material handler

librarian

order picker

vice president of operations

sales director

Baker & Taylor

Stay away from this place. You get treated bad if you aren't a favorite. Only get paid 10 dollars for a job that you should get paid more for. They say you get an incentive but you have to go over 105 percent which is hard to do if you're in a bad pick area and hard in good ones. If you aren't fast enough people will hit you with their carts or stomp their feet behind you. The benefits are good you get those after your 90 days along with your pto but you can't use them if you want to call off you have to fill out a paper and wait to see if you're approved or not. If you want to transfer to a different department your pay will go down to 9 dollars. There are some trainers who don't care to even train you and won't tell you everything so once you are on your own you have no idea how to do most things and you have to be careful who you ask because most people won't help you and if they do they will tell you the wrong thing so you get in trouble. You're with your trainer for only 3 days then you're on your own and they check on you and do an audit once a week. Only get 2 ten minute breaks which are nothing because it takes most of your break time to walk to a break room. Management sucks. This place is ran backwards. This place desperately needs and upgrade in technology. One part is air conditioned and the older section is not so you're sweating all the time. There barely is any work to do so you get sent home early in the morning of after lunch. This place will fire you for no reason really at all that's why they are always hiring. This place is against you from the first day you start.If you are away from your cart for more than 5 minutes there is a chance you will get written up or a supervisor will come and take it and then yell at you for using the bathroom or whatever. This place makes it so hard to stay your 90 days because you'd want to quit after your first two weeks. I thought this job wouldn't be bad because I worked at other warehouses that's were much bigger and more physical but I was wrong. I would stay away from this place. If you wanted to be treated like youre nothing and get paid little to  nothing then this place is for you.

Work at B&T is a great place, do not get me wrong; its just that you have to devote yourself to the company. But there are good benefits as well as nice people that make it more bearable to work there everyday.
 But there is a catch to the workplace, best tip is, keep as much PTO as you possibly can. Because once you spend it, it takes months to bring it back up. Now the part they did not tell me at least is that when you do not make it to work on time, you get what they call an "occurrence" essentially a bad mark. Once you get 10 marks, your fired, no questions asked. That's fair, I can agree with that, but for example if you have already have 8 or 9 marks and you get sick or something happens personally, you have to show up or have PTO. If not, regardless if you have an excuse, your fired. That and the mandatory overtime, you can and will get fired for it if you don't show up for it.(or just take PTO out of your stash). But the trick is you HAVE to schedule your time off, if you just take a day off for personal reasons or get sick, yes you have PTO, but you didn't schedule it BAM!! "occurrence" mark. 
But if you like your weekends, do not work here, their decisions are about as sturdy as tissue paper when it comes to saying whether or not you have to work on a Saturday, so be prepared.
The co-workers make it better, but do not trust everyone for they will stab you in the back and or do their best to make you look bad, w/o you knowing about it. Other than that, its just the higher ups flex their power because at this distribution center, they are number 1 in this department and want to keep it that way, if you hold them back, they will basically toss you aside to keep their paychecks and pride in check.

So pro-tips are:
-keep the PTO you have until you really need it
-make sure to SCHEDULE your time off, or it will count against you   -do not trust everyone
-just make sure to show up on time.
-keep your head down and move along

Follow these and you should do just fine. Just don't plan on making B&T a career unless you have absolutely no life what so ever.

Baker & Taylor is a good place to work, as long as you get a long with your team, like most places, of course.

I currently work here. I enjoy the people I work with, but not the upper management. They are afraid of conflict and are all talk, no action.

A typical day at work is hectic and stressful. As more and more responsibilities are "sorted out," to other departments they are then replaced with more areas we do not need to handle. In the beginning we were trusted. Now, with new upper management in place, we are micromanaged. The expectations are now outrageous and drone-like. If you so much step out of your area you get stared at, like you don't belong. Excuse me, while I try and go the toilet.

I learned how to successfully make lasting professional and personal relationships at this place, as we all work closely together. I will miss them when I move on to bigger and better things.

My co-workers. I adore most - others are not my favorite, but this happens everywhere. Where I work I like everyone.

The hardest part of the job is trying to keep up with the amount of that comes in. We cannot finish everything in time, ever. Upper management seems to think we do "Just fine," despite that they have no clue what goes on down here, while they sit behind their desks and argue about more important things than the mental and physical well being of their worker bees.

The most enjoyable part of the job is getting to see the friends I've made. We are all very close knit, and when one of us is not there their absence is felt.


Overall, it's a good place. Provided you don't care about how they run things behind the curtain...also there is asbestos in the warehouse. Good job there, guys.

They tell you your pay is based on how fast you move. What they don't tell you, is from the first week you're there they do everything they can to slow you down and prevent you from your next raise. Your hours are never guarunteed. Some days you leave by lunch, after lunch...some days you leave an hour early...and others you stay an extra hour. Not too bad right? Wrong! They don't even tell you what you'll be working that day until an hour before your said to leave. You will work 9 hours, so the next shift can get sent home early. You will do this for 2 weeks, then youll be back to 8 hour days for a week, then your gettin sent home 4 hours early and the next day your back to 9. Management is clueless to almost everything.. Co-workers are favored and each get treated differently in a range from good and bad. Most of the time its more of a competition then actual work. But overall, at the end of the month your percentage is based on you, and everyone else arou d you...given there are people who'd rather stand around talking to anything with ears, its rather irritating to fi d you've not made your incentive that month because of it. This company has no idea how to run anything. The digital world is taking over, and needs to get to this place a little faster. 

