inventory associate

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inventory manager

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WIS International

Hours and schedules are obtained off of a computer and if you do not have a daily access to a computer, You can be in trouble. schedules are available, management does try to have something out weeks in advance, but there are times where the schedule is posted hours within an event. the times vary and arent consistant. One day you can start at 4 pm, thenext 2 am. You may work within a couple miles of your residence or hours of driving. Chosen employees even are allowed the chance to to work in Puerto Rico or the Bahamas. 
Employees are allowed the chance to meet at the office where transportation is provided at a cost to the employess and the employee can opt to meet at the business location. If the employee chooses transporation, the employee forfiets an hours worth of discounted pay for the excuse to pay for the gas and up-keep of the company vans, which is filthy on the outside. Employees are required to wear certain color of clothes to help identify their company without any allows or reimbursements of up-keeps or purchases. 
Most hired are the young who couldn't finish school, have a personality issue or are mentally off balanced. The other half are older people, who cannot find anything because of age or disabilities. No one can work another job because of the varying time and place schedules. The majority of the work, but not soley is preformed while store / business hours are closed. Employees are stressed to work at an accurate and speedy pace. As long as it "looks good", cheating isn't expected but an under tone of encouragement is obvious. 
Pay doesn't accure until the actual counting is in progress. Any wait time by the inventory crew, supervisors or the business at hand is not counted as actual work time or an inconvienience on the part of the employee. Breaks are not observed in the regular federal government regulation style, but as needed by the supervisors. Additional wait time is accumulated once the store has been completed. Management by the inventory crew and that of the business has to verify all is counted and both sides are at an agreement satisfaction is complete on both side. Meanwhile, employees have to wait - in a non-loitering, non-harrassing manner. Most places do not offer anywhere for the employees to go. Most do not allow smoking in designated areas, no eating, no drinking and no congregating in the parking lots or around their buildings. Sometimes management cannot come to an agreement for an hour of which employees are not paid for. Then the trip back, employees again are not paid for an hour while in the van. Many times has one had a 9 hour day but only get paid for only 4. 
Management is very knowledgable and experienced in the company. They are strict, but only because of the quality of the majority of the employees they hire. They are understanding of situations and most are compassionate towards other peoples needs. Most have favorites who are allowed to go, do and be certain key roles, places and jobs within the company. It doesn't take long to fully understand where you stand within the company and minds do not quickly change. 
Most of the job is fairly easy. Employees scan products into a scanning device. Some items have to be weighed. There is some climbing, crawling, digging into clean and up to extremely dirty / dusty conditions. Many places want a certain style of inventory and the scanners are preprogramed to count in certain ways. Most of the work isn't hard, some is repeticious, meticulous and strainful. The easier the items are to be counted, the more it looks good on the employee. Each scanner counts what the employee does versus othe employees reguardless of the difficulty of the task preformed. Therefore, someone who counts large easy to access multiple items free from obstructions such as suitcases, versus someone counting hundreds of tiny washers in a small box would be rewarded as having done a better job unless a more experienced employee guesses the amount of washers without actually counting them. Supervisors do not stand over employees allowing the employee to estimate and get away with it. If the business owner suspects and calls on the item, then the supervisor acts out and repromands the employee. All is forgotten by the time the next job is in place. 

I would like to just start out in the beginning and make very clear this my experience as a manager with this company. I was hired as an Inventory Manager and shortly after was promoted to Area Manager. Although I never held the title of inventory associate (counter) I can say I have done this job also. 

          My initial position of Inventory Manager started out actually somewhat enjoyable. The end of the year is the slow season for inventories so my schedule was actually very acceptable. I ran a few inventories and helped with the hiring/training of new employees. This process should have clued me in how my experience was going to be with this company. I can honestly say I rarely got to know my new hires because they were gone with in a month. I have to say this is not just the companies fault. For every good employee I hired there were 9 other employees who were useless. They would all be excited to work and when the time came for their first shift, no show! 

