Martin Brower Employee Reviews

What they don’t tell you when you start is that you’ll be working 6 days 10-12 hours a day after your probationary term. Get ready to have no life working at this job. One thing nobody complains about though is the pay.

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You won’t have energy for anything else but work

Order Selector (Former Employee) - Fairfield, OH - June 8, 2023

Physical work, you won’t have energy for anything else besides working and sleeping. Off days you’ll just be recovering from the work week . Great money if you’re looking to make lots of cash

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They say they are a family, but they aren’t really

Warehouse Order Selector (Former Employee) - Sumner, WA - June 7, 2023

Went in loving the job and co workers. Decent pay, union position, small warehouse so it wasn’t as crazy as larger warehouse jobs. Had a one on one with management every week to go over performance and was advised on what needed improvement during training and as the weeks went by, was told I was basically killing it. Then I walk in one day, (I was on time every day during my 2 or so months of employment so getting let go before probation wasn’t due to attendance), and was informed that they were letting me go, due to “performance”. I asked how, when they’ve been telling me my performance has been awesome and he couldn’t give me an answer. Found out when I went outside from the MB veterans, that they let a bunch of other guys go as well.Here’s the thing. Don’t pretend like your company is like a family, family don’t treat family like a number. Don’t force warehouse management to be the bad guy playing this game just so you can keep your bonuses high, while the warehouse workers get a lousy 25 cents extra to work in a freezer for 10 hours. What’s sad, is that I actually liked this job until I was rudely awakened when I was let go because of their lie. MB, don’t hire a bunch of workers over and over with no intention of keeping anyone to avoid paying raises and paying the hiring bonuses. Just hire for temporary workers instead and inform them that it’s only for 2 months so you don’t have to pay the hiring bonus, the raise, or get them uniforms. (No wonder our uniforms never came “due to back order”). They also want you to keep building pallets when it’s not safe to do so. -

Pros

Free McDonald’s drinks in the break room, weekly pay, hiring bonus, unionized

Cons

weak job security, shift ends when work finished with no pay

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Ok Job.

Selector/Loader (Former Employee) - Harriman, NY - June 7, 2023

Physically demanding job and will probably just want to go home to eat, sleep and go back to work the next day. I wouldn't recommend a long commute being how tiring the job is. The pay wasn't too great either.

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Not for new hires

Delivery Driver (Former Employee) - Phoenix, AZ - May 27, 2023

From the first moment I stepped into the parking lot there is a sense of entitlement and a sense of being disliked from the older drivers that have been there for years even decades as most of them are senior citizens. The issue is hours are not guaranteed and hours are handed out on a seniority basis. Which in this economy no one can afford to wait by the phone hoping for a call to come in. It’s a union facility and yet there is favoritism between management and some drivers. The union isn’t all that helpful either as it seems it’s only there for the older senior drivers and not the new comers. The moment you stop being a yes man and start saying no all of a sudden management starts to dislike you. Besides that if you manage to get hours by some chance you’ll be making money. This is a great company but not for new people or new hires.

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Everything good until pda failed and it's your fault.

Delivery Driver (Former Employee) - United States - May 21, 2023

I was doing super good until ELD failed logged me out and they put it on me, that's unlikely to happen the manager said. I got fired over their equipment failure. Good pay but no job security. Warehouse do a lousy job loading the trucks you have to pick up a lot of fallen mercharndise. Very unproffesional people at the warehouse and at the stores.

Pros

Good pay

Cons

Everything else

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Guaranteed 40 hours

Driver (Current Employee) - Phoenix, AZ - May 18, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?It’s a union shop, benefits are paid for by the company and the equipment is nice and we get triple time on holidays What is the most stressful part about working at the company? Constantly Dealing with new supervisors , turnover rate is high in management What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Drama and constant tension between drivers and management What is a typical day like for you at the company?4 deliveries 10 hours and maybe some overtime

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Extra board sucks

Tractor Trailer Driver (Current Employee) - Enfield, CT - May 18, 2023

This is a great place to work, however being on the extra board sucks!! When you’re on the extra board you’re basically the companies b!?$& you have to got to the worst stores that have the worst delivery process!! But once you get your own bid life gets so much better! If you can stick it out!! The warehouse however needs training on how to load and wrap pallets

Pros

Free food every so often, pay is amazing, management and dispatch cares

Cons

No work life balance

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Place is a joke

Warehouse Associate (Former Employee) - Lexington, SC - May 17, 2023

Unorganized and hardly professional these people rope you in with the whole "we are family" talk but when it comes down to it they will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat and then bury the bus

Pros

Great pay

Cons

Unorganized

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Great pay but…

Order Selector (Former Employee) - Roanoke, TX - May 16, 2023

Demanding on the body suggest this job for fit or younger people. No acknowledgment of sick days or emergency situations, so basically if you or someone close were to get sick they’re not willing to work with you

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If you have no family maybe you wont mind it

Delivery Driver (Former Employee) - Edison, NJ - May 8, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Work you like a dog. Back in 10 hours no matter what. Not worth it. That was in NJ.What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Back in 10 hours. No real rest period.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?They didnt care about the employeeWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Start early, be out all day . Not practical.

