Dear fredrico, you simple minded cocaroach, I was not attacking you personally... I feel that the MAJORITY of employees are pretty honest, hard working people, ( I like to include myself in this group ). These good folks know where their paycheck comes from and are greatful to be making exellent wages doing what they do. However, there's a very small percentage of your species that will never take responsibility for your own miserable existence and will probably never know the meaning of being happy and content. If I ever become a statistic and am let go because of cutbacks, I will will move on with a clear concience knowing that I did the best possible job I could do! But let's hope that the cutbacks start with dun beatles like you...

To reply to some of these comments such as the ones with the troublemaker workers. The management has created these monsters with reguards to their employment policys and practices. In most cases the workers are not to blame for their bad attitudes.

Now you show your true spots is it bug spray more like asskisser what you going to do when they get rid of you ,RAT!! Wasnt for workers you couldnt sit on your lazy ass.I will wave to you just like many before you as your ass you hits tht door to the unemployment line ,loser

To all of our wonderful and loyal customers that have sound and ligitimate complaints in regards to our products and/or services, we truly apologize for any inconvenience that our failure to meet your expectations have caused. As you can see by reading many of the postings in this board, there are many other issues we have to deal with, that affect the qualiy and the integrety of our final product. One of the main problems being all these disgruntled, negative, whinning cacoroaches that will do just about anything to promote their own self-serving agendas. Including not performing their jobs as agreed; Company pays you EXELLENT wages, you perform an honest day's work. Does this not sound like a great and simple formula? Do your job, go home, be happy! But unfortunately, some of these insects have decided to politicise their jobs. They always try to read between the lines and try to find a double meaning to averything they're told and in the process they make their own lives and the lives of the people around them pretty misserable. These roaches are ''experts'' at how to fix any of the problems that ail our company and if you can read how simple minded these bugs are, their solutions is always the same bowl of dun they've been feeding on for years... BLAME MANAGEMENT for everything. It's time for you critters to move on... True, our company is not without problems, but it will take positive people that trully have the best interest in mind of just not its employees but of the customers and of course the shareholders. SCRAM YOU COCAROACHES we have no place for you in our company, you have no positive input!! We owe it to our great customers...we should try to RAID you out.

YOURE PICKIN ON ME,,,DISCRIMINATION- DISCRIMINATION-- NOW GIMME MY MONEY

Hang onto your shorts, KC has filled their pockets full of money and now plants will be closing. Why did they ever purchase the Wonder Bread operation. Were going down the drain slowly.

I am not sure if this is the correct website for correcting this problem but it looked like a good spot to start. I am a bread route salesman here in Indiana. We are having a huge problem getting Bread du Jour for our stores. Also, when we do get BDJ a lot of times the coding is poor. Can you please help us. This problem has been forwarded to management many times and no response.

To San Francisco, I believe the lawsuit that was successfully won by the plantiffs was actually based on actions by that bakery which was a part of Wonder Bread, a division of Ralston Purina. The reason IBC was sued , they purchased Wonder and assume liability. With IBC paying out that settlement, top management inflating numbers and selling stock, paying the old boss hundreds of thousands for "consulting", its no Wonder we are in a mess! Unfortunately, we the regular workers pay the price!

Saftey is a large concern for the My Bread plant, however, the production department, which has the most injuries does not recieve the training that the other departments do, that have little to no injuries. Why? To not train those that make the mistakes is a sign of poor ownership on IBC's part. I feel most strongly that if the responsible parties do not find a way to reverse this downfall that this will lead to the My Dread Plant closing. Also, the amount of bread that is inedible is shameful, perhaps if IBC trained the employees corectly maybe we could have a chance to survive. It makes no sense to hire the wrong people and expect a positive outcome. What kind of ignorant people do you have in control of IBC. As an emplye and educated person I expect to see changes made for the bettter, after all we trying to make IBC money and with the way the plant is being run, I can't fathom how IBC expects us to survive.

How can any of the elite board members that ripped off all of the good employee's of there investments of stocks have the gull to even walk into a plant and face hard working employee's with a smile?

