Horrible Management - Anonymous employee Mars Employee Review

2.0
Jul 22, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay/benefits and the work/life balance isn’t horrible

Cons

Management is horrible. They want to get payed with doing the least amount of work possible. Favoritism is huge in this company, you get promoted based on who you know and how much of a suck up you are versus your actual performance and work ethic. I brought up legitimate concerns of favoritism, negligence and other things which a good employee should. Then they started looking for little things to try to fire me over and overlook their buddies who were doing the same thing. I brought up many no cost way to improve efficiency there while making the job easier at the same time and they just dismissed it, but when their buddies brought up the same idea they got rewarded for it. I showed initiative many times to learn new things to where I could do more for the company just to once again get dismissed for their buddies. All in all if your looking for a long time job this is not it. Horrible management, they all need to work out on the floor so they can see who earns them all that money.

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Pros

- Company car (fuel card, insurance, etc) - Good benefits - Great brand exposure/understanding of CPG sales at the retail level - Annual sales meeting is fun, but exhausting - Simple job

Cons

- Micromanaged by leadership (EVERYTHING is tracked) - Extremely repetitive work (not much freedom in creating your schedule, same tasks over and over, etc.) - Dealing with retail management. If you don't have respectful store managers, good luck. A lot of your KPI's are out of your control and your experience relies on your store. - As DOZENS of other people have said, this is a merchandising job - not sales. You are responsible for placing product on the sales floor after consulting with the store (basically asking management who only views you as free manual labor). There is no commission/incentive for producing positive results. - SEASONS: this is the reason why you have this job if you're working with the Walmart channel. You have unrealistic expectations set from leadership to pack out hundreds of heavy cases of candy each holiday season after begging store management for space to place it. Most of the stores' back rooms are a complete mess and a lot of your product is inaccessible. Long days are expected with no additional pay. - Work/life balance: It is frowned upon to work the bare minimum of 40 hours/week. Your stores get backed up while you're on PTO. Overall: an okay role This isn't a bad job by any means, you just need to know what the role entails before taking this job. You need to relocate for any future opportunities within the company.

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Thank you for taking the time to write your review. We’re sorry to hear your experience with us has not been positive. We aim to support our Associates in every way throughout their time with us and are committed to their wellbeing and development. Please reach out to the independent, confidential team at ombudsman@effem.com, and we look forward to discussing this further.
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