Standing for 8 hours all day with a break every 2 hours might sound like it's not that bad, but the truth is you're in steel toe boots standing on concrete which is horrible on your heels... They start you in the hardest jobs first and you have to gain seniority to get into the easier jobs which is difficult when majority of the easy jobs are taken up by people that have been there 15 to 30 years and you have to bid for new jobs which are based on seniority as well.
There really is no easy jobs everything is physical and everything demand's repetitive motion and repetitive bending, either your back will cramp up or your shoulders, fingers,neck.
Some of the trainers are really great the address the issues they see if you're struggling and they make sure that your taken care of same goes for some of the foremen. Office management was pretty good our trainer through orientation was great, very friendly able to answer any questions that we had.
No free lunches during orientation which I thought was kind of cheap. Not allowed to leave the property for your 30 minute lunch so they basically want you to stay there and spend your money in the cafeteria and the food is okay but it's nothing special.
Work there for a year and you'll become a vegetarian. Doesn't matter where you work in the plant you will end up with blood on you and you will end up going home with pork fat all over your pants or your boots.
The store that everyone gets excited about where you can purchas
Points positifsMonday to Friday, 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with potential for an hour and a half to two hours overtime each day
Points négatifsToo early of a start time, incredibly strict rules to follow which are much more worse then any rules you follow in school.
Secure, full-time work for mediocre pay/benefits. Poorly Managed.
A typical day:
-You work your 8 hours while hoping those around you do their jobs, there's no overtime, and you aren't injured.
What I learned:
-If you have a sense of honour and integrity and wish to take pride in your work then Olymel probably isn't the place for you.
-Always keep a record of your hours so you know if your being paid properly.
-Quantity is much more important than quality, unless VIP's are touring the plant inwhich case quality becomes priority.
-Getting things done quickly is more important then safety
-Do your Job. Don't help others unless order to by a supervisor.
-The 'line' must be kept running whenever possible. If your backed up or broken down and aren't on a vital part of the line, work faster, fix it quickly, or do whatever your supervisor deems necessary to keep the line running. If their orders violate health and/or safety practices you can refuse, however, this may result in various forms of punishment (if you comply with their orders and are caught by other plant authorities, you may be blamed and punished).
Management:
-For the most part, are honourless, corrupt, and highly favouritist. Keep on their good side and they'll let you get away with many things, get on their bad side and harrasement won't be out of the question.
-care about speed more then anything else, including quality and safety.
Co-workers:
-many are there because they needed a job and Olymel will hire anyone
Hardest part:
-fighting the urge to quit
Most enjoyable part:
-w
Points positifs8 hours a day, 5 days a week, with certain jobs the pay is worth it, benefits
Points négatifsserious safety issues, poor management, lackluster union, workers aren't valued, many product quality issues, high risk of injury, corruption, no respect, harrassement
Concilliation travail/famille là-bas n'est pas possible.
Soit travail de nuit avec départ à heures fixe mais la durée des journées varient de 6 hr à 14 hr et bien sur c'est pas vous qui décident,soit horaire "de jour" qui varient à tous les jours entre 2 hr am et 10 hr am et on peu t'appeler a 21h00 pour te dire tu commence à 2 hr am, bye bye la sécurité et un employé bien reposé. les heures de départ se donnent selon l'ancienneté et change à chaque jour si un plus vieux décide de changer son horaire cette journée là en particulier, j'ai déjà été dans un milieu syndiqué ailleur et les horaires étaient fixes pour tout le monde et la planification pour la vie personnel et l'attribution des camions etait beaucoup plus facile pour tout le monde.
Les camions les plus mal entretenus que j'ai jamais vu dans ma carriere à date (+10 ans), des pneus fesses, des sièges défoncés, des check engine, y'a jamais rien de grave.
La plus part des Olymel c'est des cours de terre battue, donc on patauge dans la bouette ou dans la poussière et je passe les odeurs de purin de porc dans les abattoirs.
