Total Wine & More Salaries, Bonuses and Benefits.

What are the average starting salaries, bonuses, benefits and travel requirements like at Total Wine & More?

What do you like best about working at Total Wine & More? Are there any great perks or special treats for employees?

I have noticed that you have advertised for
a retail wine manager on a number of occasions, and I have submitted at least two
resumes for your review, but to date I have
not received any respone from your company.
I am currently working at another retail
company, as a retail manager, but I would
be very interested in interviewing for a
postion with Total Wine.

i understand that they are not a good place to work, that they do not care about their employees, all they care about is making money.

average payrates, bad benefits, bad schedules, demanding work, limited perks - wine training, wine tasting

Total wine is a MEATGRINGER

10 days off a year, EITHER sick or vacation
NO PAID HOLIDAYS NOT EVEN CHRISTMAS
NO HOLIDAY BONUS, NOT EVEN PAID HOLIDAYS!!!!!!
NOT EVEN A FREE BOTTLE OF CHEAP WINE!

Miserable working environment, untrained managers

Favoritism, terrible work schedules, sometimes have to work till 11pm then in at 6am w/ 1hr drive to/from work

BUT as the managers said "if you don't like it. leave, there are planty of unemployed people....."

BUT THEY HAVE CHEAP PRICES!

THEY NEED A UNION!!!!!!!!!

lol

Yes, retailing stinks at the moment and it is easy for a retailer to take advantage of its employees. What favoritism to they have? Any blogs elsewhere on getting union going?

Hey Joe

First of all I know TWM monitors websites and blogs

I also know that you may be a corporate "mole", or perhaps you are just another hump like me, and you work at DSW.

I'm sure you know of the favoritism with schedules, having people who are not "in favor" close then open, shorting their hours, writeups for minimal lateness.

There are many GRAY AREA ways to nudge someone out the door.

The owners would go BALLISTIC if they knew a union was being organized, and anyone attempting to form would be hammered out the door.

I think if they TOOK A LOOK IN THE MIRROR and saw how they are treating their employees at store level with no paid HOLIDAY days,
WORK WHEN SICK..... OR TAKE VACATION, not even a gift card as a bonus, etc..... they may feel a SPEC of EMPATHY.

I have seen them lose MANY GOOD EMPLOYEES once the lure of a promotion upon being hired wears away. Anyone with brains can see the forest from the trees after a month or so.

Mabey one of the owners will be informed of this and perhaps think and not be OFFENDED or INTIMIDATED by the fact that the employees are HUMAN and its not all about PROFIT and HOW FAST CAN WE OPEN MORE STORES.

Would it bee too much to ask for CHRISTMAS, THANKSGIVING, and a couple of more PAID HOLIDAYS? how about a mere FIVE SICK DAYS, with a reward of pay if not taken?

MABYE a TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR GIFT CARD to be used at the store for christmas?

Geez!

Maybe TWM DOES NEED A UNION ORGANIZER TO WAKE THEM UP

totalslave in anywhere, Florida said: Hey Joe

First of all I know TWM monitors websites and blogs

I also know that you may be a corporate "mole", or perhaps you are just another hump like me, and you work at DSW.

I'm sure you know of the favoritism with schedules, having people who are not "in favor" close then open, shorting their hours, writeups for minimal lateness.

There are many GRAY AREA ways to nudge someone out the door.

The owners would go BALLISTIC if they knew a union was being organized, and anyone attempting to form would be hammered out the door.

I think if they TOOK A LOOK IN THE MIRROR and saw how they are treating their employees at store level with no paid HOLIDAY days,
WORK WHEN SICK..... OR TAKE VACATION, not even a gift card as a bonus, etc..... they may feel a SPEC of EMPATHY.

I have seen them lose MANY GOOD EMPLOYEES once the lure of a promotion upon being hired wears away. Anyone with brains can see the forest from the trees after a month or so.

Mabey one of the owners will be informed of this and perhaps think and not be OFFENDED or INTIMIDATED by the fact that the employees are HUMAN and its not all about PROFIT and HOW FAST CAN WE OPEN MORE STORES.

Would it bee too much to ask for CHRISTMAS, THANKSGIVING, and a couple of more PAID HOLIDAYS? how about a mere FIVE SICK DAYS, with a reward of pay if not taken?

MABYE a TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR GIFT CARD to be used at the store for christmas?

Geez!

Maybe TWM DOES NEED A UNION ORGANIZER TO WAKE THEM UP

I think the lack of good benefits is only one of many issues, what about the ladders, lifting, dangerous lifts, and lack of safety training. How about the way they treat employees, top management seems to only promote their favorites or hire in from the outside. seem like lots of people quit all the time.

