Sep 11, 2017
Anonymous employee
Sweetwater Response
8yObviously this employee is extremely unhappy with their situation here. That is sincerely a shame. In our opinion, life is too short to feel this strongly and negatively sarcastic about anything and not make a change. So I wish this employee would just come and talk to us about their concerns instead of venting anonymously.
To set the record straight on a few things: we are far from the paying the lowest wages in the state in our Distribution Center. Yes, some businesses do pay more, but just as many pay less. And to this person's point, we offer a considerable amount of amenities to employees that other local employers don't offer. Even with the level of dissatisfaction expressed here, it does sound like this employee isn't averse to taking advantage of those perks.
With regard to overtime: yes, we do occasionally ask employees to work more than 40 hours. The key word there is ask. Usually this happens in our late November/December peak selling season. In reviewing the actual amount of overtime worked in the past six pay cycles, not a single person worked anything even close to a 60 hour week. Most full time employees work the 40 hour week they are scheduled, and those who do agree to working overtime in the period we researched are getting on average an extra 3-4 hours a week beyond 40. Of course they are paid time and a half for those overtime hours. So saying that our Distribution Center is a "sweat shop" that demands people work 60 hours per week is simply not factual by any stretch of the imagination.
Jeff McDonald, Senior VP of Human Resources