stocker

order picker

merchandiser

Hensley Beverage Company

This should be a temp job for anyone until you find something better.
as a merchandise you are assigned a roughly "close" to where you live route. You start work at 4am and can get off at noon if you fast enough. Most of the time you will work weekends and holidays. Your starting pay is $13.50hr, you also get a one time payment of $500 a month to use your own car. So if you don't mind putting miles and wear and tear on your car your fine, in 6months I drove about 17k miles, gas prices are going up too. You also get a one time payment of $30 a month to use your call phone. If your fast you get off work sooner but you lose hours and pay. my last check was only about $400 for the WHOLE WEEK. The job is simple, you stock the empty beer and other non alcoholic beverages throughout the store. The job will tax your body with back pain, foot pain, knee pain. Its fine if you like to work alone and at your pace. But not for the pain and money. Management does not care about how much they pay you. Heard RUMORS that management gets bonuses if they hold out on raises. You also have to work with the salesmen who order the beverages for the store. Depending who your salesman is for that store will make you life easier. Some salesmen are entitled cry babies who will blame you or make you fix their screw ups. Don't expect to get a raise and don't expect to get a better job within. More work for a little more pay if you want to be a Bulk Management Rep ( next step up from merchandise). Hensley is a multi million revolving door. They don't care about the people on the bottom. Only perks were getting off early in the day and discounted beverages at the plant when they were about to expire. They will also reimburse your Uber when you go out and drink. 
Read the other reviews, take it all with a gain of salt if you like. Its a job that's It! Good Luck!

Hensley has been a great company to work for.  As a delivery driver, the job is definitely very fast paced and physically demanding at times, especially during weeks before “drinking” holidays.  You will find several people that like to complain about the company, but when you look at the big picture of things they are a good company overall.  The pay is on the high end for local delivery jobs and they like to help their employees advance.  Many of the company’s drivers started in lower positions and were trained to get their CDL through the company.  I think the management on the drivers side is excellent.  All the managers were drivers before advancing.  They always answer their phones when their is an issue.  If you have a heavy day, managers will come out themselves and help you if they can.  Sometimes they will just show up to help.  One of my favorite things is that we work 4 days a week, on average 10 hours a day.  If you want to work hard to get done early, you are done when your route is done.  Having a 3 day weekend every week is definitely worth working hard for 4 days in my opinion.  Also, as long as you start at a reasonable time they are flexible on your start time.  For the type of route I have you are able to start anytime between 5am and 6:30am, so if your running “late” as long as it’s not unreasonable they won’t give you a hard time about it.  If you do what you are supposed to do and work hard, then you are treated fairly and left alone for the most part.  I’ve enjoyed my time at Hensley.

5 am start whether you deliver, merchandise, or do route sales. As a delivery driver, I clocked in at 5 and checked in my load for the day. After it was then loaded and I began my route. Grocery Stores are top priority because of their window frame of time to deliver. What I took from this job is delivering isn't for everyone but can be fun and knowledge attainable. Management for lack of a better term is real "cut throat'' you either do what's asked or get let go. As long as you respect your higher ups, work really fast and efficiently you're good to go. As a delivery driver you become super close to your fellow delivery drivers as well as with other companies you'll frequently see and run into. The hardest part of the job is managing your time wisely. As a beverage distributor your vendors include restaurants that would rather not see your face in the peak hours of breakfast, lunch, or diner, so you have to keep that in mind. Forget about easy short days with a few exceptions, for the most part, we're talking 10-14 hour days at minimum. The enjoyable part of the day is the companies incentives. For college sports the company host gatherings at popular bars and restaurants for employees to join and have a good time. Also the company has an annual award ceremony employees from all around Arizona attend, in which people are honored and awarded.