Why arent these rats in jail??You got to be realy a slug to do this to working familys!!!These scum should be ashamed i know i couldnt hurt families that depend on the paycheck from ibc.They say money is the root of all evil,and you are judged on earth what you besoe on your fellow man.I aint the one to pass judgement but you know who is.The very best to all whatever your future, its the darkest before the dawn but you will do O.K.

The reasons this company is going down fast and i mean fast are as follows:the old guard took out as much as they could out of the company and put zero back into it's future.They propped up the stock price by cooking the books, and are getting sued by many investors who took it in the shorts when the true numbers were finally revealed. So to cover up for all their past, they will just close plants and layoff the workers who are only guilty of doing their jobs.

Your right about that cincy,but its still a shame that I.B.C.destroyed a greatcompany with dedicated workers some management plus workers.Why in the world would you buy something you dont know how to run its beyond even me.Im still all shook up but your right everything in live has a reason.Well i guess ill just rock and roll over to the next opertunity if i have to so GOOD LUCK to all ,anyone want start a band i still can sing a little

Dear IBC, I have been employed with your company for just under 6 years as a Route Sales Representative. I work at of one of your Long Island depots. When I first started it seemed like an excellent career move to work for a solid corporation. Recently your company felt it would be in their best interest to merge the Hostess and Drakes divisions onto one truck. If this were done properly I know it would probably benefit us all. Unfortunately, I feel the merge was not done properly. Essentially we were asked to start an entirely new job with no training. The way it was done gives the appearance of desperation. Working conditions have become very difficult to bear, not only physically, but mentally as well. The physical demands include long work days, sometimes upwards of ten to twelve hours of constant hustling. There are many things which could be considered mentally exhausting about this job since the merger. However, the most stressful is that we are told that if we can't complete this impossible workload in eight and a half hours, stops will be cut from our routes, therefore affecting our pay. Furthermore, although we are forced to work overtime, we are told that because of overtime the company is dangerously close to closing. I've seen what IBC pays in compensation cases each year. Also, increased demands placed on supervisors has in turn placed more demands and stress on us. Don't be surprised when these compensation cases increase dramatically. Additionally, I'm sure it won't be long before our employee assistance program requests more staff to handle the increase in calls it will inevitably be recieving. When I started this career it was with the intent to purchase a home and soon start a family. I thought working for IBC would help me achieve these goals. Now I'm postponing both. The mental strain caused by not knowing if I'll have a job tommorrow is having a toll on my personal life, including my marriage. Before you go through with further changes please consider taking a closer look at what has been changed already. Don't be afraid to ask for input from a Route Person who is out there earning our living and yours. I think there are too many "kinks". Lets try to work out some of those kinks, and boost moral before the next step. I'd like to thank you for taking the time to read this. Please feel free to contact me. TJS long island@aol.com

To Elvis, As far as which plants are closing, it all depends on how your plant is doing. They are going to close the bottom 5 to 10 plants that are losing money or breaking even. There are 58 bakeries if that helps. I have been told that we are in the middle of the pack but I have a hard time believing that. I totally agree with you about the management. They are all over the place. Everybody now has an assistant. There are too many chiefs and hardly any indians. Don't be scared of plant closings because it is out of our hands anyway. Remember, everything happens for a reason and if we do close it might be a blessing in disquise...........

pleasa dont close the best bakery in the company ! employees here care about there jobs and try each and every day to produce quality product! we are a small bakery and run slower then most but when you factor in all of the downtime other plants are having, are they really running faster ??

Anyone know the plants that are closing!!!! Lets face it even tho i love my job,it cant go on like this,worst i seen it in many years ive been here.IBC totaly unsure of the market!A whole lot of bad decisions being made top to bottom.How about some new products.advertise,get rid of all the dead wood.You got 70%more management than you need.Lot of lazy workers too!Quality is terrible cant give these products away,this use to be a star now its a meteor faling to earth.Do i have faith in the leadership,NOare only hope is if were sold,these are bad times with the economy.I got some other things i can do if we go under.Got go now ,im all shook up

Once again we see the basic problem with this company ignorant managment.Not all but some of you out there.When they close one or two of them plants in california what are you going to do!We got the union to help us ,dont worry your pink slips are on the way.