        After a few months I was "promoted" to a position similar to Area Manager. All the responsibilities of that position, but very small change in compensation. My boss had just up and left the company like so many other managers do. This was just in time for the start of our incredibly chaotic first of the year. As the only manager in my office it became my responsibility to do everything.

        Every office in this company has hourly supervisors that run certain inventories and help with running crews at large inventories. Now you would think they could come in and help train new employees or even just help with some of the overwhelming responsibilities of running your own office. Sadly, they are hourly so the company would apparently implode if they did anything other than those assigned inventories. 

       As time went along I learned how to schedule my employees better and use the tools that were offered to me. I will give the company some credit here, they do have a lot of resources online for their Area Managers. Once you find them on your own it really does make things a little bit easier. 

      I know this review has dragged on and I really am trying to be as up front about everything that I experienced. You need to know there will be almost no home life once you start this job. This is true for every position within the office. If you are hired as a manager you WILL drive to almost every inventory. They hire drivers, but they have to be paid more. You WILL constantly be up early in the morning (some days 3am) and you WILL work late into the night. 

      The days you have "off" are actually work days. Please do not let them trick you into thinking you will have your own time. Go ahead and take a day off while an inventory is going on and not answer your phone. You will see how quickly you are yelled at for not being available.


      There really is no point in telling you what office or district I worked in. This is a very standard experience for everyone. If you work 40 hours a week as a manager, then you probably are just not showing up to scheduled inventories.



   Last little bit of advice, if you are young, single, willing to travel, and enjoy work over living.......Then apply for this job.

Do not work for this company. It is awful on every level of existence. Compensation / Benefits is not competitive for the field. Their culture and values are to make as much money as possible with a complete disregard to employee safety. Yes, I was forced to drive 6 hours to a get to a job, work for 8 hours, then drive home for 6 hours. Since i was on salary, no break considerations were made. Then I would be questioned why I didn't answer my phone immediately 3 hours after arriving home. The District Manager needed people at the store, so there were no considerations made. As far as job security and advancement, this is the one category that could possibly be rated better than one star, but ultimately isn't. If you do a good job as an Inventory Manager, you may get promoted. Ultimately, though, that is where the line ends. There are so few District and Regional managers that there is not a lot of opportunity there. The "corporate bs" really begins at the DM level, so if there are problems they don't take as much responsibility as the Area and Inventory Managers. Moving on to management, all of the upper management are very poor managers for the most part. They have very little fiscal sensibility, which leads them to only look at a small portion of an overall financial statement. They also only look at problems after the fact, complaining when a P&L statement is unsatisfactory. However, they never take the proactive steps beforehand to improve the P&L and help to work out problems. Local management is a mixture of low class, low paid buffoons. My district manager actually responded to professional email I wrote with teenage textisms such as "k" and "lol." This is definitely not a place for the  intellectual crowd. However, they primarily target younger "fresh meat" out of college since they are generally eager and dumb enough to accept all of these problems for a short period of time. So if you are out of college, and don't know where to turn for work, don't turn to this company and their aggressive Inventory Manager hiring program. It will just be a waste of time in the long run. Work Life Balance is also one star. On the bright side, inventories usually don't run often on Friday or Saturday nights, so at least you get a little break from the grind. On the not so bright side, the rest of the week will give you well over 80 hours regularly, so your time off is very precious when you do get it. Furthermore, if you are in the Area Manager position or above, you will be getting consistent emails and phone calls even on your days off. There simply is no considerations taken for the "day off" with WIS International. If you try to take a day off, you will be admonished for not answering an email or phone call. If you have an inventory running the day you try to take off, you are still 100% responsible for reporting hourly and also for any problems that may occur. Also, your own employees will also be reaching out to you day in and out through email and via telephone.  The only true days off you get are the five or so holidays each year.

In summary, this is not a company to get involved with. Even if you are desperate for work, find something else. 

