truck driver

material handler

outside sales representative

loader

branch manager

Pacific Coast Supply

Pacific Supply is a family owned and ran company.  The company likes to promote from within and does so on a regular basis.  Wages are fair for the area, but not necessarily for the amount of work that you do.  They strive for customer satisfaction however, in my management position, I find myself almost begging the other management and sales representatives for their orders in order to achieve customer satisfaction.  There is a lot of micromanagement as far as what materials are allowed to be stocked at your particular location which tends to make it a week or two in order to get some materials to complete that customer satisfaction.  Often times, the customer is not satisfied because of this delay.  That could easily be remedied by loosening the reigns on the management team to allow the product that sells in your area to be stocked at your yard.

Pros:
Some of the coworkers are solid and easy to work with. Day-to-day interactions with drivers and warehouse staff were generally respectful.

Cons:
Management is disorganized, unprofessional, and inconsistent. During the hiring process, I experienced what felt like racial profiling and assumptions being made about my background. Once it became clear those assumptions were wrong, my treatment noticeably changed, which was both uncomfortable and inappropriate.

Expectations were unclear, communication was poor, and management regularly failed to provide proper support or structure. Rather than addressing issues directly, leadership often shifted blame and took advantage of employees’ effort and flexibility. There is a clear lack of accountability at the management level, which creates a frustrating and stressful work environment.

Overall:
This company has potential, but poor leadership and unprofessional management practices overshadow it. Until management improves its hiring practices, communication, and basic respect for employees, I would not recommend this workplace to others.

A typical day working here is making sure you're available to help customer get what they need at the yard. Another is filing documents, answering phone calls, and typing up orders that come to your email. I learned about roofing, drywall, and other specific material such as commercial. The work place is great, but when under pressure it's not a healthy environment. The hardest part of this job is helping all customer at once during the rush hour, turning in the order that companies need, and doing everything all at once. Well with that been said " dealing with everything, " I mean answering phones, receiving documents from the truck driver, typing all order when they installing come through the email, and helping a customer up front. The most enjoyable part of the job is knowing what you're doing. Seen customers come back to you to buy the material or bring jobs was the best part. 

Work days can vary between heavy and very light depending on the season. Winters are the slow season and hourly employees find it hard to make ends meet with the reduction in hours made  available to them. 

Management is a revolving door due to the culture from the corporate level  and downward. People are not given proper training and expected to succeed on their own. Company is all talk about the culture they want to create. 

This company suffers from within, as the senior level management/leadership is very regressive and stuck in their old ways. This and the abusive behaviors of the senior leadership has caused many good people to leave. Customers have zero trust and respect for the company. 

The workplace environment can be good as there are a lot of great people in the company but the decaying culture is what makes this place a toxic environment to work. 

Terrible upper management. Completely incorrect business model for the roofing distribution market. Company doesn't know roof shingles from the disease shingles. Terrible market position with zero understanding of the market from Kalifornia HQ. They fell bass ackwards into roofing distribution in Texas/Oklahoma and it shows. Narcissistic and obtuse regional manager driving employees and customers away. Look for a position with one of the major players, ie. Beacon [RSG, Westend], ABC, or Southern Shingles, well before you consider Pacific Supply (unless you're unemployed, but even then...) They might be OK on the west coast, but along I-35, RUN.

Job preaches safety although they do not care what so ever about their employees safety. Been told many of times to do exactly what I was told not to do. On the other hand if they job check you and any of your safety precautions are not in place or being used, they will mark it against you. Yet it's okay for them to tell you to do something you were told not to do?  

Also, if you are a driver and you try to apply for an office position they will tell you no because they don't want to promote their drivers. 

Overall not where one would want to work if they are looking to retire with the company they work for.

Working for the actual company is great. It is not great working under someone who likes to delegate responsibilities and then take them back or question your methods. It is also not great being hired for one position and being told responsibilities are to include another job title. Training is minimal and infrequent.
CDL drivers and support handlers have long work hours due to job location material drop off, weather and lack of proper scheduling.

This was one of the worst employment experiences of my life, I worked breifly for pacific supply. Breifly because they lied to me about compensation and refused to pay me what was promised. I was told I would be able to earn a number of raises for learning to operate several specifi machines. I learned to operate said machines and never got a raise for one of them even though I reminded them regularly that I was owed more. So I walked away after it became clear they had no intnetion of honoring the raises they promised me.

On time every day sometimes stand out side and wait until someone opens load trucks unload trucks sheets rock and other items load customers trucks pull orders load work truck unload work trucks at the end of the day if the work trucks are back load them for orders going out first thing in the morning If work trucks are not back at the end of the day have orders ready so they can be loaded first thing in the morning fill propane tanks keep yard clean and safe rotat inventory by dates 

The GM micromanages everything you do. Corporate is aware and does nothing to help fix this situation. Hard working employees get treated horrible by him. He runs off good people with his micromanaging everyone. Set unrealistic goals, and lies about pay. Tells you that you did not deserve what he told you what you will get when’s hired after training. Ask and see how many Managers, drivers, and helpers have left in the past year. That will tell you a lot. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 206 salaries reported	$25.11 per hour
Material handler 101 salaries reported	$20.22 per hour
Outside sales representative 124 salaries reported	$73,612 per year
Loader 43 salaries reported	$20.50 per hour
Branch manager 17 salaries reported	$89,721 per year

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