To Barbara from San Pedro, you think this site is run by IBC, C'mon. Do a WHOIS lookup and you will see the owner used to work here with us. I'm sure the company would provide a forum for the world to read about pieces of skin in their snacks.

To stan from Akron, you must have been reading a lot of these posts to find Gerr T all the way down there. I had to scroll quite a bit to find out what you were talking about. IBC would not want her though, she posted on this site, can't be too smart!!

To A from San Francisco who believes it was not the company's fault but the managers' fault and the company should not be sued, let me ask you a question. What would you do if you were being discriminated against by managers in the company and you complained to upper management and they did nothing? The law is clear on this point: Companies are then liable and BIG monetary rewards are given so the company will not do this again. It's called hitting them in the pockets, that's the only way they will stop. Also a jury decided the amount of the judgement according to the laws of the land after they heard all of the evidence. I'm quite sure God smiled down on this because he felt some justice was done and the possibility of this wicked company doing it again has been lessen. But they will do it again.

about the thrift stores,naturally a free standing thrift store has to pay all their bills by themselves that is common sense,my comments were to the route driver that said if he was in management he would punch numbers and do away with thrift stores so the routeman could make more money,sounds like a lazy routeman and not very smart.

to the happy employee who is just glad to be working,hang on yours is coming and just remember you have been told.You must have your face burried in someones seat cover

this company must be in bad shape. we have a one hundred dollar safety incentive if we were accident free for the fiscal year we get a $100.00 certificate from american express. we were due to receive money june 1st. now we still havent gotten any money and the reason floating around is that the company says that they owe $21,000 safety money and that american express will only let them purchase $1,200 worth of certificates.................??????????????????????? what the heck??/ amex will only sell $1,200 worth of certificates, yeah right.imagine going into walmart and piling $100.00 worth of groceries into your buggy and the cashier tells you that walmart will only sell you $40.00 worth of groceries. what a bunch of lying weasels.

Well put Gerri T. You should own this company. At least then, you seem like the type who would be there in the trenches learning all she could about the total operation. Not just working with theories and projections. Every company needs more Gerri T's in their core organization!

This is to 39 the company stooge.You tell us what good is that number if nothing is done to aleviate any problem.There closing at least 5 plants ,while the bigwigs are filling there pockets with bonuses.You trying to tell us this is not a company run website ,how do you know!Give us your corperate number so we can call you in kansas city .Ilove working here but the handwritings on the wall.Got my resume ready!!You dont even have the decency to say which plants your closing.Dont preach to us lapdog

why dont you let the workers know whatgoing on with the news about plant closing.

Out of all the lawsuit info i read about.(briefly read), but enough to get the gist of things. It sounds like it was just a problem with the employees(aka management) that were in charge. it seems that the lawsuit never should've come about. The company should not have been accused. It should have been the MANAGER; who was covered by the umbrella of being affiliated with a large company; that should have been sued. Why does everyone think that if there is a problem, that it is automatically the company's fault? How would YOU feel in the same situation and circumstances if YOU owned the company that was being charged? Its not 'your' fault that people react the way they do. You are not a psychic. You hire them after interviewing them and hoping that they turn out to be a beneficial employee. Its sad that some people treat us minorities like we are scum...but I still would not blame the company for it, let alone sue the company for it...I believe it all comes with attitude. If you have it set in your beliefs that you are going to make money the easiest way possible, then thats what you do. If you believe in GOD and trust that he will provide for you then you DO NOT try these evil approaches!!!!! GOD will provide for you if you remain honest. And it seems that most, (not all grant you) were simply looking for a FAST BUCK. Something they could get for nothing and do what they enjoy doing the most. Nothing. On behalf of the other (as retired at 39 would put it) "HONEST" minorities, It turns my stomach that someone would even feel comfortable with themselves for even trying such a plot. I pray that GOD will forgive them for their humble attempt at monetary wealth, and that they too, will seek forgiveness from GOD for thinking that th 'white-man' is out to ruin their promotions. There are Thousands upon millions of miorities reaching huge levels of successes in everything they attempt. Why? Becauses they have/had the motivation to do it! They fought there way to the top, they pushed themselves to achieve what was said couldn't be done, they Had pride in themselves and their heritage to prove to the naysayers that it really could be done!!!!. We are just like any other race... we are treated equal if we treat others the same. If you can believe , you CAN achieve.... if you cannot find truth in this...then..my friend...you need to take a long, hard look at yourself and find out why?

