Good stepping stone - Maintenance Technician Keystone Foods Employee Review

1.0
24 Sept 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Keystone had decent pay and benefits for the area. Work wasn't too awful like most chicken plants.

Cons

Expected a lot of overtime. No work/life balance. They know they are one of the "good paying jobs" in Gadsden and overleverage it. Toxic coworkers consistently out to snake each other. No teamwork. Management lied about raises saying you get one every so often, then would come up with excuses why you didn't get a raise this time. Pretty much a dead end place with no opportunity for growth. Management did some pretty sketchy/borderline illegal things to squeeze employees into doing things. They call maintenance technicians "management" so they don't have to give them union benefits, but strip them of any management benefits. The good ole boy system is not open to any new ideas or better ways of improving. You must do the job to an arrogant few's standards or be positioned as an outcast in the culture. Kissing butt goes a long way here but is still a very 'dog eat dog' environment.

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5.0
26 Apr 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Keystone was a great place to work, but Tyson bought it out and removed the Keystone name entirely.

Cons

That it's now gone and is part of Tyson nopw

1.0
4 Sept 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Keystone Foods is very good at what they do, which is process high quality poultry and beef (think McNuggets and Quarterpounders) for the fast food industry, namely McDonalds (which is about 80% of their business).

Cons

The parent company, Marfrig of Brazil, is a VERY poorly run company. They make it up as they go along, which leads to dishonest and unethical practices. They have a "we are smarter than everyone else" attitude that doesn't mix well with others. The leader of Marfrig is imperialistic, with a management style stuck back in the early 50's. Indeed, this is a case of "the emperor has no clothes."

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