Ferrellgas Partners Reviews

Pros

Great pay, great commision structure, DOS's truly care about their sales team professionally and personally, good benys...all the tools and support you need to succeed

Cons

Very frustrating division between sales and operations. Total lack of respect shown to sales team by the whole operations team. I've heard very disturbing comments by GM's and Op's managers about other Reps outside my territory.

Advice to Senior Management

Track Ops perfomance regarding new account setups and suport of sales efforts. They watch sales numbers closely enough but dont always know the whole picture.

Pros

There are a lot of nice people there.

Cons

Too little direction from supervision.

Pros

Profit sharing - in that you'll be fully divested within 7 years
Good benefits - except that they are currently increasing costs to cushion the blow they think they'll take with the new health care laws.

Cons

Management's inability to convey the true direction of the company.
Playing field is definitely not level.
Minorities are judged on a much stricter level than everyone else. Note that there are NO upper-level minorities within FG... at least last I checked.

Advice to Senior Management

Include staff - let them know the big picture and how they are a part of it.
Promote based on experience, performance, and level of aptitude.

Pros

Laid back work environment, no micromanaging

Cons

unrealistic goals, severely understaffed, horrible pay, unethical work environment

Advice to Senior Management

clean house

Pros

Very flexible work schedule. Work from home option. Awesome benefits package

Cons

limited growth opportunities. Management doesn't take opinion of the lower members.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure that hard work is rewarded. No employee is unimportant

Pros

able to transfer and move up within company

Cons

working towards short term results sacrifice long term growth goals

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the field

Pros

Ferrellgas provides a strong team environment, quality training and a good propane solution for commerical and residential accounts. The base pay and varied commission payout are pretty strong. The benefits are great and the sales team is strong. Serivce team is strong.

Cons

There is a huge gap between sales and operations, which will impact an account manager's income due to lack of installation support, poor internal communication, lack of response time from operations management and complicated reporting requirements in order to get some commissions paid out. Management over operations is lacking in leadership and execution. Competitive pricing is a concern, as account managers are fighting with lower margins and customers or prospects are typically getting charged a higher-than-average cost for product. Pricing teams and operations managers often change prices even after signed agreements are received.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop a better way to track poor performing operations mgt team members, as this greatly impacts getting sold accounts installed and account managers getting paid correctly and on time. Customers need to be treated better with regard to consistent and fair pricing - stop changing their price just to make your profit margins.

Pros

Seasonal business allows for ease of taking time off during the summer months. Employer is helpful in providing equipment to make work somewhat easier, if a little more binding (laptop/cell phone). Good benefits and employee stock ownership plan are a plus.

Cons

Winter heating season is very hectic, which can cause frustrations and often the weather dictates how busy it is. Snow/Ice and cold conditions make for the most work, and also hampers deliveries, which is frustrating. Customers can be anxious and sometimes rude during these periods of time.

Advice to Senior Management

For the most part, I think senior management is doing a good job. Communication is not horrible, but could be better in relaying things that are going on in the company. Some mid-level managers aren't very people friendly and those areas could probably do better if those in charge were replaced.