Hensley Beverage’s is a poorly run company. Very little communication and the wages aren’t competitive with other beverage companies. Most stores you merch will tell you Hensley has a bad reputation mainly of people not doing their jobs. It simply comes down to pay. The people they hire don’t want to do the job properly for $18 an hour but when other companies are offering a few dollars more to do the same thing there’s no reason to stay. It’s not rocket science it’s simple work so that’s a plus. If you’re good they will reward you with more work & often times you will do more work simply because people skip their responsibilities. Hard to hold people accountable when they need the bodies since there’s a high turnover rate with merchandisers. Like most companies if you kiss up and are a yes man you might get to move up but if you aren’t obedient and do everything they want expect to stay where you’re at. Leads are required to fix and make up for merchandisers mistakes & don’t make much more than a merchandiser. They will preach about how important you are but there’s no raises ever discussed. And this is the type
of company who thinks getting their employees Dominos Pizza is a reward. 

One of the worst positions I have ever held. Nothing said out of spite, just pure facts.The Supervisor role is essentially just a glorified forklift operator role. There is complete lack of direction, authority, and overall leadership. There is a little group of individuals acting as a clique and if you aren't in, you are out. Unfortunately, that group of people is the management team. Hard work is unappreciated and turnover is through the roof. Some employees are high on something all day long and it continues unchecked. Consistently understaffed and undermanned. Issues brought to the "managers" attention are ignored and pushed aside. Exceptions are made to every rule, especially for the soft management team. Add to that the fact that the equipment is junk, the warehouse is filthy, and the handheld scanners and headsets rarely work. Every day a miracle has to happen to complete the workload and employees are stretched to the max. Overall, a giant messy, dirty, headache. Apply at your own risk!!

I worked for this company many years. I can’t speak for all locations, but I can assure you that the one I worked for was horrible. This company bought out a previous company and just as a small example; after the buyout occurred, many ten plus year employees left because of management and overall operations. This company is all about who you’re friends with and how well you suck up. It has nothing to do with job performance, integrity, dedication or a true desire to better yourself and the company. 

Pay is terrible unless you live in a lower income area. Raises are horrible, management lies constantly, equipment is rough.
Best parts about the job are the customer accounts and the exercise. Job is easy as long as you’re not afraid of sweating.

Bottom line; go somewhere else that you’ll be appreciated. Don’t waste your time and efforts with management that lies, salesmen that can’t count, equipment that’s faulty and coworkers that just skate by.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nice chill place to work as long as you can follow the daily directions there’s not a lot of oversight and not a lot of stress although there is some when he gets busy generally it’s a good job for self starting person

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Haven’t got clean up after somebody else the previous day hasn’t done their job

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Seems very healthy. People are helpful when you need help and also are adaptable to workers needs.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Getting to your first door at 4:30 in the morning usually working 4 to 5 stores during the day for about eight hours about halfway through the day supervisor will give you a call to see how you’re doing. See if there’s anything they could do to help you with or that you can help them with.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Dealing with the customers! The "On Premise" management is a joke in Tucson. This company doesn't care about its employees reducing incentives. The target continues to move!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The goals changed constantly, incentives were all tied to doing surveys that the company keeps that money you are owed for reaching goals. But the management in Tucson were not experienced management or if had "Any" real management experience. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Tucson branch was very high school and very unprofessional. They didn't provide you with information until last minute. Like I said before, very unprofessional and little to no real management experience. Very petty!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Going out to meeting buyers and doing inventory at accounts! Samples were minimal if any.

The manager talk to you with no respect and will make fun of you if you don’t hit the average case number of 250 cases an hour and will put you down instead of try to help you and they give their favorite workers good pallets for them to hit the bonus which makes you stuck with bad pallets also it’s impossible to get off for something and they will write you up if you miss a day no matter the excuse you will also work past your end time everyday and the managers will tell you to hurry up anytime they see you they absolutely do not care about their workers or their well being terrible place to work the company has a 2 start rating on indeed for a reason also holidays are mandatory except Christmas and thanksgiving 

What is the best part of working at the company?
4 10 hour shifts is probably the one good thing here. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having  supervisors that acts like a children and have anger issues.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Cliques. If you aren't apart of it you get overly abused with work. And the supervisors  play good cop bad cop with you. There are some good workers and then the bad workers like always. But  as soon as you step over the line of the clique and they don't like one thing you do, then you are being micromanaged and can't do anything right. And the main supervisor is a complete jerk and anger issues. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Miserable and being watched constantly. micromanaged like you're a 5 year old.

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