warehouse worker

packer

route sales representative

process operator

stocker

WISE SNACKS

What is the best part of working at the company?
If forced labor is what your into. Wise has plenty of forced overtime available.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
they don't respect the families of employees. They expect to come first before anything other then a death in the family. forced overtime and they make you do more than your job title. union fee's for no union assistance makes no sense. no opt out for the union. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
unsanitary building and the culture is a non factor. Its sink or swim from day one. No training staff at all. You learn from other employees working the floor. Most of them lack patience and cut corners to get the process done. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
horrible. utterly horrible to say the least. clock in then clean up after the last shift. Then set up starts unless you have a change over of product. stand for 12 hours straight. Then when your shift is over you still can't leave, because they will force you to do overtime. especially if your a new hire they don't care what you have going on at home or whether you have children. they expect you to stay or risk your employment.(even though you completed your shift hours)

As a maintenance mechanic at wise, expect to be lied to from the interview forward. They'll tell you "We work a few weekends" . That means 7 days a week, wether there are jobs/work to be done or not. Guaranteed, you will have no home life,  and plan on 12 hour shifts if it's anytime during the spring or summer. They are completely understaffed  in the maintenance  department and refuse to hire on more for shift coverage, so plan on working by yourself if someone calls off. There is no  preventative maintenance program and  they refuse to buy parts, all the equipment is rigged together "for now" until the parts come in, and they never do. The department is full of "old timers" that will tell you to your face that they aren't there to work, they are just collecting a paycheck. And the list goes on.... If you value your sanity and family life, steer clear of this dump, it's a waste of time. 

It is however a good place to work if you just need a paycheck until something better comes along.

As an independent business owner, you don't really own your route. You have exclusive rights to buy product and merchandise specific stores. Wise management tells you what product you must carry in each store, how many fscings of each, and threaten about service compliance to keep a store. 
We pay to put product on our own trucks. We sell withcan 18% margin. That is on net sales, NOT gross as they claim. Warehouse fee is 1% of product bought. Since there's deep discounts for all the corporate accounts such as Tops, Price Chopper, and Walmart... You actually move over 30% of the product for free. If you have a lot of small stores such as fast stations, you will spend 3/4 the time to pull partials from full cases you buy, vs the big stores that can handle the volume of a full case. If there's a sale, you will be at the mercy of salesmen that tell you where when and how for extra displays. 
If you have a family, don't ever work for this company!

Wise used to have a good reputation and be a good place to work 10 years ago, but has been taking a nosedive quick. Nobody wants to work here anymore.  They'll hire anyone with a heartbeat it doesn't matter if your qualified for the job or not. They'll find the person who just started a month ago and have that person train you even though they themselves haven't a clue what they're doing. You'll be drafted/forced to work 12hrs a day usually 6 days a week in the slow season. In the summer time don't plan to have any kind of life outside of work because you'll be here 7 days a week. You get 1 personal day off a year, you get ZERO Sick time off. Doesn't matter if your dying your getting pointed and 12pts within a year and your fired. The pay is ehh not that great really. You can't really communicate with many people because not many speak English. 

When I first started at Wise I was only trained for about two weeks before being set out on my own. Now it is an easy job to pick up but only after a few months of very long days. The pros is you work all by yourself and you can kind of make your own schedule. No immediate boss to answer to. Pay can be really good if your product sells but you have to buy the route to make the extra commission.
Cons:  Even though you can make your own schedule there a only certain times when you can check your product into stores. Long days usually a 5am start time meaning up by 4am or earlier depending how far from the warehouse you live. Communication from management is decent. Often getting store managers trying to tell you what to do in their stores which gets annoying after a while truthfully. I got let go without warning from this place after I trained the replacement thinking I was training them for a different route. 

I have worked for Wise Foods for over 36 years. Through hard and conscientious work, I was given the opportunities to learn and advance myself to the position I hold currently. I have worked and still work with many great people. You work as a Team and doing so, you  keep learning everyday and you become successful! This has been a great Company for me to work for. When life throws you personal challenges, Wise Foods understood and has been there to help.

At my time in Wise Snacks I have learned to assess situations and deal with them accordingly. My day to day operations were loading truck merchandise, delivering to over 30 establishments that ranged from deli stores to supermarkets, handling from $2000 to $5000 daily and making certain all jobs and person operations  under my supervision were done to it's best and fullest potential.

Go in work veryhard in excessive heat, do others work that's not completed, management only cares about making numbers not the workers. The hardest part of the job is dealing with the heat and language barrier between other employees. The most enjoyable part is going home for the day

If you have a family and or kids you will not see them at all. You work 7 days a week, 8-16hrs. Overtime all the time and if you do not take it you get a 1/2 point, you have overtime every day Their so if your low man or lady on the list you get hit with the overtime . Manager and supervisor are the worst and they back stab you in the back. They favor certain workers  and give them hours.when they do not even work

You will be overworked with no extra pay. They pay you for 40 hours but you will work 60 hours a week. Upper management will not help with any training of any sort. Upper management will believe anything said by drivers and not consult with local manager. They threaten to fire you over any little thing no matter how good of a worker you are. STAY AWAY!

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Warehouse worker 3 salaries reported	$18.53 per hour
Packer 1 salary reported	$30.16 per hour
Route sales representative 2 salaries reported	$17.88 per hour
Process operator 1 salary reported	$21.56 per hour
Stocker 3 salaries reported	$19.40 per hour

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