Peter Principle applies - Transportation Supervisor Sysco Employee Review

1.0
Jul 28, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive wages, great friends, there are some great people, but their support is limited

Cons

Company has become very regimented, favoritism applies. Most of the employees are afraid to discuss problems with managers fearing retribution while others have given up entirely realizing it does more harm than good. The company has no growth potential, poor management decisions have brought out lower cash flows, so the struggle now is to maintain investors interests which has shown a very slow moving stock earnings. Due to poor management employees are forced to leave on their own accord or resign high turn over rates in new employees, older employees have learned to brush off company problems or have learned how to protect the current structures. Little room for moving up in the company, managers are uneducated, even up to the point of many of the VP's of operations may have only a high school education or promotion of HR managers with a GED and no other education - This is how bad the favoritism is in the company.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

You can make money but it all depends on the orders you get, how fast you can go, how long you can maintain that pace without getting burned out. Definitely a young mans sport, as the do refer to you as "industrial athletes."

Cons

Like many industries the hours can be long. For the ones who don't make much on running above rate then you can make up for it in hours. If you soak the hours and run you can definitely make some big money. The turn over rate is extremely high there, even in management. I used to be proud of the union but the teamsters in Cleveland are completely worthless, I would bet they are getting paid under the table to not fight for contract negotiations. When I was there the contract expired and they barely fought for anything, on voting day they literally said they wont back us up if we don't pass this contract....so consider that when you want to work for this place. Also the equipment is so old and broken that people were taking the scanners home just so they could have a good one for the next night.

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