Hajoca Corporation Reviews

Pros

Work can be very rewarding. Opportunities to build strong relationships with customers and vendors. Profit sharing can be life changing. You are compensated fairly for the work you do.

Cons

Very Competitive Markets, Lack Of Trust between Legacy Teammates and Management Trainees. Some Profit Centers are outdated.

Pros

Hours, benefits, not much else

Cons

Pay, sexist and racist coworkers, many plumbers won't talk to you because you are a woman.

Advice to Management

Actually manage everything including the showroom, it would be nice to actually get feedback instead of being ignored. Also maybe not wait until 2 years into someone's hiring to complain they don't have enough system training when we had been asking since I was hired for it. Let's punish the workers who insist on calling the black ups driver boy. It's a bunch of white men protecting white men.

Pros

Branch atmosphere was nice for healthy competition

Cons

Early work hours and weekends on inventory

Pros

There is a Great work life balance and good benefits

Cons

there is a disconnect between corporate and profit centers

Pros

flat hierarchy, branches have the power to do what they want. I learned alot about the industry and supply chain operations in general. I feel like I had more opportunity to learn and get promoted here then at a larger corporation. The work environment was very laid back, but almost too much. Yearly profit sharing. Employee discounts. Branches able to adapt to regional changes quicker than top heavy corporations.

Cons

flat hierarchy, branches have the power to do what they want. Since there are hardly any corporate standards for how a branch conducts itself the branches take on the personality of their managers and sometimes that can be a bad thing. My branch manager never showed up to work until 11am, frequently went on golf and lunch outings, dipped in the office and spit puddles of dip on the warehouse floors. Yelling... profanity at vendors was common practice and it created kind of an uncomfortable hostile environment. I was actually coached to jump down people's throats if they made a mistake which is not my management style at all. Having a laid back atmosphere with no rules is nice sometimes, but when you need to get work done to meet deadlines and it's time to put the big boy shorts on it's hard not to lose drive when the environment you work in is so unprofessional and your leaders are not even out of bed yet. So, it all depends on your branch manager really. You might get a professional one you might not. And the profit sharing is nice, but it is more of a disappointment when you realize half of it is taken by taxes because it is a "bonus". I would rather have that money built into my salary. After gaining experience here I realized that I could actually take home more money at other places that paid a smaller total income, but did not include a heavily taxed bonus.

Advice to Management

I know there were a lot of cons, but this is actually the best job I've ever had. I wish that I had started out my career here. I would have gained much more experience early on. That being said every business has its drawbacks and this place is no exception. My only advice is to keep a closer ear to the streets as to how professionally your offices are being ran. There's a lot more productivity to be had out there.

Pros

This company values team members, working hard, kindness, and ethics. They provide the opportunity to create your own future and continuously learn. It is a rare combination of entrepreneur spirit and teamwork. The CEO is wonderful and spends most of his time teaching, coaching, training, and supporting team members.

Cons

I don't have any cons, but this company is very flat and focused on the many profit centers, so some things may take longer or require consensus than a typical tops-down corporate hierarchy.

Advice to Management

Keep on the path of updating technology and modernizing systems. This reaps benefits that go beyond immediate efficiencies. Continue to provide learning opportunities for all team members, as this increases job satisfaction. Seek new ideas from the new college graduates and younger team members for ideas to generate excitement in the next generation for our business.

Pros

Benefits are good. Training opportunities.

Cons

If you have a bad center manager, things get rough.

Pros

family environment. Helpful people. Solid Management

Cons

Can be slow to fix problems and keep employees updated