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A typical day begins with needless daily meetings. One of these meetings is the Daily Voice of the Customer Call. In theory, this meeting is designed to look at the previous day's misses and review ways to improve activities. Instead, departments squabble over who's fault the miss was and employees are called out among their peers. I dreaded these meetings and since it's at the beginning of the day, most days began poorly. No real guidance is given as priorities shift daily and instructions are contradictory to what you were previously told. Management doesn't understand day to day activities enough to offer any real guidance and each branch is left to their own devices. The work culture is deplorable. I was in a constant state of paranoia and fear of being let go. I gave everything I had to offer striving to do a good job, but nothing I did seemed to matter...it was never enough. If you value a healthy work/life balance and want to be a part of a company who recognizes, appreciates, and develops your skills, you won't find that at Sims Lohman. The only skill they possess is taking hard-working, motivated, confident employees and berating them until they're shells of who they used to be. 

Continually finding ways to screw employees by cutting benefits and unfair wages for people on the ground. Meanwhile sales teams across the company have several large parties and outings per year celebrating companies success. 

Sales nor opps are held accountable when not meeting performance or adherence to procedures.
 
Daily struggles to get enough materials for jobs. Stock materials continually out of stock due to lack of management. 

Delivery team only sends one guy to unload several houses worth of cabinets by themselves. This leads to nearly every other job cabinets are busted which leads to not being able to finish installs. Not to mention they are over capacity at their distribution centers leading to long delays for deliveries.

Subcontract installers are on the buddy system where certain people are shown favoritism and never held accountable for continual screw up’s.

Super toxic work environment. Everyone throws everyone else under the bus and run someone down at every opportunity. 
No structure or leadership to correct issues. 

Don’t expect to have a life. they expect you to work seven days a week seventy hours a week on salary. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The company has events every once in a while that anyone who would like to can get involved. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Most of the job is stressful, arduously mismanaged tasks to be met by micromanaging managers of managers. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Some people are allowed to work from home, some have to come into the office. Has the feel of a small corporation with antiquated processes and all the nepotism.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
dread driving to work (on days I have to go in) arriving to people smiling fakely, sitting at my desk, and convincing myself I don't have bodily functions for several hours until it is time for the first meeting of the day, which is usually cut short by the need for another meeting. None of these meetings ever make a difference. No one at this company knows what their job is, what their coworker's jobs are, who runs the place.

Sims-Lohman should be the dominating fabricator, and cabinet distributor in every marketplace they are in.  They are not. Simply due to horrible customer support, poor reputation in their markets, and their inability to see what is truly the problem at each location.  Their lack of training, combined with the philosophy of quantity over quality destroys their reputation, and the reputation of the companies that do business with them.  They tend to hire and fire without regard to what is best for the company, or the employees they hire.  Turnover is constant, problems are never addressed until it's too late, and promises are never kept.  A large company, that will in the near future be scaling back, due to bad business decisions, and poor responsiveness.

Look elsewhere for employment. While the pay may be good, the stress, and the expectations are higher.  They will do everything they can to make sure you fail, at your expense, not theirs.

The more you learn, the more is dumped on you. There is not enough training and support to do the job.  You will be told when you are in over your head, that it is all about time management and organization. You learn by your mistakes, and your mistakes will be BIG ones. Fellow employees are vindictive and stone throwing.  If they can pass the blame on you, they will. Salary employees are lucky if they only work 50 hour weeks. Hourly employees are often yelled at and cursed. Future employees are promised certain hours but in reality, they want you to work more hours and you are heavily criticized if you are unable to meet their demands of the job. It is a very stressful position and there is not equal treatment among employees within the company. Some get more days off than others. There is a lot of foul language used, and this is not Christian friendly environment.  This is not a company where everyone works as a team to resolve issues.

Management didn't care for anything other than Sales! Operation Manager at the airport area is no manager. Claims to have over 30 years of Management experience. No way he's a former manager. Lies to your face daily. He has a favorite driver that comes in when he wants, makes deliveries when he wants and will not hold him accountable. Says he's been a manager for over 30 years, was an EMT for 9 years and was in the Navy 4 years. 30+9+4=43 years and he's only 58 years old. 58 minus 43 = 15. Graduated from high school and went into the Navy at 15. That shows he's a lie

Southern Operation Manager is only about Sales. Present him with problems that goes on within and nothing happens. More worried about Sales than anything. Take the Sales and Design people to casinos and the people that makes the work happen get nothing!

I worked there 2.5 years and at least 25-30 people was hired and left. Some was temps and other full time.

Rarely do you find a place that lives by their culture statement, that repeats their mission to serve the customer, to represent servant leadership to their Team Members and to make work a little bit of fun.  Sims-Lohman has that and works hard to keep it.  They have a Leadership Team of different backgrounds which brings helps balance things throughout the organization.  For a mid-size, fairly young organization in the construction trades industry, this company is a great place to grow a career, build some lasting professional relationships and enjoy work.

One of those jobs that sounds amazing during the hiring process but quickly shows none of it is true once you are hired in. Its a distribution warehouse where drug addicts and incompetent managers make the rules on a day to day basis to fit their needs. As a driver I am the last person in the company to touch the product, which is boxed and sealed most of the time, if an installer finds something damaged, it doesn't matter if its a manufacturers defect, or damaged along the way between the process, its a write up as a "property damage" for the driver. There is a point based system in place for everything from performance to attendance and multiple scores you have to keep track of to know whether or not you have a job the next morning. Overall, fast food is a better option than the way this company is ran! 

What is the best part of working at the company?
A lot of the employees are good people. But, they all get fired as the management in Nashville are all scared to do the right thing. A poisonous culture 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working under fascist morons who think they know it all. They have someone with zero construction experience run the show. The best day of my professional career was the day I was fired without cause there. The senior manager there is in incompetent narcissist 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Horrible, they do not care about anyone. They cleaned house of anyone with a pulse or brain cell long ago 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Start at 5 get off at 5 hate every minute

This company does not compensate fairly for the work load expected. Raises are non-existant, and bonuses are given in the form of kroger gift cards. The work is physically demanding, especially on the back, and during the summer days are often 12-14 hours long in a warehouse with no air conditioning and LOTS of mosquitoes. Do not apply at all if you are not a straight white male, and even if you are, you can still expect unfair treatment by the higher ups. There is no HR on site. The work is dangerous, and production is still expected with faulty machinery. The maintenance tech is fairly useless to anyone on second shift. This is by far the worst warehouse I ever worked at.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Installer 10 salaries reported	$25.30 per hour
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