Hey Bernie, Nice job on the website! I have to agree with retired. But the point he should have made was that maybe, "let me repeat" (lol) maybe, you need to post the same disclaimer from your homepage to your message section as well. That way everyone IS well informed. I think I would also add the section about how to contact the actual company on as many links as possible...just to cya . from, a friend

Thrift stores are not run the same way in all areas. Some T/S pay all the rent, utilites, repairs on the building, taxes, ect. Some areas those costs are split by how much area the rountes use vs. T/S use. Some T/S without routes pay the entire bill. So you see it's not cut and dried how T/S are run.. Most have at least 3 employees. A lot have 4 and 5. Somtimes 2 full timers in each. Depends on how much money they run a week. I know of store that order close to 3500 loaves of !# white a week, not counting all the other varieties. Cake is another issue. Some T/S sell 1000's of units of cake a week. Most T/S make a lot of money for the company. That's why we have someone standing over us all the time.

mendoza, if you ever want a job with this company you have got to get off your ass and make a trip to the bakery you want to be employed at this company don't hire from letters e-mail or over the phone,you have to fill out an applacation there and then you have to take a physical and a drug test before they hire you. You have to apply in person.

To the routesalesmen who voiced their complaints about relief drivers who mess up their routes: BLAME your supervisor. All your supervisor is worried about is making sure your route has plenty of product out there. They don't want to run product out to stops. That is work. That is why they plus your order for your vacation. Its been that way for years. They could care less you work your butt off when you come back. Routemen are paid to work, supervisors are paid to think (about how to get out of work). One of our swingdrivers leaves out lots of overcode, runs your route like $%*& and the supervisors hide the overcode from sales mgr. when the regular driver brings it back. Never any disciplinary action. If they wrote up swing driver the supervisor might have to pull a route.

To the blue collar worker who dosen't know why there are thrift stores around. Well you are not in upper management but you can still punch in your numbers and you will be surprised at what they do. First of all most thrift stores are at a depot which means no lease or extra rent for the space,most stores do between 5,000 and 10,000 dollars a week with one full time and one parttime maybe 2 parttime employees with parttime getting no benefits.You on the other hand get it all,they provide you with a 40,000 dollar truck and insurance on it and buy tires batteries and fuel for it,have to hire mechanics to service the trucks and keep them running,provide service trucks and tools for them and benefits for the mechanics also . If you have 8 routes running out of one depot figure the expense compared to the one thrift store running out of the same depot,the expense for fuel is probably more than what it cost to run the thrift store plus you get commission on your sales they don't.Walk in your thrift store and look around they don't sell just bread they sell many other products.If you want more money check your product list in your handheld,you are getting only a small portion of what is available,try some new products that are available to you.Have you walked in a stop and said wow they hit this place hard this weekend because the shelves are empty or blowed out, there you go you cost your ownself money and if you have been a routesalesman for over 6 months i know this has happend serval times. Compare your check with all the thriftstore employees in your thrift store and you are probably making per week more than they are with thier checks totaled together,go punch your numbers and remember when your shelves are blowed out you are not only costing yourself money but you are costing the company money also, concentrate on that.

