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Should have known when the hiring process took months from phone interview to offer to actual start date, it was going to be a "special" experience.  Was in the logistics department of 2, myself and the logistics manager (who was one of the few employees/managers who actually knew what they were doing and cared about the job) and our senior management that was over us changed what seemed like every 3-4 months.  Each change was to a new senior manager/director who knew and cared less and less about logistics than the previous one.  Any half-way smart person knows that logistics is the backbone of your business...you needs logistics to pick up unwanted product from your customers, logistics to move it to one of your business locations to process and prep for disposal or reuse (donate or sell)... Most departments had cliques and spent more time gossiping then working.  A lot of family members of upper management/owners were hired or working as interns and rarely producing anything but carbon dioxide.  The pandemic didn't affect the business too much and we were working 10-12 hours a day, but just before I hit a year, senior management and the owners decided to let me go without even mentioning/consulting my manager and one of the upper management/directors had the nerve to call me and say they "fought for me but it was to no avail" when they didn't even know what I actually did daily for the company.  I was working from home due the pandemic and changed family situation and they expected me to ship back my work laptop at my expense after being laid off.  I told them I needed a label sent to me and they emailed me one.  That says a lot.

Managers do not care about your personal well being. Company mission is literally team > self, company > team, mission > customer. The company does not hesitate to make sure you're aware of its intentions and how it serves no one but itself. Very little room for growth within the company, pay is below what many companies in with similar positions can offer. Coworkers are great and there is nothing but respect between each other when on the same level, but higher ups will expect you to be more responsible than themselves. You will be hassled if you are a single minute late, although salaried employees are consistently an hour late , sometimes more, sometimes less. Company will not hesitate to retroactively change policies if it'd benefit them. PTO was to be paid out at the end of 2024, but after a month into the new year, this policy was changed as "too many people still used PTO in December". The company has a very large and extensive corporate bloat, made up mainly of people in which the CEO knows from previous business ventures, this large corporate bloat means the company simply cannot afford to offer competitive wages to its "lower" level employees who work the hardest to make the company profitable.

Management here is severely lacking in common sense, logic, reason or compassion. They pride themselves on work/life balance, yet will force you to work overtime/weekends without even a 24h notice....heck, without 12h notice. Don't work that time? Enjoy a write up. Address concerns which may hinder yours and others performance metric? Expect to be ignored and written up/fired for "performance" issues. This is a new(er) company, which I hope has learned that  your employees are your heart and soul, and you should care an nurture your heart and soul in order to become successful! That was not my experience. I wanted to become successful within this company. I was not afforded that. Putting in effort above and beyond, showing skillsets I was not hired for did nothing for me at this company. No amount of "above and beyond" was taken in to consideration, nor were my repeated  reminders that the "productivity Matrix" simply did not work. Truly disappointing because I did like this job. I wanted this job to be something to grown on. Use caution when applying here. a "computer repair" Job simply means you will most likely be on a conveyor belt of Used items such as monitors, IP phones, printers, and god knows what else, to test for functionality, for 8 hours a day, rinse repeat until you are fired or quit.

This place is mass confusion most of the time.  Processes are broken, lack of training, no clear direction, etc.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results; unfortunately this is what they do. They implement changes which fail miserably, but because their ego's wont let them give up, they just wait a few months then implement it again.
This company loves simulated red tape. A simple task/request is a nightmare to get completed because there is no ownership.
You have departments that do not understand their product and when you try to explain it to them, it just goes over their heads. Their ego dictates what they will do; it is their idea and they are doing it.
Production lab is in constant chaos. No clear guidelines, tasks/goals change almost daily (if not hourly), nobody knows whos responsibility is what.
Job security is threatened on a daily basis. They expect you to do your job without the necessary tools.
Raises are non-existent, reviews are pointless; no incentive to try to move up.  Turnover rate is outrageously high.
Run away from this company; it will suck the life out of your soul. Extremely toxic workplace. So much potential, but it will only be achieved with a complete management overhaul.

Sage is confused at its best and malicious at its worst.
There is no chain of command, compensation is poor, and a work-life balance cannot be struck.
Sage's pros come in the form of working with some genuinely good people, but because no one(not even directors) understand who is in charge of what, when "it" can be reasonably achieved, and what achieving "it" will actually do for the company, every process is a confused mess of simulated red-tape and colliding egos.
Job security is threatened almost daily.
Expectations change from hour to hour, and from person to person.
Something as simple as needing your laptop's password reset can be a multiple day spanning battle against IT.

