Uline reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,540 total reviews)
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Dick Uihlein

74% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Uline has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,540 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Uline employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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2.0
Jun 12, 2015

Not worth the pay

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Pros

Decent pay/benefits Yearly bonuses for just doing your job Many events to keep things interesting

Cons

It's hard to tell what the management staff even does around the warehouse. You'll see them chatting it up among themselves and pulling their phones out in the middle of the day while general warehouse workers are scattering to pick/pack orders and meet their daily quota. Too much work for amount of workers there are which means overtime every night. Yeah you only work maybe 45 hours a week which doesn't sound awful, but that is legitimately 45 hours of straight work. There is no time to chat with coworkers since you have to hit your daily quota for lines. There's barely time to go to the bathroom or fill up your water bottle. I've seen guys get talked to for spending too much time in the bathroom. Management has to get a certain amount of negative audits throughout the day so they will literally hide behind places so they might catch a worker doing something incorrectly. At the end of the night when there is still a lot of work to do management refuses to hop on a truck and help out. They'll just tell guys that they are going slow and overtime is inevitable. Don't bank on moving up. There are guys who have been there years who are still picking. The company doesn't promote from within often but rather hires from the outside. The outside hires get barely any training on the job but then are given the responsibility of telling others how to do theirs. The company does very well because it is very customer friendly but most employees, in the warehouse at least, are very unhappy. Managers hang job over head constantly. General warehouse workers literally avoid talking with the management staff because they only bring bad news to the table. Management staff seem to get off on making people feel bad about themselves. I'm guessing it's a motivational tool to continually get people to improve, but all it does is destroy confidence or make people jaded Oh and the hours are terrible. No time to do anything before or after work. Uline becomes home.

1.0
Jul 7, 2014

Not a good idea

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Pros

Good pay that is the best part do have a 401 K program also comes with full benefits as well. Some of the managers are extremely down to earth as well.

Cons

Say you will work minimum overtime on average do an hour to 2 hours. extreme micro management. can't control the growth they are getting. Fire random people for no reason when they are short staffed. Hire people that physically can't do the job. Drug test mainly the minorities they hire.

3.0
Aug 27, 2016

Great pay that comes at a price

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay at Uline is pretty good. You can tell that they make an effort to match or exceed national and state salary averages. The benefits are OK. Several perks for those who work at the corporate location, i.e. free massages once in a while, great on-site gym, and on-site cafeteria for breakfast and lunch. The bonuses are also very, very generous. Overall, fairly lucrative.

Cons

However, all of these perks come at a price. They are very strict in how they want things done and how they want their employees to appear. There is a very strict dress code in place that prohibits women from wearing pants M-TH unless they wear a full pant suit. Only on Fridays are slacks and a blouse/sweater acceptable. In addition to that, women are required to wear tights/hose from October until May while wearing skirts and dresses. This rule is enforced across the board, even in hotter climates. They monitor their employees to ensure that the dress code is being adhered to, and if employees don't, then they get written up and have to have a meeting with their manager in order to address it. Due to rather vague wording in the handbook, the interpretation of what is acceptable and unacceptable is left to the discretion of those monitoring (anonomously), thus rendering it a rather subjective procedure. It is somewhat uncommon that an employee goes without being written up at least once. This makes for a certain undertone of unease and the feeling of walking on egg shells from day to day. The branches have their own array of similar, big brother-esque rules. If you are the type of person that thrives in a highly structured and rigid environment, then you would do well at Uline. But if you are more free-spirited, creative, or dislike rules for rules sake, then you will not do well at Uline. Those apt to proposing procedural changes will also find it difficult to adjust to working at Uline. If change does come, then it comes arduously and slowly. It is also not uncommon to find instances of favoritism. Those who find themselves in that lucky group are more likely to ascend to higher positions than their peers.

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