Your just a mule. - Anonymous employee Sysco Employee Review

2.0
13 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Job security. People gonna eat. They can't get anyone to work for them so your golden Staff orders. You can buy restaurant quality food. Gym membership not required after a day at sysco. But nerve medication is.

Cons

It's a fight for anything. Your pay is always messed up. You never get anything you don't fight for months to get. Incredibly physical. You don't drive much. Just lug cases into places. Up stairs. Down stairs. Trailers are a horrific nightmare. You spend 75% of your day looking and digging for things you need. Like I said. Everything is a fight. It's mentally and physically draining. Equipment is not maintained because it needs to be on the road not in the garage. Management is next to impossible to contact in an emergency. Customers are a very unique big ego fragile bunch. Good luck and God speed

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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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