Recently, an acquaintance asked me to give him a little more detail about the working conditions here, since his son desperately wants to work at Mondelez. I didn’t know what to say.
I was just embarrassed to say that it is better to look for another company because people immediately wonder why do I still work here if I do not recommend others to work here. It used to be good, but it’s not anymore.
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DMs need to be held accountable. I'd love for you to be my SR that's for sure. I wish you the best in the future of this company.
Wow, that's really awful! I'm an SR. I talk to all my stores every week. I go over the planner. I secure the display locations, and then I email the merchandiser the info so they are in the loop for each store. It sounds like I am in the minority for SR's, IDK? I set everyone up for success. Sorry, DM's need to do their job, and monitor the sales reps performance. I'm not worried because I actually do my job. Apparently, a lot of SR's are not. How pathetic!
I'm glad I found something else. It's always better opportunity out there
BINGO! You hit the nail on the head! I currently encounter fulltime SSRS/Merchandisers who work less hours per week than part-timers yet receive all the perks and SRs who are nothing more than order correcters (not order writers any more) who don't even work or halfway work backstock and condition shelves and displays on days that SSRs/Merchandisers are not scheduled to work that particular store and yet are real quick to pull the b.s. trigger to cover their butts and call out preceding merchandisers on non rotated products when it was them screwing things up in the first place. My SR lets credit boxes pile up in the backstock for weeks before he processes and discards them to the point where back stock space is so congested where fresh case space has no room. It gets to the point where my SR thrives on newly hired SSRs/Merchandisers to be susceptible to perform his own job tasks. It's rather pathetic that my SR always sends email in regards to store work the next day and states the he talked with management sounding like he has locations and deals set to build displays and fill endcap spaces but when I show up the next day store management and grocery floor supervisors literally tell me they have nothing for me so I end up haggling and negotiating for display and product space; hence, doing the SRs job.... so why do they still exist in this company when they are rather expensive for what they actually do, which is nearly nothing?
Agreed. Merchandisers are paid much less than the going wages, my high schoolers make more than merchandisers who have been here for 5 years. No perks for PT workers even though they are the majority of the merchandising force. No set schedule, treated like dirt, work schedules that are so inconsistent and forced to clean up behind those that make 2x their salary.
Move on, most thankless job one could imagine!
I tell people to look elsewhere. A lot of people that have worked here for a long time feel "stuck."
I tell people to get "stuck" somewhere else where they are paid more, and treated better.
Mondelez pays at the very low end of the spectrum, hence why they can't find any workers, and staffing is always a problem.
i've written so many letters of recommendation for my merchandisers, and congratulated them all when they moved on. Not much more I can say.....
Agreed. 27 years for me. I tell younger people to look elsewhere.