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7.8/10 most jobs are out of date no communication and non caring but here they actually care

Truck Driver Class A (Current Employee) - Atlanta, GA - May 6, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Great pay for drivers in ATL fib you want more hours they help. What is the most stressful part about working at the company?The warehouse uses damaged carts and load them on the trailers which makes it hard to deliver such heavy carts by handWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Open honest sticks to the policyWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Grab route sheet sign in inspect truck/trailer , hook up truck to trailer start route

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Delivery driver (Current Employee) - Phoenix, AZ - May 2, 2023

The job is not hard at all. The union is drama. The work is slow very hard to get extra work if you are not top senority or if the union guys dont like you. Management scared of union guys .

Pros

Havent seen any yet

Cons

Everything

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Not sure yet

Driver (Former Employee) - Virginia - May 1, 2023

Being interested is an incredible feeling! It's like your mind is on fire with all the possibilities of what you could learn and experience. So we will see.

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My work experience was good can’t speak for everyone else

Truck Driver Class A (Former Employee) - Harriman, NY - April 29, 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Great company to be employee of . Just be prepared to work hard. Great pay. And don’t f***up like I did be patient don’t make any turns that’s too close for comfort.👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Pay if you do a second load and sometime the routing of the deliveries.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Good work culture. Truth be told about environment is is high do to faulty delivery equipment. And don’t be afraid to report any injuries and you will regret it in the end.What is a typical day like for you at the company?Good if you like and don’t mind putting the work.

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Unprofessional HR-Good Company

Supervisor (Former Employee) - Virginia - April 23, 2023

Martin Brower is a great company to work for. You have the opportunity to work for the other Sister companies like premium distributors Coca-Cola or you can work for Reyes. The HR department is not the best, they seem to be out of touch with the employees lots of favoritism And nothing is confidential. After realizing this I did applied to one of the sister companies and saw the difference. I’m so happy now never will I go back to that location

Pros

Coworker

Cons

6 days working, No recognition, No positivity

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The warehouse is like highschool. And managment is useless.

Loader/Picker (Former Employee) - Whitewater, WI - April 22, 2023

so you go in to work if your new and get stuck doing 10hr shifts and everyone telling you to go faster. (including management) and everyone in the warehouse is subject to 12 hrs work aday.(after 3 Months if new) unless you want to get fired! if you have no life and can survive on 6 days aweek in the warehouse being told to go faster and a highschool setting then by all means. please work there. if you have standards well good luck some place eles.

Pros

money is good, benifits

Cons

everything

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Hamster Wheel

Human Resources Manager (Former Employee) - Rosemont, IL - April 20, 2023

Employees at every level spin their wheels due to poor people planning, low investment in operational tools to make their jobs easier, and a crippling lean workforce. Senior leaders have been there too long and still lead operations like it's the 1980s. Growth opportunities are more common if you are a certain color or gender - facts not opinions.

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A company that doesn't care about their employees

Warehouse Worker (Former Employee) - Whitewater, WI - April 19, 2023

A workplace that doesn't care about your health and safety. They want you to be at work every single day even when you're sick. They have an attendance policy that they don't follow at all, and they wait until you're on the edge of termination to try to talk to you about it. They also have a sick and covid policy that says if you're feeling sick in any kind of way do not come to work but they punish you for listening to their rules and not coming to work. They main thing to say is the pay is good and it's a "good" job but when you start to take care of your health it's not very good then.

Pros

The coworkers are good

Cons

short breaks to work 6, 10 hour days

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Good paying job, bad workplace environment

Warehouse Associate (Former Employee) - Whitewater, WI - April 18, 2023

They pay you a very livable wage, but you will be worked harder than you should ever have to work. Mandatory overtime is a weekly event, sometimes being 58-60 hour work weeks. You are constantly being timed for your work and your breaks. You are tracked for every little thing that happens at the place and they try to pass it off so you can get Paid For Performance, but you will never reach that.Management and leadership is a joke. They sit in the office and pretend like they care, but all they really do is over-assign tasks to you and then complain when the work isn’t completed.Work-life balance is basically nonexistent. You are either sleeping or working.The workplace culture is very toxic. You will be hard pressed to find a person working there that isn’t a rude and downright nasty person, including management and leads.

Pros

Weekly pay, livable wages

Cons

2 15 minute breaks only, Toxic workers, Bad Management

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Great place

Driver (Current Employee) - City of Industry, CA - April 17, 2023

Fair pay. Love driving a McDonald’s trailer seeing kids happy asking me to honk. Great place to work at. Wish they had a hub closer to home it’s a drive. Union teamsters.

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