truck driver

material handler

warehouse worker

sales associate

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Orgill, Inc.

First off I want to say that the only reason I gave this company 1 star is because the website makes you do at least 1.  If I could give them negative 5 stars then I certainly would. Before Orgill I worked for a medical device company for 12 years as a regional manager. The ONLY reason that I left and went to Orgill was because I had to travel weekly for work for over 5 years and I felt that I was missing too much of my son's life.  Going to work at Orgill was one of the biggest mistakes that I have ever made. When I was hired I was told that my schedule would by 5:00 am to 2:30 pm daily with some overtime available. The way it actually worked was I was staying at work to 4, 5, or 6 almost daily. If you had something scheduled like say, a doctors appointment then you would receive disciplinary action. On 2 occasions I made doctor appointments about 3 months out and told my manager about it. Both times we were still working and got I got in trouble for "leaving early." Usually Friday was a quick day so the managers try to get you out of there as quick possible to cut some of or all of your overtime for the week. If you have a family or kids that you enjoy doing stuff with then bad news, you are worked so hard everyday that you will be exhausted by the time you get home and will only want to rest. The last I heard top pay was around $16 and this job in NO WAY is worth it. It might be if they paid $36 an hour. As I said I was manager for close to 12 years before coming to work here. At my previous job I trained employees and site managers so I would say that I have some experience being a manager.  The managers here are a complete joke. None of them have obviously ever managed people before and there only concern is watching costs and getting rid of anyone they determine to be an issue. Any concerns you have, ideas for improvements, safety concerns, or ways to improve efficiency are in one ear and out the other. Favoritism is a huge factor here. There is little to no training when you are hired. I had another employee follow me for 2 days to give me the basic gist of how things work and then was on my own.  Turnover at this company is unreal. The year I worked there around 25 new employees were hired in my department alone.  This company believes employees are a dime a dozen and will happily terminate anyone for any reason.  Employees also quit all the time because the moral and how you are treated is so bad.  The moral is low because of all of the reasons that I have listed so far and then some.  This means that nearly everyone is negative and I learned to only talk to coworkers when I had to. There is little to no safety implemented here. If you will not do something that you feel is unsafe then expect disciplinary action. OSHA could fill a book with violations here. HR is a COMPLETE joke. They work hand in hand with the plant manager to make sure employees who they deem as issues are gone and to try to save as much money as possible.  If you make a complaint to HR about a manager then do not expect anything to happen. They will let the manager know and you will be gone asap. I personally saw this happen twice. At every company HR should be a separate entity that handles employee concerns and so on, but do not expect that here. It is nearly impossible to take vacation here. In the department that I was in there was around 60 employees. Only 2 were allowed to take off each day. The favorites and senior employees got to schedule their vacations on the calendar first so as a new employee you shouldn't expect to get the days you need for vacation. With this review I am speaking just for my experiences at the Kilgore, TX plant so it may be different at the other locations, but I highly doubt that. My best friend transferred from Kilgore to the plant in Post Falls, ID and said that it was significantly worse there.  He quit after a few months it got so bad. I can honestly say I have absolutely no idea how this company has managed to stay in business. Everything that I have written about is the honest truth and not just an angry ex-employee ranting.  I caught on to the issues quick and began looking for a different job a week after starting, but was eventually laid off after needing shoulder surgery for an injury I received at work.  If your considering a job here then I highly suggest that you consider what I have said in this review. $16 a hour and benefits may sound wonderful at first, but I assure you that you quickly realize that this job is not worth it.

Orgill is by far one of the worst places I've ever worked. To start off they have a serious habit of telling you whatever you want to hear to get you in the door, then immediately changing the story and trying to go to a position you were hired for or adding on a host of new jobs for you that were never listed in your job description. You will be given zero training by any sort of authority figure. The light training you will get will be from another employee who is making less than you as Orgill practices wage compression (google it). The rest you have to learn as you go. The supervisors are the worst part though. There are maybe a dozen that work there and maybe two of three are actually competent and capable of doing their job (grants those few do it well). The rest are incompetent to the highest degree. Zero communication and they are so poorly trained themselves you can ask anyone of them a question and 9 put of 10 times you will get a different answer. It's mildly enfuriating seeing people who are supposed to be "the boss" having zero skills and thus employee management is terrible and about 10% of the workers there do 90% of the work. The rest just kind of shuffle around through the day, usually in groups, talking and whatever. They have many older people doing the physical stocking jobs (50-55+) as nobody young wants to work there for the terrible wages and terrible attitudes. They rarely promote from within and when they do its all political and they choose someone who they are friends with. It's a total highschool atmosphere except where the jocks were cool in highschool and ran it, here it's people who have a hard time doing simple addition...yes the supervisors. They play favorites and many times enable the rampant bullying cliques that go on there. I have seen supervisors who are friends with employees and letting them do write up able offenses right in front of them but go out of their way to write up people they aren't friends with. There are several groups who bully singled out employees usually resulting in them quitting. Two employees with over 8 years experience total have quit recent months due to one employee who had pubes on his face and couldn't even graduate highschool. He is partly where there are very few people with more than a few months of experience there as the turn over is INSANE! However he is friends with the last supervisor to get appointed so he is allowed to chew tobacco at work (tobacco free workplace, not for him though) and keep bullying people until they quit. All in all its incompetence from the supervisors all the way to the "VP". In quotes as he is a joke as well. Seen him misspell more than my fair share and had a bad habit of trying to sound smart by using words he doesn't know the meaning of which obviously doesn't work well......