First off, if you have a family or responsibilities at home, this job is not for you. Regardless of what they tell you, the hours are very inconsistent and some days you'll be asked to show up at 5am and be asked to show up at midnight the following day. Every day has different hours and if you are expected to travel out of town, know that the first hour leaving town and the last hour returning home YOU WILL NOT BE PAID FOR. They count it as "Commuting to work" so if you travel 6 hours for that day, you will only be paid 4 hours of travel. Some days you will be working for 3-4 hours, other days you might be working for 12-16 hours depending on the store you are scheduled to work that day and how many people show up. 

Favoritism: Some people will be reprimanded for breaking the rules or for not showing up. Others will not face consequences. Expect many of your days to be short staffed due to lack of attendance, and if upper management likes the ones that are absent, then they won't be punished. Scheduling is based off of if the managers like you and not if you are able to be productive, as well as training. Most managers won't take the time of the day to train you to improve if they don't like you and you will be scheduled because of it. On the other hand, if a manager likes a person, even if they are not as productive, they will be scheduled more and sometimes even get double shifts. 

Pay: Managers are responsible for your payroll. Managers are the ones who clock you in out if they don't set up a time clock for you to do it yourself, and even when you clock yourself in/out, they usually adjust your time themselves and sometimes not pay you the full amount that you work. LOOK AT YOUR TIME SHEET BEFORE CONFIRMING YOUR PAYROLL AT THE END OF THE WEEK. Some managers shave 6 minutes here and there from people in order for them to meet their quotas. Breaks are also inconsistent. Some managers will give you a 10 minute break at 2.5 hours, some will give you a break at 3 hours. It depends on their mood that day. 

Work culture/Drug use: Sometimes you are expected to go on overnight/week long trips to Redding/Reno, NV and that is when you see people's true colors. Lots of gambling addicts. Some alcoholics that aren't able to get up for work the next day. Heavy drug users as well as dealers and A LOT of drama caused by employees being made to room with each other, 2 per room, and lots of clashing of personalities. 

This is a job that burns people out very quickly  due to the hours worked and not many last long there. If you are desperate for a job, then this is the place to go for experience, but expect to get ripped off and to see a lot of favoritism and professionalism. 

Ive spent several years at this company, doing everything below Management including pharmacy audits, supervisor work, audit setup, training, driving, etc.

The managers this company does manage to keep are woefully underpaid and overworked. My District manager who had worked here for nearly 20 years claimed he only made about 45k/year. Ones with any sense leave, and ones without are "sometimes" fired though accountability is rare. I think I may have worked under 8-9 different managers with my time at this company.

I've worked as a supervisor here for many years. I was part time, because there are no full time positions for supervisors or anything underneath area management. Regardless, I did my job efficiently and well. To this day, I still get calls from former clients asking me to run their audits.

However, proper communication was rarely a priority with management. Our equipment was usually in disarray and we could never get replacements because they were never available to us. Resources were always short as well. Employees would often be pulled out of our events and I would find out about it as said events were starting. Often enough, if I were to call my immediate management to resolve staffing issues, schedule conflicts (things such as double shifting within the same shift), equipment issues or even travel issues, I'd literally get ghosted.

Many times supervisors were required to train employees on the jobsite while conducting events, which was always very fun for the client, let me tell you. In most companies, we have a trainer, or at least a manager steps in to help train new employees. When I first began working here, training consisted of 2 weeks of live exercises. Today, formal training consists of about an hour of paperwork and introductions inside of an office.

 The next day employees are thrown into live stores often not understanding the process. They would either get scared and quit, or make far too many mistakes to be kept. Our turnover rate last I'd heard was about 90% but I'm sure it's worse than that.

There is a bizarre culture this company has created where its workers do not take breaks or lunches. Do not ever expect to take a break or lunch while working here. The entire culture revolves around - Let's just finish everything so that we can leave. 

There is no accountability in this company. You are not rewarded for even going above and beyond to make sure both clients and coworkers alike are happy. You are only rewarded in doing more work for the same pay.

