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Americold Logistics

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Decent pay, but poor management - Forklift Operator Americold Logistics Employee Review

1.0
Jul 22, 2026
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Pros

Decent starting pay for a forklift operator, they take people on with zero warehouse or powered equipment experience and provide all cold weather PPE.

Cons

The Belvidere location is run by people who don't know how to effectively operate a warehouse which causes major backups in productivity, leading to a lot of mandatory overtime. The work-life balance is terrible. They have you work 6x 12 hour shifts a week because they choose not to keep track of inventory and let lazy or incompetent workers get away with sneaking away for up to an hour at a time and not doing their tasks. They have no systems in place for monitoring productivity so the majority of people end up doing the bare minimum (or less) to keep things moving and the people who actually have a work ethic have to pick up the slack.

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5.0
Jul 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very good culture, friendly employers

Cons

No cons, I liked working there

2.0
Jul 1, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Excellent PTO. 2. Great manager and DO at my location. 3. Decent work-life balance.

Cons

1. Large pay discrepancies between facilities (to the tune of $40k) between associates doing the same job. 2. Frequent implementation of policies or technologies that are either non-beneficial, time wasting, or fixing things that were not broken. I would admit there may be legitimate reasons for a lot of these, but if so they are either being poorly explained or not at all. 3. Failure to recognize the importance of individuals at the site-level and the impact they have in the facility.

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