Pepsi Bottling Reviews

Pros

Pepsi is good to put on your resume. The company is all about who you know. You can do the best job in the world and they dont really care.

Cons

Lets put it this way: Screw up and Move up. You want to advance? Good luck. Unless u have the same last name of a higher up its tough to be noticed.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue Pepsi. You treat your young talent so poorly. The politics involved is appalling. Being the best at what you do is suppose to get you a promotion. Nope, not at this company.

Pros

Company culture is very competitive and beating the competition is high on everyone's agenda. Benefit package is outstanding although not as good as it was previously was before the Pepsico merger.
Great opportunity for advancement especially women and minorities.

Cons

Very demanding organization with a culture of "Hero or Zero" mentality. Alot of yelling and cussing from Market Unit Management

Pros

Pay.
Benefits.
Solid on resume if you stay long enough.

Cons

This place is a horrible place to work. Never ever work for PBG. Long hours, no life outside of work, you will work every weekend and every holiday. Compensation is solid but not worth constant body stresses and working every weekend and holiday. Stay away.

Advice to Senior Management

Speechless on how horrible it was. They sell you a dream of being a sales rep. In reality, you are stuck merchandising and dealing with a hole store managers who get furious at you due to the fact you have to stack their backroom sky high to meet Pepsi sales goals.

Pros

Good money - Lucrative bonus system
Good place to work for young people to gain experience
Overtime avaiability for hourly workers

Cons

Little or no career mobility
Very hostile to older workers
Lack of technology means you are not current with industry standards

Advice to Senior Management

Pepsi Americas valued people - the new company makes you feel like a number. Announcements of healthy profits are followed by layoffs, reduced benefits, and cancelled employee events.

Pros

Good resume builder since other employer's know if you survive for long you are certainly working hard.

Cons

Politics galore, lip service paid to the front line on how management feel's about them. Managers get used up quick. Promotions are based on what you are not how you perform. Company is gutting North America of resourses and investing in the developing markets.

Advice to Senior Management

Do something about your brand recognition with Diverse communities. You are loosing to Coke

Pros

Pay and benifits
daylight shifts
company vehicle

Cons

Pepsi has become a number crunching game, it used to be about the customer, small account or large account, everyone was important. It took some of us 20+ years to build this reputation in our area and was liked by everyone, business and consumers perspective. Empire has been torn apart in months! its like tearing apart something it took so much hard work and so much time to build up and pulled apart over night. Scarry! Now i come to work, Do my job and do it well and all the immediate supervisors can do is call you and harass you on questions like ... you have an unreported time 3 weeks ago for 15 mins? what was you doing at that time? Maybe restroom? maybe seeking a manager for a signiture? maybe you forgot to push start drive on your computer? who knows?? CAN ANYONE TELL YOU WHAT THEY DID OFF THE TOP OF THEIR HEADS 3 WEEKS AGO ON A CERTAIN DATE AT A CERTAIN TIME?? answer is NO! Or when your vehicle is getting worked on, Oil change, you found pre_trip problems ect.... an hour has gone by and you get a text stating, get out on the road ASAP. WHAT? I was told in a previous meeting that we would be written up if we didnt report a problem to the fleet garage and have it tended too? By the way, management, my wheels were wobling so bad you couldnt hardly keep your hands on the wheel! Then we get an harassing text saying Get out on road ASAP. This is now the life at pepsi cola. Sad but True. This Harassing text takes the cake in my book, You have 4 calls that equipment needs fixed at, 2 restraunts and 1 hospital and you have a seasonable golf club, remember its 29 degress out and their not open for business yet. day got started at 1:00 pm because of the previous vehicle maintainance mentioned above. seasonable Golf Course manager was leaving at 3:00 pm, now, priority wise what do we do first? Food accounts I hope #1 around lunch hours and the size of the hospital account we have, I tended to them 3rd. and now it was past 3:00 and Golf Course is now closed for day. I was texted and it was stated that we need to start checking the closing times on the accounts when your setting up your priorities?? Are you kidding me or are you harrassing the hell out of me because anyone who cares and knows how to route your repairs would do the food accounts fountains around lunch first? The country club cooler in a account not in full swing because their is no golfers because of the weather should be routed Last! By the way, I have these texts saved. Their is no chain of command for us to communicate with, basically afraid to come fourth with any of this because i feel my job would be in jeopardy and I know it would because they can find ways to get you if they want. If only I could talk to somebody very high up on the command chain above immediate and plant managers because they will side together as 1 and fry you. In conclusion, just in a few months, I had an outlook to retire here at pepsi and wanted no other alternative and felt like I would be able to be here long term but now, as much as I love what I do here and have hundreds of personal customers to prove my success and reliability to whom I still call my customers, I do not feel secure from day to day, I dont really know if I'll be set up somehow or constructive discharge because my immediate supervisors are making the work enviroment so intolerable and would not be able to stay. My hopes are for the best because I love what I do and I have always been proud to be an employee of Pepsi.

