truck driver

transport driver

driver

software engineer

fueler

World Kinect Corporation

Pros: People are fantastic, helpful, and good managers too. Supportive of learning and rotating around the company to learn more. You are acknowledged for your hard work and efforts.
Compensation is completely fair, but the cost of living in Miami is increasing. (SOME) teams use modern technologies. There are many opportunities to excel and innovate. The job felt a lot better a few years ago.

Cons: Some products use old technologies and refuse to modernize. Lack of emphasis on important things such as tech upgrades/improvements and security. The constant shuffling of employees and managers. No large layoffs (yet?) but it is clear they are cost-cutting aggressively. No job security, I feel on edge often. Mandated return to office even though MOST employees are remote since it’s a GLOBAL company. Timeline/deadline pressure is extreme in some teams; Some teams are completely overworked and stretched thin. The constant pressure to “be better” or “improve”, maybe some employees are doing as required but don’t want to “excel and overachieve” at the pace they expect you to. Sometimes your voice does not matter, only when it's convenient or gets briefly “highlighted” in survey results but nothing REALLY gets done. Lack of work culture and community. Overall, no emphasis on employee experience and satisfaction.

Advice to Management: Shuffle people less, reduce pressure on employees, focus on employee work-life balance, respect your employees more, and allow remote work (please acknowledge that you are limiting strong talent and decreasing employee satisfaction by pressuring/threatening workers to come into the office “or there will be consequences”). Many strong employees and leaders are 100% remote and work better remotely, it is not indicative of productivity. Also, please consider these points as critiques for improvement. Many employees feel this way but are scared/not encouraged to speak out.

Pay is below average for qualified employees and severely below average for the revenues and profits of such a company of less than 2,000 employees. Average paid time off, average 401k match and somewhat pricey health benefits. Seemingly great company on the exterior, but the low level staff is a joke. My day consisted of gathering the information I needed to do my work from as many exterior sources as possible and hope I didn’t have to battle my own coworkers for information needed to accomplish my tasks, as communication with outside sources was better and easier than communication within the company itself. Individuals operate in competition with one another to the point of counter-productivity. The company endorses a policy of nepotism which extremely limits the talent brought in. (Bonuses are given for referring new employees.) Advancement is usually available to those who've simply been there for too many years or to those who've connived their way into the favor of upper management. Ambition to advance or gain education and training is met with hostility from those in higher positions. There seems to be an unwritten policy of learn your job and keep your nose out of everything else. Sadly, there’s an overload of petty drama and office politics from entry level all the way to upper management.

The only good thing about the job was a few of the supervisors and during the time working days, you get 3 or 4 days off, but you pay for it with 13+ hour days. 

A typical day is handling very short notice trips and trying to convince CAAs to give you a permit. They have their pet customers, and woe to you if something goes wrong, even if it is a ridiculous request they make. You can never say no. 

Spire Flight Solutions, which is part of them in Denver, is led by a very inept, lazy, good for nothing manager. He shoves all of his responsibility to the lower levels, and throws people under the bus to save himself. That is of course if you are not his pet. They change policies and procedures weekly, so it's very hard to remember what the latest is. 

The sales team act like bosses, and treat them like secretaries, especially the ones in Singapore. The manager lets them, and encourages it.

The atmosphere is very toxic, and they do not listen to a word you say. Plus, they continue to hire inexperienced people. The turnover rate is very high, and that says a lot about the structure. I was there 2 1/2 years ago, and from a start of 15, I ended as number 3 in seniority, including the supervisors.  

To be fair, the benefits are really good. The pay not so much. They just recently realized they underpaid and increased everyone.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Wide range of people to work with - good pay, in my opinion.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They were hiring people who were talented but had a very difficult time communicating in English.  Our agile meetings took considerably longer than they should have because it was quite difficult to understand some of our team mates.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I thought it was a good place to work - and i would recommend World Fuel specially to young people , they had some great programs to help young people learn about the wide range of operations of the company.  I was injured and crippled not long after starting with World Fuel (not on the job) and would have applied for some of these other programs but my mobility was certainly limited and it wasnt fair to ask World Fuel to do what would have been required for me to be able to travel, specially at my age.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Start with an agile stand up meeting , followed by planning out various agile meetings for the several teams i worked with through out the day.  Working on my specific development responsibilities came later in the day.

