truck driver

sales representative

warehouse associate

delivery driver

driver

Republic National Distributing Company

● Work-life balance
Work life balance does not exist here. There is never help when you need it. If a merchandiser isn't available you must write & throw orders, doing job of two people but paid for one because there is no relief. Must set-up brand new stores with out the help of your managers because they will say there too busy when they are helping no one else out on your sales team. So obviously they lie to avoid working. Working weekends & holidays are pretty mandatory and end of month is chaotic chasing down cases and delivering them to stores same day in your personal vehicle until 8pm at night sometimes... the stress at work with your managers, setting up supplier survey stores, ride withs, will cause issues at home. Also as a sales rep your on call 24/7 to take orders from customers by phone.

● Pay & benefits
Since I started the pay has always been only comission & case incentives for sales reps. Reps commissions have been cut numerous times from 4.0% to 2.0% just in the last 3 years even though sales have bern up. one of those times being cut was during covid is what one of my friends still at the company told me. There is no gas pay or car pay to cover ware & tare for you driving your personal vehicle some with big territory like indy reps. Only give you 12.00 a month for your cell phone which will be used more for work than personal calls. Only benefit is you do get 3 weeks pay vacation/sick time included in that when you start but you are not allowed to use time off durring October, November & December.

● Job security and advancement
Job security is there. People drink in good & bad times so you will always have a job as long as you do your job and stay under the radar... alot of sales rep keep quiet because if you complain about anything it usually will get you more headaches & stress because management & HR dosent want to listen to confrontation or how they could make the company better from their employees. It's best to just be quiet do your job and go home at the end of the day so your not a target on your managers back.

● Management
District managers for the most part are understanding some to family issues but not to work issues. And some managers dont care about either. District managers & area managers get incentives too or trips & merchandise they can win so they will get greedy and force you to sell what they have money on before you can make incentives for yourself. They are very greedy and will hide incentives from you so that you do not know about them and only chase what they are incentivized on.

● Culture
The job it self is fun, general sales meetings when we all get to taste and talk about wine is fun. the barking everyday from managers about numbers is not it feels like verbal abuse especially when you have a mgr. That does not know how to talk to there team and bullies them to get cases for them. The non-consistant help from your managers is also not fun when your overwhelmed with alot of work. Some of the managers who cover your route while on vacation also promiss wine samples & racks that have to be bought to customers and then bail out when you return and leave you with nothing destroying the relationship you have built with your customers.

● Overall
I have delt up some pretty good numbers on my route in sales at republic national. I've been employee of month before and I contribute to numbers monthly. I just think that management needs to be looked into because they are shady when it comes to putting themselves before their sales reps. I also feel the company should do more to find out what would make the employees happier that give so much time & hard work to your company. Paycuts & no car/gas allowance is definatly not the answer.

Where to start, When I got hired I was promised by the hiring manager that I'll be moved to a sales position role.  But soon to realize that because of all my experience in the industry and being a Swiss army knife in fine wines and spirits.  They never let me become a sales rep only because they had me covering the highest paid sales rep area 95 percent of the year.  Doing the full job and I mean the sales reps full job( working orders, servicing stores, talking to managers, building mass displays for change overs,  working all the back stock out, oh and texting the sales rep what was needed In the store cause I was told to sell in what was needed ). Cause I never saw the sales rep ever  in the market at all working.  He was smart to only show up when there was a visit going on to take credit for all my work.  And yeah he got paid 6 figures to stay home all time sorta like a lifetime paid vacation.  And they barely paid  enough to make it through the month.  I even had to spend thousands to use my own vehicle to do this job. Also they don't provide you with protection gloves back support or safety shoes cutters or blades . Your on your own to spend what little you earn to fend for your self.  If your management or a sales rep you are very well spoiled to the point you can stay home every day and do nothing and watch your acct grow cause the poorly paid merchandiser is doing the work of a reset lead, retail sales rep, and a Swing rep. Which all get paid well over 55 thousands.  While your barely making anything. If you get injured they attempt to tell you not to take care of your self and deal with the injures on your own. And HR lies about position opening and promotion of other employees.  In reality of a position is open it's already claimed by a friend or family of someone on the company.  They hire under paid merchandisers to do all the work for everyone. And give credit and pay the best to the ones that don't actually work for it.  Run from the merchandiser job it's not a fair position and you will get abused by the sales team and manager all the time to do all there work for them.  

