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warehouse associate

truck driver

sales representative

technical analyst

Heidelberg Distributing

What is the best part of working at the company?
Exposure to cool products and ti learn how to sell.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Stressful and toxic work environment 
The monthly goals make no sense
The pay is unbelievably complicated; never explained and never fully paid. 
Upper management creates a place where misogyny runs unchecked

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Extremely toxic. You are constantly gaslit and lied to about everything from pay to benefits. Generally is a burden of the provider to explain the benefits. However they always have these benefit meets over zoom or teams when you are working and can’t finish your work if you attend. 
Extremely mismanaged, stock levels of products and never maintained, the scheduling is insane aroubd holidays. They just expect you to work all through the holidays and your “off” days. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Running a sales route out of a car. Little to no support for your accounts, rarely even notes. Creating Displays are fun.
Most of the sales reps I talked to usually struggle to finish their day and rarely fully complete their work.
In your account you are responsible for 
-beer dates
-displays
-Point of sale
-signage and tags
Outside your accounts you are responsible for
-your account notes which take forever
-maintaining your workplace relations
-these ridiculous forms that are outdated 
-weekly preplans
-weekly recaps 
Etc etc etc
Way too much for the pay. Minimum 55 hours a week to be successful

When I say marginal, I mean of secondary or minor importance; not central. This applies for almost every aspect of day to day operations. Let's start with employees, Heidelberg will assess a certain position and apply the lowest wage when compared to companies around them, making the value of employees marginal. Same goes for equipment. Without trucks they can't make deliveries, but they keep the bare minimum of trucks available. A guy could be in a bigger truck one day and then when it breaks down he's forced to take a smaller truck, somehow try to make everything still fit. CDL drivers rarely stay, as if they were secondary to daily operations. It looks like they try to use Class D licenced employees and trucks when they really need Class A and B. So rather than making drivers a primary importance, they let them come and go almost as if the front door is revolving. Solutions would be to increase pay across the board, set goals for employees to reach. Why should I stick around for less pay? Will loyalty and my work ethic be rewarded? Most guys mention 50 cents to dollar raises maybe every year. Not quite the rewarding system you can find at more established companies, ones that have an offer a maximum hourly wage that can be achieved and that will raise with inflation. 

Been here 5 years and am continually taking on more responsibilities yet have not seen my pay increase, it has actually decreased. Management that set goals don’t come out into the market and see what is actually going on. They set goals based on what they ‘think’ is right or from numbers that they stare at on a computer screen. If you are one of the lucky ones within the clique there’s a good chance you’ll get promoted. Many jobs have never been backfilled and just passed along to other employees without compensation for taking on the responsibilities. It’s pretty much a revolving door of employees within the sales department and the warehouse but they don’t seem concerned that they’ve lost a couple hundred years of experience from good employees that have gotten fed up with the games management plays. They’d rather have inexperienced sales reps that do what they are told, push products that don’t make sense at accounts, and hit numbers that don’t even translate to an increase of sales but make them look good on paper all so they can pay them less than a veteran rep that can think for themselves and do what’s right for the customer.

Been there for over 24 years did love my job saw a lot of changes especially with upper management. Was a higher pay never been wrote up showed up to my job did my part loved my accounts but due to being the higher pay and in the union which this company will not be a union base company for long I'm living proof of that one hasn't been ran that way for the past 8 years. From operation manager who can't talk to his own employees to all draft management to sell reps and from there up are nothing about family at all... they don't care a single bit about there working employees if it don't benefit them then they don't care if you're high pay, watch your back they will get rid of u any how they feel. Management will never take responsibility on anything.  The only reason this company is a multi billion dollar company is cause AMERICA loves their beer and that is the only reason. It's not cause of the how the company is ran and wirh the management there cause u don't treat people the way this company does. "Family base company" lies lies and more lies

There are people in management positions that are only there because of the friendships they have with upper management.  The place was like a high school environment that has its "cliques".  If you weren't in said clique then you didn't stand a chance to be promoted or succeed at your job.  There is absolutely zero training for any new employee, let alone someone that has been promoted to a sales representative.  You get sent out to learn all about the job by yourself when you are hired in as a merchandiser.  You hope to luck out and work under a salesman that will take you under his wing and teach you the job (because sales representatives boss, who is ultimately your boss as well, will not train you).  If you are promoted to a sales route, they throw you out there, with no real training, and let you either sink or swim.  If you are in their "clique", you get every benefit of the doubt and help.  It is not a healthy company to work for, I just hope that someday, someone will run that company the way it should be run, as a business and not a "fraternity" house.

I was not trained for the job description that was promised. you work like a dog for terrible pay. People are alright but management don’t care about your growth they just give you a task and just hope for the best. They can watch you on camera and tell you that you’re walking around when you assigned me to clean in the warehouse and might I add on foot which is like walking a desert when I truly desired to be productive like everyone else picking orders and gaining experience with warehouse and I thought they could put my foot into the door with new opportunities, but they are always short staffed and to be honest nobody is going to waste time on a company that can’t even keep a strong team. If you like to work hard without being trained on the position you applied for then be my guest but i highly don’t recommend this job to anybody look elsewhere for a chance to be in warehouse Heidelberg isn’t the job!

I worked full time in office, was always expected to stay as late as they wanted every night. I don't mind hard work but you would think once in awhile they would say hey, good job or thanks. No, just the opposite, there was always something you had done wrong. Had a great manager but she eventually retired. Heidelbergs great loss, hired a young inexperienced replacement who spent her time chasing anything in pants. They finally had the where with all to can her, got another manager who seems nice and is likeable.   They have to advertise the reconciliation job often because no one can tolerate the other management very long, high turn over and they promote the wrong people. 
I had had all I could stand, one of the best decisions I've made was leaving. 
If you enjoyed the catty drama of freshman year in high school then Heidelberg is the place for you.

A typical day at Heidelberg consisted of stacking empty kegs to be off-loaded, putting away various product that was not put away the night before, filling orders for both salesmen and customers and taking those orders out to their cars, and continuously cleaning the warehouse on down time. I learned a great deal about what it takes to run a distributing company. I had relatively no experience coming into the job and came away with a greater appreciation for the men and women that do that type of manual labor on a daily basis. My bosses were what made this job one of my favorites. They were easy to talk to and loved to joke around. My co-workers were very knowledgeable people and I loved learning the business from them. The hardest part of the job was definitely the manual labor aspect but the best part of the job was learning about a lot of different wines and beers.

The managers very openly favortise people. They constantly tell you your replaceable. They allow their favorites to do whatever whenever. Even if you do something that your whole department is doing If they don't like you they will only address you and leave every one else keep going. Managers will train you one way and a week or two later come back up and say I don't know why you are doing it like this just to make themselves feel smarter and more superior. They don't like women working in their warehouses. And managers will harass you for it. They anouced to us that they made 7 or 800 million in profit last year but we never received any bonus or compensation the whole year not even a Christmas bonus. They are just and all around bad company and a super huge boys club.

Been here for about 8 months. Been good so far but managers expect above and beyond out of the few people who rely on this job to pay bills. Theyre constantly understaffed and while thats good for overtime, the hours are abysmal. You dont leave till youre done and some of the bosses have inferiority complexes, i.e. they try to limit breaks and reduce workflow to slow you down. The company lies about nearly everything and wont be honest with you for a second. The pay is okay, better with incentives but to get said incentives you have to meet an impossible quota, otherwise the pay stays mediocre.

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