Southern Wine & Spirits of America Employee Reviews about "good benefits"

Pros

Flexibility, typically a fun working environment, freebies, expense account, customer base is friendly, pretty good benefits, company paid phone, car allowance

Cons

"Regional" management 2 time zones away?!?! Said management had ZERO clue about markets outside of their home state. Also, there was far too much paperwork and reporting - spent more time on conference calls and spreadsheets than I did out selling.

Pros

Large company. Good benefits. Pretty good training.

Cons

You have to drive your own vehicle with no assistance for gas, etc. No cell phone assistance either. Some management is of old school mentality and manages by negative feedback.

Pros

Benefits are good as well as vacation/sick days. You get some perks working for an alcohol distributor.

Cons

If you work in the office the pay is terrible unless you are in sales. Your "bonus" during the holidays is laughable. The only way to move up or make money is to get into sales and that isn't easy. Feedback isn't well balanced, you're constantly told what you are doing wrong and vary rarely given positive feedback. Just not a positive environment.

Pros

lots of friends and goo coworkers ,good benefits,lots of hours and good managers

Cons

some bad managers and people in the wrong line of work and duties

Pros

Good benefits if you are in the union and you will never go thirsty. Plenty of incentives to make extra money

Cons

Unrealistic expectations and quotas with too many promises to various suppliers

Pros

- Good benefits - Stable job

Cons

- There are too many people who hide and collect a paycheck - Upward mobility is very limited (like I said, there is a strong corporate culture) - Management will always push you to unrealistic goals by lying about intangible rewards - Terrible work-life balance - The entire compensation package seems nice at first but you'll soon discover that the pay is below-average for the amount of work you do - Management is out of touch with lower-level employees

Pros

Pay, union, easy work, 4 10's, the medical benefits are good but kind of expensive for being Union.

Cons

Lazy people, union contract sucks. It's really easy work, but the employees are lazy and don't want the over time so they always bring in temps to take all of our over time.

Pros

Good benefits, decent starter job to enter Wine and Spirits industry

Cons

Prepare for 5 am start times, majority of time is spent as manual labor schlepping hundreds of cases of wine and Spirits every day = retail stores will expect and take advantage of "free labor" from their perspective. Prevalent nepotism. Any advancements to more lucrative positions outside of company with a Supplier you will compete against your boss (DM) or someone's connected relative.

Pros

Good benefits and good pay

Cons

Seems like they depend on Excel for EVERYTHING, and the programs and technology they use is always 5-20 years behind. We currently use a program that was written in the 80s and has not been updated since then. Sales seem to be the only people that matter.