If it wasn’t for the constant forced out, pounding of product making everyone hate this job and the stores hate us(do you blame them??) it might be a decent job, counting the days to exit……..
Firstly, I’ve read that on these posts the higher ups at Frito read these posts. if so then go F yourselves. Now that-that is out of the way I was told today that I can no longer work overtime and have to keep my hours at 40 a week and no more. About 2 weeks ago I was told I can only work 45. The first week I ended up hitting 46 the second week I did 48. I was put on routes and the time was out of my control. Do you honestly expect me to work 48 hours and say I only worked 45?! This week I guess they got annoyed with me and said now I can only do 40. They claim that business is slow and there is not enough work. They have been making my schedule incredibly light, literally giving me one thing to do a day, one store reset a day, one rack to build a day etc. I’m not going to go to work for 3 or 4 hours and then go home. That isn’t me and I was hired for full time and was specifically told in my interview I can work overtime hours and that all seems to be a sham now. I do not milk hours, after I complete whatever single meaningless task they give me for each day I either go back to stores that I know need attention and repair and replace racks, or I straighten up stuff at the warehouse, or I meet up with drivers and help them on routes. Basically anything to get me to hit 8 or 9 hours a day as I really need those full time hours as well as the overtime. They apparently think that I’m milking the clock or something because I feel like I’m being penalized here and I don’t understand it. I’ve told them to check the gps tracker on my van, look at the cam footage, I’m always working. What’s worrying me is I’ve only been here for about 3 months and they are already pulling this nonsense with me, what happens when I’m here for 3 years? Up until this point I’ve enjoyed the job but this has made me a bit sour and honestly to just not really care anymore. Has anybody else experienced this? If they really want to play these games I’ll do 10 hour days Mon thru Thursday and take off Friday and give myself a 3 day weekend. How come you didn’t finish your tasks on Friday…well I was at 40 hours already sorry. just ridiculous, lastly not to mention all of the dudes that show up at 330am and stand around and chat for 4 hours, yet I’m being singled out. bullshit. I will give it a month or 2 and then I’ll look for another job I suppose. I don’t play these games
I got put on prepick for a route that has 11-15 high volume gas stations, I had to do a drop for an RVP visit this week that threw me off. My DSL ordered 41 cases for a small store that took an hour to check in, another store wasn’t listed for delivery but I had to make an order and deliver there anyways.
The truck was filled to the door and I had to do stores based on my ability to reach the boxes in the truck. And then there’s the gaggle of forced in product.
I missed 5 stops due to every small inconvenient thing happening to me and I’m losing sleep over it. I just would like to know I am not alone, I feel like I’ve screwed myself for the rest of the week and I don’t know what to do. I’ll be working on my day off just to keep up with stores I’ll miss just trying to bounce back from this one day
Hey everyone!
I'll be completing my bachelor's soon, and just wanted some honest opinions. When I went into this bachelor's program through Frito, I loved my job, the culture at the plant, and what the company stood for, so I was fully intending on using it internally.
The past few years or so, there has been a major shift in morale and culture within my plant at least. I work in the production environment.
I don't know if it is company wide or localized to my plant with new leadership changes, but I personally feel like it all started going downhill when our quarterly performance bonuses were taken entirely. Following this, leadership that has come in and moved up, started being more secretive and weaponizing policy against floor workers. I've noticed a lot of sneaky retaliatory practices that make it hard to prove. (Think along the lines of if you report, it makes you look crazy and paranoid. I'd also like to add not to me specifically; I'm actually pretty high on the "good list" at my plant, so this isn't like a bitter personal observation.)
The culture feels very very us vs them and management now goes out of their way to make sure we know that we aren't on their socioeconomic level, and we are not their peers. Now, while I understand professionalism and there needs to be some sort of separation in who has authority versus who doesn't, I feel like it shouldn't feel so class warfare-like.
Before, I felt like our management acted like normal people and worked to build genuine, authentic relationships with us and actually cared about our well-being. They asked our opinion on how we could change things, took our feedback into consideration, etc. (Take care of your people and they will take care of you and bend over backwards. No, seriously.)
Anyway, I'm a top performer with lots of accolades and recognition (including many compliments from external auditors), I love my job, I used to love this company, but the culture shift within my plant has me second guessing myself. Why would I want to move up in a place that does not value the people actually doing the work and making the magic happen?
So my question is, is this company wide? Does this culture continue on into corporate or is this just a shift at my plant?
I feel like my leadership doesn't understand what leadership actually is and they shove accountability off on anyone and everyone but themselves. Ownership equates to more than just authoritarian control.
Is this company wide or does my specific leadership just need a reality check?
Sorry for the ramble. Honestly I'm a bit upset. It's unsettling to be so far into a long term plan to no longer even want that anymore. I'm big on ethics and not treating others as if they're beneath you.
I genuinely hope corporate leadership is reading this forum and taking notes. The culture shift I have been experiencing is exactly how you lose long term loyalty.
Got offered position in Cali (don’t think it matters) but the 73k target pay is compromised of 45 hours correct? Meaning 40 hours plus 5 hours of OT?
I’ll be talking to manager to get the full rundown but just curious.
