Home City Ice reviews

3.7

74% would recommend to a friend

(466 total reviews)

Ted Sedler

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Home City Ice has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 466 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Home City Ice employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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466 reviews
3.0
Aug 2, 2014
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Pros

Opportunity for someone with few skills to work a lot of hours and receive an okay paycheck. They hire mostly college students over the summer. Fairly relaxed corporate culture.

Cons

Memorial Day/4th of July weekends & heatwaves, you are expected to work at least 12 hours, to up to 16 hours per day, back to back. Some guys even worked from 7am-2am a few days! The end of your shift is until finished, so you could work from 7am-10pm depending if they give you a ton of stores with lots of driving. The best I averaged was only $13 an hour during a week, most of the time it was between $11-12, not the $14/hour they advertise. Trucks towards the end of summer kept breaking down, left me stranded for 2 hours one time and since it's commission based I wasn't getting paid for sitting around. I was never at a weigh station but fully loaded with 9 skids of ice the truck had to be over 26,000 pounds and you would need a cdl license, but the company is too cheap to hire drivers with a cdl and comply with the hourly driving restrictions that come with a cdl.

3.0
Apr 29, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

good pay, self motivating, work/drive ratio was good

Cons

long hours, demanding management, constant communication required

4.0
Apr 4, 2014

Great Summer Job

Recommend
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Pros

-Great pay for seasonal work. For me avg. $12-14/hr. $900-1200 avg. bi-weekly pay. More thru June-Mid August. I would make more in 3 1/2 months than other college friends would make in a year. -I could work over the summer and make enough to pay rent and expenses over the school year -No boss looking over your shoulder all day. Once you leave the plant, you are on your own. -Flexible days when management is given enough notice. Usually if I needed a specific day off I could get that day off, I might just need to work an extra day before or after to help make up for someone covering that day. -More work=more money -The longer the drive=better commision. -When I demonstrated I was a hard and reliable worker, I started getting better routes which turned into better paychecks -Unit bonus of $8 for selling 2000 units which doesn't sound like much but it does start adding up.

Cons

-Days can be long 10-12 hours, but if I was working that long I was making good money. Even longer days over the holidays 12-14 hours, but during that time it was $200+ per day. So it is kind of a trade off working longer days for better money. I would start early to combat the longer days. -Is somewhat physically demanding at first. Once I got the hang of moving the ice around it became routine. (they started these new carts at my location last summer with 4 wheels that I didn't have to tip back or balance which helps) -Going from outside where its hot to inside cold takes some getting adjusted to. -Some customers are very demanding/picky -Some routes would require long drives (30-40 miles to get to an area)

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