warehouse associate

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warehouse associate ii

Cardinal Health

I was told in my interview that starting pay is $17/hr for Tech I in PET but that it would raise as soon as I got AU certified. I asked how long it takes to get AU certified and was told 6 weeks. Do not believe this. The course takes 6 weeks but it takes several months before you can take the course + six weeks + several months to receive the certification. Then you won't actually get promoted when you get certified. They will make you wait until you are on the site license, which takes another several months to apply for and another several months to wait for approval from the state. Then your supervisor will tell you he will promote you, but will not actually do it. You will get strung along. You will wait for your promotion to get announced but it won't happen. When you question him about it, he will tell you that AU certification is only one factor in promotion and it is discretionary based on the manager's assessment of things like "leadership ability". But your manager only sees you for anywhere from 5 min to an hour per day because you are a third shift employee (10pm start - when you get AU certified you will work opening for some amount of time) and he is a first shift employee (7am start and he stays in his office outside the lab a majority of the time).

You will open the site by yourself unsupervised for two hours, then act as a shift lead, generally with the newest employee for another 3 hours, you will perform production, perform sterility, do your paperwork, all without supervision - but when it comes to promotion, the goal posts repeatedly shift further back, and you don't meet the "requirements". In your performance review, your manager will blame you for "not taking the initiative" to become qualified in Amyvid processes, even though that is something that has to be scheduled because it is performed concurrently with your other tasks. This is a trend - your manager will shift blame as much as possible to the least common denominator, which is you.

Then when you finally do get promoted between a year and a year and a half later (if you last that long without getting fed up), you will be making $19/hr as a Tech II. In the mean time you will put up with a work environment in which you essentially will be expected to be on-call, and your starting time can vary dramatically by 6 hours or more on only a few hours notice. This happened to me many times. Your manager will either not make a schedule or will make a schedule that is meaningless practically as soon as it is made on a regular basis. You may be expected to be in another state across the country on less than 24 hrs notice to cover for another site (if your site's staffing is adequate and depending on what you are qualified in). When you are sent somewhere, you will have to front the money for your hotel, for your rental car, and the rest of your expenses. Cardinal will reimburse you eventually, but for someone making $17/hr, it will be difficult to have that kind of money in your bank account to allocate to these expenses while you have other bills to pay.

You will work some form of third shift whether it is 10pm or midnight or 2am 3am 4am - it will vary, and the more you are qualified in, the more it will vary. You will work weekends also. When you have to work the weekend, you will be given a day off during the week. You will not know what day you have off until last minute. So your Friday night is gone, your Saturday night gone, and on Monday night you will be given Tuesday night off. You are nocturnal so you will still be awake on Tuesday night - you just won't have anything to do because no one is available at 3am on Tuesdays to do anything. 

It will not be worth the $17/hr. You will be miserable.

I been working for this company for the past six months ( Jan 2014- July 2014) and basically Cardinal is a company that does not care for their employees. In order to get this job you must accept overtime, however, I do not recommend it for part time associates. Here is why:  My situation was that because I was a part time associate they require you to work overtime for everyday that you work. Unfortunately, if you live in the state of California, the law says that if  you work over a period of 30 hours or more per week, the employer has to pay you full time benefits. I was working average of 32 hours per week and because of that, first they send me home for like month temporarily with no pay, no benefits and then two weeks later was fired. I was fired because they were forcing me to go full time and since I go to school to get better, they simply fire me because of that. Unfortunately, they don't explain it but you have no other choice if you want to work or not. Now you know it. :)

The quality of the supervisors that they hire are completely a bunch of . One day, I ask the question to my supervisor when freshly started, if this is going to be a full time or part time position and my supervisor told me " if you don't like it, you can go next door", as soon as he said that, the guy was fired the very next day.  

The way I can describe the work environment its a completely messy. Sometimes our supervisors ask us to have orders ready in like 10 min or 15 min so. The orders get so heavy that sometimes its impossible to do, other than like 2 hours to complete the orders.The job  in general, Its more like you if you going for shopping and you have cart and just put items from the shelfs base on the shopping list thats how the job is, with the exception of technology. You work with a palm scanner and the computer display you the order that you picking, the item's location, the quantity, and the item description. Normally they measure your speed, your carts that you complete and something else that I can't remember. Sometimes the noises in this place is completely tedious, stressful hard to deal with plus the entire place is dusty everywhere. You sneeze everywhere, and then you get allergies and all kind of things.

