Good Job For Those Who Don't Mind Working Hard - Anonymous employee Sysco Employee Review

4.0
7 Jun 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, home nightly, 5 day work week, decent benefits, awesome management staff. I have only been working here for a couple of months and I'm averaging $1,500 a week which is very decent for a NEW CDL Class A driver and a NEW employee in the food delivery service industry. This is also considered "base pay" rates. The average delivery driver at my location makes upwards of $100k per year. Paid holidays, matches 401k (to "X" percentage), again AWESOME management team. Always eager to tell and coach when needed.

Cons

Biweekly pay. Pallets are built by whom I can only assume are kinder garden children in adult male bodies. Very unorganized which makes finding each item for each individual stop challenging and down right frustrating at times. Delivery times are unrealistic. Routing sends you to stops either too early or during lunch windows. VERY PHYSICAL. VERY DANGEROUS. Nothing particularly unmanageable, but there are many occupational hazards. Typical delivery driver cons.

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Cons

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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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