Well Let's see... I worked for Schwans for around 5 years. At first it was great. I worked 4 days a week Monday thru thursday. I loved it. I took routes that were performing poorly and made them into decent routes. Grant it I worked around 50 hours or more in those four days but I had 3 day weekends. So I was willing to work hard. Then they put me on flex routes which you and another guy would partner up and split the route day in half, but you still ended up working around 9 hours a day. That wasn't too bad except you didn't make money. So then I moved to a ware house job. It beat me up. Unloding semi's full every week. Not bad, but each case weighted around 30 or more pounds and then there would be only 2 to 3 people to un load a full or half full semi in under 2 hours because they split the semi deliveries with another depot so you had to bust your butt to get it out the door to another depot in time for them to unload it.
We never had over time or did we rarely get a full 40 hours a week. So far I was not to bothered by work. It paid okay and it was a job. Then they started telling me you can only work 35 hours, but you still need to get the same amount of stuff done in a week. No big deal I thought because of the economy everyone was cutting back a little. Then they said no pay raised for hourly employees. Once again I really didn't give it much thought. Then they said hey you can only work the guys 30 hours a week. Then I had a guy have a couple of days were he had the flu. He comes back and they tell him if he is sick again then he goes to part time status. I thought wow. No way. Just because he was sick he almost lost his benifits. Then came Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. We worked 10 days straight for each holiday weekend and were told we could get overtime.
Short story is we worked no overtime nor did we even get 40 hours. They split our work week in a matter were one week of those 10 days we had 30 hours and the following week only around 20 hours if we were lucky. I will never work for a company like Schwans again. We never had a paid holiday or a sick day ever and they probably won't. The rate at which they turn over people is crazy to say the least. Just be careful when you accept an employment offer from this company. They make it sound good when you interview, but here is the funny part if you interview for a job chances are you are the only person they are interviewing for it. They already make up their minds before you interview. If you say yes to the job right away then you got it. If you tell them that you may not be interested after your ride day then they call the next person. I guess if you don't really care about hours or time off or holidays you would do good with this job. Good luck is all I can say.
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