I can say the hardest thing to deal with this company is the volume of orders. Since this is a pharmaceutical, the demand increases and decreases depending on the time of the season. They basically, switch your hours and days whenever they want to and if you don't show up that day, they either suspend you or write you up as an "occurrence" as they call it. There is no really leniance or flexibility, whatever you call it, its a "Business". You have to make sacrifices for them but they can't make sacrifices for you. It's a company that really make a bunch of millions by supplying hospitals, pharmacies you  name it. It does not matter if you are a good worker or a slacker coworker, they will exploit you and then trash you. Its more like a retail industry type of  business model but good pay above the minimum wage average.


The people in general  is just like everywhere, you meet good people and bad people. The Job in general is not hard to do, its a lot of variables that makes it difficult.  I dealt with the vast majority of them except the amount hours of overtime. Its not a sin been a hard worker but its about politics like everywhere. America has become the greediest place on the planet.

I started with the pharmaceutical location as an associate, a picker, before the pandemic hit and considering that they ship OTC and life-saving medications, we got hit very hard with panic-buyers. There will be either occasionally light (leaving on time), heavy (some overtime), or extremely heavy (too much overtime). Even 11 months after the beginning of the pandemic, there has been an incredibly high turn-over rate with workers. At first, they tried bringing in temp workers and it worked for a while until they were relieved of their duty because the number of totes sent out had slowed to a fairly normal amount for a short time. The workers who had been there and do the actual labor work knew it was a bad move, and it was. We got hit again and there have been more long nights with overtime over the past year than there are normal nights. Especially with being so-short handed so often. New workers will see how long our nights are and leave halfway through. Not the company's fault, of course. But unfortunate for those of us who have other jobs or attend school and cannot function properly due to exhaustion. One may think the overtime is better than no time, but once you hit 70+ hours for a single week, it gets tiring. This is the hardest part of the job and generally a typical day.

Aside from the loss of sanity, the most enjoyable part of the job is being able to socialize with real people, being rewarded for working hard by management like receiving complimentary food, and easily moving up in the workforce like learning other locations: how to use the machinery equipment, shipping dock, etc.

You are always being encouraged to voice your opinions to management in ways to improve the workplace, and finding ways to make your work easier to complete. The ordinary workplace culture that I was surrounded by was open and welcoming, Management usually does a great job with listening, investigating, and acting on giving attention to issues you have with them, the workplace, or other workers. They've made it very clear that our safety is their top priority and have been professional with how they come about it. The only issue I ever really had with management was the miscommunication that would sometimes happen, I would be left out of the loop on orders or change on start time.
Another very important topic is the steps they have taken to prevent an unsafe environment due to the virus. As it is a warehouse, it isn't completely avoidable to keep the 6-foot distance at all times when picking the products, but they do have a cleaning crew that comes in to clean all appliances, door handles, tables, etc. It is only once a night though. They're strict on the mask mandate, hand-washing, and taking temperatures.

All in all, just know before applying your weeks will seem like they're never-ending because they're so long. This review is only for the pharma location.

The job itself is okay. The benefits are great but the fact that you are working "until the job is done" is ridiculous. Work up to 12 and a half hours. The expectation to hit the high production numbers everyday every hour and continue to work almost 12 and half hours is exhausting. The work slows down after January but picks up quickly during July toward the winter. It has gotten to the point where in order to leave in 8 hours you have to the hit high production numbers. Despite hitting the numbers you are still criticized for cleaning up your station 15 minutes prior as this should be normal to do so. You are still expected to continue working until 6:30. Little to no AC and have seen employees pass out including almost myself due to the heat. This job is perfect for someone who is struggling financially that needs long hours and has nothing but bills to pay. If you have plans on going to school then you are out of luck as you have NO TIME to go to class nor time to eat dinner or do personal tasks. The pay and benefits are decent but due to the long hours and expectations aside from not having a personal life does not justify. There is no official training and learn most on your own. Not even the trainer can hit the expected production. How are new hires able to succeed when the Training/Trainer is not knowledgeable or able to hit the goals? I can recall 2 Supervisors being professional and concerning toward employees but the rest of the management has no knowledge in the function of their departments and lack social skills. The representative in the office has an attitude. Ignoring my requests and being little to no help when seeking guidance. They do not seem to care about you as a human. You are more of a number and are expected to halt any personal circumstances. You live to work. Very high turn over rate. No one with real skills and knowledge ever stays. I am not the only one that feels this way as majority of the employees do so but do not voice their opinions because they want job security. I heard the company has taken promise raises away and lowered raises. Unfortunately, I expected more from a billion dollar company. The long hiring process and the 3 month prior hair drug testing gave me the impression I would be working in a professional modernized facility. The machinery seems to break down once a month. The programs are out of date and are code based with horrible constant server lag. No matter if you move up to a "higher" position you will still be stuck working the same long hours. I honestly sympathize for my previous Supervisor working more than 12+ hours covering about 2-3 shifts. In terms of conditions and benefits I can not speak for other positions that do not include Warehouse worker based operations. I hope my review helps anyone considering applying to Cardinal Health; Warehouse Operations.

