AIT Worldwide Logistics Reviews

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Nothing I can think of...

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Need more systems development better benefits

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Where to start. Expect little to no raises for YEARS at a time. Quarterly Bonuses are extremely subjective and not enough to offset the low wages. Extremely long hours, poor PTO structure, literally ZERO work-life balance. You absolutely will work a normal schedule on Christmas Eve, etc. "Too many cheifs and not enough Indians" and a Boys Club workplace - every man seems to be a Director or VP of something. Doesn't promote women (just view their leadership team, one female, and it's been like that for 20 years). Managers and Sales reps do not, I repeat, DO NOT have your back on anything yet micromanage everything. The customers treat you like a whipping boy and have meltdowns and it's all your fault and "why didn't you do x-y-z to pacify them." Favoritism runs rampant.

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Changes have continued however slowly and
many good. employees have left

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Leadership is very poor particularly in the sales department

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Poor leadership team. Pretending to care is not caring. With Equity deals they don’t put money and investment into people.

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Low valuation of employees, accordingly raises are few and far between.

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Where to start.... for the first year or so the supervisor (who is no longer there. She quit) who over seen the department had no clue how to assist anyone in the department. She was never there. Found out she was having an affair with a married manager which is why she got away with so much. On top of that there were no reviews, no raises, insurance went way up, HR doesn’t know much of anything. The hours were long but doable.

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My initial title to this review was going to be "a big company that doesn't know how to be big," but not having a lot of insight outside of Itasca, I cannot directly comment on the company as a whole. However, that statement does hold true for Itasca. I believe the company is taking steps to support continued growth, but at the time I left, there was still a lot of change in the works. I found that local leadership valued employee tenure and longevity over performance - employees that have been there 20+ years have too much influence over a company that has outgrown their limited skills. Sales team sells one thing: price. While the company is growing, Itasca has positioned itself to be a victim of poor local leadership, stagnant growth and reluctance to change. The environment can, at times, be abrasive and downright unprofessional. I do hope that those behaviors are curbed - it was too wide spread in the Itasca office to be an individual issue. While the company preaches work-life balance, being in management left nothing of a life - at the desk-level, that may be true, but beyond that, expect to be married to your job. The cost of insurance was only increasing and much higher than what is offered by direct competitors. At the time I left, turnover was also at an unsustainable level.

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Over worked and not properly compensated for the time put in. I did not have a raise for the last 3 years I was with the company, despite my department having consistent growth in both revenue and profits year over year. I begged for help and only after a year plus of begging was I finally given some relief. Upper management talked a big game about work-life balance, but talking is all they did. Meanwhile, many of them had plenty of time out of the office with their families while the rest of us were working late into the evening.

I was told corporate considered my profit share bonuses my raise, but we all know profits don't last forever and the economy will eventually affect that. It is extremely unfair for the employees to pay the price when bad times come around again. My base cost of living rises every year - as does everyone's - so not getting a raise in 3 years was basically a pay cut each year. Other employees told me they had never received a raise and some had been with the company for 5-7 years or more. I was consistently told by my managers and directors I was one of, if not the best operator in the company and my department never had the recurring issues other departments had, but they never showed it with proper compensation.

A private equity firm bought into the company last year and it seems as if things began to change after that. The company has lost its way culturally. They like to make a big deal about company culture, but their execution was way off. There were a lot of inter-departmental turf wars and stations many times only looked out for themselves with no regard to sister-stations - there were exceptions to this, but not often.

Regarding benefits, the 401k match was very mediocre at best and you aren't fully vested for like 5 years I think. I was STUNNED at how expensive the health insurance was when I started working there. As a single person expect to pay at least $500 a month out of your own pocket and as a family you will need to take on a second job! Factor the high out of pocket health insurance costs into your initial salary negotiations - I wish I had!