Know what your Getting into as a Marketing Associate - Marketing Associate Sysco Employee Review

2.0
Aug 12, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company Phone, Mileage Reimbursement, Immersive sales training, Lots of free food.

Cons

Work life vs Personal life, Management speaks out of both sides of mouth, they preach work, life , balance but at the same time work is always the priority. Your only true day off is Saturday, don't kid your self you work sunday's! These Managers love to hear themselves talk. Meeting every Friday going over all the wrongs your doing in the field and then a GSM Meeting at the local OPCO usually a few hours drive to go over whatever new worthless items your will have to push on your clients. Lastly last weeks numbers are history, if you did great last week you can easily be the scape goat this week. Pay is OK but does not equal the amount of work you will put out. You will be at the will of you clients and they are demanding and petty. Asking for PTO is like pulling teeth from these managers, and yes you will work every holiday! Pay is around $51,500 they way to above is to sell more than your salary and you will never have a set salary one year it migh be $65k next year your back to the base of 51k. You are at the will of your clients, this is a nickel and dime business your clients will stop buying from you for a simple reason as Eggs going up by 5 cents this week. If this in anyway does not sound like your cup of tee.... keep looking.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

You can make money but it all depends on the orders you get, how fast you can go, how long you can maintain that pace without getting burned out. Definitely a young mans sport, as the do refer to you as "industrial athletes."

Cons

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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