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Innovative Distribution Services

I am a former employee from the New bedford Massachusetts location terminated on July 24, 2016 for fearing of reinjuring myself. Which i have injured myself once by them in the past. And was in fear of reinjuring myself again of back problems. Mind you it was the second time I've worked for this company "due to emergency of needing to pay my bills, & it got worst seeing from the eyes of having better knowledge in my field coming of back."

If you have a second job, or go to school at night time, they will give you more work to make you rush, in fear of missing your second job, or missing school. 

The pay rate stops at 14$ an hour with falsely promise piece work to sugar coat you for staying "we can't pay you more because this warehouse does not generate enough money for us to give you more, but keep up the good work" in those exact words. "Once you are in, you're stuck, they rather make you quit so they don't have to pay you Unemployment. They will give you loans "but will make you work harder to pay for it back, by dropping more work on you to pressure your mind of making you want to pay them back."

Management sucks terribly, they will curse you out in embarrassment infront of other co-worker to force you to quit, & i quote "SO YOU CAN QUIT, & so you cannot collect." You quit the job so why should you collect?

Paystubs are never accurate there's alway money missing from what you are surpose to be payed "several complaints, from several co- worker from ones that do, & did work for there."

They were looking to replace me on July 23, 2016 take notice of the job posting time frame?

No benefits, recently got some sick time due to letting them know by law we earned them.

Manager or should i say Team Leader there is LAZY, he will take all the easy trucks that require no breaking down "in the warm area, leaving you in the freezer area to get be cold, so he can stay warm. "My boots have holes in them, it sucks for me to be in that freezer." OR "i got a piece of pallet wood stabbed into my leg i cant walk right now." Nevermind the false body aches signs he will throw to make you feel sympathetic for him. And pretending he is doing computer work is his big fortay. Pay attention of his lack of wanting to work ethics, many tricks he will try to play. "But i myself caught him talking to other people about rambling nonsence that has nothing to do with work, instead of giving a helping hand. To ease the slack on your back. ***HE GETS SALARY SO REGARDLESS HE LEAVES EARLY HE GETS PAID THE SAME LEAVING EARLY OR LEAVING LATE HE GETS PAID THE SAME SO WHY NOT TRY TO LEAVE EARLY.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Only five stars that i will give is your coworkers cause they are in the hole in the mud that you will be in, BUUUUT don't trust them all, management have some in there pockets. 

AND THIS MY FRIENDLY PEOPLE IS THE JOB YOU'LL BE WORKING FOR.

Daily work consist of unloading trailers and eunning pallets to the aisles using pallet jacks and foklifts. You also have to breakdown some pallets with hands or a clamp. Once you seem like you are actually willing to stay and qork they will train u on the forklift and clamp. We get paid per pallet, anywhere from $17 to 28. I average about $22 an hour. So its mostly up to you how hard tou wanna work. The warehouse is part norm temp, part cooler and part freezer. You have to be willing to deal with the temputure changes. My manager is pretty flexible dealing with lateness and work/life issues. They wont fire you just for being late alot... Unless your also lazy once u get here, then why bother with you. . There don't seem to be much opportunity for advancement really so I wouldn't say it's a career job. But for a daily living and daily work it's not bad. They offer benefits but they're expensive. Again not a career job but it's a job you can stay at for a long time if you want to and you get paid for your ability. Also everybody in my building is pretty cool and our team players that's difficult to find in most jobs. We work in another company's building contracted by them. There is opportunities to travel to other locations for a day or even a couple weeks if you want to stay and they'll pay for it. See there's lots of bad reviews but every location has different managers that manage in different ways and different employees so the attitude is going to be different depending on where you work but that's everywhere. No job is perfect and no job comes without complaints.

IN MY SITUATION Ids put me in an environmental where everything is out of your control because the customers are in contol of everything you do, even if their inexperience. A typical day working for ids consist of unloading trailers using nothing but a pallet jack and your hands. Due to bad scheduling and communication between ids and the customer we will finish our work on time but the next truckload isn't schedule until 2 to 4 hours later(without pay). So u have to get rest in a uncomfortable chair in the warehouse or sleep in your car. I learned that ids doesn't value their employees b/c they tell you that you can quit anytime b/c they know u have to be desperate to stay there. My coworkers were the best part about working b/c we stuck together and we knew ids didn't care about us, so we helped each other out to increase productivity. Hardest part about this job was working with ids management team, TERRIBLE communication, lots of failed promises(LIES), and no appreciation of their employees.

A typical day at work, is extremely hectic dealing with many variables as a third party company. I learned nothing I didn’t know already as I came in with experience. Management is actually pretty decent other than the fact that they expect you to work for the bare minimum as it’s not an hourly rate job. Meaning it could be 11 pallets but you won’t be paid for the time it took you to break down, if there was 400 pieces then you only get paid $10 for 2-3hrs of work. The workplace culture is also hard to deal with as we are low on the priority list of things to get down and treated pretty lowly by the main company in the building. The hardest part about the job is dealing with those who think them being there 10+ years matters, fight you for space, machines and more, and outright disrespect you. Also expect you to be a yes man for the bare minimum not even minimum wage. The most enjoyable part was honestly nothing just extremely tedious.

Management is horrible they are based out of maine and pretty much treat everyone that isn'ot from maine or part of the upper management is treated horrible and payed so cheap if u wanna get treated like scum and break your back for peanuts go for it their H.R. is the worst i ever seen she is mean, not on the workers side more on the owners side cares more about herself then being a H.R. i highly recommend stay far far away from i.d.s. they are getting a bad rep in mass because warehouses don't wanna deal with the management they have. WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD the company was handed to owner from daddy so hes gonna run the business into the ground good luck with the job hunt because u don't wanna end the hunt here cause ull be back looking for a job a week after working for them

Hours are great, 7AM start time. The only "bad" part is that you cant leave until the work is COMPLETE, but even then we usually leave before 3PM. The pay IS at a  piece rate so SOMETIMES we work way harder than what we get paid for. IDS tries to remain competitive as a 3rd party company so they don't charge as much as they SHOULD for certain services, but all in all the pay is very decent for the amount of hours worked per week. (32-39hrs)

My team is great, everybody knows what they bring to the table and we've developed a working system. But I will say that each of our personalities is VERY different, and sometimes that can get in the way of workflow as far as who thinks things should be done in whatever order. 

I started as an hourly employee and worked my way up to supervisor. Hours and work are tough at times, management is no bs. They don't put up with lies and excuses, hr is tough on those with excuses. If you are a hard workers you'll make great money. I made more than my friends with college degrees. Not everyone can hack it- I read the other reviews those that complain are lazy and that's why it didn't work for them. I worked for them for 3 years while finishing my engineering degree. If I don't get a good job in my field soon I'm going back, great company who supported me through it all.

The employees and supervisors don't properly train you. They start off paying you hourly, after that you'll get paid per pallet, over worked under paid. I had worked here for a month the supervisor never gave me a badge to get in building. I always had to text him that I'm in the parking lot.  Alot of favoritism and poor management. Run away from this subcontractor they'll do you no good.  Always a high turn over rate

The main problem with this job is it’s competitive nature and limitation of floorspace that make for a miserable time. Because of the competitive nature of piecework and the Limited floor space it becomes utterly infuriating to be waiting on equipment and space to unload and make money in a expedient manner. You will not be making 25 an hour working there unless you have the trucks memorized and do not need to look at the paperwork, while being brutally efficient and not being blocked by lack of space. 

My review is to work hard where I suppose to work and do good job every day , a control my job and the people who is going to do their own need over there and take note every day and keep the area place clean well that people could love there

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