The job is good for a person who wants a part-time job and not worried about the hours. You are not guarantee a whole 30 to 40 hrs, you could be schedule maybe two days out of one week and two weeks could go by before you are scheduled again, so if you are looking for a part-time work with more hours this is not the job for you. Not only that but you have to check your schedule online, you do not know when you are schedule for a job until you look it up so that means you have to check every day and see if your name appears on the schedule list and if you have an appointment on that day then you have to email the manager because there is no-way to contact any manager by phone, only by email and sometimes you do not know which manager you should contact if an emergency should arise which I was finding it very difficult. You have to be fast in counting each items on the rack and shelves inculding little items. You also have to work with people of different age and race, in my opinion jobs like this should closely monitor new employees before making them permanent. When you have some employees cursing while customers are shopping and managers are more worried about being on top of other Inventory Companies, that will make the company very unprofessional. The most hardest part of the job is when you first begin a Inventory position, you have a quota that you have to make, if you do not make that quota it is count against you which I do not believe it to be unfair to any new employee who has never done Inventory before. It does cause people to be nerves and make a mistake on counting because you will tend to count much to fast and will put the wrong amount in the Wizard and the numbers that you put in will not be the same amount the Wizard has aready in stored. The greatest part of the job that is most rewarding is the fact that you do travel to different Cities and States that the company pays for to do the Inventory. If it consist of you spending the night in another city the company does pay for it and you do get to meet different people from other cities that will be joining your team in doing the Inventory. The job does have it's down falls but it also has it's rewarding parts. I would give the WIS International a C+, only because they do not take great pride on their customer service and they do not tell you the truth on the hours or the face that you have to get in contact with a manager through email only.

This "job" was the worst I have ever had. After being laid off from a decent job and not working for 2 years, WIS came along and gave me a "job". It had its okay days but normally they were bad days. The veterans will warm up to you once they realize you are not going anywhere but until that point be ok with sitting by yourself on breaks and not talking to anyone on van rides. You wont be included. Speak up. Learn to be quick at this job otherwise you will be made fun of. Honestly, you can do great at this job and they will still fire you for anything. I lasted 10 months, still not sure how I made it that far. I never got a raise because they kept looking me over. Co-workers can and WILL include druggies, criminals and people you would never associate with on your personal time. Upper management from corporate comes in rarely but when they do, you know its them driving up in the BMW or Mercedes. And they are rude! Supervisors can be someone who has worked there a year or someone literally off the street. BAD BAD management. They care little if your sick, have children,etc. This is a rush-rush job- rush to get to the job, rush to get the job done, rush on your break to find something to eat(you are usually in a publix, if they let you buy food from there), bad looks are given when you go to the bathroom during count time and rush to get home. The "friends" you think you make at this job will stab you in the back to make themselves look better. I once worked a whole week with bronchitis and a cold at the same time, not very fun when you have 18 people in a 15 passenger van. Many times people have just sat on the floor because there was no room on the seat. And dirty, dirty vans! Vans with roaches everywhere, vans that shut off while your going down the highway, vans with no A/C. This was especially fun in July and August in Florida. I got let go because a Ross employee decided she was my boss and gave me attitude during an inventory, after 5 hours of no A/C in the store (oh yeah, besides Publix, you wont have A/C on while your working) and having her yell at me, I was fed up and gave her attitude right back. But hey, you can come into work totally drunk and wont get fired over that!!! Not a real business if you ask me. Not getting paid for every hour you work, that happens to everyone, all the time, everyday. Not getting breaks after working a double, usually 4pm to 10am the next morning and then getting yelled at because you asked for a break. They will hire you and fire you in a matter of minutes. There are always new people coming and going. I could keep going but I would be here all day.