Management is completely disconnected from the drivers. You’re treated like a number and feedback is not welcomed. Management is clueless as to the struggles drivers face. They expect drivers to be robots. There are 7 cameras on the truck including 3 in the cab. No Bluetooth is allowed. You will be immediately terminated if caught answering a call on your hands free device even though dispatch, management, and other drivers need to get ahold of you throughout the day. Dispatch constantly makes mistakes yet the driver is always to blame. Responsibility rolls down hill and lands squarely in the drivers lap. There once was a boot allowance and guaranteed 40 hours. That’s all gone as well as many other things. Favoritism is rampant. They have a closed door policy as drivers aren’t given the door code for the office so don’t even bother trying to sit down and talk to management. You are made to feel like “the help” and that you’re just an annoyance if you don’t shut up and just do your job. If management doesn’t like you, they will find a reason to fire you. You don’t feel appreciated or part of a team. 

Very high stress environment. No work/personal life balance. Expectations of the work load are very well beyond reasonable for the resources provided. The mantra seems to be do more with less. Hard work and long hours are not acknowledged or appreciated and “workaholic” mindset is widespread among the leadership which in turn is seen in the employees. Morale is poor as wave after wave of reduction in force come through randomly and swiftly. Communication from the top down is almost non existent. Upside, benefits as far as pay and 401k match are nice, however the health insurance cost is through the roof. The pto plan is great except that you may not actually get to use them because you will be working so many hours/holidays/weekends- depending on the department in which you work. Would not recommend if you wish to protect your mental well being or risk a stroke. There are some really great people with good hearts who work there. I hope they don’t let WFS suck the life out of them. 

I enjoyed a wonderful atmosphere and great team of co-workers, however it being a publicly traded company, you are not really known by upper management.  They are regularly are letting people go to outsource jobs out of the US and AI, as much as possible, to save the company money.  There is no true job security and you never know who's next on the chopping block. I completely loved my job and my team, however all of us were let go and were required to train our replacement from another country.  Many of us had been there for 15 to 23 years.  They do have great employee benefits.  To sum it up, if you are like me, and want a job you can retire from, they may not be for you.  If you are one who likes job hopping, you won't mind it.  They hire lots of young people who come for awhile and leave for even better opportunities.

Someone said great place to retire from, but who has retired from world fuel services pueblo? Not a single person! Automatic trucks great for in town? Ha! They are just as worthless in town as on the highway, they have no get up and go, no rpm range to pull a gear and get through lights or intersections in a timely fashion. Dangerously slow acceleration especially when trying to get onto the interstate.

Management screwed up by letting ryder take care of and order trucks. Bean counters spec the truck for areas like nebraska and kansas instead of speccing the trucks for the job and for the area we operate. And not enough trucks or trailers for drivers but we keep hiring more and more. Need to stop the slip seat game and get more equipment so drivers can start on time and provide better zervice to our customers.Pay starting to grt better

WFS is a good company to work for overall. I understand that some offices are more difficult than others, some bosses are worse than others etc. You can't judge an entire company based on one person's experience. I personally have had a positive experience and have been able to move up from my starting position. I feel that the company did a great job of handling the pandemic. They let us vote on continuing WFH and ended up closing some offices permanently (now working from home) and will have flex options for others. Benefits are good, time off is pretty good and is available at your hire date. Onboarding was easy and organized. It's been a frustrating time working in the fuel industry during a pandemic so there have been challenges and irritations but overall I'm happy to be with the company. 

Busy during summers, slow during winter
learned to drive a tank wagon and fuel various equipment.
management poor
workplace good
pulling 250 ft. hose


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