I’m sure anyone who is or was a FTOW or
Sales rep would agree that since mission one began everything went to sh-t. But anyone who has stepped off these roles or left the company at any point since mission one began would all agree that it feels great. Great to no longer have to deal with the BS that has been created. Since I handed in my life has been so much better. I literally feel like a million bucks. Less overwhelmed that’s for sure.
Started a new job this week. I mean starting a new job is overwhelming but it has more of that first day of school kinda feeling as opposed to that burnt out from constantly being drilled at work feeling with pack out the order, write the order, go through the backstock, write the credits, take DMI, leave good salesforce notes all the happy horsesh-t of mission one. I can already tell that I’m going to like my new job way better than what Nabisco became after mission one. I feel like I landed in a company that values me unlike my experience I had here. I won’t have to worry about getting an email from a sales rep about a small thing I didn’t do. I won’t have to be re-lectured about order writing and constantly being criticized over it. I won’t have to worry about getting calls about my job being threatened or that I will be knocked to part time. I’ll be in a workplace environment where I’ll be surrounded by people and I’ll have co-workers that become friends unlike mission one where I worked by myself and was never in the mood to talk to my vendor friends or friends from the stores I serviced because I was so overworked. I’ll be able to rest my head at night knowing I’ll wake up and it’ll be a bright new day. Even if I end up not liking the job well at least I’ll know how to deal with it if I survived burnout as a FTOW im sure anything else is a cakewalk.
Burnout is a far more serious condition than many people recognize. The type of workplace burnout I experienced from Nabisco made me lose the motivation I previously had. I became very worn out, felt very down depressed. I had a very cynical approach to just about everything. I wasn’t happy seeing other people happy because I was unhappy myself. I wasn’t happy at family events. I saw basically all the negatives in just about everything. I tried to snap out of it but nothing worked.
But ever since I handed everything in my life changed in an instant. I am once again optimistic and happy about my life. I am excited to see where my new job takes me. Hopefully it’ll lead to a great career. I am happy for other people and to see them succeed. I look at every situation and see the positives in everything. I feel a ton of weight off my shoulders.
I feel like even prior to mission one this company never valued me. I was a part timer working full time like hours. They acknowledged my work but gave me a hard time on certain things. They complained that I took off too much. For nearly 5 years they had me working both Saturday and Sunday meanwhile I only had to work one of the other but not both. But because I worked hard they worked me like a dead dog. They were too cheap to give me full time yet they hired full timers that were garbage and did a horrible job with work. Some I think they got rid of because they knew when mission one was going to start they’d be writing orders and if they aren’t going at packing out they wouldn’t be good at writing orders. When mission one started they gave me full time because they needed people all because they let go of the reps. They made it seem like full time was such a privilege yet they hire people with no grocery experience as full timers to pack out and write. Hindsight is 20/20 but if only the person I am today had a conversation with the person I was 5-6 years ago things wouldn’t been different and I would’ve made better choices. Truth is I needed a kick in the a-s and too bad I never got one.
To those who think this company values you they don’t. For those looking to apply please don’t this company will take advantage of you. It doesn’t matter how hard you work in their eyes your just an extra pair of hands. Lots and lots of nepotism. They’ll work hard working merchandisers and reps who have 10-30 years to the bone and pay them less than $50k a year refuse to offer them promotions yet they’ll promote someone with less than five years of experience to management roles like RMS, DM and even RDR who spend more time posting tik tok videos and making plans with their friends than they do working yet they make money than the experienced people and they still live at home with their parents and have maturity levels identical to teenagers in high school yet a large number of reps and merchandisers are working hard to pay a mortgage, put food on the table, raise a family and put their kids through college. And of course all the other bills electric, utilities, heating/cooling, cable, streaming services, cell phone, etc.