Sysco reviews

This is a constant uphill battle that you cannot win. Besides the initial training which is worse than a college class (and I even have a Masters), all you do is put out fires. It's hard to sell, get new accounts, meet your goals if you are literally stuck dealing with problems that are out of your control. I'm still here, but I don't know how much longer I can take it. You don't really get time off. You can't take off during sales meetings which is one Friday a month. You may be "off" on Memorial Day, but you are still expected to take orders. You are basically on call 24/7 and cannot escape the job.

Predominately male and white. The company wants the exact same type of employee at every location in an effort to justify paying the lowest salary. A sales employee in California is expected to make the same salary as their counterpart in Alabama, even though the costs of living are vastly different. Employees are classified in tiers and salaries are capped. So if someone were content with being an administrative assistant for the rest of her career, and she has been with the company for 10+ years, her salary would NEVER increase. She does not get a salary increase for merit or cost of living. Bonuses are for executives only, and those come at the expense of their employees. Corporate has made some astounding and extremely expensive errors over the years. The spent over a Billion dollars trying to convert their system to SAP. During the beginning of that transition they decided to fire all of their local IT personnel and hire a firm in India (known for their H-1B violations) to reduce the cost of the transition because they mistakenly believe that all of their employees are computer literate and IT is easy. Sysco was very, very, very wrong. They had to bring back and hire new IT associates at every opco. Instead of a smooth transition to SAP, they had to revert to the "old" AS400 system. Sysco also believed that as an entity, it can do no wrong and that they could easily have a merger with the second largest food supplier in the nation, US Foods, and everyone would love the idea. It was obviously going to create a monopoly and the FTC agreed. The merger was cancelled, which cost Sysco even more money. It probably doesn't help that Sysco and US Foods tend to "swap" employees on a regular basis. Recent changes also led to the mass exodus of many talented, intelligent, hard-working and loyal employees. Many great employees are still there, but are expected to now do the work of 2-3 people without a salary increase. The only "incentive" is that they "get" is to keep their job.