Atlas Oil Reviews

Pros

Nice uniforms. Free popcorn. Free soda. Steady work if you can stomach the hypocrisy. You are pretty much allowed to do what ever you want with no consequences.

Cons

The turn over in management is absolutely ridiculous. The "core values" of this company are only enforced when it benifits management. They say they are open to suggestions from the workforce. This couldn't be farther from the truth. Unless you are in management, you are looked down upon. The most important thing in this comapny, FUEL DELIVERY, seems to take a back seat to alot of things. ie: Winter hats, The Sammys,(Really?), Cookouts.
Atlas Oil is more concerned about employing "nice people" then they are about hiring the most qualified. The SEAL program is an absolute joke. How in the world can you have inexperienced people training inexperienced people?
You can make good money here,but you have to be married to Atlas Oil. You will have very little home life.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time on trying to improve your customer service,and less time worrying about whether or not someone flushed a toilet.

Pros

Because there in no real direction or strategic planning, one has to be adaptable and flexible as well as creative. This is a great learning experience after having worked in some of the largest and most structured companies in this field

Cons

Basically believe nothing that senior management say. The core values sound good but are rarely applied...especially when it comes to customers or employees outside Sam's "inner circle"

Advice to Senior Management

I think there has been huge turnover at all levels of the organization except for the "Leadership Team". Perhaps some T/O amongst this group will improve the environment for everyone else.

Pros

The base pay is excellent (don't expect a bonus, regardless of what you're told).
There are some great people here.
People here work really hard and are talented.

Cons

Before accepting a position, make it mandatory that you talk to people at all levels in the company for honest feedback about the company. If they tell the truth, the responses will be troubling.
Management circle can change their minds in a moment and you can find yourself going from in the loop to the curb overnight.
The company thinks that it is solution driven. However, you are not able to make change really happen. Your authority is really a smoke screen.
When you interview you'll hopefully be able to see the environment. It's a culture built on fear and oppression.
Actually, I'd say the best way to describe how the company operates is that everyone is a puppet and one person pulls all the strings.
You will deal with all kinds of issues that never get fixed due to management not beliving that the problems exist.
DO NOT move your family there! Make sure you don't do ANYTHING long-term until you have been there at least 2 years.
Quickly ask about how many of these talented people leave and why. Ask a lot of questions.
The company celebrates employees who sacrafice their family by working continual 70+ hour workweeks.

Advice to Senior Management

If you don't figure out how to treat employees well, don't expect the revolving door to slow down.
It's a shame, really because it's such a fixable piece.

Pros

The owner and investors have put quit a bit of change into the operations in the chicagoland area with newer equipment and building. The money is fair if you do five or more loads a day and if a sixth day is avalible your pay is good at the end of the week thus keeping most of the drivers.

Cons

Poor comunication we have no manegment at the Hammond terminal to support the drivers just dispatch witch is in taylor. When problems happen we feel as drivers we have to deal with it ourselves and on the weekends we fly by the seat of our pants..This is a 24/7 operation we should have 24/7 support at the hammond terminal and not based in Taylor the people in Taylor dont know what we as drivers go thru to get the loads done or even how chicago works. Load pay is not what it should be we as drivers feel it should be looked at and the answer we get is there looking into it.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at dispatch and how your trucks are being routed (waisting fuel) not all the time but most. Get 24/7 leadership down here(Hammond) and not just by phone.. Need Dispatchers from the chicago area that graphicly knows the chicago area. And get some newer tankers we are dealing with some old tankers 2 or 3 that either need to just haul ethonal or be put on the railroad time is money the old tankers take too long to drop fuel at stations with the rail or eth there is a pump that pulls the fuel out of the tank so using the old tankers does not waist time at these operations. Look at the load pay it does not make sinse. All of us that have been with the company for some time want to be proud and say I Work For Atlas Oil you say your the leader then show us make your workers want to come to work.

Pros

The other employees were great to work with

Cons

Management changes plans constantly and decides to hire and fire on a whim. There is no long term growth strategy, only grow now. Management is ruthless and dishonest about what they will actually be paying you.

Pros

The company pays very well, but understand, it comes at a very high price. It is a good place to get started due to the huge turnover 125% annually. I was the longest term employee on my 1 year anniversery. If you can hang in, recruiters will see you as a high performer due to the horrible work enviroment. I was there 2 years before I finally had enough. When I went to a recruiter he stated "wow, you must be unbelievable at what you do." I had come from public accounting so I was used to the long hours and high pressure. Just to give you an idea, I was at a small coney island in Farmington Hills. The place probably seated 75 people. I counted 8 people having lunch who were former employees. That tells you something right there.

Cons

The real problem working for this company is basically the owner, (Sam) loves to have new management teams come in ever 2 years. When they do, they clean house or make things so unfair that you leave. But Sam believes that the turnover in management is beneficial due to people being "hungry" and motivated when they start a job. Sam loves Sam and when you interview there you will see he has pictures of himself everywhere.

Pros

I can't think of a positive, the hours can be flexible.

Cons

They don't seem to understand the concept of needing to spend money now to save money later, poor management of funds.

Advice to Senior Management

need to take better care of their properties

Pros

Atlas Oil is doing brisk business and has such great potential. All of the right things are said. All of the right messages are sent. The package, as advertised, is lovely, an oasis right there on the horizon within reach.

Cons

The messages, however, do not align with the reality of working at Atlas Oil. What's said and what's done stand in stark opposition, and the reality of the situation isn't pretty. It reflects a profound absence of integrity. The oasis is only a mirage.

Advice to Senior Management

It's hard to imagine what Atlas Oil is hoping to gain in allowing an extremely low element to continue sabotaging the work of others, driving many good people out through the revolving door in an effort to stake firmer claim on places for themselves at the company table through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and destruction. This dysfunction is harming Sam Simon's business, and I can't believe he's aware of the cost involved, or he would be livid.

Pros

This is a company that is on the move and growing . The CEO and Leadership Team are totally tuned in to the team members and all are encouraged to stretch their legs and grow. There are no limits here. Nothing and NO ONE is holding anyone back from being all they want to be. Great compensation and benefits. This is the kind of place we all dream about working at...if you're looking for a company that mentors, challenges, supports and rewards, welcome to Atlas Oil.

Cons

If you're someone who just wants to punch a clock and put in your time, you need to look somewhere else...
With Atlas Oil, you need to make a commitment to be present, and you need to understand the depth of such a word. . To be active, involved, and committed and to conduct yourself with integrity. With co-workers, customers, and everyone else you encounter. A too tall order for many to carry out.
Former employees see these points as a negative. We who embrace the company and love our jobs, do not, obviously. It's all about doing what you love and loving what you do. A hard concept for the bitter to comprehend.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to stay open to dialogue and conversation with all employees. This has always been a strong suit of this company and its leadership. Support and encourage those who wish to learn, grow and move up. Again, another strong suit of this company.
Bottom line to the team leaders of Atlas: Keep on, keeping on. It's no mystery why we all love working here. You listen. You grow along side all of us.

Pros

Decent pay and decent benefits, if you can survive the politics you might last a few years. Turnover is killing Atlas.

Cons

They are trying to remediate the bleeding with a 40% turnover rate. We had new mangement team at least 3 times this. We fear for our jobs every day. Rather than being given support, we are threatened with our jobs continually. Meanwhile, the executives continue to spend on themselves, holding meetings at the finest hotels.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe the company can be proactive for once? Though I doubt it, that would involve believing in workers rather than scapegoating. Or thinking rather than reacting.Unless you can communicate better, have better management, can get rid of the culture of blame and victimisation and have modern updated software, what is the point?