A. Duie Pyle Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Pay is decent quite a few favorable benefits.

Cons

Upper level management is knowledgeable and strong. Lower level management at my terminal could use an ego check and learn to communicate and train a bit better and by a bit I mean a lot. Work life balance non existent and not willing to solve issues before they get out of control.

Advice to Management

Check the ego at the door and learn how to communicate better.

Pros

good bosses most of the time

Cons

-terrible pay for salaried employees, given the amount of hours expected - ends up equaling about $14 an hour for supervisors while drivers make $23 and dock workers start at $15 -Work-life balance is nonexistent, stay away if you have family you'd like to see during the week -will squeeze the life out of recent college grads

Pros

Great health plan compared to other companies.

Cons

Micromanagement of employees. Every issue is treated as a major catastrophe. Zero work/life balance. Pyle must come first, always. Good old boy network. If you're not friends with the right managers, you'll never get anywhere. If you cross the wrong one, you're screwed.

Advice to Management

None. Regardless of what their "Core Values" say, that they preach all the time, they neither value nor listen to feedback. In fact, you're quite likely to be retaliated against for speaking up about issues, for not being a "team-player".

Pros

Gainful employment and some of the people

Cons

Everything else really! From the top down it's nothing short of organizational chaos. Do as I say not as I do mentality, retaliation and favoritism are ways of life there up to and including employment threats and physical violence. If they don't run you out, they will wear you out by being overworked, underpaid, and nickel and dimed for every little thing under the sun. How they get away with half of the stuff they... do is beyond me. There is zero work / life balance and you are essentially an indentured servant, nothing more.

Advice to Management

If you actually practiced all of the things you are constantly preaching and treated your people well, you'd have an amazing company, and people wouldn't be leaving like their rear ends are on fire.

Pros

There is steady work, with overtime available. Human resources are exceptional with quick responses to employee questions. Everyone pitches in wherever the need is. Management tries to meet employees personal needs regarding time off. Above average equipment.

Cons

Due to the nature of the industry as a whole, long hours are imperative. I would like to see a little more work-life balance.