truck driver

delivery driver

stocker

warehouse associate

driver

Foundation Building Materials

Work-life balance
Could work till noon. Could work till 7:00 p.m. you have no idea from day to day for sure what time you may be going home till its over.

Pay & benefits
Pay is less than fair for destroying your back and knees carrying drywall every day. $17-18 to start as a CDL driver. $14-15 to start as a laborer or Chauffeur flatbed delivery driver. Delivering drywall to customers homes, carrying it Upstairs, downstairs to basements, through mud 8 inchs deep, in the pouring rain, nothing stops the process of these deliveries. Not even making this up.

Job security and advancement
The only job security here is that you will have a job almost no matter what only for the fact that its to hard to keep people as it is so this company practically has to tolerate absences and late show ups because nobody wants to work there.

Management
This company is no different than any other company in the country, management is concerned with one thing. Covering their behind and making money for the company. There is no real concern for you your family your health or well being as a person. At the end of the day their priority is, did we get all the deliveries out and how much money did we make.

Culture
Its a labor job, period. Anyone who has done labor work knows what the culture is. Your treatment is that as a machine. It will be no different here.

Overall
If your desperate and need income fast. This place will practically hire you on the spot. Pay isn’t terrible, you will get benefits, but you will sacrifice your body for the pay. Guarantee!

Typically your day starts at 5:00am and you're done at 4:30pm and sometimes later. Management usually gets orders wrong which cause significant delays throughout the day. Management gets angry if you stop for lunch/break as they expect you to eat while you're on the job. Management will sometimes make you work over 14 hours of driving on busy days (illegal). You will often be using trucks that have major and or minor issues that is refused to be fixed ( truck has shutdown on us multiple times on road). Also one van has its back and side doors that are being held by bungie cords and is not safe for the road. Management does not care what's so ever about its employees as long as the customer is happy. Multiple other employees have been promised a $1 raise after 3 months probation which management has failed to keep their word on. Co-workers are alright and your typical day is mostly stressful and boring for average pay. You will be doing an average of 50-65 hours a week depending the time of season. The warehouse is very dusty and hard to breath in from the building material some of which is made from crystalline silica which is known to be cancerous.

Expect lowballing, childish behavior from  both management and employees, and expect nothing else. There are promises, but they are not kept. If there is something the matter with anything, and you bring it up, expect to get made fun of behind your back, while management rewards the same unsavory behaviors that made you uncomfortable in the first place. They say they're growing - as if we don't know that it is a Revolving Door company. Not even Temps waste their time working for unstable managers who make fun of them and other employees...with other managers. 

When a company is growing, they train their employees and not leave it up to others to do the training for them. Especially if you already get a whiff of nepotism and tantrum-riddled organization. When they're growing, they follow through on promises or statements they tell you that they will do. When a company is growing, management would not engage in a toxic/hostile work environment to display some weird power dynamic. 

To boot, you will also get exposed tp a plethora of germs in a hot building full of snot-nosed adult children. 

This company is run by someone who is not completely knowledgeable.  If you get along with someone, they move your desk. They pit one against the other. The work is scattered all over the place, as far as some departments work on things that have nothing to do with that department. You are constantly watched, there are cameras everywhere, the cheapest of office supplies are locked up. Most of the employees buy their own supplies. The company does not put one cent towards medical, so most do not take it and pay out of pocket. It is run like a legalized sweat shop. If you question anything, you are accused of trying to take over.  Nothing is logical and most employees are miserable. The head administrator has her entire family working there, so you cannot trust anyone. Most are managers, but do not have full understanding of their job. Such a large company is very poorly run and managed. Upper management does not care about anyone there. I have never seen such an awful working environment as this company.  Not one person is happy at their job there, but they need a job and stay.  you are spoken to like you are an idiot, and then are never listened to when you speak to them. Terrible!

