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Arctic Glacier

1. The High Turnover Outfit
Red flags: Key roles pop up consistently on a company’s job site.

How bad is it: A company should not be on the hunt for the same important roles in management or leadership every six months, and if they are that means that they have fallen into a hire-and-fire cycle. This can indicate a few things. One, leadership may be very fickle; unable to land on the specific qualities they want in a candidate. Two, the company may have a bad internal culture which makes retention nearly impossible, no matter how talented the new hires may be. Three, top level goals may be as fleeting as the talent.

What to do: Companies with high turnover won’t deliver on their promises and may just be a waste of time.

2. The Culture Clash Corp
Red flags: Negative employee reviews, lack of focus on a true employee experience, recruiters evading your questions.

How bad is it: A poor company culture may not seem like a deal breaker, but it should be. Recently, we’ve seen a handful of examples where company culture has significantly handicapped public perception.  Even if a company’s poor culture hasn’t played out publicly, it can be bad for your career. It’s well known that a positive company culture can drive financial performance and a productive workforce. Therefore, a negative culture can do the exact opposite.

What to do: Avoid companies who tout their ping-pong tournament but won’t allow you speak to existing employees about their experiences. Consider ending interview discussions with companies that evade questions about culture. And just say no to places who define “hard work” as 15-hour days and long weekend email threads.



If you like working a lot in the summer (70hrs/wk) and being denied OT in the spring, fall and winter, this place is great.
If you like unavoidable repetitive motion injuries, also great.
A day: Get to work 5:30ish, proceed to decipher routing sheet made by the same software as used on the Apollo Missions into something logical. Plan load of 8# and 20# bag pallets according to customer req’s on routing sheet. Load class B truck with 12 pallets (12 tons) of ice, pre-trip, fuel, head out. Run route according to plan, mostly unloading by hand into those ice chests you see at gas stations, grocery stores, SprawlMart, etc.
12 tons. By hand. Yeah, you get tired, and SprawlMart was the -worst-place to deal with, but it’s summer, and you’re working out of a rolling freezer, which is nice. Return back to base when done or empty, anytime between 4 and 8pm, depending. Repeat 5-6 days a week May-September.
Fun fact, I was hired and told there would be Health Insurance and a raise in 90 days. 90 days come and go, but now it’s “You were a temp for the summer, we can’t hire you ‘full time’ until we fire Employee X.” Employee X gets fired, and a full 8 months after being hired I get Health Insurance and a whopping $0.50/hr raise. There were tonnage bonuses kicking in right before corporate closed our terminal and fired everyone, those were actually decent. Being terminated was also a bummer, but I was able to take the experience and get a better job. 

Performed plant manager duties with regular working wages. To be clear I was signing off on many documents as Plant Manager while internal job title was not even a supervisor. Required to be on call 24/7 and never more than 30 minutes away from the plant in case of an alarm. Additional travel to distribution centers and plants required with only a few hours notice. Budgeted multiple plants/centers for the region.   Required to open plant & close plant daily and then return at 9pm to enter 0 degree freezer and beat chunks of ice off of a moving belt 10' in the air. Not allowed to take any time off during 1/2 of the year. HR will do anything possible to convince you not to take paid time off ever and instead pay it out in regular working hours at the end of the year. Bonuses promised never paid out. Instead management fires you and you get unemployment for a few weeks after AG appealing the decision 3x. It's cheaper for them in the long run to keep replacing people below regional managers. I had to do many unemployment calls with HR and back date disciplinary action to support HRs version of events for releasing workers with cause. Company will wait until vehicles are broken down before authorizing repairs. Projects take a year, sometimes more to gain approval.

This company does not care about hourly or non corporate employees. They let facilities fall apart and people quit before listening to the staff who are trying to do their jobs well. The company will brag to the faces of their underpaid and overworked staff about record profits, while simultaneously saying there’s nothing in the budget for facility repairs, upgrades, adequate staff, or anything resembling reasonable pay increases. It will take multiple years to earn more than a dollar higher than your starting pay. 

The hours, especially in summer, are insanely erratic, especially with the high turnover. Anybody with a pulse will probably get hired, and most of them quit within the first few days if not faster. Those that stay are expected to work as if they’ve had the job for years and already know how to do everything. Production especially gets taken advantage of, are expected to clean up after drivers, who routinely trash the freezers and outside dock areas. They are expected to make repairs to machines they’ve only just come into contact with, to climb to high areas of ice makers and bins with zero actual access ways, often wet or slick with frost, climbing over dangerous moving parts, high over a concrete floor with no safety equipment available.  