Let's wrap this up for a TL;DR

1. Wage compression- no raises for you while hiring new people who can't do anything you can do and they will get paid more than you while you train them.
2. A culture of bullying and its enabled by certain supervisors. 
3. Forget Osha because they sure have.
4. No leadership what do ever and incompetence is king.
5. Lie to get you in and just bank on you being too lazy to find a new job. 

I promise if you work here it may be cool for a month or two...he'll maybe even six. However you will end up having it. It's by far the worst job with the worst leadership I've ever had.

They have little to no time to train employees and leave it to other employees to train you. You are help to a very high production standard which other employees will throw you under the bus to meet. Though most co workers are personable and hardworking. Management can go from personable and encouraging to overbearing and unbearable to the point of quitting and they frequently rotate so you never know who will be your supervisor next. Work is boring and mechanical, same thing day in and day out. If you crave diversity in your work this is not for you, but on the other hand if you are fine with doing the same laborious tasks everyday and quickly this job is great. A typical day goes as follows: put box in shelf, rack, on pallet and repeat throughout the day with two 20 min breaks whether you work 8 hours or 12. The good part about this job is weekends off, great benefits, good pay for the area. If you are injured you will be made to sit in a hallway and play security guard so as to not break their fabricated injury free streak. If you are lucky you will stay around long enough to learn how to use a forklift and other such warehouse machinery. Don't bother giving two weeks notice you will be sacked immediately and walked out by a supervisor. This place has a very high turnover rate and you are constantly dealing with new people that don't know what they are doing because they cannot get people to stay for more than a month or so. people working shipping, replenishment or order filling can expect to work 12 to 15 hours a day consistently.

Highly recommend you do not apply for this job. Should of taken a hint on the first week when literally everyone was talking about how bad it is there and everyone is in and out. I was nothing but exhausted and suffered a work injury when I was distracted, but only because someone was talking to me and asking me questions while pulling something heavy. I never said straight out it was that persons fault, but when people are constantly rushing you accidents are bound to happen, as soon as it happened the supervisor actually suggested me going back to work even though I was in a lot of pain and told him that I needed to leave and go to urgent care (which he seemed upset about) which is when I was cleared for time off and workman’s comp. During that time I received a paycheck that seemed too low and my agency had to let them know that they forgot the hours I worked over time and received $100 later. I came back only to go into 13 hour days and pep talks of how much the company “values” their employees by not making us work Saturday’s and buying energy bars for our break time. I called in to use a sick/personal day because I felt so physically ill after already 10 hours overtime on a Thursday. Found out I couldn’t go back without getting tested for Covid so I go to get tested just to get a text saying they let me go. I do not care to return, you should have the right to know what kind of place you work for and how they really value their employees. You will be constantly be lifting, pulling, crouching and fast walking to meet their standard quote times, with such physical demands the management should not be rushing people or making them work 60+ hours.

I worked here for about one year, had plenty of experience & thought because it was a new company maybe they would have more opportunities. I was very wrong, its a very frustrating place to work. unrealistic quotas to meet, very minimal training, its a sink or swim environment. They have supervisors but not sure why, so much micro-management supers are powerless & frustrated also. Work hours are cut in half in the winter & then come summer there is no telling when you will get home. I was lied to from the HR rep. as to what dept. I was hired into, but honestly I did not mind being placed in different dept. as needed & I did like the fast pace. However the turn around is soo heavy & so they are always understaffed, after I year I understood why. The harder you work the more responsibility they put on you, the only people you see move up are the kiss ups.  Hard work does not pay off, & everybody walks around saying "you can't beat the pay here" well that is not  true I actually took a pay cut to give this place a try & am making much better money elsewhere. And if your thinking of applying just remember this , the floor managers favorite saying is "This is Idaho we don't have to give you any regular or lunch breaks"- Yeah I totally understand why they can't keep anyone there very long,  I gave it one year, I never got any write ups or anything like that but saw good hard working people getting wrote up for petty reasons regularly, allot of good hardworking people there, so sad to see them get treated soo poorly.

