Spot reviews

The negative comments that have been left by others are very true. The owners will sit at their desk on the floor and talk bad about other employees. They don't care about work/ life balance. You need to be at your job or working 24/7. They are lucky they don't have to pay salary employees overtime, because if it was up to them they would have you there for 13+ hours a day. Management there does not believe in the 8-5 or 8-6 even. There is no room for advancement and there is VERY HIGH turnover.

Most of the other people are fresh out of college so those kids are annoying. I've worked at another freight brokerage and it must just be the industry but to get ahead, you have to take the good accounts from departed coworkers, hitting commission on your own is near impossible. That's how all the longer-tenured reps who are actually making good money got there; they just got accounts from other reps who've left. I was there for two years and not a single person in that two years hit their commission. Not saying it's Spot's fault but it's the industry; there is absolutely no loyalty with your customers. As a broker, you're completely expendable. If they find someone who's $5 cheaper, they'll drop you like a hot rock. This job is really only for kids right out of college, if you've worked anywhere else you'll be quickly frustrated. At least in the last few years, very difficult to hit commissions or move up. Management sees Spot as a cool, laid-back place to work but it's anything but. You are on-call 24/7, literally. There's a bowling alley for some reason but it's for show, no one uses it.