ALPLA reviews

Unrealistic expectations with extremely long work days (not communicated during the interview process). 6-7 day work weeks are normal for salaried personnel. Lacks work life balance. Pay is well below market.

* Certain supervisors are very difficult to work for, others are better, depends on your shift. * Packers treated like slaves sometimes while leadership, quality and maintenance might stand around talking about their day, like lords unwilling to help the peasants - can be extremely irritating. * Reviews are categorically imbalanced with reality, making it incredibly difficult to get 4/5 and darn near impossible to get 5/5. Supervisor said 3/5 was 'doing great'. Yet doing great isn't nearly good enough. * Hourly pay is not competitive with the market. Other companies pay $3-$4 more per hour for new hires, versus the $12/hour here for packers. Yearly raises appear to be small, even for the best employees. * There's a 6 month perfect attendance bonus, but almost nobody reaches it because if you come in 7 minutes late on one day at the end of month 5 you have to start over at day one and try it again. Regardless of how many extra shifts you worked on weekends to help out the company. * Looks like most promotions are given internally, so there is definitely opportunity to move up if you are willing to play the game. Seniority doesn't really play a factor as much as you'd think. Suspicions exist that favoritism is another way they choose who moves up and who doesn't.