Sandersonfarms

The place is horrible.
I began this position (tenderloin tray packer) on June 2022. Making $18.20 an hour sounded amazing and would completely change my life, I decided. After submitting your online application, you must visit the office to complete all of your paperwork before taking the drug test. If you succeed, you'll go through orientation and be told when to report to work. ( Paid Orientation)
(Cut-Up Area)The tenderloin line is a mess. They let too many tenderloins come out onto the line and slow workers with no training trays. The working areas are a joke, and the supervisors are a joke, along with the team leaders. The team leaders and supervisors stand around talking about each other and even talking about the new hires. It is very noticeable and very petty. There were a lot of arguments back and forth between employees on the line. This company inside is prominently black and Mexican, and maybe some white or other races, but mostly black.
1. No proper training-just throw you into the mix.
2. Team leaders/supervisors are blind to the fact that they are clueless about how to deal with the company's new hires. No constructive leading or handling situations during the shift.
3. A lot of favoritism, laziness, lack of team bonding and communication.
4. Unmotivated employees.
5. No recognition for your work
6. Bad reputation and reviews about this company.
Now, when you miss a day, you have to work completely for 90 days before that point comes off. One thing I can say about this company is that they do have a lot of paperwork for you to sign, but not enough intelligent workers or professional workers to help get their product out properly. The supervisors are so unprofessional that they don't even know when they are verbally harassing the employees.
Stealing time is a big issue for this company. It's like everybody is stealing time by waiting around the time clock for a certain time to clock out after the shift. The team leaders and the supervisors see this happening, but nothing is said or done about it. This company is bad, I have seen drug deals go down in the parking lot. People smoke weed daily or nightly. They even smoke it in the bathrooms, men and women. There's a cop's car that sits in the front parking lot, never knew if there was a cop in the car, but I think there was not or they were sleeping because I saw things going down like individuals arguing and about to fight and the cop still didn't do a thing. You have to come prepared with a weapon of some sort to this company because there is no real security out there, especially on 2nd shift. I came in with a blade every day just to feel safe. This place reminds me of a prison with different types of individuals staring at you with a death stare or people talking loudly at you like you stole something from them. There's no locker room, so you have to leave your stuff out on the lunch tables or in your cars. People are always arguing about something on the breaks. These events happen every day, the same line incidents where there's always too much meat, not enough help or too much help; there's something going on in the lunchroom; something is happening on the side of the company. Who wants to work in an environment like that every day for 5 years. Not me. This is how I saw the place while working there. There is no amount of money that is worth what I have experienced out there. This is what a dead-end job is like. (If you are wild and like a lot of chaos, drama, smoke weed and just want to get out and make easy money willing to come in every day, and really do nothing on the line because the real workers are going to pack to get out of there this is the place for you.)
I walked out on September 2022, and never looked back. I have worked in many companies and this is the first, I will say they need to improve their hiring system. They need to improve their training guides and train their supervisors to do better with training and evaluations of the employees. They always have a lot of rework, which shows that the packers don't care.