If you want to feel as if you are back in high school, with your every move tracked and questioned, working your a** off for them to just slow you down or come up with some bogus reason as to why you didn't make your percentage that month, and feeling unwelcome and unappreciated in your workplace...THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU! 

A typical day at work is after the morning "good mornings", and check my email for any updates to put into the system, I open my monthly reports and start working. Whether it is updating publication dates, list prices, discounts, or completing a purchase order, it is my responsiblity to get them done. It is not always about what I learn, as much as it is what I have been able to teach others. Since I came from the warehouse into the office, I had a lot to offer. Not everybody knows how to track down and locate an error in the warehouse, so I use what I know to help them accomplish their goal. It is a great feeling knowing that I was able to help someone. That is what my department does -- we work together. My Supervisor knows that I will work with the different warehouse locations in fixing errors, making sure product is received and stowed in a timely manner, and make corrections as needed. By working respectively with the different departments, I was able to be part of correcting $197,000.00 in errors. That alone was probably the hardest, and yet most enjoyable, part of my job. It is not easy gaining the respect of the department Supervisors, and their employees. I am not correcting these errors to make somebody's job harder. It is my job to make sure the product is received, and the customer gets their product, in a timely manner.

It's supposed to be a "family" company, but it's not. Management could care less about you life outside of this job. When there is a ton of work, you're expected to be there and work overtime, it doesn't matter if you have things scheduled prior to being put on overtime. If you don't come in on a Saturday, it's a point! You'll be scheduled for overtime on Saturday, and by Tuesday you're being sent home due to lack of work. There is no consistency with this company what so ever. You also only earn a ridiculous amount of pto per pay period. Like 3.4 hours or something like that. The pay is ridiculous, and you're always cheated out of your incentive pay. The turnover rate is very high, and there is a good reason for this. It's a very fast paced environment. You're being rushed to get work out, and then punished when the work isn't done correctly. Well it's wrong because it was rushed! The environment is awful. People are in a funk, and rightfully so. Only work here if absolutely necessary, and try not to stay longer than a year.

What I've learned so far is that I don't think I'll truly be happy no matter who I am working for. That said, working for Baker and Taylor wasn't necessarily bad. The pay is actually good for the work that you had to do. There are plenty of other companies paying way more, but I think the job at Baker and Taylor was quite easy and straightforward. The biggest complaint I had, and that I've learned is pretty much every job has it, is the severe lack of communication. Not just in my department, the whole facility. Management is quite messy, and thus the employees are sort of grouchy because of the people at the top. There were a couple people there that I worked with, that I didn't honestly care about, but you can't expect to get along with everyone. It was a little fun to work alongside some of the people. I had only put in about 5 months of my time there, and I do miss it. It has probably been the best job I've had (thus far).

I enjoyed working for Baker & Taylor during the 8 years I was with them.  My co-workers were the best and we worked well together.  I spent many days where I was at work more than 8 hours per day, but, I enjoyed it so it didn't seem like work.  

I would leave early in the morning and travel to at least one store per day either working with a Merchandiser or conducting a visit myself if necessary.  The actual travel (drive time) was the hardest part of the job with the second most difficult part being the fact that it sometimes seemed like the 30+ years of retail experience I have wasn't really taken into consideration at times.

The people I worked with, both the DM/RM co-workers and the Part time field merchandisers, were actually the most enjoyable part of the job.  I have always been a people person and this position allowed me to show that.

Baker & Taylor is a wonderful company in terms of work and what we do for communities around the USA. Providing library services is an important asset to civilization and overall, I really enjoy my work. It isn’t difficult or extra strenuous, and its pretty straightforward work. My problems with the company lie in the work/life balance, uncommunicative management and a terrible PTO policy. 

If you take unscheduled leave for any reason, they will penalize you and ALSO take your PTO on top of that. 10 penalties a year and you’re fired. Management will say one thing to your face and immediately say another behind your back. The schedule is never consistent, ESPECIALLY if you work 2nd shift, and there is no work/life balance at 50+ hours a week. 

It is hard to enjoy working here when they constantly yank you around.

A typical day for me personally is to start off, by logging in  a system called Live Chat. This system is where our Customers can ask questions or ask to be enrolled in a free system that Baker & Taylor offers called Invoice Gateway. Being that I'm the only representative out of about 40 employees handling this system as well as the representative that transfer voice messages to my coworkers, it makes my daily duties fast pace, which I prefer. I then  respond to my emails, as I handle to CST region and my customers are not at work until 9am CST; which I'm in at 8am EST. I then work my way to listening to voice messages and returning calls promptly. As the day go by I work on my portfolio in which I have a goal of $4.8 Million a month. I've learned a lot working at Baker & Taylor for the last 9 years and 6 months. I enjoy my job as I'm a very easy person to get along with.

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