merchandiser

warehouse associate

sales representative

order picker

marketing representative

The Lewis Bear

● Work-life balance
They do no care about your home life, they care about beer being delivered. If you come in at 4 am and don’t get off until 8 pm they don’t dare and expect you back at work on time the next morning like normal and don’t care if you work another 16 hours (and don’t get paid OT)

● Pay & benefits
At first glance the pay is decent, but when you see the amount of work you put in and what is expected of you and the crying from management it ain’t very good.

● Job security and advancement
Your job is secure because the turnover is so high and they can barely get new people in that aren’t lazy and stupid and even when they get lazy stupid people in they keep them around. Don’t get on the wrong side of the wrong person and you will never lose your job.

● Management
They are cool but they don’t care about you. The number one priority there is SALES AND GETTING BEER DELIVERED. Yes, that is the job, but they do not care about you and talk to you like your a peasant. BUT, if you come in don’t talk to anyone deliver your truck come back don’t talk to anyone they won’t mess with you.

● Culture
Once again, sales and getting beer delivered is all they care about. They run through more people than Ron Jeremy.

● Overall
You will work your butt off long hours for decent pay. They don’t care about you at all. No OT or commission, it sucks. Terrible company for long term.

I moved around a few times at this job.

My crew would get to work around 2 in the afternoon and load trucks with beer until we finished all of the trucks. During the busy season we could get over 80 hours a week. In the beginning I used a dolly to grab the cases that were single digit and put them on the truck. I then received my forklift license and moved to doing the large counts of cases into the same trucks. After doing that for about half a year or more, I moved to morning crew where I used a standing forklift to build bulk orders alone and load then into trucks. Also during this time I did "breakage" which if a case was dropped, I would remove the broken bottles or cans and repack with singles leftover from other breakage. Management was good. We all sometimes got at each other because of the heat and long hours but we were all good friends and often most of us occasionally hung out after work or on the weekends.

The hardest Part of the job was the long hours during our busy seasons, and it was also the most enjoyable because of the overtime, or atleast led to the most enjoyable.

The job position cdl driver 4day work week is a trap and it's false. They call you for a interview get you in and then they say so this position is actually a swingman position 5 day work week and u a helper Mondays you will be driving to the brewery and helping the warehouse. Only way to get a 4 day work week and get your own route someone has to basically quit. I would not recommend this place the pay is terrible they don't respect you they expect you to do a lot with minimal pay and when you talk to them about pay they make up excuses by mentioning our sales are down because of the bud light issue. I took the job because I was straight out of school and needed a job. But now I found better got my own route great pay and on a 4 day work week. GUYS BEWARE THINK TWICE. You deserve the truth. You not getting driver pay and 4 day work week you gonna be a helper unloading someone else truck. On a 5 day work week 

My day started by cleaning  Corporate offices dusting, vacuuming, cleaning private restrooms, cleaning corporate meeting room, setting up and cleaning the Hospitality room for meetings, restocking corp. beverage cooler, ordering my own supplies and shopping for company needs, cleaning floors with a T3 machine twice a week, stripping floors when needed. Also did repack and cleaned ware house and operated forklift on daily bases and taught a worker to operate a forklift. I learned a lot like how to operate and care for machines and time management. The people in Corporate where great to work with, they where all helpful and friendly even the owners. The hardest part of my job was making time to get to repack. The most enjoyable pat of my job was interacting with all of the people there. I made a lot of friends there.

I worked here for several years. Almost a 100% turnover rate yearly, due to poor management, strenuous hours, having to work holidays, etc etc. They allow you to put in for promotions but 9/10 times the position is already filled by who the Head of Sales likes best (if you suck up you’ll succeed). Expect 50-70 hour weeks, they will expect you to miss doctors visits, will get angry if you get sick, and rarely accept vacation time unless you put in for it months and months in advance. Micromanagement is their strong suit with supervisors following behind you at every stop. And be prepared for Verbal degradation and berating if you mess up; they will cuss at you, talk about you behind your back, or out right scream at you. Have fun if you get this job. 

This company is all about money. They do not care about their drivers at all. All they care about is making sure the customers get their beer. They do not care how long you are out for, how long it takes. The management does not send help, they do not check on you though out the day. No one knows the door codes or what the best time to delivery is. Its just here is your keys, customer list and good luck. Routes are always screwed up. Wrong stops on the wrong trucks but hey they do not care as long as it gets deliver. Waste all the diesel just to drive across the county when there is already is a truck there. Never know when you are getting off. Just work anywhere else.

If you want to go to a company that cares about their drivers, don’t go here. Long hours, half of the trucks have no ac, and ridiculous pressure to run routes that violate dot logs on the daily, but they don’t care because they drive within state lines and aren’t required to maintain logs. Glad I worked here because I realized I could deal with anything after going through the nightmare I went through with this place for two years, but would never go back. They also love to coddle their beloved salespeople, while their drivers suffer.   BEWARE!  There are better driving jobs out there, I promise.

Not a bad place but the hours were way to long. This is a job for someone in their twenties without children. Sometimes you work sixteen hours in the summer and have to be back the same day. No home life whatsoever. The pay was great and plenty of overtime. I worked as a order selector on the 3pm to finish shift. Which was sometimes 7 am. I heard the off-season was less hours but I didn’t stick around to find out. Like I said great for single or no kids who want to make some big money you can easily make close to a thousand a week. I did enjoy the work. Fast paced and time went by fast because you are always busy. 

Management hides employee issues until they are out of control. Work/life balance was horrible. Salary not in line with hours worked per week. Management talks about each other behind their backs but act like they like each other in person . Can not keep employees due to ridiculous hours. Management waits to long to terminate problem employees. I resigned and left a letter to my manager and HR explaining my decision. Never received a call from HR or management. I mentioned it was a hostile work place and how ADA wasn’t taken seriously. 

Management will tell you one thing, and do another. Please do not believe anything you are told unless you get it in writing. Policies are interpreted to fit the desires of whichever member of management has a goal at the time. If an Area Sales Manager has an agenda their interpretation of policy will fit their agenda, while the interpretation of a different member of management will be conflicting. This creates a confusing work environment for lower level employees, and eventually you will notice the open hostility across different sections of the company. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Merchandiser 7 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Warehouse associate 9 salaries reported	$17.83 per hour
Sales representative 4 salaries reported	$62,500 per year
Order picker 10 salaries reported	$16.90 per hour
Marketing representative 2 salaries reported	$52,500 per year

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