account manager

supplier manager

supply chain specialist

financial analyst

senior business manager

ScanSource

I was hired shortly after graduating college and was a full time employee for 12.5 years.  Within my first 6 years of working there I had 3 promotions.  The culture was still great then, I truly felt thankful to be employed there.  

One of the original founders left shortly after that and the culture went downhill consistently from there on out.  Poor management, very little room for advancement, favortism, over worked & underpaid, etc.  

There are some perks of working there - on site gym/fitness classes, lots of company funded lunches, a yearly Halloween costume contest & family trick or treating (always a blast), & often fun after hour vendor funded events.  Looking back there were many weeks of work where I was there 45+ hours between being overworked, vendor dinners and after work commitments and given that you already aren't paid well...

An upside is vacation accrual, I had 4 weeks of paid vacation at 10 years there & had I made it to 15 years I would have had 5 weeks.  Another upside would be the people, there truly are some great people that work there and that will remain lifelong friends.  I am so thankful for the friends that I made there.

I thought that the benefits were great until I moved on to another company.  Now I have better benefits and pay 1/2 the expense.  Not to mention my salary is much higher and commission is limitless.  

It's a great  place to start your career but not for you if you are ambitious and want to continue to advance AND make more money.

From the beginning you're  not know by your name if you're a temp, you're know as "the temp" No chance of advancement because you're treated as "the help" nothing but politics and if you're not into major sucking up, you don't stand a chance! You take initiative and work hard and not acknowledge. One mistake you're treated as incompetent, meanwhile others even from other departments see your dedication and hard work and the difference you make. So sad! The manager of AP brings her home drama to work daily and its enabled! You mention defending yourself and your work and it's considered drama. Makes NO SENSE! You'll be lied on so they don't look bad and you feel like your hands are tied. Meanwhile most go with the flow for a paycheck in fear of losing their job. Why is it so hard to just be part of a team and get paid like everyone else? Management is obviously insecure women who have no idea what they're doing!  Pathetic. Scansource as a company is great but not the AP department! Been warned and see why turnover is so high there but went through it personally as well as seen other being treated unfairly. Simply because they don't like you and therefore you don't fit in!! Especially when the surroundings are like a kiddie daycare circus with most (the pets) AP analysts behavior!! Accepted by management of course!

A typical day at work:
Working in a technical environment,  

Work as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product. Team assemblers can perform all tasks conducted by the team in the assembly process and rotate through all or most of them rather than being assigned to a specific task on a permanent basis. May participate in making management decisions affecting the work. Includes team leaders who work as part of the team.

Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage. Monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.

What I learned:
Lots of new technology to learn all the time

Management:
Management not always fair

Workplace Culture:
Warehouse environment technical assemblers, mostly nice people. A few spoil the bunch. 

The hardest thing about the job:
The hardest part is training new people on a regular basis and letting 
them go when a temporary assignment was over. 

The most enjoyable part of the job:
What I liked the most the the ability to learn new technology and devices

If you have the ability to wait until another opportunity presents itself elsewhere, I recommend that you do so. You'll be happier elsewhere, rest assured.   

The benefits are alright.  However, the pay is atrocious compared to all the work you'll be doing and responsibility you'll have.  When they fire people, or people leave, they rarely back fill the position, so the work just keeps on piling up until your underwater and stressed out daily.  Asking for help is pointless, because management will never provide support needed to fix the issue, until it's an absolute emergency.  

Bringing me to my next point, middle management is a complete joke.  It feels as though they don't have your back at all and they are known to be very gossipy.  I'd really like to know what what my current manager does during working hours, other than post silly comments on Facebook...

If you're young, and just looking for some experience, this is a perfect place to work.  However, after about a year, I'd be on the lookout for the next best thing at another organization.  You're guaranteed to make at least $10k more doing the same, or similar job elsewhere.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I really love working here at ScanSource.   Love my position as the LTL DOCUMENT CLERK.. I live my co- worker friends.  My Supervisor is great!!So is the  Manager.. ScanSource really is a great company to work for... I think it would be great if they would allow family to be employed here again and have part-time hours, being that so many people have to work two jobs, because yes the economy sucks.... Especially if you're a single parent or just single...

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Getting points when you are genuinely out for being sick.. there have been times when I've had to go to work sick not wanting to spread germs because I wouldn't want to make anyone else sick but I had to do what I had to do... Either that or get pointed.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Cancel caters to every culture.. I think that's fantastic!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Laid back, fun, a little stressful sometimes, enjoyable

Been at ScanSource about a year now. The managers are wonderful and the people are all very nice. It is actually noticed when you do a good job here, which is nice. The job is fully remote which is great. The pay is the biggest downside. They pay significantly below industry standard, and their yearly merit raises don’t even keep up with inflation, so you’re basically making less each year. They complain of their high turnover rates, and ask what they can do to retain talent. Simple answer is to pay people what they are worth. The jobs are fairly stressful to be paid so low. They also tend to keep adding to job totaled without any more compensation. The great culture can only take them so far. It’s essentially a stepping stone to a better paying job unless you can progress quickly. 

On a daily basis, there is high competition for workload and once every order has been shipped at the end of the day everyone cleans up.
I learned how to prepare orders and how the average shipping process works.
Management has been a great challenge with much diversity involved.
At ScanSource we work as a team in our daily tasks to get all orders completed and shipped for the day.
The hardest part of the job was to adjust to going to lunch after being at work for only two hours, but I managed to adjust smoothly.
I enjoy calculating and comparing the total parts ordered and scanning what I have to complete the orders accurately.

SCSC really cares about their employee, and when they talk about work life balance there is no job. I typically can go to doctor appointment or run errands without submitting a day off request, as long as I get all my work done. My manager would "commend" me to get off work if they see me working over time. The culture is work hard and play hard. Everyone does their best to achieve something, and they are friends outside of work as well.
However, if you go higher to the executive level there is a lot of politics. Strategic and project decisions take a long time to make. 

A typical day consists of being online and receiving work via email.  Management and team can view your email.  Any new people are treated poorly because the tenured employees are tight and cliquey with manager.  Don't bother with making a suggestion or offer an opinion on work-related topics because it is going to be a shot down.  There is a daily and mandatory call that comes from good intention but its poorly led and unproductive.  It's difficult to come into this group because the tenured know everything and they and the manager are toxic.  The job itself was very manageable but the micromanagement was insane.  Our clients noticed the toxicity from the workers, that's bad.  I heard about this only after leaving.  

Clock in, greet coworkers. Ask them how their day has been so far. Want to make sure people are in a good mood before I interact with them that particular day. Coworkers are 99% men, so it's easier to interact with them. Hardest part of the job was staying busy when there was no work. So when work got slow, we'd sweep floors, take out the trash, or help another department out. Most enjoyable part of the job was seeing how hard my coworkers worked and how much they took their job very seriously. Overall rating, I'd give my job a 9 on the scale of 1 to 10.

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