I am very intrested in pursunig a route sales oppurtinity in the San Antonio or Austin,Tx area. I have tried emailing and mailing tons of letters but I have recieved no response. If anyone knows please contact me at JoeyMMendoza@hotmail.com. Thank you for your help.

Have you noticed how some manufacturers put a 800 phone number on their packaging for consumer comments etc. Makes you WONDER why IBC does'nt.... This site must get gizillions of hits way more than PLANET TWINKIE.com

VACATION, SPARE MEN THE WAY THIS COMPANY HIRES SPARE MEN IS CRAZY IM ALL FOR THE UNION BUT I GOT OFF VACATION THIS WEEK AND WOW MY ROUTE IS A MESS UNLIKE THE GUY IN LA THEY DIDNT WANT TO INCRESE MY SALES ITS JUST THE SPARE GUY IS STUPID EVERONE HAS TALKED TO THE BOSS, HIS BOSS, AND HIS BOSS NO ONE CARES THAT THE GUY CANT RUN ROUTES HE HAD TO WORK ON WEDNESDAY TO GET MY TUESDAY ROUTE RUN THATS CRAZY IF YOU CAT DO IT YOU SHOULD QUIT OR BE FIRED BOTTOM LINE

i worked for ibc or merita for almost 30 years and all or most of these complaints you see on this web site are from hostess or wonder bread or dolly madison or cake companies from up north. you see ibc management sucks,they don't listen they just tell,they don't do they just tell. They have replaced most of the ibc management with people from wonder bread and that is why this co. is going down hill because that is where wonder was headed when ibc purchased them. Ibc didn't purchase this co. because it was growing they bought it because it would give them control of the market from coast to coast and they over stepped thier boundaries because thier management personal and board of directors are not smart enough to handle such a vast amount of territory and now all they can do is sit on thier hands and look stupid.They want to blame krispy creme,little debbies, the unions and employees for the reason for failure and the reason for selling inferior products to the public.In any bussiness where you have a problem you go to the manager over that department and get it corrected or he is looking for a new job,but not ibc they drop it to the next lowest level which usually is the overworked route salesman or the thrift store operator which as far as salaries go are making peanuts compared to what ibc are paying thier managers.Ibc managers have an old saying that has been around for a long time, DO AS I SAY ,NOT AS I DO

I'd like to know why we get paid less per hour than our sister bakeries.Can they sell a loaf of bread for $4 in California or New york I doubt it! I don't buy the cost of living manure.

Speaking of bad attitudes, how many of you route salesman are fed up with going on vacation and when you come back your route is a total disaster!! Your stale ends up double what it normally is, you work your ass off and when you explain to the boss any sales gain from last week is negated this week so why slam it out there and make me the salesman, take a pay cut and clean up your mess!! Instead of running 7400 then 5800 the next week, how about 6600 both weeks with 6-8% stale instead of 5% then 20%. Sadly its year after year this goes on. The supervisor say's "he thought he needed it" Right,he being the 3 month relief driver that has no idea!

anybody know anything about layoffs in Calif.? Hey KC, it's time to shake up management in LA before it's too late.It's seems like they're making decisions to make this company fail.Route salesmen are getting an attitude of not caring anymore and this will eventually lead to this company's failure. Time to get everybody involved,quit playing games and just concentrate on selling our product. Time to get rid of this division between employees and management and make it a positive to come to work. Listen to the ideas of the guys and gals on the routes,in the plants , in the warehouses,you'll be suprised. This company should not be failing.

This company is losing tons of cash and the executives are giving themselfs bonuses of hundred of thosands of dollars,consulting fees!Then laying off the lowly workers by the thosands,how do you sleep at night ,he who steps over people can be first here on earth but it aint going to help with your dishonesty when you make that final journey.Enjoy

yes i saw the reports of the cutbacks. this company is in deep trouble. management that doesnt have a clue how to compete in todays market. supervisors better get their resumes updated. route cuts as well.

our contract was up july 1 and we still havent heard anything. they wont even let our union stewards sit in on meetings. speaking of so we never have monthy meetings. but the truck drivers do...

