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Horrible Upper Management - Microbiology Lab Technician Golden State Foods Employee Review

1.0
19 Apr 2016
Recommend
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Pros

All the workers in all departments are friendly and get along with eachother. There are many good people working here.

Cons

Upper management treat workers of all departments like lesser individuals. There is lack of proper training as management fails to hire from within and choose to bring in individuals when there are qualified workers who know the job and the culture. This tends to grow resentment from the overlooked workers who then have to train the new hires to lead andmanage the workers themselves. Over the course of 6 months that I worked there, many individuals quit because of the horrible work/life balance of the job here. It does not matter how hard you work, your efforts will be overlooked. The general consensus is that by catering food to the workers a few times a year, the company can be ran with little regard for the actual workers. This is a Food manufacturing and distribution center, yet the general disregard for overall safe food handling and manufacturing conditions is deplorable. The only real effort made is to ensure that business is not lost from the various food companies GSF is a vendor for. There is little regard for how the products will impact the people who will consume the products. If you want to do monotonous work than this is the perfect job for you, just make sure you do not want an opportunity to move up in the company, because that's certainly not what you will get.

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5.0
7 May 2025
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Pros

Union, free insurance, overtime, paid holidays and sick time

Cons

Seniority so new hires get forced OT

3.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I like the people I work with

Cons

Company is not what it used to be under Mark Wetterau. Now with Lindsey Goldberg as the new owners, I feel like I have to walk on egg shells. The gap between the execs and everyone else makes us feel like they are entirely different people. Never thought GSF is just another stepping stone to a better company.no room for growth what do ever unless you know someone or work under the right executive.

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