Reputation from a long gone era no longer apply.
Pros
Generally good people that work in the operations side. I'm not speaking of management, corporate, or sales team. The boots on the ground guys.
Cons
I could spend all night listing the things that are wrong with this company and environment. I'll try to keep it short. First off, a living wage should be something that's a given. Corporate needs to enforce hiring individuals at a market wage and nothing less considering the demand that this job requires and not leave that up to branch management. Deceptive hiring practices are unfortunately far too common within this company. Managers will offer an individual a low starting wage with promise of scaling up over a certain amount of time as long as you meet expectations. Unfortunately, since there is no written contract to this practice these promises are never honored and managers deny ever making them. Let it be mentioned that your safety program needs to be totally scrapped and rewritten. When your program hinders efficiency and your employees are treated like liabilities just so you can keep your insurance costs down, it gets to the point that people start to figure out that it's not really about your safety and it never has been. If you have such a problem with the cost of your self-insured package, maybe you should consider losing it and actually going with a legitimate plan that is offered by someone else - you already scrapped your pension plan and sold your company to investors so why not? Sales and operations are too far apart in how much they are valued by this company. Operations employees are pushed to the edge over meeting a sales quota so that an inside sales rep can achieve their quarterly bonus. Classism is unethical - policies and practices set up to benefit sales at the expense of operations is a poorly designed infrastructure. It should be mentioned that company branded t-shirts, coffee mugs, and water bottles are not an acceptable substitute for a living wage and mediocre at best benefits.