Paul S. of Sacramento, CA. Where did you get your information about the plant closings? I found out on our local news webpage. cut and paste this to your browser...http://www.wkrc.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7F192CAF-FDC2-4393-89E0-21F125557AA1

WHY WOULD A PLANT MANAGER HOLD A MEETING AT THE PLANT FOR SALES MANAGEMENT WHEN IT IS OVER 90 AND SHUT THE AIR OFF ON THEM, MAKE EVERYONE SWEAT ALL DAY? AND AFTER THE MEETING THE AIR WORKS AGAIN! IF THAT IS NOT ABUSE WHAT IS. HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!! IBC CORP WAKE UP

Well it finally happened. Massive layoffs and several plants closing are the latest news! It was just a matter of time when you have management like we have!!! Cut and paste this to your browser for the story.... http://www.wkrc.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7F192CAF-FDC2-4393-89E0-21F125557AA1

To the twinkies.org website owner: Several bakeries are going to close thousands of good people will lose their jobs. Could you please put a chat room on this site so we will be able to communicate with each other in an attempt to find openings at other bakeries. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Mr A, Have your union contact your Human Resource manager one last time about the health concerns. As far as your supervisor, he sounds like the lazy, I don't want to work, don't bother me type. I also would bet that your not using the time clock, so they have no reason to fix the trucks ! If all you people are stranded on the side of the road and it's not costing them anything, who's fault is that? The quickest way to get IBC's attention is for a route salesman to run overtime!!! Good Luck and keep pressing your union on the health and safety issues, also cc copies of all your concerns to the human resource manager in Kansas City so there is a documented record of all problems and lack of action by the company.

Money saving idea. Cake routes need to only work 4 days a week. The drivers would agree if the base did not change. The company would save millions in fuel and insurance cost each year. I've been with the company for 15 years and can say i've never been on a route that needs 5 day service. Yes, the company will need to hire 1 hourly employee to pull the cake market on the day we do not work. We as a company need to keep the door open to work 5 days on weeks of back to school and big promotions. If anyone reads this and would like to discuss this in detail with me contact me at RCTroll@aol.com. I want this company to SOAR with my help, and I hope to be a part of the IBC group for a long time.

Too whom it may concern: I am a employee of Wonder/Hostess in Fayetteville N.C. We are in the process of changing Bakeries for the 2nd time in three years. It is very understandable to me that the company needs to save money in order to maintain a good profit margin. But we as employees should not have to drive the unsafe vehicles we are forced to work out of everyday. The trucks we drive are very unsafe and in my case not big enough to carry out company bussiness in a professional manner. As the Union shopsteward in the area I have filed greivances hoping something could be done about the seriousness of this problem. At one point on a Wednesday about 2 months ago they sent down about 8 mechanics to fix these trucks. They lasted for about a week before they started leaving us on the side of the road again. We are working out of the Rockymount Bakery for the rest of this week and then we will be out of the Flourence S.C. Bakery. I had a new truck that I was using to run a Government contract route. This truck was needed to take care of a route that handles Ft. Bragg, N.C. About 3 months ago this truck was taken from that route because a truck on another route was broke down. For a long time the other truck was able to handle the work load on that route. I was told I need to drive the smaller truck for a couple of days until they were sure it was not going to break down on the out of town route it was on. This is understandable. This was told to me by my Supervisor. Well I dealt with this and broke down with this truck at least twice a week for three weeks when he told me finally I could have it back. He Knows the work load is much heavier on my route and he also knows I need that truck. Two days later it was the fourth of July and he said he needed the truck back for that week-end to deliver Wal-Marts product. Again this was not a problem. But to this day I do not have that truck back. Deisel fuel is leaking from the injectors of the truck I am driving and I have to breath these fumes everyday. The contracting office is not very happy with me breaking down all the time and to me this could be putting the contract in danger. Their mehanics are in Rockymount N.C. and they leave us on the side of the road for hours before we are running again. Why should we have to work under these conditions. I have spoken with everyone possible to try and resolve this problem but knowone wants to respond. I am not the only one working under these conditions. Because my supervisor wants to drive in luxery instead of looking at what is best for his work colleages and a Government contract he is making me suffer. This is very unfair. The route he is on with this truck is not carrying out nearly the bread or doing nearly the workload of my route. He is keeping that truck for his convenience. Please respond and let us know if something can be done about this problem so I can see if there is a brighter future to this very serious problem.

this company blows!!

this company blows!!

