Great place to work... If you are still at home living with your mother. - Anonymous employee Swiss Colony Employee Review

1.0
Apr 1, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent starting pay. Occasional free food on break. There really aren't a whole lot of pros to working for this place. If you just want to work during the Thanksgiving or Christmas season you may get lucky and have a 40 hour week or two. If you live at home with your mother and can afford not to have money, then go for it.

Cons

No benefits. Almost impossible to get a promotion. Management lies and changes their answers to important questions all the time. No one give you a straight answer. They won't even tell us how the incentive system works. When you finally start getting regular incentive they change the rules on how you do your time card to trick you out of what little incentive you do get. During the off season (every month except for November and December) hours are basically non-existent. Moral here is so low it is disgusting. All you hear is complaining all day from employees. They also allow harassment from other employees which I did not find favorable. When you do get laid off (and you will, a lot), they tell you fifteen minutes before your shift is over that you are not coming in tomorrow or any day after until they call you. Their free health clinic is a joke. I made an appointment, and they laid me off that night so I was ineligible to actually have the appointment the next day, and I have not been called back since. They literally take months in deciding new positions just to keep you clinging to the hope that you may actually be able to get a more stable position, and then in the end they give it to someone who is unqualified that has an "in" with management. Even stable positions are unstable as they are not supposed to ever lay off fork truck drivers, and have recently laid off two of them. This is a terrible place to work and I would not even wish it on my worst enemies. I have a suspicion (as do others) that they give out negative job references for other places that you apply, just to keep you in their clutches a little longer. I in no way merit a bad job review as I have had over 100% on my incentive every week and have shown "Outstanding Performance". The only people I have ever seen leave this place are either so fed up that they quit, or bad employees that they allow to take other jobs so they can suck more people in. The only way to separate from this place is to quit, which is what I am doing. If you ignore this and decide to take a position at this place, you will quickly see that this review is 100% accurate, and when you see that it is true, then run as fast as you can and never look back.

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