ARAMARK Uniform and Career Apparel Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, Gas card, car allowance

Cons

NOt the sexiest indusrtyor the cleanliness

Advice to Senior Management

Doing a good job!

Pros

working with pleasant people most of the time

Cons

they cannot run a company smoothly

Advice to Senior Management

quit and give someone else a chance

Pros

provide uniforms that you wash yourself

Cons

dangerous, filthy place place. poor safety practices and very poor in house HR

Advice to Senior Management

treat people with respect.

Pros

The salary and the bonus structure is pretty good and they give you a car and pay for your gas.

Cons

Upper mgmt expects 12-14 hrs everyday. Struggle do get product for customers with little or no help from mgmt. Expectations are most often unattainable. No regard to family life mgmt feels that it is secondary to the job.

Pros

Great group of people to work with. Great reputation of the company. Good benefits and salary compensations.

Cons

Bad management. Incompetent leadership. Bad sales environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire someone with a college degree from an accredited university. Bring in more intelligent leadership people who can think outside the box instead of 'yes men'.

Pros

Good benefits, compantv provided vehicles and expenses. Financially stable so bankruptcy should not be an issue. Base salary + bonus so your income is fairly predictable

Cons

Very unstable job security. Managers are not held in high esteem for their knowledge and professionalism by Senior Managenent.

Comment made at shareholder meeting by former Aramark CEO-
"I never said we were a nice company, just a good company."

Advice to Senior Management

Do away with the "MOR" monthly operating review. A meeting where a general manager is attacked by a group from Corporate regarding P&L line items beyond his control, by people with no field managenentf experience actually doing the job.

Pros

The pay is good, benefits very good, diversity in accounts, spend most of workday away from management out on route. Day goes by fast.

Cons

Management by fear. The G.M and A.G.M. put otherwordly pressure on D.M. and route reps to achieve goals that only the top markets can realistically achieve. Leads to a feeling of hopelessness to succeed. Constant negativity from said management creates culture of failure leaving R.S.R. primarily focused on staying off bottom of performance matricites. Employee builds absolutely zero equity with company. If you struggle for even a quarter you lose your job. Zero chance of advancement in branch locations, available positions not even made known. Company is simply unethical with loss and ruin and price increases and leave R.S.R out to dry for it. Aramark will throw R.S.R under the bus whenever any large account shows discontent. G.M. quoted by mid management as saying "we can always find a way to blame the route rep".

Advice to Senior Management

All they ever preach is how important the r.s.r is to growing the company but yet never stop with extra duties unrelated to that goal. Such as micro paperwork proving our sales activity, long check ins with D.M.'s that achieve nothing and having us sort laundry... All for $35 dollars an hour.

Pros

Union position, the ability to grow your route and make commission, The ability to network among existing customer base. You can support your family and make a very good living without a college degree.

Cons

Lack of communication in general with drivers. Dishonest and unethical business practice. Holding us to a standard you have no intention of Following yourselves

Advice to Senior Management

With the economy in its present state, you would think as a Company our bottom line would be to grow the business instead of thinking short term in every direction I see you heading. I feel we need to be on the same page

Pros

flexibility; name recognition, good benefits; sales incentives. Fair but not great overall compensation compared to industry averages.

Cons

Removed skill set and savvy from selling process. It is all about sales activity and what you can input into salesforce. Sales people are in sales because they do what they do best, sell product. Not being data entry personnel. 40-50% of the job is on a laptop now. That won't help you bring in sales. The company is so caught up in the investment it has made in salesforce.com that is has lost focus of the overall big picture. Good people bring in good business. Not salesforce robots.

Advice to Senior Management

The company is turning into a churn and burn, eat them up and spit them out overall sales culture. It is operation driven and has handcuffed the sales dynamic of the company. Without sales you will have no growth. You are losing good sales personnel and will continue to lose them the path you are going down. There is a difference between "accountability" and "micro-management". Figure it out and figure it out soon. The company is trying to be like Cintas. But not being like Cintas got you to be successful and where you are today. It's a bad move and eventually it will come back to bite you.

Pros

Training, people and leadership. The leadership team at Aramark is the best I have ever dealt with in my 15 years of experience.

Cons

Lots of politics. Again, I think within a company the size of Aramark, to a certain exent you have to deal with key players.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the people in the trenches. Let the information bubble up and be as transparent as possible. It wll pay off!