Southern Wine & Spirits of America Reviews

Pros

Met some great people & life long friends

Cons

Managers & owners are flaky. Favoritisms all around the store. The guys get paid more than the girls do. They expect you to do more work than your title for no extra pay. No paid vacations or holidays. Only closed one day out the year.

Pros

Nice people. People who care. Growing company that has good intentions to keep growing

Cons

Personal vehicle abuse that is known and not cared about

Pros

Outside sales, you are always moving going account to account. You aren’t sitting at a desk everyday

Cons

Too much pressure, far too many quotas and daily fire drills

Pros

Great products to sell, some great incentives and rewards. Great health benefits. (Thanks to the Union). Great 401K. Some great co-workers.

Cons

This job used to be great! The work was hard, but the rewards were great too! We had commission, quarterly bonuses, car allowance, supplier trips, and amazing holiday bonuses. The commission is gone (from our division), the car allowance is gone, nearly all the supplier trips are gone, (or only a few go..and of course the managers)..The holiday bonuses are puny. The incentives overall are tiny or nearly unreachable. Experience used to be a good thing. Now as soon as you sprout a grey hair, they want you out the door. There is a noticeable "good ole boy" network in action. You get to move up based on your relatives, age, lack of family, and ability to say yes to everything no matter how demanding it may be. I actually work harder, get paid less, my car gets more abuse than a rental car, every time the price of gas goes up, more of pay is eaten up. I am watching people I trained, or people less educated than myself and others get promoted with reckless abandon. The pressure to hit extreme numbers is huge!

Pros

You get full exposure of the industry and get to work with most of the nation's leading suppliers. Unlike other distributors, Southern provides their reps with modern technologies that make it easier to access information necessary to do the job.

Cons

People that work for this company are under a huge amount of stress and very unhappy. Whatever you do is never enough. If you are looking for some recognition for a job well done -- look elsewhere. Management does not care how you get things done as long as you get it done. They also have a habit of having last minute drills on certain items that may not even be on quota, and the time limit to achieve is ridiculous : i.e. " You need to get X item in 10 unsold accounts by tomorrow -- I don't care how you do it -- just get it done. I have been in this business for over 15 years and have never been subjected to the "mental" abuse that this company subjects you too. The only reason people stay working here is because of the current state of our economy and the lack of other jobs. The morale of employees at this company are really, I mean really low.