Pros
Union Job with killer heath benefits. (Basically you only have to pay %20. The customers are awesome and fiercely loyal even though mission screws em price wise. You can make 60,000 plus if you're a good saleman (combined with the ludicrous amount of overtime you are forced to work) The initial paid training in Santa Barbra was awesome and very lavish.
Cons
This is a long review so if you want short and sweet, just read the title! Don't work as delivery driver here or you will have to family life and your body will be damaged from all the akward lifting. I'm not even sure where to begin, there is quite the laudry list of cons!!!! This was by far the worst job I've ever had, and I'm going to tell you why. The hours suck. I was working 60+ hrs every week minimum. That looks awesome as OT on your paycheck till the government rapes you and you get taxed MORE for being in a higher tax Bracket! Heck once I got a huge bonus for being one of the top salesmen and made Less money!!! ( because of taxes) I realize that Mission can't control taxes but they need to reduce the amount of stops per route so that there is less overtime! I calculated the math and literally if I worked 45 OR 55 hours I would get the same amount of pay due to the increse in taxes. (No one wants to work 10 hrs for free. There are two kinds of routeman: linen and industrial. The linen guys start at 15 bucks an hr, and top out at 19 bucks an hr. (As of 2016). They also get 10% commission of any disposable products they sell. The Industrial guys only get 10% of their route volume. But they calculate it in an obscure way that no one understands. (Literally non of the industrial guys I knew could figure it out.) The crappy part is the industrial guys get screwed cause the longer their route takes the less they make. So when they have shortages (product not ready for their route) they have to make extra trips to the plant that they are not getting paid for. (Shortages happen daily because mission is to stringy to buy enough product so there is never enough processed) this also affects the linen guys too. (Out of the years I worked for mission there were only about 12 -15 days that I actually wasn't shorted a bunch of stuff. So basically most of us routemen would run stuff to our customers on our way home off the clock cause it wasn't ready when it should have been That is another problem, as a driver you are at the mercy of the production staff so if they are lazy or prone to make errors you will be short product all the time and have to run back to the plant if you didn't catch it when you were loading. This job will destroy your back and knees.!!!!!! This job will destroy your back and knees. That is not a typo, I wrote it twice so you would catch it! The problem is nothing you lift is egonomically managable. You are contantly bending over to pick up mats off the floor and stooping to close the bags. Then you are carrying far to much weight and slinging it into the back of your truck (bad for the back) In addition to the physical stress, there is tremendous sales pressure. So not only are you working a 12 hr day with no time for lunch or breaks, but you have to try to meet a ridiculous impossible sales goals. Time is the god of this job. If you're not running the whole day you will be fired. They are never satisfied no matter how good you do! So expect to be yelled at every day when you get back to the plant. (At least at my plant) They burn through drivers like matches. At one point we had over 10 drivers quit in less than 9 months! (Jobs at this level shouldn't have that high of turn over) But I couldn't blame them for wanting to leave that environment. I could go on and on about the many problems about my experience with mission linen, but I think you get the point and many of my complaints are at my local plant level and not at mission in general (or at least I hope) Things such as FREQUENT paycheck errors, crappy management, verbally abusive and critical, you could not take off sick days even though you had them accumulated( that way when you quit you lost them all), the GM breaking written contracts with customer by raising the pre negotiated prices (in writting) and Also severe dishonesty by trying to charge customers for losses then didn't have so they could meet their quota for loss and abuse. Etc. I left to preserve my family life and my body. It was the best choice I ever made. I am taking a paycut by leaving but I have no second thoughts about it!