Advice to Senior Management

Some very very important advice, Give the immediate supervisors some customer oriented goals, I know their needs to be micro-management involved to have success in the future but dont have them micro manage their employees to the point of where we cant do our jobs properly and make the work enviroment intolerable. Maybe save the budget and trim corners on unit managers, you have a manager micro-managing even the smallest of departments. Get your moneys worth out of a qualified person to manage more tasks/personal. They have nothing to do but sit there and stare at the computer and look at the unimportant details, like asking you what you did 3 weeks ago for 15/20 mins. Have them look over the grids and manage the workload, like, if someone in dept. is loaded with calls, pull a tech or 2 over to get it cleaned up and repaired. Thats what mindset a manager should have or at least come first. Right now, they have nothing better to do than to play a chess game with the employees and try to set them up for failure, I would hope somebody high up on the chain reads these blogs and take somekind of action. I'm not blogging to get a raise or better the benifit package, I'm expressing things that are happening in some of the market units. These are for the loyal good employees that you have and hope to stay if you can help and make it possible and for the customers that support pepsi beverage Co. The customer wants to see a happy, stable representitive and build a personal relationship with them, not a different face everyday that is miserable and have only one thing on tteir mind, keeping their job! Closing Point, that goes a long way, LET US FOCUS OUR DAY ON THE CUSTOMER NOT WORRY ALL DAY ABOUT WHAT GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT WITH OUR SUPERVISOR OR THROWING NUMBERS AROUND ALL DAY TO MAKE THINGS LOOK GOOD ON PAPER! LET OUR MINDS STAY FOCUSED ON OUR JOB DUTY AND THE CUSTOMER. this formula will make the business grow and make pepsi cola a better place to work.

Pros

Supports local community
Benefits
Nurse on premise
Good communication from senior management.

Cons

Salary
Advancement opportunities
HR department knows nothing when it comes to solving issues.
Too many computer issues and server crashes for a company this big.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your employees better who are actual on the front line. Invest in technology.

Pros

Great summer job to have for a college student to make money. good hourly wage, and compensation for mileage

Cons

4-40 hour work week. sometimes over 10 hours a day depending on the time of the year. Job entitled a lot of lifting and strenuous work.

Pros

Pepsi has a very diverse beverage portfolio.
Fast pace environment that requires alot of energy and attention to detail.
Career mobility is endless, can move to operations, manufacturing, etc.

Cons

Constantly changing internal environment. Merger with PepsiCo is adding another layer of complexity with consolidation of different geographies.
Not knowing if your job is stable or will exist with constant state of consolidation.

Advice to Senior Management

Understand the roles that key leaders play, even if there is a difference in opinion.
New perspective can help move the business forward.

Pros

The medical/dental benefits would be about the only thing. Pepsi used to be a fun place to work but that changed over the past few years

Cons

Long hours, minimal pay for work load, too heavy a work load. No consideration for time off with your family. Work basically every holiday.