•	Worked on analyzing Hadoop cluster and different big data analytic tools including Pig, Hbase database and Sqoop, Cassandra, zookeeper.
•	Evaluated business requirements and prepared detailed specifications that follow project guidelines required to develop written programs.
•	Responsible for building scalable distributed data solutions using Hadoop.
•	Analyzed large amounts of data sets to determine optimal way to aggregate and report on it using Map Reduce programs.
•	Implemented Map reduce programs to retrieve Top-K results from unstructured data set.
•	Migrating various hive UDF’s and queries into Spark SQL for faster requests as part of POC implementation.
•	Optimized Map Reduce Jobs to use HDFS efficiently by using various compression mechanisms.
•	Handled importing of data from various data sources, performed transformations using Hive, MapReduce, loaded data into HDFS and Extracted the data from HDFStoMYSQLusing Sqoop.
•	Exported the analyzed data to the relational databases using Sqoop for visualization and to generate reports for the BI team.
•	Developed fan-out workflow using flume for ingesting data from various data sources like Webservers, Rest API by using different sources and ingested data into Hadoop with HDFS sink.
•	Involved in migrating MongoDBversion 2.4 to 2.6 and implementing new security features and designing more efficient groups.
•	Installed and configured Cassandra and good knowledge about Cassandra architecture, read, write paths and query.
•	Implemented various ETL solutions as per the business requirement using informatica
•	Experience with creating ETL jobs to load JSON data and server data into MongoDB and transformedMongoDB into the Data Warehouse.
•	Involved in data modeling in Cassandra and MongoDB and involved in choosing indexes and primary keys based on the client requirement.
•	ConfiguredSparkstreaming to receive real time data from theKafkaand store the stream data to HDFS using Scale.
•	Used Spark for Parallel data processing and better performances.
•	Extensively used Pig for data cleansing and extract the data from the web server output files to load into HDFS.
•	Developed a data pipeline usingKafka and Storm to store data into HDFS.
•	Implemented Kafka Java producers, create custom partitions, configured brokers and implemented High level consumers to implement data platform.
•	Implemented Storm topologies to preprocess data, implemented custom grouping to configure partitions.
•	Managed and reviewed Hadoop log files.
•	Involved in creating Hive tables, loading with data and writing hive queries which will run internally in MapReduce way.
•	Used Hive to analyze the partitioned and bucketed data and compute various metrics for reporting.

I had worked for the company for a little over a year before decide to depart from the job. Overall, the job is very simple, you come in at a very early time to help around the packaging of the doses for each run, and then deliver the dosages to the assigned hospitals in your route. It was nice to drive regularly with no management breathing down your neck and getting to know the personnel at the various hospitals, outside the pharmacy, it was very peaceful. 

As the title mentions, it's an easy job that aggravates you. Times inside the pharmacy you are task of maintaining a force field from the personalities that surround the pharmacy. There are entitled workers who have worked in the facility for years who pretty much set the tone for the work place with unwritten rules. You will encounter folks who talks about politics or others who would talk trash about the company. As you start the job, you will notice that you are given the vehicles that are worn, (which, there are no assigned vehicles) by a dispatcher who thinks they are the boss (which, they are not). There is a lot of behind-covering needed so you do not set yourself for failure. Typically, I would keep it neutral and just proceed to do what is needed for the time being and not integrate with the nonsense. 

