warehouse associate

warehouse worker

senior account executive

warehouse operations

warehouse associate ii

Purolator

I had one of my worst working experiences ever in my career with Purolator. Not only is the work environment completely unsafe in certain stations, and probably committing  several labour board violations, but the management is terrible. Not just terrible, but dumbfoundingly disrespectful and ignorant. They treat you like garbage and expect the world. They are rude and ignorant to you on a daily basis, except for their select favourite employees. I honestly dont know how they are managers and why Purolator accepts this behaviour. I took it because I want to advance up to a courier position and make a career with Purolator. So I paid my dues. I worked VERY hard to prove myself. But after less than 2 months, half way through our shift, the manager comes up to me, and my co worker who started with me, and says "so, you're probably getting laid off. Not sure when." I was dumbfounded. This location is very busy and we were barely keeping up as it was. I'm an extremely hard worker and was friends now with my co workers, who are equally upset. When I asked him why, he says "well we don't have to keep you past 3 months." When I asked him when for sure I'd be getting laid off so I could look for a new job, after turning down offers for this job, he shrugs at me and walks away. That's just an example of how disrespectful these people are and how little they care about you. Do yourself a favour a work for a better company that will treat you like a person.

A routine day of work for me is to begin the morning, reviewing my emails for any notices on my courier packages, or updates on my LTL line hauls for delays or border crossing issues or weather issues.
I then begin tracking all of the freight to keep abreast of what and where they are, and I notify the customers to inform them of the same information that I was able to recieve.....If need be. Remember the customer was trained by me on how to pull this information themselves.

I then begin the office manager duties which consist of expense reports , paying bills, ordering supplies for both customer and the office, several daily conference calls with transportation and billing or the district.

I then will work on calling and setting up appointments for potential new customer.

The hardest part of the job is dealing with freight that will not make its scheduled delivery, and bill corrections.

The  best part of the job is that the days are always changing. It never really gets routine, because there are always new circumstance or situtations that occur that need to be solved or handled.

Fairly good in the beginning but after a few years it went downhill with management. I've had wonderful managers there as well but they tended to hire people from the outside and placed them directly in managerial positions.  The last manager had terrible people skills and very bad communication. Purolator International (US locations) tended to struggle with overall communication from day 1 but when you add more managers & supervisors that lack in the art of communicating with the employees it makes for a terrible enviroment.  They say that they're for the employee and have their back yet when it comes right down to it its no true.  Management & sales would meet and plan new customer launches without inviting the customer service person that would ultimately handle all issues with the account.  The finance and billing department was sadly understaffed. This would result in customers waiting WEEKS & somtimes MONTHS for a resolution on a simple billing issue.  My co-workers were great and very supportive. The pay was great.but it got to the point that the money was not worth having to walk on eggshells every day.

My experience at Purolator was not so good due to poor management low moral prompting their favorites not holding people that does wrong accountable no time with family very stressful if any of this fits your lifestyle then Purolator is the job for you!!!  And I forgot to mention the point system, WOW,,, I GOT A POINT FOR GOING HOME EARLY BECAUSE OF THE BAD WEATHER WE WERE HAVING AT THE TIME.. talking about bias and political they don't give a dam about you no matter how good you do your job.... I would not recommend this place to someone I hate...

I have never had  a company to welcome me on aboard personally, I will always be taking back by that. Great company that keep trying to improve for the better. I wish that there was more job opportunities in California or more flexibility. The work load can sometimes get overwhelming but you get recognized at the end of year. If your young in heart or age and want to stay busy then this is the place. No place is perfect but the company as a whole tried to make it as close to a possible. Maybe individual locations my need to tweak a couple of things but it was overall a positive experience. I wish everyone at Purolator the best. 😀😀😀😀😀

Unwrap skids scan and label packages on each skid. At times you my have to wrap skids to be loaded on to truck.  

How to lead 2 to 8 people depending on daily freight load. Have to teach them how to do their job and fix any issues they may have.
How to operate a forklift.
How to load a truck and How not to.
How to use e-mail as well as Microsoft excel.
How important organizing is. 

Management is good 

Co-workers are awesome. They helped make the day enjoyable.

Nothing really. 

Loading and Unloading Trucks.

A very fast paced and demanding place to work that gives you a great deal of satisfaction when goals are met. I have learned how to organize and manage my time to get optimal performance. I love working with my co-workers because as a team we work well together and learn from each other. The hardest part of the job is making sure that everything is running at peak performance. The most enjoyable part of the job is the appreciation and the acknowledgement of a job well done.

Purolator International is heavily focused on new customer sales. Maintaining existing accounts is secondary.  The sales representatives experience the highest level of rewards, but they are also most likely to be held accountable for poor performance.  The company's size and culture allows for Type A's to thrive, and to some degree, define their own workload and projects.  There does seem to be a fair amount of personal loyalty which can be abused by low performers.

My typical day here starts with sorting and responding to our clients' emails. Creating bill of ladings and email them to various stakeholders for custom releases. Scanning and saving paperwork to appropriate folders. Also entering customer returns to customer's portal for refund purposes. I am lucky to work under great team of management who know my abilities and trust me with my work ethnics. 

A typical day at work consists of reaching out to Clients, assisting recently trained new hires and  planning new training documents.

Over my three years in the position that I maintain at my current job, I have learned the value of "core proposition", and team building skills. 

My co-workers are wonderful.  We all assist one another and have built an excellent team. 

My most enjoyable part of my job is watching the new hires succeed and feel the confidence they need to aspire to all that the company asks and they wish for.

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