Prudential Overall Supply Reviews

I have been working at Prudential Overall Supply full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Family-owned, small-feel, decent benefits (401k with matching contributions and couple different insurance options), advancement opportunities available including in-house "management potential training program."

Cons – For a smaller-to-medium size business, too many politics! Also, at one location, chummy-but-inexperienced middle management promotions cause unnecessary strife and demoralization due to poor or self-serving decisions (perhaps this is an isolated issue).

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the working class: long-term, experienced employees as well as newer hires with fresh insights.

I worked at Prudential Overall Supply full-time for more than a year

Pros – Compensation in line with industry average.

Cons – Poorly managed. Expectations are unrealistic. High turnover.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Prudential Overall Supply full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Family owned business is not on the stock market. they are debt free. They usually pay on time as long as you aren't on sick leave .

Cons – They don't value their long term employees. Their isn't any instinctive for long term employees to stay. There is no seniority pay based on the # of years you work there. They deny all workers comp claims without cause or knowing the facts.
They are currently ripping off their customers to increase revenue by increasing replacement charges and adding in additional charges above what the contracts states.

Advice to Senior Management – Fire the GM of the Tucson plant. There is "SEXUAL HARASSMENT" and racial slurs and insulting profanity which is encouraged by the GM by his example.
Put in a"mystery trainee" to see and report what actually happens in your Tucson plant. I have actual documentation of evidence of my findings.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Prudential Overall Supply full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – 401K, Medical and Dental Insurance.

Cons – Prospective Employees should do their homework before deciding on a career in the uniform apparel business. Prudential is a family owned business and though it may appear as an upside, it actually is it's greatest weakness. Upper management is not set to the high standards of a public company. Their survival is predicated on their goodwill with ownership. Their poor performance or questionable directives will go unnoticed. A prospective employees success is predicated on their ability to skillfully brow nose upper management. A Sales and Service Manager can lead his region in every category, but if he fails to flatter his superiors he will be forced out. While a sub-par performer can skillfully brown nose himself into a promotion. This practice is evident at both the branch and corporate level. To be truly successful at Prudential is to follow this philosophy. Prospective employees should also expect to perform several jobs, as branches are run lean to increase profit margins. Hard work is undervalued and toadyism is appreciated. Prospective employees should consider working for companies with wider geographical coverage and bigger budget, you'll be compensated better (Cintas, Aramark).

Advice to Senior Management – Implement a merit based system that promotes based on performance and not on toadyism. Implement 21st century technology even though this may go against your very safe and practical approach to business. The truly great companies have set themselves apart by implementing creative and innovative ideas. Serious problems exist when an individual with an iphone can be more efficient than your accounts receivables department. Instead of cutting staff at the individual branches, eliminate the unnecessary personnel at the corporate level by implementing innovative technology. Eliminate the profit first, customer second mentality. Promote innovative ideas and seek to increase customer service at all levels.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Prudential Overall Supply full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Family owned, well established, been around 80 years. Great support from upper management. Management very thin at the top, not a lot of red tape or politics to deal with.

Cons – They need to offer better benefits.

Advice to Senior Management – Better the benefits that are offered.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Prudential Overall Supply full-time for less than a year

Pros – This is the most well-intentioned company I worked for as it relates to sales training, customer relations, etc.

Cons – There are 'intentions' and then there's the reality of the market. Prudential clearly has a well established reputation in southern California, BUT it became very clear, very quickly, that their near anonymity when navigating in markets well established by Cintas, Aramark, etc. only serves to their detriment. (The training they provided helped one navigate well within the Prudential world, but provided nothing when it came to addressing the competition.)

Advice to Senior Management – Stop trying to apply the California template to other markets, especially Texas; we're different for a reason, here, and the template does not translate. Take off those darned dress shirts, ties, etc in favor of attire that's far more casual, when dealing with customer prospects; why would you go into a mechanic shop in a tie? (It only screams "SALESMAN!!!!") Provide information as part of the training program that deals with the market's key competition. Incorporate competitive analysis in the sales training period, and make it an ongoing part of employee development.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Prudential Overall Supply full-time for more than a year

Pros – Family owned, Nice people, Great pay, Good training

Cons – Hard sales
have 1/4 the items of the competitors
Customer service falls for small acounts

Advice to Senior Management – In a bad economy it would be wise to set sales goals lower and take lower weekly rates on new accounts,

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Prudential Overall Supply

Pros – Decent benefits and a stable company. Profit sharing is very rare these days.

Cons – Workers are held in suspence never able to fully reach their potential.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop talking down to employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Prudential Overall Supply

Pros – Long Term 401K is good.

Cons – Don't rock the boat, or else!

Advice to Senior Management – Do what you know is best.

I have been working at Prudential Overall Supply

Pros – The customers and the ability to work unsupervised.

Cons – The management and their hypocritical approach to everything.

Advice to Senior Management – Pull your heads out of your asses.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend