviroment.

Advice to Senior Management

Open and honest communication needs to be provided. Everything in this company is a "secret".

Pros

The pay is high. The pay should be considered hazard pay because everyday is like a war zone!

Cons

Armour was dropped by ConAgra. ConAgra shed itself of the incompetent management and Armour got the rejects...And it shows. Corporate management is scrambling to cover up their weaknesses.

Advice to Senior Management

Support your management staff!