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Nicholas and Company

This company has great potential. They have one of the best most caring people right at the top. Mrs. owners wife is very intelligent and passionate about the company. It's too bad they have got a few bad seeds on the warehouse management team. The night manager is a great front man, but is completely insecure. He won't ever be respected by his employees. You can tell he bought a book or two on managing difficult people. He is just a used car salesman without a conscience. Which will only keep him in the same job if there is not a replacement. His replacement is there, but last I heard he was still a lead not even a supervisor. This company does a unbelievable job with the technology they have. However, they could blow the competition away with a few adjustments. I would love to sit down with Mrs. owners wife and the director and discuss the changes that I could have made 3 years ago. I put in for a supervisor job as I was instructed to by the acting manager before the old supervisor even stepped down. Interviewed with the director and the V.P. who I believe wanted to hire me as the supervisor. Until the manager talked them out of it. They proceeded to hire yet another salesman who sold them a horrible new system that was a complete waste of money. Mrs. owners wife was furious. The whole reason that happened is I started to ride in with a co worker who happened to be female. I wasn't aware that the manager was sleeping with her. For one she was married. Two she worked directly under him. For whatever it's worth I would still sit down and discuss anything that I have said and back it up with witnesses and evidence. There is many more things that I could have said, but out of respect for the ownership I refused. One other thing that bothered me is that they were always rated one of Utah's best places to work. I feel that it was inaccurate based on each employee was logged into the company computer under their own username and answered the questionnaire that rated their department management as well as the corporation as a whole.

Honestly this isn't a bad place to work, but you have to work hard and  very fast paced in order to get the 20-25 dollar pay they advertise. It's 15 an hour for training to start. You ride a pallet jack through 22 ish lanes with about 40 other people. So, some of the lanes get super congested which can hurt your numbers or UPH. (packages picked per hour) without mispicks. Hours were super long. Latest we got out was 7:30am, and we would only get out early on Fridays since they were slow days. 
Another thing that made me mad was I was told that we got our benefits after the first 30 days of employment, but they meant the first whole month that you worked from day 1 to 30 or 31 depending on how many days were in the month.
Training manager is pretty cool, but training is so short that your lost in the sauce for about a week or 2. On top of that they make you do a refresher of the so called "training" you had and ends up being more than what you were originally trained on. (not paid training on the computer btw). If you literally want no life, no sick days, no pto, no holidays off then come work here. You will get a write up if your sick, late, have issues with your kids, or anything that impedes you from coming in to your shift whether you have control of it or not. 
Overall if you have heart come work here if not don't even bother. Work isn't hard just long hours and to crowded to make money.

it's good if you are single, don't have a degree, lost in life, literally have no kids, perfect for teenagers. or paying off a debt for a short time. other than that. make sure you got health insurance with them and ask your doctors for a life time supply of pain meds. you can lift safely all you want. if you take a rest your incentive to make money gets effected. only way to make money is to fish out the easy big bulk orders for the least amount of lifting and stacking. which what it seams looks rigged, and when you do get them the usual people who get them normally will get sour at you. which is understandable because the new hires get a ridiculous hiring pay and makes the new hires just work at their own pace while the vets have to work extra hard to keep up the slack to even try to be on the same pay grade as the new hires. not saying this company is thee worst but they need to fix the system real quick or just accept it as a easy come easy go job. if they can give out $1000 bonus for referrals and another $1000 for non-late/call-in attendance, bonus 1 cent per cases picks to other positions. they can pay you better for using up your body and life outside of work. even if they do pay you well when you make incentive. you won't have the time to spend. be prepared to talk to your doctors about those pain killers.

When I first started the place was great. Full of support, great pay, excellent upper management! But everything changed. They got greedy!They changed their pay structure, placed incompetent, unexperienced “yes men” in management positions. People who had no backbone and never stuck up for the people they represented. Upper management made sure that everyone below themselves were pushovers. And “let go” of any managers that stood up for what was correct and right! Then they changed the hourly pay of everyone to an incentive only program making it seem like you “could” make a ton of money! But the daily requirements that are needed to make that type of money are impossible to hit and maintain…cutting 99% of their employees checks in half and sometimes more! The company was losing customers…hence less product brought in everyday, which means fewer orders to pick and less product sent out everyday. So everyone below supervisor…ie, picker, warehouse associate, forklift drivers, and delivery drivers, all suffered making my job as a supervisor a nightmare! Don’t misunderstand me there are some fantastic people who work their and if they cut out the yes men in mid and lower management and go back to their original policies the place would easily be a four star place to work! But as of now there is a reason they haven’t placed as one of “Utah’s best places to work” for over ten years!

