PepsiCo reviews

Highly driven people "PepsiCo Chicago" is treated as a PepsiCo "Chicago". They're not us which is what prompted this review. Take this in a relative stride but you are an acquired company and not core PepsiCo. Your assimilation has been something akin to Germany taking Poland without tanks but not smiling. The realities of working in NY are far more stark; 60hrs wk during down cycles, no work life balance, Summer what?, just no pleasantries. The AOPs are a mess, the massive system integration exhausting and costing too many brand people, the flight of leadership to outside has been covered by the press in Business Week, Ad Age, and the Wall Street Journal thrice times. We are losing mid & upper mgrs in droves and should be. Indra has positioned this company for disaster. "We need more consultants in here", "If the world is a hand and the large nations are the fingers, then the U.S. at times acts as the middle finger towards everyone?" We have lost all of those brand seasoned guys and replaced them with ibankers and consultants. Bad ethic. Poor Chicago's brands have been pummeled by her direction, what was she thinking with the Tropicana and Gatorade branding this year??? You just can't repair that kind of share loss. The turnover is huge and the questions that perspective replacement candidates ask are difficult to answer pretending we're still a leader in the industry anymore. No one is following where we're leading. We already hit the iceberg and the people leaving know what's happened.

The biggest complaint that I had was that fact that they recently cut our pay and benefits while they increased our work loads. On Monday I had 14 stops that I had to make. There were 2 Supermarkets that took 1 & 1/2 hours each to service. Then I had 12 convenience stores to service at an average of 45 minute per store. Add in travel time between stops, and paperwork at the end of the day and you can get and idea of what you are looking at in regards to the time you need to spend running a route. I would start work at 4:30 AM and not get finished till 6:00 PM. There is no time for extra curicular activities or family life. The company also decided to save money by cutting out weekend merchandisers, and began making most of us work split work weeks. They talk a lot about your "REWARDS" which is a reference to your benefits package and retirement. There is an opportunity to make good money, and it will be easy to bank most of it, since you will have very little free time to spend any of it. In addition to the 60 hour weeks which you will be working, there will be meetings which you will be required to attend. This usually means that you have to quit working your route early that day, and finish up the stops you missed the next day - so now instead of doing 14 stops you will have 16 stops to do. Finally, managers are often recruited off the street without having any route sales experience. And although the drivers are called a Route Sales Representative, you will do almost no selling. All corprorate selling is done through a key account manager.