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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1.0
Jan 4, 2017

Awful

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay to start, paid time off, profit sharing bonus yearly, benefits are well, and holiday pay is a bonus

Cons

You essentially are competing against other employees for productivity and you will definitely get a lot of backstabbing selfish people only concerned about their own productivity and skipping over work to hit their quota and leaving you the hard work that they deliberately skipped, versus helping a teammate out to get the job done. When you notice management they basically could care less honestly and it is absolutely sickening. At the end of the day literally everyone gets the same review either way from what I have had other people tell me which is a 3% increase no matter how much you sacrifice and work more than the other person or believe you are doing more than average, you are not, according to 'Uline' standards. I had perfect attendance for the year but was rated a 3 out of 5 for my attendance. How does that work? They do not care about you at this place. Claim there is "great opportunity," but really they are just moving you to a building further away from your home. You will most likely also work more overtime at this location that is already taking more time out of your day due to the drive, making for long work days at a mundane job at best. A building manager came up to me during my lunch on a Friday( I usually always stay in and bring my own lunch which is an hour long) and asked if I was ready for the move on Monday. I had no idea what he was talking about but apparently I was being moved to another building that no one notified me about. He was upset and said "this is not the 'Uline' way" stating that he would call me in to his office to further address the issue and make sure I was taken care of. Guess what, I never got called in to his office and had to figure it out on my own, so much for the 'Uline' way. I have been accused multiple times of taking steroids by a building manager telling me that I should go inject some more steroids into my @**. Ironically the next day I had a "random" drug test. I asked a building manager when we were training one of our guys on a reach truck because we could really use the help. He smirked and looked at me saying "sometime." We had a new employee start working for us and he had a gallon of water which was store at a desk fairly desolated, safe out of site. A building manager was walking around doing an audit on our department and instead of addressing to this brand new employee right in front of him that we apparently cannot have those in our building, he took a picture of the gallon and wrote an email to our managers plus those above him about the situation. We receive errors for product picked incorrectly. There was an employee that had four errors on a single picker page which is usually eight lines total, instead of getting all four errors he only received one. I personally know that he knows people that work or have worked here. Call it ironic or what but if that was me or any other employee I can certainly guarantee I would have received four errors versus one. For example, a new employee put some skids back to stock literally the first day he was officially trained. Apparently there was a miscommunication but honestly it is terrible training. They blame you for everything when in reality it starts up top and trickles down. Anyway, he received 26 errors for not stocking those skids in at all, in my opinion, because of the terrible training they provide. Guess what? He got all 26 errors and those did not get condensed into one error like the other guy. Ironic? In all honestly if you are doing it for the money, go ahead but still not worth it in my opinion. If you want to feel appreciated and respected, I highly recommend you stay away.

1.0
May 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

For the Middle of nowhere Wisconsin, the pay is decent. But the salaries are on the lower end of the average salaries for software developers in Milwaukee, Chicago and especially the rest of the country

Cons

As the headline says, they'll try to stop you from leaving by suing your potential employers. Uline culture: - 5 days a week in office, formal wear (men -> ties, women -> skirts even in winter) - Women get dress checked more than men (discriminatory). - Quotas on promotions - HR, IT Executive Admins play favorites by enforcing rules for who they want in IT - HAVE to be clocked in for 9 hours a day -> 45 hour work weeks - PTO days count as 8 hours. For every day you take PTO you have to make up 1 hour. Penalty for taking PTO it seems. (not sure it's legal, certainly unethical) - Lots of politics, especially for an IT and tech departments. You can work really hard and not get a promotion because of this. - Please look at the other reviews for what Uline 'small quirks' are. Uline says if you don't like the 'family', you can leave. But that's also a lie. As you read above, the 'quirks' that Uline has pushed many people to look elsewhere. Another company, let's call it company A, in Winter of 2023 - 2024, took our best developers and more. Company A offered what Uline cannot - Uline (mid-level) software developers were being interviewed & hired for Senior positions at Company A. This could have been preventable if there weren't quotas on promotions, no favoritism and cultural improvements. Instead of Uline using this as opportunity to fix their culture, they decided to sue! Company A had to immediately stop hiring anybody from Uline and sabotaged many careers in IT, preventing them from going to the next step. Besides that, Uline IT executive admin and HR are also a big part of what make it a horrible experience. They have favorites, enforce rules for who they don't like and let it slide for those they do like. If you decide to leave your cube and take a mental break on a couch, IT Executive Admin WILL keep track of that and use it against you, and inform HR or your manager. This include personals calls, conversations outside of the cubes, etc. Want to report them? Uline hates IT and will side with managers, HR, and ITExecutive admin. This is why it's crucial to have individuals of integrity in those positions, which is not the case, especially for IT Executive Admin that sits amongst us.

1.0
Jun 25, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay and the bonuses.

Cons

- No room for advancement. You are stuck if you are at the branch level unless you “move to Pleasant Prairie” - Cult like work culture. You are allowed a limited number of “personal” items on your desk, that can only be a certain size. You are only allowed to display your most “current” award. There is even a “calendar” policy. Individuality is not a thing here. Strict dress code. Tattoos are a big no no (be sure to cover them up for your interview!) Standing at your cube is not allowed. Dress down days happen at the branch level occasionally but the only communication is in the form of a piece of paper that is passed from cube to cube that says “do not email or discuss on work computers.” When the owner Liz visits the branch, the red carpet is rolled out (extra deep cleanings, no trash liners in trash cans [because she doesn’t like that], no floor mats at entrances [that are there when she is not there,] fresh paint on all the walls, fresh mulch outside, fresh flowers, are small details… if she only knew how her branches look when she’s not around?) - No desire to provide employees a proper work/life balance because they are not a “work from home” culture. The “culture” that they are describing is the one where they don’t like that they cannot keep eyes on you every second of the day. - Rather than addressing/removing managers that are the root cause of turnover, they protect them and try to push the blame elsewhere. - Warehouse employees are worked like dogs with mandatory over time almost daily. Rather than looking at the sources of turnover and listening to employees, they think money and bonuses will solve issues. (Here’s a hint: it doesn’t…) - They want your opinion and feedback, but only if it’s what they want to hear. Otherwise, your feedback is worthless to them. - Interviews: there is a ton of weight on your personality test they have you fill out. This literally makes or breaks your application. (Here’s a hint: they want employees that will be compliant and fall in line (remember that cult culture I mentioned?) If your answers don’t meet this, you are rejected.) - Management talks about you behind your back. I’ve been in lunches where hard working former employees were ridiculed and made fun of because they left Uline. - Do as I say, not as I do. Managers live by their own rules. - No matter how much they want to provide you the illusion otherwise, YOU ARE A NUMBER. Nothing more. You can easily be replaced.

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