7 years of cutting staff and NO raises to compensate for all additional work taken on by the faithful employees.
Pros
Good hard working people doing all the grunt work. Sense of pride among the hard workers! Good customer loyalty between the workers, the drivers and the customer. Most are friendly and on a first name basis. OK benefits including health insurance and small 401K match.
Cons
From the GM on down - bad management is an understatement. All are hired out of sales. ZERO management skills. Zero people skills. Just donkey kissers who hire or promote fellow donkey kissers. Management has ZERO credibility or skills. When confronted with difficult or pressing issues they play "point the finger" instead of learning the skill themselves so that they may interact and train the employee. Employees who dare question management are "blacklisted" until they can be let go. Non existent training. 50 hour expected work weeks but only paid for 8 hours max when on vacation or sick. You lose money by taking vacation. Salaried employees are expected to work 50 hours minimum. If you work 70 hours (during Inventory for example) you are paid your regular 50. The standard 2% cost of living increases have been renamed "bonus" money. Performance Reviews are a 1000% JOKE! Very pathetic. They have ZERO effect on 2% cost of living increase UNLESS you are on the managers sh*t list to wit they will use a bad performance review against you. Scores of employees let go during economic downturn. Hard workers picked up the slack with ZERO compensation. Now that economy has rebounded there is still no help or compensation.