Aunt millies bakery opened a factory location in m...

Aunt millies bakery opened a factory location in my hometown of Lowell, IN approximately April 2016. Aunt millies uses LAjoy group as thier hiring agency. My wife has been trying to get her foot in the door at aunt millies since before the doors opened, and her resume was on file for the job position as soon as they began accepting them.

My wife has experience working in a factory setting, as well as working both in a deli and in a kitchen. She has experience working with food products and is knowledgeable regarding food safety and sanitary practices. I would consider her to be a strong candidate for the position.

What follows is (as honestly and accurately as I can remember it) her actual experience trying to get hired.

Prior to the location opening she made a user account and uploaded her resume on the LAjoy group website. No contact whatsoever was made from lajoy group. Didn't hear anything. Called the LAjoy group phone number on the website. No answer from anyone, but there is a voice mailbox where you can leave a message for the operator.

Over the course of the next several weeks, she left several messages which clearly stated the purpose of her call and requesting a return phone call. No return phone call was ever received.

She had an aquaintence whose husband had been hired into the location; according to him there was a flier up on the bulletin board. It said that aunt millies was still hiring for production personnel and it provided both a phone number and email address for a recruiter.

My wife called the phone number several times over the course of the following week, trying both in the morning and in the evening.
Every time leaving a short message expressing interest in the job position and requesting a return phone call. None was ever received. During this time she had also been writing articulatly worded letters to the email address and submitted her professional resume as an attachment several times using various file formats.. She recieved no response from those emails.

Several months since the doors opened now, the job posting for production personnel is still up and active on the LAjoy group website. She calls the number from the flyer again. Determined to speak with someone, she calls at 0800 Monday morning. A woman answers. A glimmer of hope. Maybe some progress.

The woman on the other end of the phone says she is just coming into the office for the day, her computer isn't on yet; she takes down my wife's name and number and says she will call her back in about an hour. She doesn't. Wife tries to call the following day. No answer; the voice mailbox is full and you can not leave any messages.

She makes several more attempts to reach the woman again the remainder of the week, but she does not answer. The following week, the line goes straight to a busy signal 24/7. Doesn't even ring.

Back to calling the main number again. After a few more days of leaving messages, the Voicemail function is replaced with a message that says the operator is in a meeting and to please call back at a later time. You may not leave a message at this time. The meeting lasts several weeks.

Finally, I step in to help. My wife is frustrated. I have never seen a company so ridiculous. They cannot even be bothered to answer the phone. I call the LAjoy group phone number and start guessing random extension numbers leaving Voicemail after Voicemail. Sometime throughout this process, I get a young lady on the phone who says she works in the meals on wheels Dept, but she can transfer me over to a supervisor. The supervisor answers. He is well spoken but has limited information to provide other than that the recuiters' extensions are 105, 106, and 107. He also states that if you leave a message in the voicemail box for the operator that it just gets deleted and that it will not get forwarded to the appropriate person.

She tries the newly aquired extension numbers without any progress for a few days. Several messages are left. No answer. No return phone call.

0/5 stars.