Why are these guys in such a rush to receive all of the negative feedback they’re going to get through this survey? Pushing to have 100% completion in the first week and giving drps to the first teams to do it. I can’t wait to get my free shirts after trashing the company in every question like I do every year since mission one started! Maybe we’ll even get another useless team morale building cookout!
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REM, SIM, and even DM and RMS are useless positions. All these people are just passing out info from above. I use to think about going for an RMS position so I could help train some of these bozos they hire, but they don’t even do that anymore. They just get put in the field with other merchandisers that aren’t any good to learn from. RMSs around here just spend all day analyzing ideploy only to get it wrong and need your help with it anyway. Plus to get in management now you have to go through the brainwashing Retail Leadership Program.
Exactly. They got rid of the people who actually work and keep all these managers that do nothing 😆
“ The savings came right out of the pockets of field sales. ”
Yet they keep all the useless positions out there. What would we do without all the people out there sending emails and planning pointless teams meetings. Gee ever think of cutting money there? No let’s cut it where it matters most, out on the field where the real money is being made. But let’s continue to pay DMs and customer teams and those people that set up these stupid teams meetings, throw money away on pitcher licenses and worry about, and track stupid sh-t like that. 🙄 This company is so stupid
@18t They rolled out mission one years ago and called it a fail! They experimented with “super territories” and then put them back. It was a nightmare and we were so happy to go back to smaller territories.
DSD’s only advantage is service, and when you have 30 stores and terrible help that changes every week that benefit is gone! They don’t care, mission one saves the organization money. The savings came right out of the pockets of field sales. Yep, our bonuses were thousands of dollars and it was nice! Now they don’t have to pay that out because nobody can hit the goals, they have far fewer salaried reps, and the ftow and merchandisers don’t make what you can make at McDonald’s, some of those without benefits.
Be honest people, it ain’t gonna get any better, only worse! Good luck to y’all, protect yourselves!
@186 I remember when the bonus checks use to be as big or bigger than a paycheck, now you do three times the workload on these 25-30 store territories and are lucky to make half that. This place will never be worth staying until mission one goes away, and that will never happen because they refuse to fix their mistakes. If anything, they just double-down on their mistakes and make life worse out here. This company is like being in an abusive relationship, you just stay with the hope things will turn around for the better.
I made bigger bonuses when i had half the territory size before mission 1. Now i have 2.5 times the amount Of stores and lucky to even get a bonus. When i do its far less than i used to get with the smaller territory
@za….you make a lot of assumptions, maybe because you are trying to script things to fit your narrative?
I made plenty, especially since I wasn’t and didn’t need to be the primary “bread winner” in my family. My point is that the person in the same role today makes FAR less NOW! Not sure how that works when things haven’t gotten cheaper…housing, food, etc.
Not only are making less but working more, and in a toxic environment to boot.
I also have a college degree. I was never interested in a role that required travel, my family came first.
@p5 pensions are gone everywhere. You were luckily enough to live in a time being a sales rep with no college degree was “winning”. Being a sales rep is not anything to be proud of. Move up don’t be a sales rep for 30 years and be mad you don’t make enough.
Yea the Walmart cao orders are trash.
My FTOWs complain all the time and constantly talk about quitting…. They’ve had it with the constant stupidity of locked Walmart orders, and the same party size nonsense that’s on there every Friday
Agree. I also retired with pension, insurance and 401. They appreciate nothing as shown with the changes to life insurance. When hired and for first 20 plus years I was proud and felt valuable. Last 10 or so were embarrassing. So glad to be retired with what I had.
@mc Haha, where did you get that I “quit”? I also didn’t get fired! Was that a “Freudian slip”? Do you wish you could quit, like almost every other person in field sales? I retired, with a nice pension. Do you have a pension? Does anyone who has been hired in the recent past have a pension? I don’t think so! I’m just being honest, this company ain’t what it used to be! The role of SR was such a coveted position, teams were just that, a team! People had pride in their work and stores were excited to see us.
Sound like how things are today? There are still many companies out there that appreciate their employees and treat them as such….just not Mondelez! Greed took over! When you invest in your people it goes a long way!
Nobody regrets quitting. I still work here as a rep and ftows and we can't hire ftows fast enough because they quit every month. A company with this much turnover is not a company that cares about employees.
@kx here you are again. Same miserable person checking this site even though you don’t work here anymore. Begging us to quit like you did lol. How bad do you regret quitting?
They don’t even read them! They also don’t care a less about that the employees feel! It’s their way to make themselves (management) feel good about connecting to their employees. Worthless waste of time! Just like if you go to HR with an issue and they claim to be neutral, hahahaha!
As a long time employee I can say from the bottom of my heart…this is a shell do what it was prior to Mondelez! Kraft had morals as did the prior parent companies. When Irene split this organization off it became a circus! For a company that has the #1 selling cookie in America, they are a joke! And only getting worse. Get out while you can
It’s a way for them to put out feelers on how people/employees think and feel. So if more happy people out here then less in contract. More upset disappoint employees then throw a perk in the contract.
@OP sadly, so many people don’t tell the truth in these surveys because they are rightly afraid they can be tracked. Look at Glassdoor and other places and you can see the truth, this organization is the worst!
You have the tariffs almost completely off in over 20 populous countries. That is a lot of Snicker bars or whatever it is you make. I would advise someone to give feedback to your leadership to get cracking on foreign growth opportunities instead of worrying about what big tech is doing to try and lay everyone off.