No Structure. No discipline. No money, No support. Nobody cares. Zero positive morale..
Pros
They have a good 401k program.
Cons
First of all, let me say that PEPSI Co is a completely different company than Buffalo Rock. There is NO STRUCTURE. OK, Our management team has it ALL wrong. (AND i completey agree with the earlier comment about the managers all being related in some way. It's the most politically ridiculous clique of misfits i've ever seen in my life) They created CDR positions in Birmingham to combine merchandising and account management positions on the Bulk side and accounts were added to the already existing routes (twice the work and more) and ALL were given a HUGE pay cut 1/1/2013 after promises of raises in a joke commission-based system. Base pay is less than a waffle house employee. Commission rates are adjusted to make it "Fair" for everybody so if you sell ten times more than somebody else and work ten times harder, you usually come out making less than the individual selling less than half of what you do and work half as many hours(we were actually told this word for word in a meeting! INSANE!) There is no support. We are stretched so wide and thin now there is no support to promote sells. Our management doesn't care to get us help to promote sells and get the product that we order out because of the earlier mentioned "BOTTOM LINE." Our salaries can be given to kids off of the streets that have no skills at all because they pay nothing for training. "Nobodies" are thrown into the fire everyday just to quit weeks later because the work is too hard for the pay. All while our bosses are flying to new york, and new jersey on pointless "business" ventures and playing golf and sitting on the beach. They all have brand new company vehicles(NICE), play in Pepsi sponsored golf tournies all the time, go to Pepsi sponsored concerts(ALL DURING WORK HOURS) Nobody cares about their people anymore and this company is no exception. We are habitually lied to on a weekly basis about how we are getting paid and what we are getting paid within our "commission system."(highly entertaining to listen to lower-intellect individuals try to graphically describe a blatant lie!) I work HARD 50-60+ hours a week and sell an average of 15,000-30,000 dollars, sometimes 50,000+ and as much as 65,000 a week in product sells and promotions and i bring home no more than 450 a week and that is a GREAT check. AND i'm single so i don't pay much insurance at all. Black hands, calloused hands, feet throbbing, stinking like heck, everyday working hard as heck (which i have no problem with at all btw as long as i'm being somewhat compensated for my duties) I completely agree with the mental problems affiliated with working for this company. It is absurd for the people that have great ethic and care to do a great job day in and day out just to work for people that do not care at all about their employee partners. It is impossible to get our jobs done. They want VOLUME, SELLS, and new products sold in weekly, and we can't get the stuff we already carry out in the stores because we have no help. I have crazy good speed and my logistics are epic and i can't even begin to describe how this company cannot handle primary ads in grocery stores in any way, shape, or form. All while our bosses are sitting on their rears in their offices bringing home 2000 a week while we kill ourselves for peanuts. Our convenience account managers are lucky to bring home 450 a week(That's a 20,000 dollar a year decrease from Pepsi, CO employee partners) Our truck drivers make a max of 45,000 a year. They are also based on a ridiculous "Commission system" Side-Load drivers bring home 400 a week and they KILL themselves. Honestly, nobody believes any of us when we tell them how much we make because we work at a "Prestigious" company like Pepsi. 5 years ago, this company had it going on. I understand completely about our country and economy detriment, but this goes way beyond all. Especially when we are told we are up 2 percent in revenue in 2012 as a whole. That's millions of dollars btw.. Needless to say, this is a Terrible company to work for. I wouldn't recommend it to a mortal enemy and i don't have a mortal enemy..
