Pepsi MidAmerica Reviews

Pros

Is very good work experience for a resume builder. That is about it

Cons

upper management is terrible. Big disconnect between everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

Have more open communication with employees. The use of "fear for you job" doesn't work. Too much of a show when upper management comes to town.

Pros

If you can pass a drug test, don't steal, live within 15 miles of a facility, are a long time local and will give up drinking Coke you will likely be hired. Be ready to start the same day. Paid weekly or semi monthly on a current basis but will be deducted for undelivered items arbitrarily loaded on your truck - depending on whatever rules corporate feels like instituting.

Cons

Work environment - looks good on the outside but downhill from there. Broken equipment, laborious tasks, and a sense that management is always out to get you. Cameras on all work areas. Management is contradictory of each other. Hourly employees generally stay under 90 days, but never any overtime. Salaried team members virtually on call 24/7. Sales team works Saturdays and holidays. Most paid below average with insufficient benefits.

Pros

You have a great opportunity in meeting a diverse range and type of customers. as well as a hands on approach to dealing with issues.

Cons

Senior management does not tolerate creative thinking. They want soldiers that do what they are told. Personal life is secondary to working at PMA and if you have any personal tragedies it may be the end of your career with the company. Ownership only cares about the profit and employees are just cogs in the wheels that can be interchanged at whim. Professionalism is unheard of though management think they are very professional. They suffer from group-think and have no outside experience to compare their organization with (other than the Marine Corp.)

Advice to Senior Management

Sell your franchise back to PepsiCo.

Pros

i get good hrs thats it

Cons

every dam thing i can think of

Advice to Senior Management

very poor management

Pros

The pay is good but don't get comfortable. You won't enjoy it for too long.

Cons

Presentations worthless. Management only cares about themselves. Ideas fall on deaf ears. Care only for $ & who is accountable. Customer service is a lost art for them but it is definately a high end need for the full line vending they are failing at so brilliantly.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the employees. Stop stabbing people in the back. Service their accounts should be their number one job. Not $$.........Good service will reward them with record profits but they need not worry about that. Full line vending will be lost soon.

Pros

paid weekly
lots of independence as a sales rep and asm

Cons

health insurance was expensive
one week of vacation after one year worked(all summer blacked out)
retirement was non-existent
company would payroll deduct route sales employees up to $150 a week for shortages
large amount of turnover

Advice to Senior Management

There is a lot of waste in the company and the training program was ineffective. Shipping needs to ship what was actually ordered and not what ever is easiest for them to load. Payroll deductions need to stop until a system is in place that actually holds shipping accountable. This will lead to less turnover in route sales and in most cases the employee does not give consent to be deducted (which in Illinois is against the law). This will also lead to an increase in sales because of less turnover.

Pros

The people you work with that is it.

Cons

1.salary 2.time working 3.threats to your job 4.near impossible to get promoted 5.pay is terrible

Advice to Senior Management

Care about employees. Listen to employees. Do not keep changing things on a daily basis.

Pros

If you have a degree you'll move up fast because of the turnover rate. However, most managers either leave due to the hours or are let go because one thing goes wrong.

Cons

Just about everything. You will work a minimum of 60 hours a week but since you are salary don't expect to see any overtime. You don't get vacation for a year and you can't take that vacation from May-September. You don't get paid holidays but rather have to work the Saturday before. I was able to get better and cheaper insurance than what PMA offered through a private provider. You will get told to change directions so many times you'll feel like you're running in a circle. Upper management in Marion worries about the small stuff and has no idea how things run at the depot level. Absolutely terrible place to work. It is nothing but a legal sweatshop where they will expect long hours and will fire good employees and people for the smallest of reasons. If you have a family or activities that you enjoy after hours kiss it all goodbye. None of the jobs are that hard except you are constantly worried about your job.

Advice to Senior Management

You spend so much money having to train new employees all the time. Take care of the ones you have and they'll stay. Sell the company to Pepsi Co., PMA's reputation is too sullied. Listen to your managers at the depot level and get out of the Marion bubble!

Pros

Great brands and nothing else.

Cons

Private ownership.
Owner and son, (Chairman and President) live in a bubble with no concept of reality on the street. Turnover is astronomical though ownership thinks it is in line. They have no concept of what is "normal" for a company their size. Chairman micro-manages everything nuance of the business never allowing his manager to participate in critical thinking. As an employee, having family is a negative as it is a distraction to working 20+ hours a day. If a family emergency should arise you may find yourself unemployed. Sales and operations do not get paid holidays off but rather have to make up a holiday on the next weekend.

Advice to Senior Management

Sell the business back to PepsiCo and retire in Florida. Do your employees a favor.

Pros

The best part about working for Pepsi MidAmerica is the fact that the company is such a well-developed trademark and is admired by most of the other companies. The work is pressureless and the schedule is made by you. You do not have someone breathing over your neck telling you what to do.

Cons

The management never lets you know what to do, while getting upset when you do something "that is not in the job description." You determine your own schedule, but they can tell you to travel to different towns to do extra work whenever they feel necessary. Yea

Advice to Senior Management

Have comunication with your employees