Milieu syndiqué mais soyont honnête, syndicat de boutique avec des conditions en bas de la moyenne sur bien des points, l'assurance groupe la plus chère que j'ai vu à date ($75/sem).
Ce qu'il y a de pire que de ne pas être syndiqué est d'être mal syndiqué.
Cà explique le très gros roulement de personnel, quand une cie se cherche des employés en permanenece on peu se poser la question s
Points positifstemps et demie après 48 hr travaillé
Pendant environ une trentaine d'années j'ai travaillé là et après avoir passé ma vie dans cette boîte et avoir connue l'évolution sur plusieurs années.J'ai vécu beaucoup de situations et de grands changements et d'incertitudes sur l'avenir de l'usine et aussi avoir subit deux grèves et un lock- out et avoir faillit connaître une fermeture en 2005 et avoir baisser de salaire et faire beaucoup de concession pour pouvoir garder notre emploi.
Quand on a eu la mauvaise nouvelle du vendredi noir , le 5 août 2016 et que notre usine allait fermé en partie , j'ai trouvé cela très dur. Parce que j'aimais beaucoup ma job et mes consoeurs et confrères de travail et aussi mes boss de plancher. On était une grande famille. j' ai été toujours présent et motivé à faire mon travail du mieux que je pouvais car je croyais cela important pour conserver notre emploi.
Point de vue de la sécurité à l'usine , c'est sûr , qu' il y avait des lacunes sur des points comme par rapport aux piétons et les transpalettes car les deux étaient dans le même corridor. Heureusement on a été chanceux , on a pas eu beaucoup d'accident par rapport à ce problème.
J'ai été chanceux , je n'ai pas eu beaucoup d'accident de travail , bien sûr c'était une job avec beaucoup de gestes à répétitions.Mais j'étais habitué à ça.
Points positifsProgramme de points sur la présence au travail.
Points négatifsPertes du REER collectif, baisse de salaire en 2005, climat d'incertitude en rapport à la survie de la shop
Good job with great people, five days a week 8 hours. minimum break times.
On My first day I've learned how to hose down the machines, walls, floors, bins, I was a sanitation worker which means I must hose down bloody machines, floors, walls, bins, etc. The staff are all friendly and are great to make you understand what your role is when you are apart of their team and job title. There are three steps to clean your area that you are assigned to. step one is hose down all the bloody, floors, machines, walls, bins, anything you are told to do. step 2 is sanitation, you must use PPE which will be assigned to you once you start. step 2 is using a chemical substance that is used to foam and spray over all your assigned area that you have hosed from step 1. step 3 is repeat of step 1 hose down again using hot water to get rid of foam. make sure you get rid of all the blood in any tight spot while you take your first step then foam which is step 2. then step 3 the rinse down. They take their cleaning serious. if you were to be hired for this position as a sanitation worker your hour would be from 5pm to 1:30 am.
Points positifsBring your own lunch. weekly pay. 15.00 an hour. if your trying to get busy this job is for you.
Points négatifsgetting wet from water. bring extra clothes. getting sick is a possiblitity.
This is good to work with this company but there are some problems for part time worker. Actually this is not see the mistake of this company. Like part time worker have to go by taxi which charge about 50 dollars in 2 days which is about 4th share of total income. Because there is no bus services on weekends.
Next this company provide only 16 hours to the part time worker means workers have to lost pay for 4 hours which is about 60 dollars.
It means part time workers who work with this company instead of others like Walmart get around 100 dollars less then workers who work with company's in the other cities where companies provide 20 hours for part time workers and city provide bus services on the weekends.
So this should be considering as most of the international student who wish to work part time to overcome their expenses. But no one care about these issues.
Otherwise the management is up to the mark.
HR department, supervisors, mechanicals, securities, cleaners and the rule and regulations everything is great.
