Southern Wine & Spirits of America Reviews

Pros

Met some great people & life long friends

Cons

Managers & owners are flaky. Favoritisms all around the store. The guys get paid more than the girls do. They expect you to do more work than your title for no extra pay. No paid vacations or holidays. Only closed one day out the year.

Pros

Outside sales, you are always moving going account to account. You aren’t sitting at a desk everyday

Cons

Too much pressure, far too many quotas and daily fire drills

Pros

Nice people. People who care. Growing company that has good intentions to keep growing

Cons

Personal vehicle abuse that is known and not cared about

Pros

Great products to sell, some great incentives and rewards. Great health benefits. (Thanks to the Union). Great 401K. Some great co-workers.

Cons

This job used to be great! The work was hard, but the rewards were great too! We had commission, quarterly bonuses, car allowance, supplier trips, and amazing holiday bonuses. The commission is gone (from our division), the car allowance is gone, nearly all the supplier trips are gone, (or only a few go..and of course the managers)..The holiday bonuses are puny. The incentives overall are tiny or nearly unreachable. Experience used to be a good thing. Now as soon as you sprout a grey hair, they want you out the door. There is a noticeable "good ole boy" network in action. You get to move up based on your relatives, age, lack of family, and ability to say yes to everything no matter how demanding it may be. I actually work harder, get paid less, my car gets more abuse than a rental car, every time the price of gas goes up, more of pay is eaten up. I am watching people I trained, or people less educated than myself and others get promoted with reckless abandon. The pressure to hit extreme numbers is huge!

Pros

Great company to work for. Company is going through expansions, which is great and it's a recession proof industry which we can all be thankful for. Executives are willing to listen to your suggestions and also willing to think outside of box! You can create growth for yourself within this company. Great training and support!

Cons

Still heavy boys club mentality in certain areas. Need to hire more competent management individuals to lead a group (overlays), instead of hiring individuals with no management experience (they can make or break your teams). Need to hold more accountability for DM's and above, do regular 360 reviews annually to know how your leadership is doing in overall performance, including and most importantly how they are getting along with their team members!