How come more total wine employees don't complain, seems like if we all stuck togather we could force them to change. I hear everytime someone disagrees with a Trone they start to get lousy schedules, no raises or get fired.

kidding, right?

complain to your manager, you are accused of having a bad attitude

call TWM concern line, you better disguise your voice!

I bet if DT knew of half the problems, DM and SM would get a beating, but they have no balls to speak up, they are all yes men.

Oh and as for the ladders, ours are HORRIBLE! overhead safety is a joke! There is no alloted time for any of that and telling anyone about a bad ladder is speaking into deaf ears.

There is no manager accountability, everyone shifts blame on everyone, again noone has balls enough to tell the owners about any real problems, and us worker bees have no voice.

There are many good people being overlooked because they are not into the political games..... Its going to bite them sooner or later. I heard they lost a good emp. to Wegman's years ago and this will repeat itself.

I would agree; who would you complain to? It is private company as far as I know so unless there are safety violations, discrimination, or something illegal where you can seek outside help, I am not sure what you can do internally. This site is probably not the best forum. Maybe a blog where people can comment anonymous. This site is anonymous, but this discussion will eventually get cut I would guess. Normally you could vote with your feet, but given the current economic climate, that might not be viable option for most.

If there are really safety issues, they can be reported to OSHA if management is not fixing. You can request OSHA not use your name to protect your job.
www.osha.gov/pls/osha7/eComplaintForm.html

Seems like there are plenty of safety issues and questionable practices, does anyone know of other issues?

Tons of issues, but with fear for our jobs what are we going to do?

Just got back from using unsafe ladders all day, favoritism and politics in the front office while the "workers" get no slack. Nothing but criticism for us from the managers as they eat in the office joke, and pay no attention to the customer.

My knees ache, my back hurts, yet not one of them will help me saying "it's not my job"...... I thought we were supposed to all pitch in? I also know the ladders that are unsafe are supposed to be taken off the floor. Noone listens. Some day I will take a good dive off a faulty ladder and have a lawsuit. I think if the owners knew what was was REALLY going on, they would have a fit!

I met one of the owners once and he seemed like a real nice guy. It's too mad all the managers put on the fake concern for us when he was there, and once he left it was back to the SOS.

I got a warning for drinking on the floor as I watch one pound down a burger in customer service office which is clearly stated as a violation.

My managers say that the owners do not care about the ladders and they he can not get new ladders, that they cost to much money. I don't believe that they are really nice guys otherwise why would they let everything go on the way it does. I have heard them yelling at my manager and the DM, telling them how stupid they are and how they better fix things. Besides why would we get so many more cases than we need if they cared about our safety, we have cases stacked almost to the ceiling.

I would be careful about that dive, don't forget the cameras!
By the way my manager lets us drink on the floor, just no eating, we have coffee, water, sodas, in fact the cashiers drink to.

I agree if the owners read this and find out who we are we will get fired.

dont even think of working there. no loyalty to employees and they will fire you at will if you dont tow the line.

if they fired their own brother (Thomas) and the other (John) left, do you really think they care about the employees? look at "senior" leadership...most, if not all of them rotate in/out every 2-3 years and were previously unemployed or hungry for that glorious VP title that the David and Robert happily hand out. Get this - in the entire history of field management not one DM has ever been promoted past being a DM. All unemployed outside hires lured in to be the next whipping boy.

Host said: What are the average starting salaries, bonuses, benefits and travel requirements like at Total Wine & More?

What do you like best about working at Total Wine & More? Are there any great perks or special treats for employees?

How come more total wine employees don't complain, seems like if we all stuck togather we could force them to change. I hear everytime someone disagrees with a Trone they start to get lousy schedules, no raises or get fired.

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Host said: What are the average starting salaries, bonuses, benefits and travel requirements like at Total Wine & More?

What do you like best about working at Total Wine & More? Are there any great perks or special treats for employees?

My stretch as a Manager there was horrible. I wish someone had warned me. Grueling 12 hour + shifts, back to back, no life, never see your family. Poor pay is sold to you as crud/hr with 10 scheduled weekly overtime hours. Not worth it. Many more jobs were displaced than were created. Other wine retailers closed. Now the profits dont stay in State, they go to the private owners. Horrible for the wine industry, unless your wineries wines are WD. Benefits are a joke, you are expendible. I can't believe more current or previous employees aren't warning people. It's been 2 years since the last comment. Run away and warn your friends!