I've worked in the office as well as the warehouse. I've been employed at this company for 3 years. The mentality seems to be the same in multiple departments where they will continually work you and/or give you more responsibilities without a pay raise. They do not participate in yearly raises, only cost of living raises. It seems the only way to up your pay is to apply for another department that pays more or you give your supervisor an ultimatum that you're leaving the company. I will say that they have a strong concentration for health for all employees and they continually educate and challenge us to have a healthier lifestyle. The owners of the company come in often, know everyone's names and are extremely friendly people.

I worked here for almost three weeks. The base pay is not good at all for what you do but the incentive could be nice... If you get good orders that night which is like a lottery. The lift drivers are constantly in your way and the pick aisles are a fat mess so it is hard to hit incentive pay with all the factors. It is a super busy environment with people flying around on walkie riders in all directions trying to hit incentive. In my almost 3 weeks I think 4 people walked out and 2 didn't show up which makes for some long nights. They told me an average night is 3:45pm to between 1 and 3 am and not once did we finish before 4 am. If you want to make good money here you will have to be here for awhile and have little to no mispicks. Ps if you have a mispick it's 25 dollars out of your check which means you worked a couple hours for free. To sum it up, it's a good right out of high school job with decent benefits and an inconsistent roller coaster of an income. Oh and it would help if you speak Spanish, pretty sure I got called a white girl in the lunch room LoL.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Honestly nothing. They make it seem like you're going to make a bunch of money but it's rigged so you never get on the "bulk list" so you never get the chance to make the actual incentive they preach. They keep it like this to keep the guys who've been there for years happy cuz there are less people on the "bulk list" so more bulk for them so that means more big money  for them with less actual physical labor, meanwhile you'll be physically doing way more actual work like grabbing every single case you get by hand trying to get a high case count like them but they are grabbing half of there cases a full pallet at a time, 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not knowing when I'm getting off

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hate to say but not multicultural or diverse, most the people are related in some way and you'll always feel like an outsider with relationships and with pay difference, they'll be making almost double what you are while you do at least the same if not more actual physical labor.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Bad  and long and super labor all day never enough

Overall, Nicholas and company provides decent benefits and advancement within the company..if you have been there long enough. They go through order selectors like nothing and now I see why. I was there 3 months and it's very hard to hit incentive with everybody driving vigorously through the warehouse, the pay is based on luck. You pick your orders blind and some are good some aren't.  Managers play favoritism and give good orders to their friends. Some people go through the box where you pick your orders and look at them all to pick a good one. It's a joke, you do not get paid based on how hard you work, you get paid based on what order you pick. And also I was never told how pay even really worked, I was told 4 different pay rates by 4 different managers. They will tell you how much you can make but in reality you make $13/hr.  If you don't hit incentive pay one week you fall back to $13.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Not much other than you don't hear from your boss much

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Messed up loads and filthy run down trailers and about 5 apps you deal with on your personal phone

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Filthy work conditions and lack of response from your salt lake trailer boss and warehouse manager. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Start off with digging through your load trying to find product, bar codes not scanning filthy trailer damaged product and trying to make it to your next stop in a timely manor. Theres not a day that you don't have a problem with something. Management in salt lake doesn't address your problems or complaints. Boise management is good but they have no control over salt lake warehouse or trailer maintenance.

The job is very hands-on and can be rewarding, but the entire process is a disaster. There are so many loading mistakes that get passed down, making everything way harder than it needs to be. 

It's a running joke that you're never really done with your day because you'll always get hit with the infamous, "Can you do us a favor?" or, "I need you to..." right as you feel you'll be finishing up.
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On the bright side, the company has some fantastic benefits and extra perks. However, management is a total mixed bag—some are good, some are not—and teamwork is pretty much nonexistent. When you're in a tough spot and need help, you get the least amount of effort possible, and it often just creates more problems and work for you to fix later.

​I genuinely liked working at Nicholas and Company at first, but over time, the negatives just kept piling up, taking a toll both mentally and physically.

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