Food Safety Net Services Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Food Safety Net Services full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great lunch breaks to de-stress. Many people are friendly. The break rooms are good gathering places full of community advice on the walls. The company parties are nice and for holidays you get a bonus card.

Cons – Overworked, underpaid. $12 an hour for a college graduate. Some supervisors are not friendly, and lab leads can walk on water while making simple lab techs adhere to unfriendly rules. Ex. taking constant smoking breaks while lab techs stay in the lab and work. unfair workload. Since they don't hire help, expect to take out trash, mop the floors, sweep, clean and wash dishes and do other house chores. You wont get medical benefits until you have been there a year, but you work around knives, autoclave machines and other biolevel 2 hazards....expect to work through your breaks also, and if you leave on time and do not overtime, people give you dirty looks

Advice to Senior Management – Company owner should visit the lab and personally thank employees for good jobs on audits. Raise the pay for lab techs. Stop overworking salary employees. Hire more staff to help.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Food Safety Net Services full-time for more than a year

Pros – Experience, get your hands wet.....that's all

Cons – You will get nowhere, big stop sign in front of you. Management feel like they should not breath the same air with the rest of employees, walks stone-faced. Those on salary -must work for 40 hours a week or FSNS deduct the balance from your PTO time, but if you work 50 hours they don't pay you the 10 hrs overtime.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't be greedy pay your people their dues. Owners should oversee what the junior management is doing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Food Safety Net Services full-time for less than a year

Pros – A good place to learn basic lab skills and the training is intensive and is useful for later on in your career.

A job use as a stepping stone, but not as a career

Cons – Full of drama, full of know-it-all recent grads, hard work with little pay, management play favorites, low staff moral.

We were protected by CA law and we were all hourly so we got paid a lot of overtime and management didn't really complain too much as long as the work got done. But we were expected to stay and finish no matter what.

The location in Fresno contains a lot of immature, know-it-all and so there's a lot of conflict between the techs...especially in main lab and path lab. A lot of finger pointing and back talking. You're also not encouraged to speak your mind and the leads are really dumb and power hungry.

Advice to Senior Management – Give better pay and stop letting the lead run the lab

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Food Safety Net Services full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good for experience or a kind of internship.

Cons – Pay is very low, everyday you HAVE to stay for 10-13 hours depending on the work load and you get paid only for 8 hours.
On you pay check its always 86.6 hours(semi monthly) standard, irrespective of how many hours you work.
It a crime if you work only 40 hours per week.

Advice to Senior Management – Everyday overtime is not overtime, its ABUSE.
Care about employees, don't think them as your slaves.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Food Safety Net Services

Pros – Great to build experience out of college for a year.
An excellent learning experience for younger, no family, newbies.

Cons – Revolving door so there is constant turnover in staff.
No holidays EVER guaranteed.
"Family" is a dirty word.

Advice to Senior Management – Increase the pay so that employees WANT to come in on all holidays.
Have concern for your employees children, not just your own.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Food Safety Net Services

Pros – Good experience to be technically trained.

Cons – Overworks their employees, the pay is on the very low side. Takes a year to get benefits.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Food Safety Net Services

Pros – 1. Make a difference in making the food safe for consumers.

Cons – 1. Pay not commensuate with experience or industry standards.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Food Safety Net Services

Pros – You can learn a lot here if you plan on working in the food industry as far as testing goes. Techs are given a great deal of responsibility and if they advantage of the learning opportunities they can possibly move on to bigger companies that will pay bigger salaries.

Cons – The pay is really low and they don't offer medical benefits until after a year of working there. If you have a family the medical coverage is not really affordable considering the low pay. Techs are expected to work long hours and work around customer demand but most of the laboratory staff is salary and get no overtime pay. The few hourly employees are encourage to only work 40 or less. All overtime is consumed by salary. This is a company for an individual who just needs some kind of income, the turnover is really high and most of the current employees have not been at the company for a year.

Advice to Senior Management – My advice would be to be a service to the employees and not try to overlook them to satisfy the customer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Food Safety Net Services

Pros – Good for building experience, most staff are very friendly

Cons – Management unprofessional and inexperienced, wages very low, hours extra loooooong

Advice to Senior Management – I think the management needs to focus on raising standards and to uphold them. Furthermore, if the workers had shorter hours and higher wages, there would be better results and a lower turnover. The training and organization could be improved and made more consistent as well.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend