Route Sales Rep for Frito Lay - werkgeversreview RSR Route Sales Representative bij PepsiCo

The schedule is by far the worst part of this job. If you have kids, get used to missing any activities they participate in. 99% of the routes start at 5:30am or earlier. There are routes that start at 2am. 99% of the routes run on weekends. So get used to working weekends, you'll work either Saturday, Sunday or even both. If you have children or a family that you enjoy spending time with, I would not recommend this job. The second worse con of this job is management. Not one of them have ever managed people before and they all are former RSRs, therefore their people skills are below average and their management skills are worse than any company I've ever worked for. They also will never take responsibility for a mistake or bad decision they make, they just find another employee to blame. Third Con the way you come into the company. You will be an RSA, so you will be filling in for RSRs who are on vacation. While management will lie and tell you the weekly sales plan doesn't matter, they will all harass you to hit sales plan. They will want you to (but never say it) hit plan on a route that you've never worked on, might be in an area of town you've never been, stores you've never been in...and that's the most important part. How is somebody supposed to hit a sales plan when they don't know the sell off in the store? But they expect you to run the route exactly the same as another employee who has been running the route for 5-10 years. Work/Life balance is the worst Ive ever seen in any job Ive ever had. When you get hired, they will preach over and over again that your family and life outside of Frito Lay is the first priority. If they just didn't say anything at all, I would have figured it was like a lot of other jobs who just care about their bottom line and numbers. But no, they will tell you over and over that your personal life is of the utmost importance to them meanwhile nothing could be farther from the truth. In 3 years I have requested probably 5 or 6 personal days, as they give you 2 each calendar year. I have yet to be approved of one. And if you go an alternate route, aka calling off sick, the crooked manager you called off on will literally make up a reason to write you up. There is no due process, no appeal process, just some guy who is being a baby because you exercised your right to a sick day. One guy wrote me up (after a sick day ironically) when I was filling in for an injured employee. A Sams Club employee asked me what product we wanted to use for accumulated space in the store. Seeing as how it was 6:00am on a Sunday, I told her I would check with the lead on the route about what he wanted to do instead of "yes". I was written up for this. Also another time I was written up (another fantastic coincidence right after a sick day) the manager called me in, said he found $100 of stale product on the route and I was getting a written discipline. No pictures, no proof...not my route, I ran it for 4 days. You'll have to deal with very unruly receivers and managers. These people can essentially make up or say whatever they want about you and tell the manager youre working for and they will just believe the customer, not their fellow employee from Frito, because youre a number and Frito does anything their customers tell them to. Bottom line is do not take this job unless you are in a real jam with money and if youre in Pittsburgh, PA I wouldn't take this job at all. Don't even waste your time on an interview. Other cities could be different but its highly unlikely. If they decertified their union, don't even waste your time interviewing. They voted to decertify the union in Pittsburgh and every RSR regrets it due to management lawlessness. Youre only going to get $760 a week for minimum the first year and a half, probably longer. Where I worked the wait was much longer, I was 3 years and still no route. They'll lie about all of this, and if you end up taking a job with them the first year youll think theyre telling you the truth and I was either jaded or sour. But youll get burned out, getting harassed by management all day everyday, not making commission and busting your rear end for no money gets old after a while. There isn't much turnover with the older RSRs because they all have a pension, but now with no pension the turnover rate is high with the younger millennials. TBH the only thing I'm sour about is the jobs I passed up while being at Frito. If this helps at least one person say no to this position then I have succeeded.