Only plus here is pay. The scheduling here is spilt days off between Friday and one weekday, which is hard to balance out your personal life due to the long 12+ hour shifts. This DC has a huge turnover rate, Which is a huge problem. Main thing here is that there is favoritism with seniority. which makes sense on paper, but it screws over all the new hires because you get sent to build carts in the freezer which is below degree weather, (which some excel in this area and others don't, chances are that you are not going to succeed here unless you have been experienced for at least a year.)
Not only that, it means you have last say about anything and that includes the equipment. Every time I got to my shift to start my job, I would get nasty looks and get called out by coworkers fighting for working pallet riders or ones that even had battery. (other shifts don't charge the riders so they were always out of battery.)
Typical day here starts with a pre-shift meeting, where they announce the minutes for the day (the amount of work you have to do before you go home.) Because of the turnover rate, they never have a full crew. Expect to get 700 mins everyday, which means 12 hours minimum if you bust your back non stop for 12 hours straight.
Because every night is a high volume night, everyone is racing/scrambling to get their work done as fast as possible. Which as a new hire, you are learning and you are trying to get things done (even after they train you for 2 weeks. Believe me, you are still learning to build up your speed) and sometimes you get in their way, which gets you nasty looks, bad vibes, and even confrontational situations.
which gets me to my next cons about this job. This is an extremely hostile work environment. coworkers here will be stressed all around from the high volume nights and will let out their frustration towards you if you get in their way while working or doing something wrong unintentionally.
If I could give advice to this DC management team, it would be that you are screwing over all the new hires by prioritizing everyone by seniority. which again, makes sense on paper but the reality is that's the reason you cannot keep a full crew and have massive turnover rates, screwing over the whole DC in the process. if they had a rolling schedule with the areas/equipment you get to work with. they would have a bigger crew = less work for everyone all around.
If you like to work long hours and don't mind giving up your personal life for decent pay, by all means this is the right fit for you.
