truck driver

sales associate

warehouse associate

office assistant

forklift operator

Wismettac Asian Foods Inc

This company is built on Japanese way of running business on slave wages. If you aren't Asian or male there is no upward mobility. 

For those who've lived in Japan or speak Japanese or the other majority ethnic background cultures (Korean or Chinese) you may think you know how to navigate and assimilate into the office culture. You'll be sadly mistaken. Non-Asian temp workers rarely get hired even after a year. The employee turnover rate is alarmingly high.

Everyone is friendly at first but as soon as they know your skill and how to get the most work out of you with faux kind gestures they will. Exclusion is the name of the game here. I was told that common office pleasantry talk was were disruptive while, anyone who talked in length foreign language weren't reprimand. (I know because I know Japanese). I rarely was invited to weekly work meetings and department celebrations or important office wide emails. 

Legit worked fast my own task and on others paperwork and reports to show I was a team player and worth a promotion/raise. Instead I got a heavier workload and pastries. And when it got to be overwhelming and I asked for help I was met with the, "you need better time management." Even worst when I asked for a much deserved raise after years of reliable service and taking over yet another person work as they are too cheap or slow to find a replacement,  I was told it "wasn't in the budget and that made mistakes." When I asked for specific mistake I made I was told it wasn't a good time to discuss. 

The last straw was when I returned from a much deserved vacation that had been approved 5 months in advance, no one had help take over my work while I was away (which I had done time and time again for others)

A work day as a sales person includes making reports for management and HQ, driving (30-60% depends on the branch you work for), taking, inputting and confirming orders from customers. You can learn a lot about food distribution business and products, especially Japanese one. Wismettac is either the biggest or the 2nd biggest Asian food distributors in the US so it's great if you want to make many connection with suppliers or customers. The management style is top-down and some practice micromanagement. As a company, you can see it tries to be innovative while holding traditional Japanese business value. Most roles in power is from sales department and Japanese. 
PROs: It's a delicious job! You get to visit customers (eat while you are there, sometimes for free) Food sampling. Food exhibitions. You will like this job if you are a foodie. Benefit is good, PTO can be roll over and turn into extra pays. You get a company issued iPhone, iPad, and a laptop as a salesperson. You can make your schedule, so it's not like a repetitive 9-5 jobs. Workplace culture is good, most staff (not all) is well manner and respectful.
CONs: Simply put, too many rules and guidelines! As a sales person, main responsibility is to reach and hit sales target but rules are ever changing and they have became a hindrance for this company's sales growth.

Very organize, low pay compare to industry standard, no work life balance, managers that doesn’t care for your well being, the list goes on.

You’re outside sales but there are plenty of paper works that would takes hours to complete everyday that should be done by office staffs. You still have to visit at least 5 customers per day regardless of all the paperwork and other extra work loads they give you like checking market price, collect payment from customers, helping with setting up new accounts, taking vendors around etc…. And takeover accounts for co-workers that quit which happens quiet frequently and of course you don’t get any commission or raise for it.

Lots of steps, procedures and rules. For example, you have to write a long email just to cancel an item that a customer no longer wants which should only take a phone call.

You’re pay for 40 hours a week but will have to work at least 60 to get the work done including weekends.

My coworkers would be the only reason I would stay. 
The work is tedious and unevenly distributed between employees. 
High turnover. 

Two 15 minute breaks 10:00am and 3:00pm.
One hour lunch break 12:00-1:00pm.

No music, ever.

I learned a lot about time management, however, because I was  working with other states and countries, my schedule was actually highly reliant their business hours and whims.

Always respond to emails as soon as possible, even if you don't have an answer. CC your manager and supervisor.

Double check your work! Especially with the clients and branches.
Even if you have all the correct information, somewhere somehow there is going to be a mistake...and it will haunt you.

The system in general is terrible...... Micromanaged like crazy, too many made up rules. Favoritism is really rampant, DID I SAY MICROMANAGED?!?! This job could be easy better than it is but management is the worst. They blame you for lots of things that can be really fixed, but management seems to not care to fix them. Warehouse errors are insane, then they blame the drivers for not finding the issues that the warehouse techs are supposed to figure out. Everything is inconsistent, one rule is made up then they don't follow that rule. It's just bad leadership at it's zenith. Wismettac is at the bottom and I see why the turnover is high there.

Work itself is probably good for starters but the company is not supporting any of training so that once you start working and realize that it’s not balanced the skills and the pay. They give you the minimum wage and ask you to work for the middle to associate level jobs. The manager doesn’t have any sorts of communication skills nor the knowledge of the regulations to the workers. He promised you one day and ignored you afterwards. Coworkers are hard workers but they don’t want involved in any sorts of issues neither. Eventually you’ll go to work there and finish work on your own. The responsibility is yours. It’s a typical Japanese pyramid scheme. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Monday thru Friday morning hours was nice.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
A catastrophic breakdown of communication and a lack of effort on managements part to deal with it. Period. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Relaxed. Probably too much so honestly. People wouldn't show, got fired, then someone else would get fired so they would rehire the first guy.. lather, rinse, repeat...

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Usually I spent nearly the whole work day finding space for product we were terribly overstocked on. To the point we had no room left on racks and I was forced to get creative.

As a Japanese person, I'm ashamed to work at a Japanese company that highly devalues their employees. Everyone is stretched to their limit instead of their potential being maximized. This is the case in the AR Dept. Never have I worked in such a dept that was so disorganized where you have 10 people doing the same task in a different way. This company could be so much more if things were streamlined but upper mgmt does not know how things are run apparently. This does greatly affect the customer as the company presents itself as one that doesn't know what they are doing. And it truly shows. I'm so happy to be quitting. I'd rather eat glass than ever work here again.

In the interview and orientation, they talk big about benefits, pay, etc. But after months to years, barely any of it comes true. Raises are tied to number of responsibilities, regardless of quality of work and inflexible to accommodations.

Management and higher ups did not communicate expectations or quality of work. Managers rarely ever replied to questions.

Culture is nonexistent, people are too rushed and busy to be able to socialise, take breaks, etc.

A typical day at work, survival! You get there happy, but then you get unhappy, not enough equipment to work, no handtrucks for new truck drivers, I ask my maneger for one and never help me to get one, trucks missing insurance and registration, this is every morning, it will take you long to load your truck cause everybody else are using electric pallet jacks and you will have to wait for your turn, and the list goes on.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 123 salaries reported	$28.80 per hour
Sales associate 56 salaries reported	$61,480 per year
Warehouse associate 100 salaries reported	$19.57 per hour
Office assistant 32 salaries reported	$22.33 per hour
Forklift operator 26 salaries reported	$21.44 per hour

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