Pros
- I worked in the freezer which meant there was a $2/hr cold pay. That brought me to $20.50 an hour which was awesome, particularly for an entry level job. - Everything is based on efficiency so anything over 100% (up to 150%) meant you got incentive pay - aka - more money. I think you could cap out at roughly $30 an hour if you hit 150% efficiency. And while I never hit the cap, once the job started to click for me I was generally finishing days around 105% - 115%. I certainly believe that would have steadily increased because I unfortunately had to leave the job shortly after that point. - Freezer was the easiest selector job (we sometimes had to fill in at the grocery warehouse and I found that significantly more difficult). - I personally enjoyed the schedule. 10 hour days and we knew our schedule for the whole month. At most we were scheduled 4 days in a row, but that also meant at least once a month we would have 4 days off in a row. - Benefits (which kicked in essentially on day one which was a massive plus)! - Weekly pay. - It was fun to drive those little order picker trucks.
Cons
- Work started at 5am. (My commute was an hour so... kind of rough) - The freezer was -32 degrees. You are provided freezer gear though (clothes and hand/foot warmers) and that stuff really worked so it was truly a non issue for the most part... except for my hands which was a consistent problem. - There was often mandatory overtime (which sometimes felt like a negative, sometimes felt like a positive). This sometimes meant you lost a day off but as far as I remember I was never made to work more than 4 consecutive days. - Once you're off the probationary period if you are consistently under 100% efficiency you are technically at risk of termination. Don't really know if that's a con but just wanted to point it out.