Pros
White collar wage slavery > Blue collar/retail wage slavery. I've heard all the usual tropes about stepping stones, finding the right department, and oh yes, the PEOPLE. For the record, the people here are pretty great at least in the rank and file. The Dayton facilities are nice enough, food is fine but unnecessary, health benefits are decent if you don't actually use them...dental is good, and they do match 6% of your measly salary after two years vesting period...if you make it that is...
Cons
I was lied to from the beginning, plain and simple. They lure you in with promises of career opportunities and potential pay increases but none of it came to fruition for me despite long hours, high productivity, and even the agreement of my supervisor that I deserved more. In fact, I found out people with less academic, industry, and company experience were hired in after me for thousands of dollars more. Why? Because a sharp spike in turnover and an inability of leadership to trick new people into joining up (probably because of reviews like this) forced their hand on the whole base pay thing. Upon a few people discovering this fact, including myself, I requested a pay bump up to at least their level and was met with accusations of union behavior, threats of termination, and an official email to my whole team warning us against sharing salary information. What NLRA? I was blown away by the overreaction. Keep in mind, the value of my particular team's work absolutely warranted the higher pay and we all knew it. I doubt our team was alone on that one...simple fact Bob you may own the company but it don't make any money unless your super prescreened, high IQ, hard working employees perform the labor. My God this company...workers keep getting paid way less than market value while contributing a higher surplus value than their industry peers all while Bob keeps taking in the fruits of their labor for himself as cold hard cash and simultaneously buying new companies to diversify his portfolio against the inevitable downturn. So yeah, that's my contribution. Please read other reviews to get a more broad perspective before diving into this hell hole. Be advised, just skimming through some of these I see a huge number of suspect five star reviews. While I can't discount the possibility that someone might actually consider Reynolds a five star employer I'm going to go ahead and discount it anyway. Three stars maybe from a generous heart, more likely two from someone who has roughed it in retail, but a lot of those are probably fakes from managers/recruiters. I mean I remember they would sometimes try to solicit us for positive reviews during meetings but clearly their efforts exceed mere requests and move right into fabrication ugh what a sickening thought. As for the seemingly endless supply of interns who can definitely opine on that particular aspect of the Reynolds experience, I highly doubt they have any knowledge of what it is to actually work here for a living, yet just look at how many five star reviews from 2016 come from them...point of fact, the internships are great. The whole thing is a recruitment sales pitch as you would imagine, so they get treated much better than your lowly Reyslave.