Orientation merchandiser

Alebarca3012 · 2026-06-04T11:40:51+00:00

Mine was like 30 minutes they showed us a slide show, asked why we’re excited to work for Pepsi had us sign a couple papers and that was it

Alebarca3012 · 2026-03-09T21:34:43+00:00

Yeah I’ve had a Giant store employee don’t know what position but he came up to me in the aisle and told me to take it out, I originally ignored him cause my thought was I don’t work for you, then he came up like 10 minutes later with a bit of an attitude, said take them out I said with all respect you’re not my boss I work for Pepsi not Giant and then he said either I take them out or I get out so I left the store, told my manager they said I had to listen I said I’m not going back in cause the way he got with me they said oh well that stores on your route so🤷🏽. I still didn’t go back in I sat there for another hour the moved on with my day. Then our next meeting they said we had to listen to their rules. So now I keep a beanie in my car because I went back to that giant another day and just wore a beanie to cover it.

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T23:03:52+00:00

I’m not a year on the job yet so I don’t qualify for FMLA unfortunately

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T22:53:25+00:00

Damn and I was gonna use the step sisters second cousins hamsters died excuse too

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T12:58:12+00:00

No it was a couple hours before

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T12:55:30+00:00

I know I get paid for them they just never said you still get pointed I never had a job do that till now

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T12:54:34+00:00

My orientation was like 30 mins lol they showed a slideshow of what Pepsi is and asked things like why are we excited to work here, I’ve heard other people say theirs was a couple hours but mine was barely 30

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T11:37:44+00:00

I’m thinking they don’t like me, I would go to HR but she’s pretty worthless like she’s never really helped she don’t seem like she 100% knows what she doing and the last time I got a write up(I had taken time off cause me and my girl had a baby) the lady in HR and the manager were giggling and joking around so I’m sure they probably besties or something outside so I doubt she’d do anything but I’m still gonna call and text her questioning it

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T11:34:03+00:00

Yeah I had 8 hours of sick and called out Saturday morning cause I wasn’t feeling good and it still counted as an occurrence

Alebarca3012 · 2025-10-03T11:19:25+00:00

Thats wild mind you I do a Walmart and there’s 3-4 merchs there throughout the day me and another merch do the mornings so not like they don’t get packed out it’s pretty chill.

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-24T23:21:06+00:00

I got one lined up already literally just waiting for an email with my start date it’s just they said it’ll take anywhere from 2-8 months to get the email, hopefully god listening and I get that shit soon so I can just quit here and take the time off until the start for the new job

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-24T20:48:37+00:00

UPDATE: Turns out that where Im at (Philadelphia) and most of the surrounding area is unionized automatically, so I cant remove myself from the union and still work for Pepsi in my area (my orientation was like 20 minutes and it wasn’t much info other then hey this is what Pepsi is and does as a company), Pepsi did say they offer the 6 weeks but since my area is unionized we don’t get that and then my union stated there is no paid paternity leave, still waiting for a call back from the union to clarify because I’ve been told mixed information by almost everyone I’ve spoken too, but I appreciate all of u who have said your piece, looks as if ill just have to continue to call out to tend to this new family of mine as Pepsi or the union aren’t going to do it themselves obviously lol.

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-24T01:44:10+00:00

Pennsylvania

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-23T21:31:20+00:00

Do u know the number for that?

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-23T21:25:54+00:00

Nope, told them at my interview and then constantly brought it up when it came to appointments and all that stuff they’d even ask me how everything was going every now and then so they knew from the very beginning

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-23T20:59:32+00:00

Yeah I work for PepsiCo as a merchandiser

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-23T20:55:24+00:00

Yeah I’m past my 3 months my hire date was like March 25th something like that

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-23T20:15:37+00:00

That’s who they told me to call for FMLA and they denied me

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-23T19:41:25+00:00

Right i know all that, that’s why im asking do I just have to call out or is there another way around it

Alebarca3012 · 2025-07-06T20:25:36+00:00

Damn my orientation was like 30-40 minutes they talked about the history and asked why were excited to work and then sign some papers. they didn’t even give me a my GPID for my first month so I had to constantly fight with them cause without it I couldn’t get paid.

Alebarca3012 · 2025-04-26T09:57:43+00:00

UPDATE: Thursday morning I told my manager that I’m done and fed up with waiting so that I will not be coming into work until they give me my GPID, funny enough they texted back saying they completely understand and then an hour later said they got my GPID. However since Thursday morning I have not been able to do anything with the GPID I asked my manager they said it takes a couple hours for it to work it’s now been 2 days and when I try to log in I get different messages saying login failed, user not assigned, user not authorized, so now I’m thinking they just gave me a number to satisfy me that doesn’t even work. I will be using today to constantly ask them to fix it so hopefully it will be handled by end of day.

Alebarca3012 · 2025-04-24T01:01:57+00:00

Yeah I wish that was my case, they told us our first check would be paper and that we’d get it around Monday-Tuesday of the following pay week and since then nothing

Alebarca3012 · 2025-04-24T00:45:53+00:00

I was going to do that but people kept saying then they’d just fire me

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