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Viking Electric

First of all, this company have great benefits and you will have great time working in the warehouse. If you want to have a good learning experience working in a warehouse with a good pay, this company is for you. You will learn a lot. No forklift experience? They will teach you. No experience operating a machine for wires? They will teach you. As you learn, as shall you become.

Next, this company is a good working environment but it have bad managers. Try to avoid your manager. If he/she want to see you, then you know you are in trouble. If the manager said that it will be a quick talk, then you know that it has something to do with your job or salary, not in trouble. Overall, this company is great. 

To futhermore, this company need better leaders. Try not to work over time. Managers hate that and they will confront you. Do not make any mistakes. Manager/leaders do not like to forgive you for your mistake and you will get a write up that will lead to 100% termination without any verbal warning. 

To summarize, if you have good leaders, you will not feel like working as a individual; but as a team. If you have bad leaders, you will feel like an individual worker and you will not have fun working. This company have great benefits and amazing co-workers to work along with; but it is just the manager/leaders that are bad because of the lack of leadership skills and poor relationships along with the warehouse employees. I hope this review of mine will help future employees see how good or bad of this company operate in the work environment field.

P.S. I want to say more, but I believe this review is good enough and I hope nobody have to go through what I went through; working in a place with bad leaders that does not like to forgive their employees for their small mistakes.

- Former Employee 2019

What is the best part of working at the company?
Thought it's was going to be the company I was going to retire at, after giving 110% every day and working through my lunches,  which didn't bother me,  was complaining several times about a coworker that was waiting time watching videos on his company computer all the time instead of doing work. They say I wasn't a team player and let me go.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Doing extra work because management sat in office instead of seeing employees not working. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
New management has no clue how to run things, should go back to selling cars.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Received product, putting product away,  picking up the slack for lazy employees.

Viking Electric operates in a fairly unknown industry.  Because they are not in the spotlight, there are A TON of career opportunities to grow from within the company.  Many people promote from within and grow a rewarding career.  

Management is engaged in constantly making Viking a great company and great employer.  The products being sold are constantly evolving with technology and the business is ready for that.

The best part of working for Viking is the people.  No matter what location, the people are great, friendly and team oriented.

With very low turnover, all new people coming into Viking are treated like family and everyone is ready to invest their time into making new associates feel welcome and get them up to speed.

Viiking  Electric Supply started out well in 2019 but since the pandemic . Things have changed. Half of the work force has left due to no pay increases for anyone over the last 3 years. 2021 New management  from branch manager to the wear house supervisor. Due to their lack of experience as leaders. These people have created a very unstable environment for all that work there.Management is completely out of touch with all of its  workers and processes . No true leadership within the company since 2019, Company wide  feelings of being abandoned by management thru out the company.No direction or plans in place for the future of this company and its employees? 

Always short staffed with no direction in the wearhouse ect.
New management with little to no experience.
 Makes job environment very unstable. 
We all finally got a 2% raise company wide.Employees were all mad because it's been  2 year and that was it. We were promised more. 
When  the word came down about 2%. The branch and operation managers dissapeared and were not available to talk about it?? The Branch manager even  took off the next 2 day to avoid having to talk to employees about situations.  

It was extremely tough because they have next to nothing for training. They do claim to focus on developing, but never give you the chance to do so. Even managers are bogged down doing mindless picking and packing. The upper management proudly speaks of inclusion and growth, yet their culture is terrible amongst every site I had been to. This company is very protective of image, rather than finding underlying issues and working them out to improve the culture and work life balances. 

Working a Viking Electric overall was great, great pay and  benefits. I sort of trained myself because of the turnovers. You never know from day to if your staffed or not. Picking, staging, stocking, cutting wire and  picking pipe the work is hard and without a staff its even harder.The working hours are not desirable either we leave when were done with the orders so we never know when we get off. Management has there favorites. Best part of the job are the employees they are the best .

Corporate office does not do enough to satisfy current employees. Company offers new hires a higher wage than existing employees to get people in the door. They do not increase current employee wages to reflect new hire wages. The company does not make up the differential to existing employees past or current. The company does give out annual bonuses along with a 2 to 3 percent yearly raise. Taking the issue to management is a wasted effort.

I did an internship with Viking and it did not disappoint! Over the three month internship I was able to learn more about marketing, sales, and operations. All the managers that I had the opportunity to work with were extremely helpful. The main thing I'd like to point out is that they want to have people grow in their company and they give employees everything they need to pursue any path they want.

Viking was an excellent company to work for untill it was purchased by Sonepar, a large French company. Now all they care about is how much money they can squeeze out of each employee.
We took pay cuts during the recession years so that the company could still make  millions and now that the economy has rebounded the employees are not being rewarded or paid back for the cuts.
Most are making less than they did six years ago.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Material handler 144 salaries reported	$22.62 per hour
Truck driver 126 salaries reported	$26.58 per hour
Warehouse associate 78 salaries reported	$21.59 per hour
Counter sales representative 60 salaries reported	$24.38 per hour
Warehouse/driver 30 salaries reported	$22.93 per hour

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