Leaders make you feel small and insignificant, but benefits are great... - Manufacturing Technician Mars Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is acceptable, benefits are wonderful. Free candy and dog food. Good prizes and food at company outings.

Cons

Certain managers threaten to fire almost the entire team on a daily basis, and constantly tell employees they are not good enough. The next minute they will ask you to come in early or work overtime in the same position they just said you are no good at... The atmosphere is so negative here, and no one can be trusted. There is much favoritism and raises/promotions are based on that. They have people called Ombudsman who are supposedly neutral contacts to help resolve issues - they are far from neutral and also far from helpful. They back Mars supervisors or managers each and every time they are contacted, with little to no regard for regular employees or the situations they have been backed into.

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Mars Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to write a review to share your experience with us and provide feedback. Yours is not the experience we aim to offer our Associates. We deeply care for our Associates' wellbeing and development, and are dedicated to always improving. The Mars Ombudsman program operates independently, impartially, and confidentially. We would like to understand your experiences further and would like to encourage you to reach out to your local Associate Relations team. You can also reach the global Ombudsmen team under ombudsman@effem.com to be connected with another Ombudsperson from your market. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Cons

- Micromanaged by leadership (EVERYTHING is tracked) - Extremely repetitive work (not much freedom in creating your schedule, same tasks over and over, etc.) - Dealing with retail management. If you don't have respectful store managers, good luck. A lot of your KPI's are out of your control and your experience relies on your store. - As DOZENS of other people have said, this is a merchandising job - not sales. You are responsible for placing product on the sales floor after consulting with the store (basically asking management who only views you as free manual labor). There is no commission/incentive for producing positive results. - SEASONS: this is the reason why you have this job if you're working with the Walmart channel. You have unrealistic expectations set from leadership to pack out hundreds of heavy cases of candy each holiday season after begging store management for space to place it. Most of the stores' back rooms are a complete mess and a lot of your product is inaccessible. Long days are expected with no additional pay. - Work/life balance: It is frowned upon to work the bare minimum of 40 hours/week. Your stores get backed up while you're on PTO. Overall: an okay role This isn't a bad job by any means, you just need to know what the role entails before taking this job. You need to relocate for any future opportunities within the company.

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Mars Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write your review. We’re sorry to hear your experience with us has not been positive. We aim to support our Associates in every way throughout their time with us and are committed to their wellbeing and development. Please reach out to the independent, confidential team at ombudsman@effem.com, and we look forward to discussing this further.
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