The problem arises when you have an issue that involves you. Management lacks the backbone to properly handle situations that are clearly a violation of SOP or company policy, they literally get away with murder in this place. Vehicles are poorly maintained, and often you will find yourself having to find time to clean after someone else. 

If you do not enjoy getting up before 5AM, this is NOT the job for you. Most shifts start between 2-5 AM, which weekends starting at 2AM. As mentioned before, the entitled workers who have been around will NOT work weekends and you will find yourself being "volunteered" to work them. There is an option to work 4 days of t he week as the company lets you keep benefits if you work 10 hours, however it is a lifestyle you have to commit working very early. 

If you have issues that affects your well-being, the best thing to do is take time to mentally prepare for the next day, because HR will NOT help you. These are a group of people that have been working together for some time, and as the saying goes, "the house always wins." They are NOT there for you, and your expectation is to clock in, do your job, obey your seniors and repeat. If you can separate your dignity and just come to do a job with no expectations, then this is the job for you. If you are wanting more out of it, I advise for you to stay far away. 

Other than what was stated above, this company does provide the employee with really good benefits, and taking time off is simple and usually never an issue. 

We worked a constant night shift starting as early as 9 pm for years.
12 to 14 hour shifts every night, Mon through Friday, plus 6-10 hours on the weekend were the norm. The company is too cheap to buy good equipment and too cheap to maintain it. So it was an every night occurrence to deal with several serious failures that threatened production. Technicians were expected to fix complex equipment on the spot even though it wasn't their responsibility.
Production is extremely fast-paced with no slack time included in the schedule to deal with contingencies. Expect to be on your feet and constantly moving the entire shift. You may not even have time to eat during some shifts. Try working 12 hours without eating! Despite the enormous workload, you have also have an enormous amount of paperwork to fill out to document the production process which you're expected to fill out as you work. Equipment which should have been repaired immediately was not. As a result, techs frequently had to handle extremely radioactive stuff which caused enormous unnecessary radiation exposure to us. SOPs were often vague, contradicted other SOPs, or were impossible to follow. Managers nonetheless threatened and sometimes did fire technicians for not following SOPs. Unqualified people were promoted to managerial roles based on personal politics. Chief "engineer" was an ex-military mechanic who never graduated from college and didn't like college graduates. Hence he hired mainly unqualified, uneducated individuals to be cyclotron engineers. Engineering was frequently unavailable or unwilling to fix equipment necessitating that the technicians fix it. The Quality Control department was constantly increasing the workload without consideration for the techs. Techs often had more education (BS, MS and even PhDs in technical fields) than the managers but got paid ridiculously low salaries. Despite the outrageous sacrifices that we made for the company on a constant basis, every year we received 2% raises which barely covered the cost of inflation. This despite the fact our division was very profitable. Bonuses: Never. Managers are a bunch of uneducated, unskilled thugs who do as little work as possible. They frequently "work" from home and are almost never seen except when the FDA shows up maybe once a year to inspect. If you last 3 years in this job, you can work ANYWHERE.
Bottomline: This job is hell on earth and it's a dead end career-wise.
Stay away from this company.

It started off great! It seemed like a friendly and fun place to work. I made the mistake of trying to befriend my coworkers and learned quickly that they *will* backstab you. You *will* be singled out and isolated if you don't fit in. There are cliques everywhere in there, and you're better off keeping to yourself. Not everyone in there is terrible, of course, but the majority is.

Management will stress the importance of communication, which I agree with! It'd be a lot simpler if things were laid out and discussed all the time, regardless if it's something good or bad, but it's very one-sided. They wouldn't speak to me or my recruiter unless we pestered them. They expect you to communicate with them, but you cannot expect them to do the same. There was an instance where a coworker misinterpreted a question I'd asked and reported me for it. I was called in for a meeting with my manager, where I was told to be mindful of how others may interpret things. In return, I asked how I was meant to communicate with my coworkers if I was worried that someone would perceive whatever I said in a negative light and report me for it, and management told me first that they didn't know what to do about that and that I just shouldn't ask questions.

