Pros
Free shelf, if you have a use for the products. The people
Cons
Little to no real management: This specific fulfillment center has been without a full staff of management for close to 7 months. It went from having a combined total of 15 leadership roles between FC manager, managers, supervisors, and leads split between two sides of the week, down to 1 manager for inventory, and 3 leads in each department. THERE IS NO FC MANAGER, OUTBOUND MANAGER, AND NO SUPERVISORS ON EITHER SIDE. From what I can see, a lot of those role's duties have fallen on to the few leads that are left. Everyone watches the leads take on role after role after role and responsibilities stacked on responsibilities of all those missing management jobs above them and they get no extra compensation and are expected to work 2-3 roles at a time daily. All while temps are coming in the building and making just a little under what the leads are paid for running the building. Expect to be overworked: This job is very physically demanding and doing it day after day takes a toll on your body regardless if you are picking, scanning, palletizing, etc.. Every area strains your body in one way or another. The people who have worked up to leadership roles from the ground level positions seem to understand that and try to move people in those positions around the warehouse more which is nice. Management that hasn't worked on the ground level just demands more and expects you to stay late every day while they sit at their desk and leave early. Inventory/Outbound/Metering software: The software that is being used is extremely dated, never updated and makes day to day operation much harder than it needs to be. The company makes enough money to afford some modern software that actually works. The amount of time employees spend fixing stuff that shouldn't break regularly is atrocious, not to mention the supplies wasted in the process. Overall Morale: Probably 4/5 of the employees in this building hate their job and wish they would get fired. That negativity is sadly what bonds most of the relationships in this building. Every time someone leaves, someone else is left to pick up the slack and it only stacks and gets worse. The employees that put in good work are expected to give 120% every day while people who hardly show up get paid more for less. The people who show effort and stay late become expected to stay late nightly. Corporate and management say they see and notice these things but they do nothing to show it. There is 0 compensation for going from a ground worker to knowing the entire warehouse. Want your raise for learning how to operate machinery? You'll probably have to beg for it and even then good luck. There is no reason for any employee to try as hard as they do when others are running around not showing up for half a week regularly, not making rate ever, etc. and still have a job to come to every day. Corporate/Management: People from both of these are often asking for ideas on how to make the workplace better. No matter what your idea is, even if they agree to it being a good idea, it wont get implemented. The building is too busy buying pool tables and basketball hoops instead of spending it rebuilding the company where it needs it. There are people all over the company with amazing ideas that would solve a lot of the issues between the company and its workers but those ideas get shunned as soon as you walk away. Lack of Promotions: There used to be openings for promotion from within all over the place. Now, as mentioned above, peoples jobs just get attached to others at their expense with no compensation. The building has lost half its management team and not a single position has been filled and corporate seems to take no interest in filling it. Why should they when people can work 2-3 jobs at once for the same wage? If you are looking for a good warehouse job, look anywhere else. The pay is not very competitive these days, benefits are disappearing one by one, and your good attitude and work ethic will only get abused.
