Gate Gourmet reviews

No raises. A driver starting in 1994 made 12 dollars an hour to start, fast foward to 2013 and the drivers make the exact same amount of money to start. 1994 drivers had a higher salary cap compared to a 2013 driver though, and the 2013 driver has less benefits. You better be there on time, but dont count on going home on time. They mandatory you to stay overtime almost daily. Saftey is a joke. They push saftey reminder papers in your face everyday but when you fill out a pretrip nothing is done to repair defects in trucks. If they really cared about safety wouldnt they have truck drivers with CDLs? In Chicago we have a union. We pay Union dues, we pay towards a strike fund, oh but we cant ever go on strike. Every year near your birthday expect to take a day out of your time to go renew your ID which allows you to work at Gate Gourmet. That's a day of your time, you will not be paid for it. Every day when you go to work expect your car to be searched. You will be finger printed a number of times through out the day, they really make you feel like a criminal. Management looks down on hourly employees. When one manager comes down on you just bare it, going to another manager for help will only make things worse. Count on NEVER having a holiday off, unless you're been there 30 years. No Weekends off, and only sick days off per year. Cause every knows when you're working in extreme cold you'll only get sick twice or less. You will not qualify for any kind of benefit until you've been at the company for a year. So no holiday pay, no sick days, no medical, no uniform given to you, nothing until after a year. And then they wonder why new employees call off on holidays. Medical insurance is an absolute joke. Insurance for yourself plus wife will cost around 150 dollars per week. More if you have kids. So if you work interior that's more than half your weekly paycheck going towards insurance. Recently Union Dues went up despite the union not getting anykind of raise for employees. I dont understand how the union feels they deserve a raise when they can not get a raise for the employees they represent.

Where do I begin? This is quite simply the poorest managed company I have ever worked for. There are so many failures at the management level that the entire operation is completely disfunctional. Across the operation there is an utter lack of communication, accountability, organization, and oversight. Every manager operates in their own bubble and most, if not all, are way out of their league. The employees are well aware that they have management over a barrel and take full advantage of the fact that they can literally get away with anything as there is very little accountability. Human Resources is completely company centric. The HR department is not aligned with the best interests of the employees. Payroll fails to provide accurate compensation with alarming regularity. Safety, in both operations and food preparation is severely lacking. Employee morale is extremely low and as a result turnover is very high. After dedicating a year to this organization I saw no improvement whatsoever. None of the glaring issues that faced the company improved, really at all. I would not recommend this employer to anyone.