Just want to rant for a minute. This company and its strategy have been nothing short of terrible for the last 10 years.
They pushed out the old-school leaders who actually built this place into what it was and replaced them with endless “campus hires.” It used to be that the people who worked hard, learned the business, and proved themselves would move into management. Then they’d train the next generation using real experience while still building on new ideas. There was balance.
Now? They plug in a recent grad to “lead,” give them a few buzzwords and a LinkedIn profile, and move them into another position within a year or 2.The problem is these people, while usually well intentioned, have no clue what they’re doing.
They want to lead the sales team but couldn’t run a route on their own. They want to lead the merch team but would tap out after an hour of merchandising. They manage drivers and warehouses but can’t drive a forklift and got their license five years ago.
Then they get promoted into even bigger leadership roles where they create strategy for the next wave of clueless recent grads. The entire system is built around appearances instead of competence. Give them a pet project, let them post about it on Viva Engage, send them to a networking event, throw a fancy title on their email signature, and suddenly they’re “the future of the company.”
Meanwhile, the people who actually know the business are ignored, burnt out, or leaving entirely.
And leadership wonders why numbers look terrible. They wonder why morale is dead. They wonder why frontline employees are quitting.
But instead of looking in the mirror, they blame the frontline and move on to the next presentation deck.
Core Pepsi and Dew are declining. We completely killed Rockstar. Gatorade is struggling. Starbucks is overpriced and losing momentum. Hell, even Muscle Milk lost its dominance to Fairlife.
Why?
Because leadership is obsessed with chasing trends instead of protecting and growing the brands that built the company in the first place. They care more about short-term optics and “innovation” than long-term execution.
And speaking of innovation — outside of Gatorlyte, name one innovation item from the last several years that actually lasted more than a year. Most of these launches come and go before customers even know they exist.
This company used to win because it had operators running the business. Now it’s full of professional networkers managing PowerPoints.
Anyone else have a dsl who will try and guilt trip you into working your days off? Saids to be a team player. I use to say yes all the time. But now after 6 years in. I always say no and it’s visibly pisses him off.
Does anybody how I should go about logging into this app? I've asked DSL multiple times and nothing. Is it my work email or phone number or is it something that is given to me?
Ok so im fairly new and im second guessing my self on whe to order i had two different trainers and they both seemed to do it differently and now im on my own.
Example if im ordering for say a food city and the delivery date mon tue thu fri sat. If i order today monday would that be for Thursday or should i wait and order tomorrow tuesday for Thursday?
left Frito after 6 years with the company and it’s the best decision I’ve made in a long time work life balance sucks managers that are inexperienced in the field acting like they know what’s going on definitely dropped in quality as a company to work for in the last 6 years do yourself a favor and work for another vendor company Frito isn’t it at all
Anyone else get the we are behind text every period? I swear it’s really laughable that we still use this type of language to inspire a district that gives zero incentive if we are 1 or in last place I suggest that if we get the 1 position in sales for the zone everyone in the district gets an additional bonus. Let me know what you think
I posted some some of my work the other day as a FTM, and there was some criticism that I took and tried to apply. Figured I’d post today’s results and see what yalls opinions are.
Reminder: I have 2 stores, and only 1 by myself. So, as a FTM who has bills to pay, I take my time and try to get as close to 40 hours a week as possible. I’m not as thorough when I fill in for others, although I do still make it look pretty good then too when I can.
Does anyone know where we can find more information on this program. Im large format and have two separate chains on it. Every time I ask my DSL for anything on it in writing I get blown off. Im pretty sure neither store is following the program and im getting really tired of taking the stale hit.
Is there a way to sell stuff in from truck inventory to a store that's not on your schedule for the day without messing up your "Perfect Route" score? I'm told no by my DSL but no is a relative term at Frito.
Edit: I have a follow-up if I have an ASN stop that is missing the delivery for whatever reason can I make an ASN sale from truck inventory or wherever? How do I get a scan sheet from a sales ticket?
Anyone in the Philly zone know what the meeting is about regarding a "policy change"?
Where they fuck is my paperwork? Fucking no leadershit, fucking no one answering. Need help this morning and running late,save me you reddit assholes and tell me where to get my Shit cause it's lost!!!!
Never surprises me coming back wether it’s a sick day vaca a day or week or two you return to your job your stores hated the fill in person, if they even showed up, all the stores are empty. The orders are terrible and usually way oversized all the wrong stuff. It’s not rocket science people stop overthinking the job three bags of everything keep it full move onto the next door don’t try and slam them. Don’t try and slam the guy when he comes back off vacation stop paying the evil forward.
Anyone else hear about the new thing at DG’s? Apparently frito will get fined $150 per item of stale found in the stores. And if they get fined, you get written up. How ridiculous is this? lol not one person is perfect and there’s almost guaranteed to be stale in everyone’s stores with how many force outs we get
Any tips to prepare for next period if I’m not going to make plan this period? Thanks
How low IQ is WAREHOUSE in your area? Order Doritos,get Frito...order Frito,get Cheetos...order Cheetos
....GET FUCKIN DORITOS!!!!! AHHH!!!! LET ME KNOW HOW BAD IT GETS