Every day you are set to start in a certain position and rotate positions every hour. Every individual shares a different job and is in teams. I learned that not everybody is going to like you, I learned how to weigh products and how to tell good product from bad product. Some of the supervisors were laid back and reasonable people, others were pushy and made the employees feel unmotivated to do the job. I enjoyed working with some of my co-workers but some drama was involved and some co-workers dislike each other, which makes it difficult to have a fun work environment when you work with the same group of people every day. The hardest part of the job was keeping up the pace with the machines and rest of the group, it was also very difficult to be in a position in which I was not trained to do the job properly. The most enjoyable part of the job was some of the people and having fun and joking around to let the time pass as we worked.
Un travail vraiment incroyable , entrer au travail à 14h , s 'asseoir devant l' ordinateur , planifier ton line-up , aller chercher la production à faire à ton chef de production , regarder tes e-mails pour te tenir au courant , voilà ce qui était mon début de journée !!!
À travers tout ça on avait un ambiance de travail extraordinaire avec 11 autres superviseurs qui n 'avait qu'un seul objectif, atteindre ses objectifs, faire respecter une production et surtout s'assurer que la production soit remplie pendant la soirée !!! Chacun des contremaîtres étaient toujours prêt à s'entraider pour pouvoir complèter sa production. Le plus difficile pour moi était d'avoir à remplir ma paperasse à travers tout les changements de produtions qu 'il pouvait avoir dans une soirée mais je réussissais quand même à m'en sortir . Le plus agréable a été de voir tout ce que ce travail m'a apporté sur ma personnalité , sur mon caractère et surtout sur ma manière de voir les gens et les choses aujourd'hui !!!
Fun place to work at but there is a big lack of management.
A typical day at work on weekends is pretty nice. You are given a bunch of jobs and you do them in the order you judge is correct. You never know what your gonna do each time you clock in. I learned a bunch about mecanics and electricity. The management is pretty lame tough because it is a very big company but there is a lack of budget. It is a good place to learn about the industrial domain but its not a place that tends toward continuous improvement. Most enjoyable part is that your not to rushed to do your job on a daily basis. The bad part is that you cant change the way things are because there is a ton of person above you that dont know nothing about technical aspects of the industry blocking. Too much normalization. you also have to be willing to deal with all the rules of the food processin factory.
You have to wake up very early since morning shifts start at 7:00 and right away you are placed on the line. You are treated like a machine really.
The long shifts and harsh physical labour will make your feet and hands sore. Sometimes you'll have to lift 50 lbs boxes of hams for an hour straight which will destroy your back and they don't slow down. Also your in a cold environment, which might not feel so good during the winter.
The staff are just as cold as the plant. There are some nice ones but generally everyone is miserable. If they paid $3 or $4 more than minimum it MAY be worth it but they won't unless you've worked there for years.
They do award generous bonuses for not missing a day for the whole year, and there is a lot of job security since there is a high turnover. It's definitely not a job for everybody though.
Points positifsJob security
Points négatifsLong shifts, physically demanding
Questions et réponses au sujet de l'entreprise Olymel
Do they do a criminal record check
Posée le 11 mai 2017
Yes, a background check is done.
Réponse du 29 mars 2021
They do in Cornwall because they don't want violent individuals.
Réponse du 2 nov. 2019
Une vérification des antécédents criminels est-elle nécessaire chez Olymel?
Posée le 19 oct. 2017
Yes, Oylmel does do background checks.
Réponse du 21 avr. 2019
Oui cela est normal
Réponse du 14 déc. 2018
Quelles sont les étapes du processus de recrutement chez Olymel?
Posée le 7 sept. 2018
They will hire pretty much anyone.
Réponse du 6 mars 2020
Misleading
Réponse du 26 janv. 2019
Combien de temps dure le processus de recrutement chez Olymel?
Posée le 1 mai 2017
Interview , hiring process was fast.
Réponse du 24 janv. 2019
Hard working
Réponse du 16 avr. 2018
Vos supérieurs sont-ils facilement abordables chez Olymel?
Posée le 25 juin 2019
Try paying for good people. But that won’t happen, that’s why people leave? But you already know that! Brutal!!
