Schwans
Schwans treats you like slaves, pays you peanuts for salary, and is a corrupt company. Do not work for them! Chicagoland

Let me just preface this report by saying anyone who is thinking about working for Schwans, or is in the process of being hired by Schwan's, run the other way and don't ever look back! They hook you in by saying that they have competitive pay and flexible hours, and they build the job to be more than it actually is.

I started working for Schwan's fall of 2008 and almost immediately I noticed things at the depot were not like I had been told they would be. First of all, when I was hired I was told that I would be given my own route to run, and would be responsible for servicing customers Monday through Friday.

The next thing I know the LGM has me warm-dooring out in sub zero tempetures instead for the first two months. And for those of you who used to work at Schwan's know, warm-dooring sucks and is absolutely miserable! They say oh were not here to sell you anything, but the truth of the matter is, they want immediate results or else.

It was bad enough that I was out in the brutal winter trying to sign up customers for other route drivers, but they expected me to put in a 10-12 hour day, everyday! I don't know what the pay scale is at other depots, but where I worked my salary was $32 K a year.

So if you do the math, 60 hours a week divided my salary means that I was getting paid less than minimum wage! Competitive pay yea right! It would be a different story if we got paid overtime, but the company is too cheap to actually keep the employees happy, thus the high turnover rate. They pay you salary so they can get away with screwing you over and making you work insane amounts of hours. And if you speak up and say that you're working too many hours for the pay, they'll let you go, or say something along the lines of "if you can't perform the job we'll get someone else who can."

Schwan's claims to watch out for their own, and that they take care of the employers, but reality is they do not. All they care about is making money and where the numbers are at, no matter what the cost is. They don't care about the customers, employees, or the sacrafices the workers have to endure in order to obtain the sales numbers Schwan's wants.

Another thing about Schwan's that they neglect to inform you when you're hired is that if you miss a work day for whatever reason, you have to come in on a Saturday and work. It doesn't matter if a relative dies, you are terribly sick, got into an accident, or whatever. They treat you like slaves and expect you to be married to the job at all costs.

Furthermore, the human resources department doesn't even take claims of harrassment seriously. Case in point, my LGM called my house phone one night with a threatening message that I needed to return my hand held computer to the depot immediately or the cops would be called and I would be arrested for theft! IF you want to know how outrageous this is, before she even looked by the cradles where we charge the HHC's to see if mine was there, she called and threatened me with being arrested.

All she would have had to do is look two feet in front of her face to see that my HHC was sitting right there, but instead she called my house late at night threatening me. I then filed a claim of harrassment against her and the company, and it was dismissed altogether! After a suppossed "investigation" she was cleared, and since then I was blackballed and pegged as the bad seed. Why? For simply following company procedure when I was hired about harrassment and doing what I was told to do if I was ever harrassed?

Needless to say the powers at be at Schwan's got together and drummed up a ficticious charge against me that I falsified company records, and I was suspended without pay for a week pending yet another company "investigation."

It was determined that I had broken company rules and I was terminated as a result. Talk about the ultimate slap in the face. I busted my ass for that company, slaving away with 60 hour weeks, for minimal pay just to be let go. Like I said, Schwan's certainly doesn't value their employees, and they view them as statistic. Which explains why they have an extremely high turnover rate.

WORK FOR SCHWANS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! Just keep in mind that if you do by some chance work for this company, you can kiss your social life, family life, down time, and any other time that you would have goodbye! Once you work for them, you will cease to have a life, and you will become just another number in the eyes of the slave like company that is Schwan's

Company: Schwans
Country: USA
State: Illinois
City: ROMEOVILLE
Address: 1250 LAKESIDE DR

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