Culture Change for the Worst - Team Lead Mars Employee Review

1.0
18 Dec 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, Salary, Perks, and Growth Opportunity

Cons

Swing shift schedule is killer. No one seems to care to change it. They rather kill everyone. You can see it in everyones faces how the swing shift takes a toll. Management is another con. They run the buisness opposite of what they are taught. There is clearly a culture transformation for the worst. This company was really wonderful to work at. I really enjoyed my job. It was nice to have that corner candy shop feel and being able to make those smiles. Management took that fun away. Now we all know wherever you work we have a job to do. But it doesn't need to be micromananged under the gun. Bottom line is the current regime has been making poor decisions and using the leadership beneath them as there escape goat. The company was a team from top down. It lost that with this management team. I'm sorry not a team. Bosses, tyrants. Sad how it became. Now I understand why Forrest would promote within because they knew the buisness and he could trust it would be run as it should be. He wasn't too keen on bringing in outside people to run his buisness on a leadership level. I'm sure he's jumping in his grave right now. I put a lot of years into this place and I had to leave it. They teach you don't leave the company you leave your boss. This is 100% with the management there. A lot of the problems is there stuck on this high horse of what they call MSE or MRF. Its the POC (root cause) as they say in there language of why the plant is what it is. They skew data to make everything look like its improving but bottom line there is no change. Only blame the leadership below them and everyone who is involved in this nonsense flavor of the month initiative is there saviors as they sit behind a laptop and do absolutely nothing. Honestly, I can keep going all day. It's a shame what an M&M factory has become.

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3.0
2 Jan 2026
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Pros

- Company car (fuel card, insurance, etc) - Good benefits - Great brand exposure/understanding of CPG sales at the retail level - Annual sales meeting is fun, but exhausting - Simple job

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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