Pros
Pay (great in larger districts); 4 Day work week; Coworkers
Cons
-Pay: base salary plus commission, if you're able to run instead of walk, not spend time doing other critical job duties aside from being the "delivery guy"...have a strong back and everything else, this is the perfect job for you. However, if you actually enjoy building relationships with your customers, digging into sales opportunities and issues that are impacting your customers, this is not the company for you. You will be a glorified delivery guy as long as you are an Account Manager. When you calculate your pay with the amount of hours you actually spend working (both on and off the clock....the pay isn't as great as it sounds). -Opportunities for Upward Mobility: mediocre -4 Day Work Week: you will work 4 days per week, if that means Sunday thru Wednesday or some variant of the Monday Thru Friday typical week. Don't expect to take any vacation close to the end of year holidays, my advice if you need time off, just call in sick. You will work, off the clock, more than a few times per year for what amounts to internal housekeeping because most district managers don't want to be tied down to an office. Work will start around 6:00AM to load trucks for the day, which you do by hand and your day isn't over until you finish you last stop, drive back to home office (as much as 2-3 hours away), do your end of day paperwork and plan your next day. This can be a 9 or 16+ hour work day. -CASH: you will handle cash, you will be handed hundreds or thousands of dollars in cash (very often small bills) in front of your customer's customers (customer inside of gas stations). You will be responsible for counting, keeping up with and depositing every cent. You will walk out of inner city gas stations to your truck, after every crackhead on the block saw you get handed enough cash to choke a donkey and this most frequently happens in accounts (gas stations) most people don't even want to drive past. Someday, someone is going to not go home to their family. -Management: You have good and bad district managers across the whole company, seems to be split down the middle. Once you get to your Regional Managers and above, all bets are off the table. This company burns out most of the truly good employees, promotes only the "darlings" of the company and upper management is a case study in failing upwards. You will hear stories about individuals starting out as AR (unasigned) and working their way up to VP of this or that division, this are the people you have to watch out for, they will steal any and all creativity, think of used car salesmen with a cocaine habit and you'll get the picture. Favoritism is the only way to get ahead, so be prepared for all that entails.