Pros
You will get tons of overtime, but work life balance along with health and safety will suffer considerably!
Cons
The employees (warehouse workers) of this company need to put their heads together and Unionize, that means across the nation, anywhere this company exists! Unionizing means being able to negotiate wages, benefits, working hours, and overall working atmosphere! Think about that, you could all do so much just by workers making the changes necessary! So, to break this down first and foremost it doesn’t matter if you are a Manager, Driver, or Warehouse Worker the atmosphere and chaos is all the same. The right hand never knows what the left hand is doing and it’s all about production. New hires come in and are herded like cattle with very little, if any training at all. Not that the trainers didn’t care, but they were never properly trained to be trainers themselves, and were never given the opportunity to actually train, due to being pulled all over the place for other things. The overall culture of the workforce as a whole was highly toxic. Depending on which era you were employed also depended on the overall stability of the warehouse. It doesn’t matter that one has tenure in the company, if they aren’t management material, they shouldn’t have been placed in that role. Basic communication was horrible. Management and Warehouse Employees are at opposite ends of the spectrum. What was said yesterday is not the same as today and so on. Employees can make good money with overtime but working 12 to 14 hour days sometimes 6 days a week, in extreme weather conditions, takes a toll. New management came in and talked like they were going to change the world. The “Good ol’boy system” didn’t work the first time and isn’t working this time. All that really changed was the lack of personnel due to terminations. Not that they weren’t justified in doing so, but truly some of the managers deserved the same treatment. The constant struggle between corporate and warehouses inevitably affected the overall production throughout. The lack of any structure lead not only to terminations but accidents, injuries, and good people leaving. Even some of the managers are worked into the ground day in and day out. Things can never be resolved without a million emails being sent back and forth and even then, there is never a straight answer. Employees are definitely not of any priority which in turn leads to an “I don’t care” attitude. That reflected on loads being sent out damaged or mismanaged and Meyer loses customers weekly if not daily due to missing parts, damaged parts, or not receiving their product in a timely manner. Benefits are off the chain horrible. For whatever reason, money obviously played the heaviest role, the company opted on a Catastrophic Insurance plan. Once you are eligible to receive this you learn that, for a single person, the deductible is $5,000.00 and $10,000.00 for a family, with a premium of like $500.00 a month. Be glad that all that overtime is available because any medical expenses like doctors visits, prescriptions, etc., are paid out of pocket at 100% until you meet that low cost of $5000.00. With the amount of money that we all heard about this company pulling in, I’m sure they could have opted for a much better plan. After a year there’s a week of vacation which is pretty standard, and you earn a personal day every quarter. That’s nice except when you’re having to work all that overtime it just doesn’t seem to add up. Not to mention the vacation is use it or lose it, so no banking that for those long overdue beach vacations in a couple of years. The bottom line is this company is nationwide but lives in a small town mentality. If your stuck between making a decision of working at Meyer or somewhere else I would undoubtedly think twice about Meyer. However if you need to make some money it’s there but overall you should still keep your options open.