Say it's a 4 day a week, 10 hour job. Really you end up working 60 hours in 4 days while 8 hours/5 days a week guys on day shift complain they're overworked. You'll never be home to see your family/friends. Can't get any shift but nights unless your daddy works there or waste 20 years there. Night shift gets all the blame and has to fix everything the lazy drivers and 1st and mid shift that aren't forced into overtime everyday mess up. Supervisor and manager desperately kiss up to the day shift bosses in hopes one day they get to leave night shift and take their spots, in turn they treat their own guys like dirt because day shift bosses complained there was a piece of paper on the ground or something and blames night shift. All day shifters and drivers will waddle in with their coffee and watch you work while laughing with the boss about how many breaks he made you work through (really happens) If the sorter breaks down/lights go out, don't expect to go home. You will sit and wait 3 hours until they fix it (actually happened) oh, and once the plumbing broke and dookie water flooded most of the first floor and people were forced to still walk through it and work while one of the kissup favorite guys got to drive a zamboni for the rest of the night just pushing it around making free money (another true story, have video on phone)
 Another kissup got to spend 2 hours catching a bird that flew instead of busting his back working like the other guys. Same kissups get put in a rotation of the 2 easiest jobs in the place. They also talk trash about how everyone is lazy except them. Place is full of rats and roaches (literally and figuratively) but they nonstop complain about cleaning up a single piece of plastic/wood in a dirty 40 year old warehouse. Don't work here unless you got connections in the company. Then you can get DUIs as a driver and still work there (another true story) night shift maintenance man is a dirtball trashbag and the ancient safety lady is a mean b who will fight the employees on everything they come to her with.

I did almost 4 years out of the Manassas depot and recent just left within the past 3 months.  This job isn’t for everyone especially with all the heavy lifting that is involved. Another turn off for some people would be the how early you have to get up, but there is a reason for that. I would get up at 215 in the morning and be at work by 3 with only a few other guys that would show up that early compared to everyone else.  Would help get routes setup and then start my own route. Typical day can be anywhere from as little as 10 or so stops up to 30 in some instances.  The Manassas depot is a satellite depot so all the boxes come up from Ashland every night.  The warehouse down in Ashland is very unreliable. I can’t even count how many times they have had power outages or are running behind. It screw everyone over since you have to wait.  Typical day would be doing all your grocery stores before they stop receiving then move ok to the restaurants and gas stations and whatnot.  I had my days all setup to where I would be done most of the time by 1 or 2 so I could be home early.  Depot had a lot of guys who would show up after 5am and would later complain about being out late when it was infact their own fault. All the routing gets done down in Ashland and is sketchy at best most days.  If they have to cut routes (which happened frequently) they would throw on stops to any route available regardless of whether you were in that area or not.  Other issues would be sending up routes that had a hand full of stops but then loading up another with stops in the same area that the smaller route was in. No equal distribution of that stuff which was always stressful.  Pay was reall good so that’s plus. Again, it’s not for everyone.  I was unhappy towards the end of my time there with everything that I had mentioned above because it was pretty much an everyday thing. That and my body was holding up like it used to though I was still being able to workday my fast pace like I was used to albeit I would be hurting by the end of the week

Had to work for 7 months as a temp. No hr person on site to help with anything you have to call one very impersonal and cause alot of problems. If on day shift expect to do alot of stuff to help other shifts and departments. Then have to work super hard and fast to try to get you job done which causes alot of mistakes and trust me you hear about how you have to improve and not make mistakes lol. On top of that place is very dirty. Equipment is very old and doesn't work properly. Racks are very damaged do to temps not able to drive order pickers. No 90 day reviews so your pay is what it is intell they give preformance reviews which only come once a year. So if like me and you come thro as a temp your time with them does not count intell you are hired on smh then your told your too new  . They also promise rndc jackets and hats which would be nice in the winter when it's cold and there's no heat and you guessed it still haven't seen any of that. Also in the summer when it's hot thare are only a few fans and no vents to cycle air so it's super hot and humid so be ready to sweat alot. Over all would have to say if you plan to work here don't come as a temp it takes over a month for them to get you into the job after your 540hrs are done so be prepared to add 160 hrs at least to the 540 your told it takes. Also safety equipment is in very bad shape and they know and don't seem to care but they did make the front look nice just painted all thare offices and put in new carpet and bought new nice chairs for everyone up front which as a Warehouse associate you only go up there for meetings for the hole  company. Bathroom that you have access to is very nasty but once again if you work up front they are very clean cause they have a cleaning person clean all the front. On top all this thare is way to much of the point fingers game instead of working together and getting stuff done right. Alot of bugs spiders and rats aswell. Really hope they trun it around.

This is a terrible place to work. The immediate manager does not have any experience as a manager nor does he have any experience as a designer. He never went to design school, everything he learned, he learned at the job. He did not know how to turn on a computer. He will suck the life and creativity out of a real designer. Beware, this person does not know the design basics. The VP also is a horrible manager and does not know anything about design. Anything the manager says he believes. The VP use to work at Kinko's and to this day does not have a Bachelor's Degree. Together these two people will destroy the creativity that any designer has to offer in the department. Designers be weary.