Simply put, Sage doesn't want you to do your job at Sage. Failure to meet basic industry standards, lack of a simple organization structure, and a leadership vacuum caused by massive turnover will ultimately land this company out of business.

Don't waste your time and energy applying here. 



This job helped me out when I was at a financial low at least get back on my feet, but this isn’t a place you should work if you’re trying to start a tech career. If you like being in a warehouse all day and feeling like a robot then this is the place to be. Sage doesn’t care about the employees they have. Management in the Micro Center Department Micro Manages certain people unfairly. I had flaws but didn’t deserve the treatment I got. And favoritism is a big thing at Sage. 

I would not say everything was awful for this job and even the company, but there’s some things I wish I never experienced at this job:

1)You have to be scanned out by a manager just to use the restroom every day 

2) Managers Micromanage certain individuals unfairly (I was one of them treated like this  in the Micro Center Department)

3) You are the warehouse all day, doing the same movements it’s too repetitive 

4) They don’t evenly divide the most physical demanding jobs they pick the same people and that’s a reason why they can’t keep employees 






Really good work environment. Management encourages holding our peers accountable just as much as they hold us accountable. Plenty of in-house perks! Movie Theater popcorn and fresh baked cookies are made weekly for all associates. Pay is competitive to other warehousing and they pay for passed CompTIA tests as well as they give an increase for the Certifications. Commute isn't that bad and management works with the team on snowstorms and bad weather. If you need time off and let them know in advance or if it is emergency time off, they work with you on those needed time off hours, they compromise and negotiate with you. Part time schedules or odd schedules due to schooling or childcare, etc, are worked with. It is a production environment so there is a daily number that is still needed to get to, but as long as you obtain that or give it your best, they work with you and reward often! Management encourages furthering education and furthering your career!

I really liked working here. I believe in the owners and mission of sage but   this location is full of some really toxic coworkers. The GM was the worst though. Probably the worst boss I've ever had. She wouldn't hardly ever come into the office. She was hard to approach, talk like a brat instead of a professional (had the worst written grammar as well), was hard to get a hold of when out of the office, and when she did come in she was catty and rude with questions and would send blast emails about a subject instead of keeping it one on one. She didn't even reprimand one coworker that was basically calling me homosexual because of dress or something, and I was pretty uncomfortable with that. The network engineer took credit for a repair I did on a borrowed piece of soldering equipment, and in general there were some sketchy people around. I walked out. 
I guess go here if you need a job, but if you don't have a peaceful parting the GM actively seeks ways to get revenge on you. Fair warning.

Overall summary, they NEED workers, do it for the money.

I will say that it's a lovely company however. My time there i've received a couple amazon gift cards and a $100 visa gift card for my personal efforts. They frequently cater (at least second shift) lunches, management at least when I was there were friendly and easy to talk to. 

There is basically no training because they're trying to figure out a million other things, honestly for the money I would just ask a bunch of questions until you don't need to, that's what I did.

There is zero organization when I worked here, as a registration associate, I had to hand sort every single item from the pallet I received. In the 5 months I worked here, i've seen a dozen or so new employees quit after maybe a couple weeks. The job description doesn't match how much you actually do, for most if not all positions. 

This company is genuinely desperate for workers, they offered $17 an hour for day shift and $18 for night, good benefits.

SAGE attracted me by their message: no waste. However, the job of "Gaming PC Builder" is merely Micro Center outsourcing SAGE to build their PCs. The waste from this process is astronomical and not in line with their overall message. I was highly disappointed. The job itself was in a dusty, non temperature regulated warehouse. During my time there it was sweltering hot and many of us were sweating into the components we were assembling. There were chairs to sit and assemble and a few industrial fans that did nothing for the heat. I was told by management both of these "luxuries" were new and one manager joked "wait til you are here next week" when the temps would be in the 90's. Overall, it is a dead end job with no skill required whatsoever. This is not a job for techs. It is an assembly line gig.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Computer technician 3 salaries reported	$19.17 per hour
Warehouse associate 12 salaries reported	$19.33 per hour
Pc technician 5 salaries reported	$17.40 per hour
Forklift operator 2 salaries reported	$20.50 per hour
Electronics technician 16 salaries reported	$18.14 per hour

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