If you want to be extremely overworked,extremely underpaid and talked to like you're a 5 year old, then WIS International is the place for you. I started working for this company in November of 2015, from the very beginning during my interview, I should have known I was making a huge mistake. When I arrived at the Marietta, GA location for my interview, I sat and waited for 35-40 minutes, my interview was scheduled for 11:00 am. During my interview I was told that I would receive a company issued shirt(polo style) and a name badge, neither of which I received and I stopped working for the company 4 days ago. The scheduling is absolutely horrendous, you are scheduled for an assignment scheduled for 5 am and depending on how many people actually show up if they are scheduled, you may be lucky enough to finish the job by 12 noon. They will schedule a job for 5 am and you won't get out of there until 4 pm that afternoon, maybe later than that. Then you are either scheduled for another job that evening with a start time ranging anywhere from a meet time of between 5-8 pm and the job starting at 9pm. You may also be scheduled for another job right after that assignment for the next morning. Once the schedule is sent out for the week, there is a notice on your schedule that if you have a conflict with a job that you are scheduled for, to please notify them immediately so that they can arrange for a replacement. If you do that, you will get written up, no matter what. They do not care if you have prior appts, if they schedule you to work an assignment, they expect you to work and excuses will not be accepted. They expect you to make this place your life. The only way I would recommend this job is if you are a single person with no children, just needing pocket change, because pocket change is exactly what you will get. The starting pay for an Inventory Associate is $8.00 per hour and $10.00 per hour if you are hired as a driver. Also, some of the supervisors have awful attitudes and talk horribly to the employees. They treat you like you're a child, you are given very little respect. The employees themselves are kinda cool, at least the ones that actually come to work. I believe my time at WIS would've been better if there was a set schedule and the pay was a little better. If you have an opportunity to gain other employment, by all means do so. This job will run you ragged!!!!.

WiS International does inventory for various other companies to help them track any losses.  As such, outside of going to the office for initial training and testing for higher pay, the only real set location you might have is the meeting place for the shuttle, which is largely for those who live an hour or more away from the location.

The job itself can be easy to learn, but learning the intricacies of the handheld scanners can be tricky, especially since there's two primary models you'll often work with.

Another added layer of potential trouble is the fact that many companies have their own way they want you to go about taking inventory, which can fluster newbies as rules that were fine at a previous location are not acceptable at a current job site.

Many might underestimate how difficult it can be to do inventory scanning and while there are locations that will make it a breeze to do, it can be quite monotonous, which can lead to distraction and frustration.

Managers will do their best to help out those who are new and will help if you have trouble (such as misclicking, trouble scanning, battery dying, etc.), but you are expected to be accountable for yourself.  If you miss the shuttle to the job site, you can either drive there yourself or you miss out on that day.

I'm ranking the Job Work/Life Balance as moderate, as there are people who can get used to it, but I will warn that a start time of 5 AM might mean having to wake up at midnight to get to the shuttle in order to get TO said job site, although typically speaking, you're more likely to have to get up about 1-2 hours before most "start times". You are compensated if the job site is more than an hour away, but this might be overlooked by applicants when they read "travel".

You are also NOT guaranteed hours, as the need for inventory is sometimes random, but occasionally days will also run long meaning you might earn more.  Typically speaking, most work days will consist of 1-2 hours travel to and from (any travel over an hour each way is compensated) and about 5-7 hours of work.

However, you are paid more if you can manage to maintain or improve your scanning rate, you can get better pay within an month.

One of the first issues I noticed at WIS International was inconsistent pay practices and confusion around earnings, along with a workplace environment where there was frequent gossip among some members of management. This contributed to a lack of professionalism and trust in how the company was being run.

Overall, my experience was not positive.

Additional experience:

I submitted a claim for missing many hours on my paycheck that I worked. My pay stub indicates that travel time is paid even if it is under an hour. However, I was later told by management that travel time is only paid after one hour of driving, which directly contradicted what was shown on the pay stub. The issue was not resolved, and I have not been compensated for those hours.

I also observed what appeared to be favoritism within certain teams. It sometimes felt like personal relationships or family connections among management influenced scheduling, job assignments, and how employees were treated, which created a sense of unfairness in the workplace.

Additionally, there was a general feeling among employees that raising concerns about bias or workplace issues was not always handled constructively, and some people felt there could be negative consequences for speaking up. This contributed to a lack of trust in management.

Training and onboarding were limited, leaving many employees to learn tasks on the job without sufficient preparation, despite performance expectations remaining the same.

While there were a few supportive coworkers, the overall environment felt disorganized, inconsistent, and difficult to stay in long term.

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