PepsiCo reviews

Don't even know where to start. The hours can be horrible and split work weeks means no full weekends. Positive motivation is not in their vocabulary. Everything is "do this or else." For a union company, there is very little personal time; only two sicks and no personal days. Almost constant harassment for numbers, constant disregard of many contract elements by management and many employees are scared if they file a grievance, they will be harassed until they are fired. Management has no real conscience and upper management is even worse. Region VPs will lie act like you have been buddies forever and lie right to your face. Discipline is a joke. They will write you up for anything they can including accidents if you stupid enough to get hurt or even mention it (yes they will write you up after the fact). If you commit what could be a terminable offense, you will be fired, no questions asked, no regard for past performance or success. It is the most negative work experience you will ever have. They will call you a hero this week, then treat you like garbage if you struggle next week. If you happen to have an education, don't expect it to mean anything here. You might as well toss your degree in the garbage can on your way in. They like to call it a career, but a career indicates opportunities for growth and advancement, something you most likely not see as route sales rep at Frito-Lay. Frito is nothing but a job, nothing else. All in all, the worst career decision you will ever make.

The zone leader at our location (The Salem Zone) is out for himself and thankfully will be leaving our team this month. Decisions are based on what makes him look best, and not what's in the best interests of our location, our employees, or most importantly our customers. We no longer give our customers what they need, but what Frito Lay decides to give to them. The products are forced onto the customer, our trucks full of product that is short dated, not promoted, and worse yet, not wanted. Stales are always an issue. The experienced route person who knows her route has zero decision making in what to promote into accounts. Stales are caused almost entirely from the company. Bin locations get the best and longest dates, distribution centers get the shortest dates that have no chance of getting sold before going "out of date". Advancements if you are an RSR are non existant. The best do not get promoted because they are needed on the routes. The average get promoted because of nepotism, friendships, or brown nosing. Decisions are always closed door, with the employee the last to know. Feedback between employee and management is a one way street. Management tells the employee what they want and the employee (and the customer) has no recourse. Personal days....... forget it, there are no personal days granted. There is zero work/family life balance. You never get a weekend off. You are too tired by 7pm in the evening to have a romanitc relationship with your spouse. Your children suffer the most, they never see mom or dad on Saturdays and in some cases for the entire weekend. . Our entire zone (Salem) is no longer trying. Our decisions are pointless and meaningless to management. Worse yet is our zone leader is teaching his management team his styles, and any feedback given to district leaders is immediately shot to the zone leader and if negative is held against you. I feel my strenghts should be with another company. Think long and hard before considering a career with Frito Lay.