outside sales representative

Modern Builders Supply

This is a 'family owned' company which means you can work as hard as you want and someone's nephew, husband, cousin, or daughter will always come before you. Racism is tolerated. Sexism is tolerated. Family is only important if you share a last name with the CEO of the company. Affairs run rampant and are the best way to get promoted. The hours are great and the pay is alright. If you can slap a fake smile on your face and tolerate people with half your skills being promoted over you then you might like this company. They also decided to go with 'business as usual' for as long as they could during the pandemic. They told an employee (just before the stay at home order) who was actively sick to not wear a mask because it 'scared' others and could cause panic. Management is awful. There are much better options out there!

Over saturated with unqualified family members in upper management positions. Branch managers are under trained and unprofessional cogs to the yes machine. Unsafe working conditions in warehouse and on delivery trucks. Basically takes an act of congress to move to a sales position from the warehouse once they have used up your body to the point you cant complete manual labor. Unaware of talented employees who often leave because there is no upward movement and lack of fair compensation. This company is massively behind on technological infrastructure as they are still using a DOS mainframe sales system. MBS will soon be obsolete if they do not start attracting and retaining younger employees and quit protecting unqualified good ole boys and family.

The company is stable and established. However, their customer focus is slim to none. The branch I worked at was expected to perform at unreasonable levels given the product lines we stocked. Our corporate had no focus on our specific market. Management could not take criticism despite asking for issues we were facing. The hardest part of the job was not having the decision makers at a local level to make quick pricing and not being transparent on costs so that  the sales person could make the decision. Micro-management. I did learn a lot about the window and door business.

Loved working here, boss was accommodating to my needs and schedule. This is the best company to work for. They deserve loyal, hard workers who show up on time. I'm advocating for my previous boss out of the respect I have for him as a person. It's stressful at times, but do your best to manage because the stability and health benefits are worth it. They have so many opportunities to grow in the company as well as overtime! Respectful environment that is customer focused. Be prepared to work your body hard, so take care of your health outside of work 

Typical day is arguing with lazy workers to do there jobs or watching them run off to the office when there’s work to do and play grabass with each other getting out of work it’s a team effort not hey make one person do the job and get injured and screwed for life I would not recommend anyone work here you’ll deal with laziness right off the bat a lot of sucking up a lot of ripping the customer off and alot of shady unsafe work practices it seems im not the only one who has complained about this multiple people have when you see a forklift driver take two people standing on the forks for a ride that’s dangerous horseplay 

Great company,  Ownership and Management are active in the day to day success of the company.  It is refreshing to work for a company where you do not feel like a number.  The management structure is simple and easy to access, the company is not loaded down with too much management and every employee has access to ownership.  The opportunity for advancement is abundant with multiple locations and positions.  MBS always looks inside for Promotions.  Employee recognition and compensation is great.  Loyalty is defiantly present. This is obvious with a large percent of employees with longevity with MBS.  Hours are great! Paid vacations, holidays and personal time.

Modern Builders Supply (MBS) is constantly  concerned about the employees making or receiving personal phone calls or e-mails. Corporate can and does get on your computer at anytime to verify you are indeed working.

I had to move from designing kitchens and selling cabinetry into  new position selling siding, roofing, and windows or quit my job.

Not much fun as everyone is their to receive a pay check.

MBS isn't looking for drivers per se. They want you to be a warehouse worker as well doing manual labor on top of driving. Management is bad. Corporate is bad. Its just all bad. The office people will talk to you crazy. This company stocks 12 foot 2 square boxes of siding and because they don't have adequate facilities. They literally take the siding as it comes in and stand it all up on end. I'm talking a full tractor load. Drivers are expected to help with this. It's over 100 pounds. All of this for the lowest pay in their industry. DRIVERS! DO NOT GO TO THIS COMPANY. 

A typical day would entail (optional, but I did anyway)showing up at least an hour early every day to make coffee for the staff, Sweeping, mopping, occasional waxing/polishing showroom floors & dusting showroom product samples. Refilling showroom samples/brochures, polish service counters for customers, and wash windows and entry door windows as needed to maintain a clean, friendly and appealing appearance for enticing sales.

Good starter job if you’ve recently obtained a class b or higher cost. Definitely not a long term position. Manager describes the job as simply a “driving” position, absolutely false! Very poor management and union representation. 

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