maintenance technician

route sales representative

forklift operator

quality assurance technician

retail sales associate

Absopure Water Company

I worked with a lot of fine people who didn't really want to be there, were more less unsatisfied with work but were willing to put in the time and effort to ensure that city and spring water were re-purified and bottled in blown plastic bottles, on site contamination free. I worked long hours and the work was not very satisfying albeit not difficult. I was very impressed with the staffing even though it was a not a pleasant work setting. 

My work mostly had me running from machine to machine making sure they were properly running and testing bottles at random to ensure no contamination was present. The plant was spread out across a warehouse. For my position I spent most of the time on my feet, I walked about 5 miles a shift, about 45 minutes of every hour was spent walking from place to place to do routine check ups.

I'd say the hardest part of my job was dealing with my superiors and the most enjoyable was talking to my co-workers in between shifts. I did get a funny sensation of pride and work ethic when I saw the bottled water for sale in the supermarkets. 

Had I not been fired and I would still be working there. Because of the rotating schedule and long hours we worked 4 days one week then 5 days the next. meaning every other week we would have an extra day off, even though it didn't line up with the typical 9-5 Monday through Friday. I viewed this as a bonus because it meant every other week I'd have three days off instead of only two. The downside being I was so tired every working day I felt like I had just barely enough time to make my commute and feed myself before doing it again the next day. I calculated that, on the average, my day on days when I worked I had a maximum of three hours to myself and of those hours only one could be spent not preparing for work in part due to my commute.

A typical work day starts at 5am and you go until you finish the whole day. They have one shift so typically your not getting off until 4pm or 5pm on busy days. On slower day you will get off at like 2pm or 3pm sometimes earlier. 

I did learn a few things however they perfer to throw you to the wolf's with very little guidance. Most of what I learn I had to do on my own. I was lucky to have the previous QA Tech teach me what he could. Sadly it was only 2 weeks of training before he went to a new job with a different company.

Management isn't bad but it's not the best. They have about 4 mangers. One QA manger. One Production manager. The plant manager. Lastly the warehouse manger. Personally I believe they could improve as it sits right now it leaves much to be desired.

Workplace culture has a lot to be desired. Most people have negative attitudes or don't really socialize. You'll here complaining everyday and typical they have someone quit or walk out every month it seems like. 

Hardest part of the job was the more advanced things they only briefly showed and taught me. The second hardest thing is if your boss isn't there you have to do it by yourself with little help. 

It's hard to say what is enjoyable at this job since everyday seemed more like a death march than a normal work day.

You go into it thinking you’ll make daily pay ($140) + commission, in reality you end up making $140 per day, usually working 10+ hours… either $140 OR commission, not both like they made it sound like. Plus all the manual labor is a lot for the average person. The company is a disaster, the office and warehouse is extremely dirty and unorganized. Another gripe I had was the deliveries almost never had instructions. When you’re delivering to large business compounds with many buildings, you need instructions. Was the most stressful part of the job by far. Also the technology they used (2022) must’ve been from the early 2000’s and it was always freezing up and crashing while you’re working. Allegedly they changed tech but this was 2022. They didn’t offer commission on saturdays, if you took a shift. Overall I would recommend an easier driving job, one that pays better with less work.. or… any other cdl job in that case. 

The positives are the management is very chill, you get repeat customers and start to learn, you can listen to music while you drive (any other driving job) you get strong from all the labor, and you get to meet a lot of new people. 

My days started at 6am there getting my truck and paperwork ready for deliveries. Things learned developing better and attentive driving skills and becoming a better people person and learning how makes decisions on my own when a customer is unhappy with his/her service. Honestly I felt like management was out of touch of what we were dealing with on the road and wish they could have been more helpful at times. My actual co-workers are some of the best guys to work with we could laugh and joke about anything. The hardest part was making sure our truck were running so I could get my job done correctly. Also a tough part is when I serviced a customer for so long and to hear they passed away. Best part was all the new relationships I developed with my customers and having a great one on one personal relationship.

Using a recruiter I started on a 4 month contract. My contract was renewed multiple times up to 10 months before I left. No one in management can make decisions apparently or even give information about stuff that is going on.

You're expected to work long hours without much appreciation at all. As a shipping clerk I got handed responsibilities outside my scope of work which I generally did despite never being additionally compensated for them. I ended up managing the warehouses inventory which was neglected for years but nothing was ever acknowledged or appreciated.

They also have a habit of not paying their bills, so there were awkward conversations with vendors, truckers, and even had no paper towels in the washrooms.

I'd recommend looking elsewhere...

It starts off enjoyable, but after a while if you observe things around you you would see that it's not so nice very Petty you learn great technical skills great mechanic skills for production technician very high school among certain workers there are some people you can conversate with and some people you have to watch very closely they have a few good perks but are often worried about Petty things other than production if they change management it might be a better place to work and tweak a few rules there is no grace period for punching in

I started with Absopure as a route delivery driver, it was a typical of that type of job. After 9 years, I was transfered to a new facility in the Chicago area. Our mission there was to open a Direct Store Delivery operation. I was responsible for soliciting retail stores to carry our brand, which was then delivered via our trucks. After three years of operation, we transfered over 1000 accounts to local distributers and I returned to the home office in Plymouth MI. I assumed the position of Regional Sales Manager, my job was to open new wholesale accounts as well as provide support for existing customers.

Typical workday consisted of testing water for specifications.

Learned how dangerous and unhealthy working in even a moderately industrial workplace and be. Forklift exhaust and ozone leaks were a daily hazard largely ignored by management - not to mention improper storage of toxic chemicals.

Co-workers were mostly uneducated people brought in from staffing agencies.

Hardest part of the job was keeping up with production pace and avoiding rooms where ozone leaked.

Most enjoyable part of the job was conversing with truck drivers.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Learning a new knowledge of the water industry was about the only positive that came from my position.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management, lack of policy and procedures and the work environment.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very negative and nontransparent. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Lack of structure and communication causing disruptive workload. High stress levels in all departments creating a negative workday.

Typical work day: Constantly putting out fires, poor structure

What I learned: How to manage a department with little support financially; on hold with critical vendor monthly

Management: Moral, unimportant to management; the people actually doing the work are treated as though they do not have a life outside the work place. 

Workplace Culture: STRESSFUL, no support, poor moral, poor corporate support

Hardest Part of the Job: Constantly being on hold with critical vendors

The Most Enjoyable Part of the Job: The people I work with, they alone make going to that depressing place worth wile.

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