General Mills - Anonymous employee General Mills Employee Review

Training is sub par with very little direction once training ends and they act as if you are supposed to know things that they haven't trained you on. They write you up for small things and rather than tell you what they expect, they sneak around and use the five seconds of observation of you as what you are actually doing the entire shift. The upper management just takes the word of managers without actually taking the time to observe things for themselves or ask the people who actually work with you on a regular basis. I had to complain to training coordinator that I was not being trained on the things that they gave us in the booklet that needed to be signed off on and on some random day, I was rushed through nearly the entire book in about an hour and a half (I had already been working there for about 2 months) and had the things signed off. Weeks before I was to be tested to see if I knew how to do the job, I was let go because they felt that I was not understanding how to do the job (which did not make sense since the evaluation was coming up and they could have easily determined after that) even after informing the upper management that I had not been trained properly, I was informed by one of the managers that he felt that my training was adequate although he could not tell me what I had been trained in and how he was so sure that I was trained adequately. I was let go that day and I was given what I assume was my personnel file which listed several lies from who I assumed was my supervisor that stated things like I let my post to talk to people, which I never did and other lies about me clocking out early on days that I was not even present on because I had not even done weekends until 7 or 8 weeks after I started. It also said that I was too laid back, which seemed like coded language used by them to justify their preconceived notion of the type of worker I was simply because I did not go out of my way to try to make lifelong friends with other employees and just did my work and minded my business. While doing cleanings, many of which involved chemicals and using tools that I was not familiar with, I received instructions to help on things that I had not been shown and when I asked for specifics, I got instructions like "Just go and hold something for them" or " Just watch them." They claim that I lacked initiative, but I lacked an understanding of how they expected me to do a job where I'm expected to initiate my own training during training, where I had to constantly remind a supervisor on training for things that I should have been shown my first weeks there, and how people who a representative of such a large company could could lie so easily and be so unorganized. If you want to work for a place that works you to death, have managers who sneak around and make up reasons to put negative things in your file, and that barely trains you yet expects you to know how to do the job, General Mills is the perfect place for you.