Success Stories - Bottling and Distribution

Although there are many successes to share, please enjoy these and consider how these experiences can transfer into successes for your business.

Company: Pepsi Bottling Ventures

Employee: Arthur Stout

Job title: Multi-machine operator

Job Description: Supplies the production line with shelves and boxes for packaging freshly produced product.

Disability: Learning disability

Accommodation needed: initially, more time to train. No accommodation currently

Length of employment: over 20 years

Promotion or advancement: none Arthur is flexible, however, and does other jobs like painting, straightening pallets and shelves

Attendance: Above Average There are no write-ups in his file for being late and he shows up when scheduled

Comments: From Art: When I’m not on the line, it takes two people to do my job!
From Mike Tull, employer: I don't really think of him as disabled. He's a machine. He won't stop. He just keeps working. He can also be quite social and at times he seems like our official greeter.