Advancement is also barred if you're friends with anyone there. They had me working in a new spot focused on restocking shelves that I was enjoying. I was diligent, doing my job properly, etc. - was even told by the other workers in that department that I was doing great and that they liked having me work with them. Another coworker I was friends with kept walking over to my area (as it was part of their job to get supplies from the areas I was restocking), and I was immediately removed from restocking and replaced since they were "coming over there too much" (a direct quote from a meeting).

My favorite memory was being told that my regular face was unpleasant and that I needed to smile more (and also not take things so seriously).

All in all, it was good for work experience. That is *it*. My mental health was at a major low during my time working here and I would not recommend it to anyone else unless you're truly desperate for work.

A typical day at this warehouse, well let's start with Sunday's shall we. Sunday's are typically the lightest days of the week. Monday's & Thursday's are the heaviest! You looking at always staying 11-12 hours maybe more if you're low staffed. A typical day starts off with pointless dance steps that they call "stretches", that are not stretches

What I learned from working for the Dixon location, that one supervisor is the most realest, honest, authentic person you'll meet. He taught me in my interview to "know thyself" your strengths & weaknesses. He likes to pass on knowledge to educate those without it

Management is the worst, laziest, phony bunch of people I've ever seen outside of 2 people in management who are real & authentic. They care little for the employees physical & mental health. I've seen them fire the most efficient people without warning or a chance to redeem themselves. Honestly, wouldn't recommend ANYONE working for the Dixon location. There's a bunch of good people who work their who are taken for granted 

The hardest part about the job: is the drive(if you live in Sacramento), the uncertainty of when the shift will be over(you can start at 2pm and work as late as 4am), the damage the job does to you physically & mentally, how not working set hours takes you away from having a social life(and seeing your spouse & children if you have them), the feeling that your management team will never truly value you, if the system that operates the entire facility goes down they wont allow you to leave even if its down for 10 hours, the amount of overtime you will work after your first 3 weeks is unbearable(once a month working overtime is ok, they work overtime everyday for the last the last 15-20 years), and the feeling of not having some job security(both mentally & literally). This facility has a horrible track record with terminating the most efficient employees within a 6 month period. When they terminate you or a friend of yours, they put your ID picture on this "wall of shame" for everyone to see and refer to you as a "dangerous (man or woman)". Also, be prepared to do an unnecessary amount of housekeeping after your first 3 weeks

The only thing you'll enjoy is your walk to your car when the shift is over & it's your "Friday"

When they first hire you they’ll tell you the shift goes from 12:30 to 9:00 but in two years I think I’ve only gotten off at/or before 9:00 about 5 times. Morning shift works about 40-42 hours a week while nights works between 50-62 hours a week all of which is mandatory. Most new people don’t last longer than a month due to the workload, we have now gone through about 45 new guys in about 4 years in our shift alone, 26 of which were in the last 2 years. Mind you that might not seem like a lot but considering our shift is only made of 8 people (currently at 5 because of shortages of workers). They are currently limping on temporary work agency workers but we get about two or three new ones every other week, we might be in our 15th temp as of now. Management is clueless, and it’s made up mostly of old college and work buddies show brought each other on, our HR and manager are family as are our Ops supervisor and day shift supervisor who are brother/sister so nepotism is big here at this facility. Benefits are solid as are the PTO (if you can get it approved) you get 21 days of it but most on nights have to ‘give up’ about 3-5 days due to lack of personal, which is lost since the company has a “use it or lose” it policy. Checks are pretty good after 115+hrs EVERY pay period, but most of the time the company that does payroll “assumes” you will only work 80~ hrs so your check will be short about 20-30 hours which don’t get paid until the NEXT check and so on for the next check and so on, so yes getting paid for your work IS a struggle in itself. Overall great place to work if you work mornings (you get a 10$ gift card for every hour of overtime worked on that shift, and pizza or some other treat for the whole shift if the shift stays past their 8 hr time) but night shift is just brutal, so avoid it like the plague. Retaliation for disagreeing/speaking up with management is also a HUGE issue so much even upper management had to “do” something about it, although nothing has changed. The most common way is for management to “forget” about your scheduled PTO and so you either take it a have an occurrence (3 and you are terminated) or just suck it up and work it. We lost a couple guys that way. Went on their PTO came back 3-5 days later to 3-5 occurrences and were gone. A 30¢ differential doesn’t really justify the difference in treatment from shift to shift.

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