C&S Wholesale Grocers Employer Reviews

This is a temporary agency that I worked with for a few years when I have having trouble deciding what I wanted to do with my life. Over-all the staff were very friendly and helpful with my needs at the time. However, the jobs were temporary and life moved on.

Arrive to work must clock-in in front of supervisor, begin work immediately. Very minimal talking. Give daily status of workload when supervisor made rounds. Took prescheduled morning break and return to work. Take 30 minute lunch with the rest of the floor and return to work. Take prescheduled afternoon break and return to work. Clock out. Hardest – more... part of the job was locating missing contracts or keying in last minute contracts. I enjoyed the people I worked with. – less

Long hours but well worth it. Constant lifting boxes throughout the day. Keeps you in good shape. Learn to challenge myself and other males throughout the warehouse. Management work very well with schedule and always kept open minded. Easy to talk to managers. Co-workers are always compatible, challenge me to select faster. Outgoing people. Hardest – more... part of the job is knowing you will come in the next day to work another 13 hour shift selecting boxes in a 20 degree warehouse. – less

Management .in a union environment is not simple. You have to be very careful and pay attention to details

On a typical day, I would come into work a little bit late and start rushing to meet deadlines. I would finish all of my early morning deadlines by about 2 o clock and then I would take lunch. When I got back from my lunch break, I would have 10-15 e-mails to read and organize. Most of the e-mails would not get a response for about a week. Then, I would – more... start working on the projects that my direct supervisor asked me for. Usually, these projects would require me to research and gather useless information that has no strategic value besides making the business look good. I learned not to rely on managers to act as the buffer between myself and upper-management because right before the employee reviews, upper-management is going to fire the middle management and leave me to have my review directly with the supervisor. I will be responsible for explaining all the short-comings of the middle management, who is now gone from the company. The good thing about the job was that I had job security. As long as I was willing to face my boss and look her in the eye while she told me that my work was not good enough, I had the freedom to be as lazy as I wanted. There was no positive incentive to do good work, only negative incentive to not do bad work. – less

For a company that says in its motto that it has braggingly happy employees, most are not. They say you can get promoted from within, but its next to impossible to get a promotion. They've even cancelled internal interviews! They expect you to do super human amounts of work, then get upset if you work overtime, or god forbid make a mistake (we are human – more... after all). The benefits keep increasing faster than the raises, and even if you put in the extra effort, it isn't reflected come review time. – less

Title says it all. Theres nothing good to say, and too much negative to list

cool easy flow
how to be on a team and how to drive a pallet jack
great surpervisors hands on with the team
very encouraging co-workers
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every part of it

Job was good, management was out to get anyone they could...finally got me

Great company with great advancement potential. There are many awesome people that care about the company and the customer.

I worked there for one year and lost weight and felt good. Helped me be a better person and a hard worker. good people to work for.

I started with this company and management is fair and I advanced fast within the company. The health benefits seem to have changed some, but pay and raises are fair. You do have to work very long days and be very dedicated to your job when working in customer service. C&S has lots of warehouses , but only one customer service center so we have plenty – more... of work. I loved always having something to do and helping our customers all over the united states is rewarding. – less

i came here last year to a disorganized mess .. today was much better and i was only in a door for about 45 min being unloaded.

The pay and benefits are good but all thier standards are based off of production and speed and lacks pretty much everywhere else. Co-workers will steal equipment from other co-workers while they are on break, incentive selectors have assigned equipemnt yet as a trainee you have no idea which ones are assigned because the company does not bother to – more... ethier have designated parking for unassigned and assigned equipement or have simple labels that designates it as assigned which leads to wasting a lot of time when there is confusion. The only part of the training process that was superior to other places I have worked was training on equipment. As far as being trained on everything else you will recieve conflicting information on how to do pretty much everything, some trainers will even tell you to do things that are against correct procceesess, one trainer will suggest you do something one way and another trainer will disagree. They dont like giving delays/downtime for anything, you have to argue for it. Thier safety record sucks for a reason. Its not enough that the voice picking system is a headache but if they run out of the bigger unit batteries you will most likely get stuck having to change the battery every 2 hours and they dont like giving you downtime for changing the RF battery.

If you happen to value the standard of basic repsect and also value the quality in your work and you are not a confrontational person this place is most likely not for you, at least not as a selector.

Aside from down time and not holding a higher standard to thier employees for respecting thier fellow co-worker management isnt that bad, they are understanding and will work with you.

thier inventory HAS to be a mess!

there are so many SIMPLE things they could do there to make it more efficient and if they held thier employees to a higher standard of integrity you wouldnt hear so many stories about arguments. – less

great management, I work directly with military commissaries in Hawaii

This is one of the worst work environments I have ever worked in. I could go as far as to call it the worst. The job is EXTREMELY physical. So much so that most everyday your body will ache. The pain will mainly be in your knees and lower back. Although the work is very physical, that is the least of your problems. the management staff seems to be made – more... up of the worst people on the planet. They will lie to your face, and in my experience NEVER once abide by company policy. The policies are in place for them to say that its policy, they don't follow policy. They threaten to fire you if you dont work non-stop. These hours can range from 10 hours a day and on. They tell you you cannot leave until all the work is done. the building is run by politics. If you are with treating workers like robots then chances are your gonna advance. Just be aware that as a supervisor your expected to work 12 hours a day 5 days a week and the managers will talk to you like their your father. If you speak out against their corruption they will shun you and ultimately fire you. My thoughts were that these conclusions we only from my building but later found that they applied to all buildings for this company. The pay is the only reason people dont leave after the just the first day. Out of my class of 20 only 2 peopl stayed after 6 months. These results are standard at this job for the reasons I have listed above.Good luck to you if you plan on working there. Beware of Injury. – less

Try to hype you up with pay advancement fantasies. Stress safety and then create an unbelievably dangerous work environment. Give you the worst/unsafe equipment then blame you for problems. I stopped showing up and then they didn't realize I was gone until a month later. This place is clueless.

Worked in a freezer, not fun, but it was rewarding. a great workout!

Had to be at work by 6:30 a.m, I picked meat, produce and dairy products for 10 hours minimum and stacked them on top of a jack pallet. I learned how to operate a jack and how to stack the boxes and how to wrap them. The hardest part of the job was waking up in the morning but I was always at work and on time. The most enjoyable part was actually working – more... and making money my co-workers made it more enjoyable to work and helped me out when I was beginning to work their. – less

Bar none one of the hardest places to work. No opportunity for advancement unless you hit the numbers they expect. Which they make impossible to attain. Only two breaks, 10 hour days, the annoying voice system instead of RF scanners for picking merchandise, and the overall pallet construction.