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      UniFirst

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      UniFirst reviews

      3.6

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (2,542 total reviews)
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      Steven S. Sintros

      70% approve of CEO

      55% positive business outlook

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      UniFirst has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,542 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UniFirst employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.4 stars).

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      3K reviews
      1.0
      Apr 2, 2016

      Outside sales rep

      Outside sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The base pay is probably the only good thing. Also, the lunches provided to you occasionally. Take them up on their lunches.

      Cons

      At my particular branch, it was a very hostile environment. People were getting fired left and right as well as sales reps leaving on their own. Not a good environment to start off ones career. The data base you are handed will most likely be way out to date: in my instance, 5 years outdated. This is your source of leads. Makes it very difficult to set up appointments and get in front of the decision maker. They make it very difficult for you to figure out your commission. Even when you ask how to "calculate" it you'll still be left clueless.

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      UniFirst Response
      9y
      Thank you for your review. It always saddens us to lose a Team Partner. We look at the database as a tool for our Salespeople to keep all of the information they learn about their Prospects in one convenient place. We do have our Marketing Research & Development Department scrub the database for accurate basic Account Information. However, it is our Salespeople’s responsibility to Prospect and figure out who they need to work with at a particular business to win the Sale. In, what we would call, “Hunter Sales”, Prospecting is one of the most important activities a Salesperson does, as getting to the right person is half of the battle.
      2.0
      Feb 11, 2015

      Sales Rep

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Freindly atmosphere. Nice Sales Managers. Great for entry level sales

      Cons

      If you love micro management, then you will love working for UniFirst. Very restrictive. No wiggle room to sell using your own style. Do it word for word verbatum, there way. Lots of roll play in unrealistic situations

      1.0
      Jan 25, 2015

      Why walmart is better

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      just trying to make things better...........

      Cons

      This company should have one undercover boss in its facilities in nh vs its newer shops in the south. Shops are ran like sweatshops supervisors are required to work 30 plus hrs of overtime for free so this makes this company great to work for as a salary employee. Company claims to be about family but the GM doesn't care one bit about anyone but his self. To be a company in the north the low pay for supervisors and employees is dismal walmart pays better. Management looks at employees as if they get a winter out of the dock crew that works three times more hours as anyone else in the company then they can replace them if they quit GM treats his staff with such disrespect that if he worked for any other company he would be asked to resign but yet home office looks at him like a great boss. I would not recommend this company to anyone.

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