Campus Hire just quit

I was hired as a campus recruit and designated as an SDL. I'm officially done, and leaving felt amazing. The 18-month rotation wasn't terrible, but managing sales reps and meeting the demands of major customers like Walmart and Kroger was relentless. With so many SKUs across numerous small sets, it was nearly impossible to keep up. I wasn't planning to post, but after reading the investor's advice to the board about reducing SKUs, I couldn't agree more—it's spot on. Pepsi needs a serious overhaul. The management jobs at my location were grueling 80-hour-a-week slogs with unfair compensation.

The MTLs in my location were working from 3AM to 6PM on many days. Their phones don’t stop Ringing and they’re expected to answer it all hours of the night.

One thing I thank Pepsi for: teaching me I never want to manage people again.

#AdviceToManagement #CampusHire #Workload

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Same, just finished the bottling SDL program after and dipped. Leadership wants us to either take union work or a dead-end DTL or MTL job; we want to have actual career progression. Not everyone has family in White Plains.

Congrats you will not regret it, this company caters to interns to su-k them in. More than likely you replaced someone that could do the job and was let go for no real reason except they wanted someone younger they could influence for their benefit and unrealistic expectations with lower pay. I wish the company would post how many people were let go and repealed with interns to run into the ground.

It’s no secret campus hires struggle. Come in with basically zero experience and managing people to do a job that the campus hire doesn’t really know how to do. We don’t retain many because they didn’t go the school to preform manual labor. The conversation is getting derailed from layoffs. Any credible news to share

Don't let this place hold you back from moving forward. This place is NOT like other places. This is what happens when a single culture assumes senior leadership roles. You can do better.

Good for you, that job sounds like it really s-u-c-k-e-d bigtime

This post sounds like a You problem.

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