Pros
For the most part, R&L does take care of it's employees whether it be health coverage, free employee resorts, or the annual Christmas bonus for everyone (even if it isn't much). The attire is not professional if you work on the dock, you can grow the biggest, ugliest beard you want, have giant, useless studs in your ears, be covered in tattoos that won't wash off, whatever you are into. The paid wages are competitive across the board and there isn't drug testing unless an accident occurs so all the riff-Raff that make it through the interview/hiring process have a job they can come to every day as looped up as they want within the limit of being caught. Coincidentally, many safety measures are now in place to protect the handful of intelligent people working on the dock from the overwhelming number of idiots that get hired in over and over again.
Cons
One con is the fact that if an individual makes an attempt to go above and beyond his/her peers, they just get tasked with more to do. There is no incentive or compensation for being one of the best at what you do, rarely even a thanks. Also, the wages paid are the same for all workers in a given region so the loader at one terminal that destroys freight and receives write-ups everyday receives the same pay as a loader at another terminal in the same region that has a stellar record and load average. Another con involves employee evaluations of which there are none, annually or any other time. So the employees do not get rated against their peers or anyone else, just come in and do what is asked of you. Con number three deals with useless management failures that get moved around and continue to maintain employment with the company. Other managers have some visible purpose but at other times can be found playing on their phones or sitting and chatting, basically providing nothing useful for the company. One of the best scenarios involves a manager that conducts annual forklift operation reviews for employees when that same manager is unable to successfully and safely operate a forklift himself, hello captain pencil whip. There are numerous cons, but a final one is the vast amount of time and concern that is put into safety rather than claims, customers freight, what actually pays the bills. In a five day work week there is freight damaged, mishandled, or destroyed every single one of those days, just make sure you have your seat belt on when you go ahead and mishandle our customers freight.