This company is one of the worst...they are cheap so no they aren't going to pay you well especially for all the work you have to do. If you get the benefits through them 🤣😂🤣😂 your done because the benefits are going to annihilate your paycheck and yes you will be very angry with this. Now let's talk about the actual work for starters you never really know how your day is going to turn out everything is last minute you could be on your way back from a job ready to go home only to be told there's another job far away and it's a big one so your out there well into the night it's a downright dirty job all the equipment is constantly breaking down from forklifts to the trucks and they never get them properly fixed management stinks they are very uncommunicative its ridiculous...oh I almost forgot  beware they will play like they like you for about the first 10 months and soon after that they will begin to target and harrass you for any little thing to find a reason to try and fire you so they can save the company money

The management doesn't care  about nothing specially you !!!!
Me as a supervisor they fire me because I wanted to report a worker who say racist remarks LIKE THE N WORD to other employees yes not just one 3 to 5 employees.Yes they complain to me and I let my terminal manager know about this not just 1 or 2 but 5 time I told what was going with this person and at the last one he fire me WOW 

CEO  and owner lough at me in a email (NOT TOO SMART)

My terminal manager let just call him 10 SECOND RON  70 + year old rich man who is most racists in the terminal.
He likes to hire people the he think they not smart (AND MOST OF THEM AREN'T) and  underskill so they will not challenge him .

HE CALL THIS PERSONS  BODYS 
No brains just do what you told .....unsafe don't worry about it we have a 5000 dollar life insurance plan ......lol

Let spray paint  a truck in a garage with 5 poeple around............ IF THEY COMPLAIN SEND THEM HOME !!!!!
WOW.   
I HAD TO SAY SOMETHING BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO BECOME A (BODY)

I STAND UP FOR WHAT'S  RIGHT AND HE FIRE ME LOL

I’ve been in the building supply industry for 5 years. Working for FBM Fort Wayne and FBM Southbend has been my worst experience in the industry. To start the piece rate pay scale does a terrible job of compensating when you overcome and complete more difficult jobs. The pay does not increase unless you have to “carry” the product which does not accommodate for jobs that simply take longer due to other obstacles. Secondly the management has a complete disregard to the safety and well being of employees when a operator or driver does not believe a job is safe to complete as instructed (either by management or the customer) management will simply tell the operator or driver that it MUST be done today no matter the risk. Corporate preaches about safety and quality work but will not compensate financially for such things (doing paperwork, accessing jobs, extra labor to appease the customer, returning jobs that were unsafe, etc..) In summary the bodily risk and stress of this job is not worth the compensation offered.

Work in the Mid Atlantic region and the regional manager is so bad to work for.  She is all about herself. She will not accept any insight on how to make anything better or even let you suggest a change with out making you feel stupid. Very loud and is a gossip. Has to tell everyone everyone's business good or bad.  Does not keep things to herself at all. She loves to sweep things under the rug that need to be handled but is afraid of confrontation so she let's everything go and most of them need to be handled.  Branches being ran into the ground and making good people leave. People have to beg for raises even when they are doing a good job. Worried about her sales that she brags to everyone about but messes them up constantly.  No wonder branches are struggling and people want to leave.  If the owner actually knew what was going on. But people are afraid to say anything.  The owner really should come to all the branches and interview people or even call recent employees who have quit

What is the best part of working at the company?
the pay is terrible and the work is very dangerous and unsafe place to work.  I came very close to losing my life multiple times with seconds.  The forklift I had to operate had faulty brakes and almost crushed me in between tons of dry wall when because the lift began to roll even after the brake were applied

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
A few co workers were always giving me a hard time about getting my materials for my work orders and the owner was obsessed with telling us to not use the forklift but to instead carry large beams of metal by hand across a dangerous and high traffic area... Im talking 26 foot steel track metal.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Unsafe but laid back

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Insane.  Loading a 48 footer plus helping customers in customer service while they just keep piling on more orders at the last minute.

I hope no other employees have to suffer the way we did under the mismanagement of the current Mid Atlantic Regional Manager. She is completely unprofessional running multiple branches on skeleton crews so she can look like she is being cost effective to the owner. All she ever talked about was HER sales and when it came time for your review she would make you beg her for months. I hope the owner wakes up before he has to close ANOTHER struggling branch like ours did. It was extremely hard knowing our branch was going to close while listening to her brag about hoarding her sales that she was gifted from the Marjam website. Everyone knows that she cherry picks good accounts after people leave the company to increase her own personal sales instead of   developing the sale staff beneath her. This review is along time coming!

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