Purolator reviews

3.7

78% would recommend to a friend

(869 total reviews)
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John Ferguson

89% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Purolator has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 869 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Purolator employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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869 reviews
2.0
Aug 1, 2010

Pay and benefits are good, not much more is.

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Pros

Pay and benefits are good for a small company. Some middle management is very good and dedicated as are most of the non management folks.

Cons

Dead end job unless you want to do sales or move to New York. Company survives in spite of senior mgmt not because of it. HR is a complete disaster and horribly mismanaged. Its an good ole boys network, unless your willing to pucker up to the presidents rear end your going nowhere. President has absolutely no idea what is going on in the field except sales and most of the VPs and directors just tell him what he wants to hear as to not make him upset. Tell them what they want to hear on their surveys or they will narrow down who you are and fire you. They talk a good game but this company has "zero" loyalty to their employees.

1.0
Apr 6, 2010
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Pros

Vacation time is nice...they also have some nice benefits and the offices are usually located in some decent facilities for sales personnel

Cons

Old boy network - it is made up of old friends and some personal relationships have driven decisions to promote people and put them into higher paying and more visible jobs than they can handle...also many old UPS folks have come in and taken hold of key departments and positions. Senior management is a joke - President is out of touch with the times....all he talks about is how good he was in sales...in 1981. No real plan - they change their idea of the company "vision" quarterly...

1.0
Apr 19, 2023
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Pros

- The job activities is typically as described. Heavy lifting (sometimes up to 30kg), a bit of walking around (especially at bigger hubs). Attention to detail and the ability to read labels fast, good memory and spatial co-ordination (especially when stacking boxes). - Anyone who's serious with a little common sense can master most of the tasks. - You get Good starting pay/benefits (compared to similar positions from competing companies) in a Unionised position and Lots of overtime opportunities, especially if you are experienced. Note that there are major Con's that make the union membership more of a pain that an advantage

Cons

- Company insists in maintaining and enforcing absurd and pointless so-called "Safer Workplaces Policy" among other already absurd rules. So, you won't be hired if you've not received the 1st 2 doses of the Covid19 mRNA vaccines (even though updated health guidelines no longer recommend it for current variants). This is openly and publicly known as has been reported and publicly complained about by other former employees and applicants. - I mentioned that it's unionised. However, the union practically has no benefit or purpose to the average worker. You'll spend more in dues and get nothing in benefits - The training isn't as good as it should be. Some training content doesn't match real work environment expectations, and temporary staff are used from time to time and they receive no training. - Warehouse environment have little to no temperature regulation (trailers are really cold in the winter and even worse, you could get a heatstroke in the summer seeing as the tasks are physically demanding). - Management is disorganised a lot of times. - Proper work ethics are never enforced, thus a hard/serious worker can be taken advantaged of (you may find yourself covering for lazier/unserious workers, especially if you're a male worker).

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