Without any doubt, they see us only as an expense. Employees are no longer valued, respected nor paid enough. Loyalty is no longer important to anyone, moreover, it is no longer desirable. I don’t know when everything changed. I’m not saying it was much better before, but I think employees were still treated in a little more humane way. Is there anyone here who has been in this company for a very long time to tell us when it all started going downhill and contrast the working conditions back then and now?
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Every employee is a liability except for the elite calling the shots. Read that again and again. They have tried to automate as much of the manufacturing, loading, selling and delivering as possible over the years. Since they have whittled it to the bare minimum, they are fine tuning now. Probably have Robbie the robot waiting in the wing to take over the manufacturing/loading jobs.
Flpping all orders to an online system and just waiting for drone/autonomous delivery methods. Not quite sure how you get the goods from the trailer to the shelf though 😶
I have been with the company over 20 years and I agree around 2010 is when it went downhill. Nothing is faster. Now we have to wait over a day for responses because they want to consolidate departments into single countries (time zones)
The last few years have been the worst. Some of it is the supply issue, but somehow I feel pepsi incompetence has made it worse.
I am so tired of the staffing greed. Shipping jobs to GBS has made getting things done impossible and stressful. My workload is unbearable and so is everyone else’s. We all turn on each other because of this pressure cooker.
After 20 years, the last few since the last ceo departed have been some of the more toxic.
As salaries rose prices for products remained static. It turned into 1 admin sitting at 1 desk in Oklahoma made as much as 20 semis of Lays... Eliminate that 1 admin in each town across america and now you have millions in more profit. Repeat for IT, R&D etc and you have the culture we have today.
2010 is when it began going downhill. This is my 15th year
I’ve only been here 3 years but many of my colleagues have been for decades. They tell me it started going down the toilet about 20 years ago. My division, Quaker, when a stand alone - was like night and day compared to the horrific nightmare PepsiCo is to work for. Truthfully, I think most of these woke corporate titans are horrid, but this one has carved out a special section of the worse of the worst. The only way to win is NOT to play the game. If old enough, retire, if not, find another job. Your physical, emotional and mental health will thank you.