The total compensation just isn't worth it. The pay is low, above the living wage calculation for a single person, but below the living wage calculation if you have even one child (for my state at least).
The company does NOT make up for it with paid time off and sick leave. It shouldn't take half a decade of working somewhere to get enough PTO to take off for your (and your kids if you have any) doctors appointments, have a mental health day every once in a while, take a vacation with your family of a reasonable length, and still have some left over for family or other emergencies. The first couple of years that you work there, if you get sick a couple of times, or your kids get sick and you need to take off, that's pretty much all of your time.
The PTO policy does not account for the fact that the warehouse is not climate controlled and you are more likely to get sick in those conditions. According to OSHA in 70-77 degrees F strenuous work is possibly unsafe. Over 77 is a high risk of heat related illness with strenuous work. In an un-air conditioned warehouse where temperatures in the summer reach over 77 regularly, with radiant heat from various sources and lifting heavy consistently, it is unreasonable that if someone worked hard and isn't feeling well they can't afford to take a day off to recover. They do have breaks throughout the day and encourage you to take it easy if you're not feeling well, but that really doesn't mean much when the exhaustion compounds so much over the summer months.
The company operates on PTO and pay scales that are a relic of a time when employees didn't know any better and didn't know to ask for better. I do not think it will work for them forever.