A typical day was to select a work order and read what the Sales Force needed for their account. I would either design a new menu for a restaurant or re-design a preexisting menu that was being used in the account. Once finished, I would print the design and place it in the immediate manager's basket where it would sit anywhere from 1 to 2 days for him to proof-read. Any discretion, he would give it back for me to re-do. After the manager would give his approval, I would send the job to the Sales Rep for their review and or approval to print.

The only thing that made this job tolerable were my co-workers who cared about their roles and each other. We were a family among designers.

The hardest part of this job was working with two people who did not know the first thing about design nor about team work.

The most enjoyable part of my job was working my teammates. I learned new tricks and tips and vice versa.

I’ve had the opportunity to work at Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), and my experience has truly been shaped by the strength of our local leadership team. At the market level, leadership is engaged, supportive, and genuinely committed to both customers and employees. The collaboration across sales, operations, and finance has been a real highlight, and many of the managers work hard to develop their teams and maintain strong supplier relationships.

That said, there have been noticeable challenges at the corporate level. A series of strategic missteps over the past few years has created uncertainty across the organization. There have been multiple rounds of layoffs, shifts in supplier partnerships, and structural changes that have impacted morale. The departure of certain suppliers has also created additional strain on teams working to stabilize revenue and relationships.

Compensation can be on the lower end relative to workload and industry benchmarks, particularly given the pace and complexity of the business. While there are strong opportunities to gain experience and build skills, the overall environment has felt increasingly pressured due to broader organizational decisions.

In summary, RNDC has many talented and dedicated people at the local level who care deeply about the business and their teams. However, corporate-level decisions and restructuring efforts have created ongoing challenges that affect stability, morale, and long-term confidence.

My days usually start at 7am in the field until 5pm, 6 days a week. I have 42 accounts with various delivery days. Typically, I have time to service 7 accounts in one day. When I reach an account, I routinely work the back stock, merchandise the product on the shelves and any displays, then I write an order for the needs of the store. Following that, I look for opportunities to place displays throughout the store and opportunities to maximize my company's priority brands. My manager provides my sales goals and other administrative support required to service my accounts. While my managers are supportive of my efforts, I don't feel like any of them know the true weight of the route I operate in and the demands it has on my time and efforts. There are many political agendas among various managers and I have to constantly follow-up requests 3, or even 4 times. So I believe the service aspect of the business, to employees and customers, is taken lightly. As far as my co-workers, the company stresses communication, but the rate of speed on the communications is just as important. It took a number of weeks to get a list of my merchandisers, of whom 80% don't know the job as well as they should. So there is an apparent training issue as well. The most enjoyable part of my job, though, is that I get to work with many different people and impact customer purchases, even though I often have no direct contact with customers. The hardest part of my job is giving 100% effort and dedication to each of my 42 accounts every week.

I spent 25 years as a driver here. The morale is horrible at this outdated and antiquated location. The distribution manager is the only African American member of executive management in the entire country! He sued them 30 years ago and has been in the same position ever since. Not hard to figure out why. Drivers are overworked with the most poorly loaded trucks that are loaded by graveyard shift lowlifes who could not care less.The night shift manager and his team of useless supervisors spend the evening on computers or in break room doing zero hands on training or supervision of help. On nights of high volume half the shift calls out sick because there is zero accountability and they just allow them to take a no pay day. So drivers end up waiting for vehicles to be loaded til 10 in morning and are expected to complete 30 plus stop routes with 10 time window sensitive accounts on truck! Health of drivers is put in jeopardy daily due to double and triple handling of mixed up case loads, and stress of trying to please sales, customers and bosses whose only ambitions are to further their own personal agendas. The traffic, the dysfunctional work environment and the potential of doing harm to yourself should keep you far away from being a route delivery driver at this location.The pay can be pretty good (only reason so many stay) compared to most delivery jobs in SoFla. But, the aggravation and disappointment and time away from your family should make you reconsider ever applying here.

This is a great organization if you’re in sales. However, people who don’t start their careers at RNDC and accept an office/admin/corporate role will quickly discover that the majority of the company’s leadership are former sales employees. While this shows great upward mobility for sales associates, it’s concerning when you realize your finance and HR leadership have little to no experience in finance or HR. They simply hit their sales numbers consistently and wanted to work in an office instead of in the market. Because of this, this company is very far behind when compared to its peers or similar sized organizations. The majority of its leadership teams have minimal experience outside of wine and liquor sales. The vacation policy is also archaic. There’s no time off during the holidays for sales/operations, which is understandable given the industry. But for a company that cheers “family values!” at every opportunity, they should compensate with a better policy during slower times. The health insurance has only one option and it’s a very high deductible plan. It pays for next to nothing outside of basic checkups. If you get sick or have so much as a cavity, you will be emptying your pockets. If you have a family, hopefully you can get on your spouse’s policy.

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