UniFirst reviews

You truly have to work extremely hard to succeed at UniFirst. You need to be disciplined and have a thick skin. You will make over 100 cold calls each week -- on the phone and in person. Time management skills, courage, likeability and emotional intelligence are the most important characteristics to work here. If you put in the hours, you will find success and receive recognition.

-When offered the job, you will be told that you will be a salary employee. Upon starting, you find out that you will be paid the slave wage of $12.75 per hour (which does not add up to your offered salary). They will justify this wage by telling you that "it adds up with overtime"....it does not....but at least they are upfront that you will be expected to be at the office from 7:30 until 5:00 -No benefits for 90 days, no sick days -You will be yelled at/ see others yelled at by corporate trainers for not making LIVE telemarketing calls PERFECTLY. Regardless if this is your first live call or not (I'm not kidding, If you say that you are from Unifirst, your trainer will YELL at you in front of your training class). -The longest tenure is 7 months and this is only 1 person because everyone else has left. -EXTREME MICROMANAGEMENT -Corporate invests NOTHING into the training of their sales reps. You will sit through 5 weeks of video conferences taught by rude trainers and videos filmed in the 90s (The computers in the video are from the 90s). The out of date training and technology reflects their appreciation for their sales team. -IF YOU HAVE ANY SALES EXPERIENCE, DO NOT WORK HERE. IF YOU NEED SALES EXPERIENCE, GO TO AN ADP, CINTAS, ETC. THEY WILL PAY YOU REAL WAGES AND APPRECIATE THEIR SALES REPS.