Repack Stock in Tifton GA. Average day is arriving at 3:45am and staying until management says your done. Drag a pallet jack around parts of the warehouse and scan/stock boxes. There was no AC and poor heat. Summers are brutal and winters can get very cold inside. When it rains the roof leaks in many areas so operating equipment becomes dangerous. Production is based off scans per hour. If production is met then you could leave early. Example- If management says you are to work 10 hours you would need at least 400 scans. Very possible to do unless certain employees dislike you. Oh and management usually doesn't tell you how long the day is until an hour or so before they feel it's time to leave. Only receive 2 15 min breaks which is long enough to drink a bottle of water and just start to cool off. Management in my department had no clue what was happening or how to lead people. The best thing to do here is keep quiet and hustle. You are ok if you stay moving. 
The point system they had is crazy. If you miss a day due to being hospitalized then you get a point. There was a guy who got really sick during his shift and was admitted to the hospital. Management told him that he was going to be terminated for not being at work. 
There is no real advancement opportunities as the buddy system is strong. 
Requested several times to switch to part time and was denied. Was told there were no part time positions available. Another employee requested to go part time and he had no issue.

Benefits and pay are good, that’s about it. 

Growth is a joke, I’ve never been at a job where I wasn’t compensated for my hard work via advances in job titles or more worthy responsibilities. (Within a year)

I haven’t learned anything that I can use in another job field, it’s all physical work unless you’re a forklift driver etc. somebody with a low IQ could do this job with ease. 

Management is something else, they act very caring the moment you’re hired etc. but after a while you’re just another body in that warehouse doing your job and your well-being is the last of their problems. Have a medical issue or injury? Prepare to be berated by the WORST Human Resources representative I’ve personally met. “Forgets” about you, astounding responsibility… for a HR representative. 

Workplace culture felt like I went back into High school and was just re-living the nightmare. Some people are genuinely nice and have manners. Others are very entitled and rude about it too, seems like maybe 20% or less of the people there are self aware. 

Hardest part about the job was the grueling hours in the summer, add in the big metal muggy/hot building and it’s pretty close to being in H3ll. 

The most enjoyable part was.. getting to clock out and leave the building  leaving behind as well as the drama within. 
 
I’d only ever recommend this job if you’re desperate for money that pays the bills and benefits. Otherwise save your precious time and will to live. 

Worked in Shipping at Orgill for a very short period of time. Company is not forthcoming about starting pay or job status upfront. They post on Indeed and their Orgill website that the starting pay is $15hr and that you're hired on full-time directly through Orgill when you'll actually start out through a temp service and at less than $15hr until they decide to hire you full-time (which they always conveniently forget to mention until the VERY end of the interviewing process as if they forgot). The hiring process is VERY different as they do impersonal group interviews in groups of 10-20 strangers while grilling the room with all managers present. You'll have to provide checkstubs or W2's from previous jobs to verify your own background check. As for the job itself, the work isn't as hard as it is tiring and you will be on your feet the entire time you're there. Hours vary from 4 to 10hrs a day, you just never know. Management is very poor and they do not train you period, they put it off on other workers to do it and complain if things aren't done exactly how they want it although they never told you themselves. Employees gossip and talk about each other daily. All in all, I'm in awe of how badly this warehouse in particular is run and would not recommend it to someone trying to provide for a family or seeking advancement.

Don’t let the benefits and pay persuade you to work with this company they will get rid of you without any notice or write-ups at the drop of a hat.  They are incredibly hard on temporary employees and almost find joy in calling the temp agencies to do their dirty work.  They will not explain why they let you go; it feels like they find joy in ruining people's livelihoods.  

You can be one of the hardest workers who put the employees first, but it does not matter; they will still put you on the chopping block.  Very management heavy, and if you are not willing to suck up to the higher-ups, you will not make it far.  They entice you with the fantastic pay and benefits, but do not let that sway you to walk through these doors.  This company does not care about their employees or the employee's families.  They only care about the bottom dollar and making production.  

They give you hope that you can move up and expect you to work long hours, sometimes 12-15 hours a day.  The managers do not praise their supervisors but will criticize them for not 'parenting' their employees.  There is so much more that I can say is wrong about this company, but if you read the other reviews, you should be able to tell that it is not a good workplace.  The ones with the positive reviews haven't been let go unexpectedly yet.  Give it a few months.  


When I first started at Orgill it was amazing,  all the perks and the transportation manager was a former truck driver and understood the changes we faced, worked with us, and backed us.  Skip ahead 5 years and you now have people from IT running transportation who are primarily "yes men".  No driver support unless you are a favorite. those pets get all the easy runs and never do half the work the rest of us do.  The leaders are not held responsible for their poorly,  dangerously loaded trailers, out of 15 to 20 stops on your trailer you will have damaged product in half to which they are ok with at Orgill.  You are the face of Orgill, I do my best to be professional and have achieved great success with my customers,  but there's only so many times you can apologize for the monkeys loading the trucks.  You will be pushed hard, even to the point they will alter your log books (illegal) to give you time to do extra work.  I've given you my best info, the choice is yours, but there are better choices to make.  Lots of recent turnover, believe it is due to management and leaders. On the positive,  the pay is about average, maybe a little above, benefits are decent.

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