Operations issues and corporate and management failure keep your paycheck low - Sales Consultant Sysco Employee Review

1.0
Jun 24, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Product assortment and product specialists are good. There's good DSM's and upper management, but most somehow accept the terrible situation.

Cons

In Atlanta the situation is just horrible. Operations management and the union will work against you to ensure that for any account brought on, two will leave entirely due to late deliveries and operations issues. All you hear is "open new business" from management but it is very difficult to convince a new customer to accept an afternoon delivery window that still won't be honored half the time. Who is ok with 8pm deliveries? Major comp change in FY25 took 10-15% of the paycheck away. DSMs and DLS's are forced to assign all the inherited accounts to new SC's . Plenty of SC's have left and there's lots of lost street accounts, so no one new is going to make much money. There's no concrete plan to fix the operations issues and management will always just try to sugarcoat it.

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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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