This could be a good place to work, but the “leadership” seems to be more motivated to make it miserable. 

● Work-life balance
Work life balance is horrible. Distribution Manager does not care about the employees. Distribution Manager threatens to fire drivers everyday. Distribution Manager is very de mining to drivers and other co workers.

● Pay & benefits
Pay is below average. You are expected to work long hours , treated very badly by  Distribution Manager . Distribution Manager was a always threatening employees.

● Job security and advancement
Distribution Manager tells employees to “figure it out” and then constantly yells at employees.

● Management
Distribution Manager is very racist. Distribution Manager constantly yells , degrades, threatens drivers and other employees. Most of the senior drivers are leaving or have left because of the negative language and being treated extremely bad.

● Culture
There is no culture.

● Overall
Distribution Manager is very racist. Distribution Manager constantly threatens and yells at drivers and other employees and Managers.
Distribution Manager does not care about employees. Distribution Manager does not train any drivers. This is a very hostile work environment. Stay away!!

I worked here for about a week before I was offered a higher paying position with a different company and the manager at Arctic Glacier was very unprofessional with his response. I was given absolutely no training besides a few PowerPoint slides and videos. Everything was learn as you work/go. Work environment is simple to learn and is constant movement. Coworkers are easy to get along with and help out new employees very well. Nothing was too taxing if you don’t mind physical labor, but working and cleaning the ice maker room was painful as the low concentrations of ammonia burned my eyes, throat and nose. Followed by intense allergies after clocking out. New employees will have to get used to that as it’s a daily routine to clean that room. It’s also something you’re not told from the start. Overall, decent place to work for some extra cash in the summer, but would NOT recommended because the management was very unprofessional.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I enjoyed the work it was challenging and physical. I lost 30 pounds in 6 weeks. Not a hard business to understand. The workers they hire are terrible, lazy and dishonest

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It’s extremely disorganized no cooperation from fellow workers no team attitude. The tech they give you phones printers apps are ridiculous they’d be better off with paper

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Nobody works to a common goal the customer doesn’t come first they barely come third. I’m in my sixties and I can outwork any two of the others Didnt make good money was promised 13 hours got only 8 most nights. The other guys find a place to sleep then come in I won’t do that

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Start at 6:30 on the road by seven do 13-14 calls  and done by 3-4 in the morning Unless they give me Fort Erie /Niagara  then it’s fewer calls because you are travelling further

Arctic Glacier is a great place to work with lots of opportunity for growth. The job is fast paced and is a great way to stay in shape while getting paid. It is a cold environment but it is better than working in the heat, especially in the summer. The pay is fair and the benefits are good. The management team is easy to work for and are not afraid to get their hands dirty. Overall, I would recommend this company over other production facilities I have worked at. The job is pretty straight forward. When you show up to work you get started right away. You are either stacking bags of ice on pallets or driving a pallet jack. There is opportunity to excel if you have a little mechanical aptitude. I would say that the hardest part of the job is that it is physically demanding.

The office personal have no since of direction and are running there company and there employees into the ground. There's no communication between any highers up, only hourly employees. They constantly lie about things they tell you and then then try to make it your fault as of why. This plant has no cleaning procedures in place. There equipment is constantly breaking and takes them months to fix it so you'll be with the proper equipment to get the job done. The plant is constantly nasty and never cleaned until an inspection is due. Do not work here because they will fire you or let you go with no notice only the day of after you complete your work. This company will cost you a lot of money in the long run. My opinion, I would never ever work for them again until the company can find management that will actually work and just sit in a office collecting a paycheck.

Answered phones, filing, helping with drivers when they had any problems with handhelds and customer service. Learned how to use the handhelds that the drivers were given and the procedures that were there for the company. Management that I had dealt with were wonderful, they were there for you if you needed something and would help in anyway that they could. They were there for you. Coworkers were wonderful as well, they would help with anything that they could. The hardest part of the job would have been learning the way that, that company worked. The most enjoyable part of the job was that you got to meet the managers from Canada where the main office was located and to know that they were there as well if you had any questions or if there was anything that you needed or thought would benefit the company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Production associate 7 salaries reported	$15.43 per hour
Laborer 9 salaries reported	$16.67 per hour
Seasonal associate 5 salaries reported	$17.60 per hour
Drivers helper 1 salary reported	$10.50 per hour
Maintenance technician 2 salaries reported	$29.00 per hour

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