Thread regarding Tyson Foods layoffs

Enough with nightmares

Here is my two cents – ever since we merged with Hillshire, Tyson Foods has become a nightmare to work for. We’ve had multiple random layoffs, they are constant. What’s also constant? Fear and anxiety associated with layoffs at Tyson Foods.

Our lovely HR staff is so worried about keeping their precious jobs that they don't take care of the concerns of employees – is not this the whole point for HR existence – helping other employees. Our employees work, off the clock, in the hopes they can continue to have a place to work, to provide for their families...

Tyson foods was once an amazing place to work but until they realize just how wrong their organizational changes are, Tyson Foods together with all subsidiaries will continue to struggle and will ultimately fail.

At some point, the executives should drop the idea that the Hillshire ways should trump what made Tyson Foods as great as it is today – let this sink in... They need to start to listen to the employees and act based on the feedback they receive – they are not doing this right now, they used to do it before, so they know how to do this….

Tyson Foods is an AMAZING company but newly enacted policies and throwing out dedicated Tyson Food employees just to bring in and appease Hillshire staff is a mistake. Our travel expenses alone are going to continue eating away all the profits we make.

Please listen to us and do not drop things that worked brilliantly, instead learn from it, expand it and improve it….

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Post ID: @OP+PzniCBg

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Hillshire outsources everything you could possibly imagine some things even to companies in other countries. they even outsource things they pay people that work for the company to do. That being said what do they do? enjoy drinks on an expensive rooftop a 1,000 miles away oblivious to the people are that are earning them that privilege

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Post ID: @2xkb+PzniCBg

Tyson didn't buy Hillshire, Hillshire bought Tyson. They've even changed the corporate colors... what is that about? Now no one associates Tyson foods with Tyson products. To the consumer it's now two different companies. Despite what higher ups think most don't have time to read the business section and nowadays multiple companies with similar names exist. Hillshire was for sale for a reason... and not because they were doing a great job either. But don't dare say anything if you want to keep your job. Donnie Smith did a wonderful job and replacing him was as smart as when they put D--k Bond as CEO. How long before the company is in trouble this time?

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Post ID: @2bmu+PzniCBg

The issue is John Tyson. Point blank. The guy has no business savvy and is nothing like his father. To even think that Hillshire had the ability to run a 40B dollar company was a mistake. The Hillshire employees have realized that these small town Arkansas folks run circles around them in everything from business prowess to technology. If you can't beat them, fire them. A coward's road is packed with that of the Hillshire employee and the unemployment line is filled with irreplaceable industry knowledge.

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Post ID: @2iql+PzniCBg

Outsourcing?! What do they need to outsource for?

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Post ID: @1ilr+PzniCBg

The same amount as this time or close to it.

What have they been doing? Showing you the door if you speak up, demoting you if they don't like what you have to say or adding tons of extra personnel and then deciding to terminate a bunch because they're too heavy. It is getting worse because everyone in charge is from Chicago so no one will have a voice.

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Post ID: @1kvt+PzniCBg

How many more are expected to be gone in the next 6 months?!

You said "the executives should drop the idea that the Hillshire ways should trump what made Tyson Foods as great as it is today...They need to start to listen to the employees and act based on the feedback they receive." What have they been doing?

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Post ID: @1sup+PzniCBg

I am curious too. More lay-offs is all I have heard in 6 months. Less actually. Waiting till the next quarter to announce so they don't have to pay them all out in the same quarter. Bet that they don't come from Chicago or Cincinnati either. Cincinnati is where all the previous Hillshire workers or rejected ones went. Is that what you're getting at? I am tired of Hillshire as well. I wouldn't be surprised if it went the route of ConAgra (Current CEO is Hillshire's previous one) where they became ConAgra Brands and split them apart too. Everyone from Chicago only seems to last 12-18 months before moving to another company anyway. Just long enough to cause chaos and before they actually have positive/negative or really any tangible results they vanish to some other company. They would also rather pay more to outsource than do things in-house at a cheaper rate because it is the only thing a small company like Hillshire knows how to do.

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Post ID: @wri+PzniCBg

What does the poster mean here:

In the next 6 months you will see why they did this, and realize it is you who is clueless as to your situation, not them.

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