Hey Gerri t. In responce to your suggestions on company pratices related to the case of the ear plug example. If an employee was to admit to dropping an ear plug into a product and was to stop the line that person would be rewarded with a reprimand and not aplauded as a concerned or good employee. Gerri you must not have ever worked for IBC. That is considered poor work performance accident or not and its quanity not quality. Hopefully with new upper management that will change for the better. Time will tell.

To Gerri T., You know what the rules are! It is not as easy as you pan it out to be. You need to work in a bakery and find out want how it really works. The problem is teamwork within management, departments and the union. It will take all three to get things where they need to be before IBC will see some positives. It can happen and hopefully the home office in KC will see this and implement new policies to get things in order.

To the person who asked "NEED MORE MERITA SOURDOUGH LITE BREAD". Get with the route guy if you can't get in touch with him call the bakery ask for the sales supervisor.

Gerri, your comments are right on the money!! Unfortunately IBC management is slow to react to problems, can't envision the future,and in LA , a management vs employees attitude. There was an article that came out in the LATimes 2 weeks ago that lambasted IBC, its performance, practices, inabilities to analyze where the bread industry is going, and most importantly their refusal to listen to employees, and shareholders. The attorney for the San Francisco group that successfully sued IBC, Ms. Alioto said she has never met a more arrogant group of people than IBC. With a new CEO, we as employee's hope things will change. We recognize their will be cutbacks, plant closures, route cuts, thrift store closures. We need a viable plan, leadership from the top, commitment from all employee's, and things will get better. We have the finest Bakers, the #1 salesforce and transportation people in the industry. We want to succeed, please listen to us, we the employees can help put our company back to profitability. To the person in Florida, its only natural that when you merge 2 brands that each employee has a tendency to push their own product. Once again, this is a failure on your management to promote the positives of merging and follow through with supervision of all route operations. In closing, most employees like their jobs, appreciate we are all well paid, good benefits, and want to do a good job for their company.

to the person that says the company needs to put 2 brands on one truck ,let me just say it has ben done in the last year in orlando florida and it has ben a disaster ,the drivers that worked for wonder bread push mostly that product and the drivers that worked for merita push mostly that product so the company has actually lost sales due to this stupid move. the same thing happened in north carolina and also in virginia when it was done there but none of the idiots in mgmt.has done anything about it

Wonder sales people and mgmt. in Toledo want to put Bunny product on Wonder trucks because they lost a bunch of business. This will put Bunny drivers out of jobs. I hope mgmt. does what is right and keeps the most senior drivers.

Pomona..Glendale..2 sets of management..2 completely different ways of route operations..2 many promotions that hurt each other..1 wants 5-6%stale..1 slams it out there..1 brings out branded buns & dogs..1 counters with generic or private label bun-dog 90 cents less..2 IBC bread Salespeople at each market...How about 1 management, one style of route operations, promotions that run one after another instead of at the same time, If ESL is to stay then order accordingly and monitor route operations to ensure low stale, full shelves, and no blanket adds every Sat because someone needs x number of units, introduce new BRANDED PRODUCTS for profitability,and put the 2 product lines on one truck, merge the senority lists and start competing with our only competitor in this market..Bimbo...Employees please give some feedback...Thanks

Current mgmt. doesn't have a clue on how to fix or adjust the direction of this company. No one with an idea is ever considered for promotion.Look around at current mgmt.,are you impressed by at least one person? These guys and gals don't know what they are going to implement next week or next month. Is anybody thinking about 3-5 years from now? Look at your surroundings,old trucks,old printers,no new racks for stores,etc.I like my job ,but you would have to be ignorant to think that eveything is ok. The reason we are still in business is because we are the largest bakery in the country,but even the missmanaged giant companys fall eventually.

