Pros
Easy to get hired. Paid Training. Decent benefits. They spend a lot time training you, around 10 weeks. paid weekly. Physical work in cold all year round. Is possible to grow with company.
Cons
It is hard to come up with good things to say about working in the RDC wear house. Pay is low ($13 something and Hour). It is incredibly physically demanding. And not in a good way. You will not get built and your strength gains will plateau in a few weeks. And that is because you will never truly get the time to rest. Your days off are spent recovering from the shifts you just finished. The job is driving down aisles with a double pallet jack and picking orders from their assigned spaces. That is simple. But they want you to do extremely fast. WITCH IS IMPOSSIBLY TO BE DONE SAFELY!!!!!! I wore a heart rate monitor for a week just to figure out how may calories i was burning. I was burning close to 6,000 a shift. There is an incentive you can receive every check if you keep your production rate above 95%. The people who are able to do this "back their pallet jacks into pits". They also have to clock back in from their breaks early to save them minutes on their overall production rates. Lastly, you must take advantage or screw someone else over for you to come out a head on your production rates. Because at the end of the day it is you against the time and anyone who get in your way is messing up your money. There are very few people who pull off the 120% production rate. pretty much if you drop a pallet most people will help you pick it up if they see you working but your rate is pretty much messed up. You cant make any mistakes on your assignments because they don't give you enough time to begin with. Once again THIS JOB IS VERY UNSAFE!!! There are too many people in the aisles and becomes crowded very quickly. Also they have loaders bringing down pallets in the same aisles as you which I found to very dangerous. I worked there for 6 months and we could only go 2 times over 30 days without someone getting hurt. Most of the time we couldn't get over 20 days. They own your schedule and it rotates every week once you are out of training. Its hard to get off holidays. The turn over rate is high. I pretty much saw someone quit once a week in the muddle of an assessment. I didn't blame them either. Pretty much everyone wanted to walk out but they didn't have any other jobs lined up. Last thing I'm going to say; even if you can do this job well I am almost certain you will still absolutely hate this job. It was not uncommon to see someone "lose it" every few hours because the made some simple mistake that was going to cost them money and have to make them work harder to make up for it. I can't believe HEB over looks this problem of its wear house. Makes me ashamed to have witnessed the horrid inter-workings of a good company that so many people/customers have pride for.