VACO pay - Recruiter V. Alexander & Co. Employee Review

Too many to list - they are the white whale

I’ve been here just over a year and cannot say anything negative

- A really good place to gain valuable experience into the world of domestic and international supply chain and customs clearance practices. - Company matches 100% of your health insurance as long as you stay single with no kids. - PTO package is good. For years 1-3 you get 15 days of PTO, starting at 4 you get 20 days, and starting at 10 you get 30 days. - Office culture is good and fun especially around the holidays. There are plenty of parties and potlucks, as well as a Christmas raffle where everyone wins a prize that they can pick out if they get called. When it’s your birthday, they buy you a cake, get you a card with everyone’s signature on it, and sing you happy birthday at your desk. If you’re getting married, you have a get together in the break room with your spouse and people give you wedding gifts. Same with if you’re having a baby. The office will buy diapers, toys, and other things you’ll need for your parenting journey.

- No room for promotions unless you have been here longer than 6 years, as long as you’re not sick of all the other cons by year 2. - Don’t let them fool you into thinking you are a salaried employee. You have to be clocked in to get paid. Lunch is unpaid. Luckily they let you take an extended lunch if you get to work early. - You make significantly less at this company compared to the industry average. You start out at $46k and most people are only at $50k-$60k unless you’re upper management. Worst part is that management knows that we are underpaid and are trying to get the execs to raise salary, but they won’t. In fact, they just reap the benefits of large accounts whose sales reps have retired, because they don’t want to use that extra money to help pay us. - There are no sick days. If you are sick, management takes it out of your PTO. If you only missed a day, they’ll only take 4 hours of it and you’ll have to make up the other 4 hours during the week. If you can’t do that or don’t have any PTO left for them to take from, you’ll just have to take a pay cut. - Micromanagement is a huge problem. You are being watched like a hawk by management. They always are so reluctant to let you work from home and will preface the decision by saying, “we can see everything you do. We can see how long you’ve spent looking at a screen. You think we can’t, but we can.” - You can’t leave early or come in late (even if you stay after 5pm to make up the time) unless you have a legit reason or you work something out with management specifically. I used to get to work at 7:30, clock in, and start working, then leave the office at 4:30. Management told me I couldn’t do that and it was unfair to the rest of the department. - Overall, this company will underpay and overwork you under the guise of office culture camaraderie and acting like you’re part of a family.