S&S Activewear reviews

The hours are ridiculous. You never know what time you leave work (or what time you come in for that matter). You're hired for an 8 hour shift but that 8 hour shift almost always becomes 9-12 hour shifts and you're penalized if you leave early. Weekends off? LAUGHABLE. If they don't get enough sacrificial lambs to volunteer for Sunday, guess what? Mandatory Sunday shift. If you don't show up, you're penalized. We're also CONSTANTLY required to come in an hour early (mandatory), the reasoning being that we'll then be able to leave earlier but we ALWAYS leave later. Basically, any idea of a set schedule is a myth. Yet, unlike other industries where your schedule changes weekly and you get time to organize your life, our schedule here changes HOURLY and always in favor of S&S. Prepare to give up your time and freedom for the almighty bottom line. Rules are arbitrary, ridiculous and ever changing. We have the necessary rules for safety and operations then we have all the unnecessary rules that are imposed without rhyme or reason. The one bathroom we're allowed to use can be used as a torture device. To call it filthy would be a gross understatement. Morale is exactly where you expect it to be in Hell; hovering somewhere in the negatives. Pay would be okay if the stress and drama was worth it. It's not. Management is a joke. A sick, cruel joke.

S&S Activewear is the biggest impediment to their own success! The management team is unprofessional, uneducated, and and self-entitled; to call these people "management" is a joke at best. Don't expect to hear back from your manager in a timely manor with any sort of solution to the problem especially when it has to do with losing a sale or a customer. None of the managers have any sense of urgency at all, what-so-ever. It's crystal clear that they don't appreciate their employees or their customers. Additional cons are that the territories are not divided up fairly amongst the sales team. Some territories are very dense with few miles in-between them and the employee isn't responsible for the entire state, in fact, there may be several sales people working within that same geographical area while others are made up of multiple states where the employee is responsible for all accounts across all of that land, furthermore, the larger and more favored accounts within ones territory may be assigned to a non-local rep. The compensation for the workload is extremely poor, you'll get paid a straight salary and there are zero commission opportunities (across all competitor companies commissions are paid out along with the salary and bonus). If you ask the management team for the metrics in which your annual bonus was calculated they'll smirk and chuckle and let you know that because they choose to pass on the business so often that they can't hold you accountable for it (however, you are not being compensated fairly against your peers - I assure you). Another issue is that you'll beat up your car by putting on thousands of miles each year and they don't even pay you the full mileage rate!!! They are happy to pay you $0.44/mile. What's really sad to me is that the owners (Paul and Jeff) are wonderful people and the folks calling the shots each day are running this company into the ground FAST.