I hope the Soar team has been to this site so they can address these issues that have been posted by consumers and employees. If they would put a similar conduit as this together the rest would be easy. Soar is smoke and mirriors for the stock holders and financial institutions. If Kansas City wants to find out what the key problems are ask the guys on the routes and on the production lines. Division management has no clue. I have yet to hear of any one from the Soar team make it to the ground floor of the operation yet. I just saw a Soar news letter for the first time posted in August more smoke and mirriors gang ! I like doing what I do and my co workers and I are professionals listen to us, stop the cronieism, and bad people practices we are a good team let us perform .

What does the soars program mean to me.Lets see!!How about 5 million dollars to have some gimoke walk around like there in a cloud and you know he or she doesnt have a clue what the hell is going on!!Then every week or so give you the b.s. paper with big words that mean nothing cause they fixed nothing or solved any problems whatsoever?You mean to tell us no one is this company has enough brains to streamline the operation.Whos realitive own this band of morons.This has never been a team operation but its never been this bad,lets hope for the best i dont like the direction were heading.We need new products,advertising,better quality,will this happen i hope so.ESL is a disaster scrap it !! I know this is a company run website so get your head out of your ass and do something or sell so you can steal some more money tru your consulting contracts and stock minipulations !!!

For everyone who got ripped off by the deceptive practice of getting you to buy the products thinking there was a coupon inside, PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE POLICE!! Call (800) 777-8067 and IBC WILL SEND YOU A COUPON!

Good For You, Joe. BTW How Long Have You Been In Manangement With I.B.C.?

Rush,Rush,Rush. That is the problem with the company. Hurry up get the most tonage out in the street. Quality and Safety is not the first concern.

does anyone know why we can not get our trucks loaded on time? We have had lots of trouble with this issue!!!!!! We are working over hours, because of this ongoing problem!!!! They always want us to work SAFELY, but how can you when you are in a rush always!!! Just to make your deadline stores! Will someone please look In to this situation before we take it farther!!!

For all you consumers who are experiencing shortages in your packages please place close attention to the following: This is unchartered territory in the realm of hand holding. You won't get this anywhere else -- Trust me! ....1). Look very closely at the packages in the vending machines...if you see an indentation in either side of the packge this means you do not have the correct amount inside. Packages with the correct amount will have a *FULL* look on both ends.... leave this snack there, do not put your money in the vending machine..... 2). If you are buying a multipack box make sure you shake several boxes before you chose one to take home. A box that rattles a lot does not have the correct amount inside. 3). Checking for proper filling....Hold different packages of the same item in your hand and buy the one that is the heaviest, this should give you a good chance at getting some filling inside of your snack cake. THERE IS ONE DOWNSIDE to this...snacks that have mold growing on it tend to be heavier than the others...Take your chances here. The weight test is good for multipack boxes also....4). Under no circumstance use your nose to pick out any of these snacks cakes as the smell coming from them will not be reconizable. CHECK BACK OFTEN because I will next post hints on how to pick snack cakes without any foreign objects in them.

And we love you too Joe Thurman!!!!

i love my job

we had our S.OA.R. metting about 4 monthes ago. and Yes changes are coming. restructure of management is one. cutting routes is another. this company is truly in bad shape, much to their own inability to keep up with the changing times

Will HR get SOARed to Pomona? I hope that Assist HR manager get SOARed out because she had a going-away party making us think she was quiting and she never left PLUS she never returned the gifts we gave her!!

The SOAR program is about to be implemented...Watch out

Every heard of SOAR's program? It's the term IBC is using to analylize plant operations. As a result layoffs (Management and Hourly) have occured. I would assume the company is about ready to restructure in a effort to make money, which it is not doing right now.

Please do NOT close this plant down. It is a gret place to work and we have great workers in the plant who would like to make this a life time job.

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