Modern Day Slavery (Beer Division) - Bulk Driver Ben E. Keith Employee Review

1.0
Apr 28, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You can make $50000-$60000 a year if you live at the warehouse... Clock in at 330 am deliver your route go eat sit around till your phone goes dead...then drive in and drag your feet doing paper work and talk with co workers till they kick you out.....clock out between 300-500pm if your lucky...in the winter better be gone by 2pm.

Cons

Get used to waking up at 2am..and riding the clock to make a living. Your back will get destroyed. I'm 26 and have terrible back problems still after 2 years...knees are a whole other story...better have a CDL if u wanna feed your kids...CDL help in $14/ hour.....top driver pay is a joke high $16/hr maybe low $17/hr by now......the work you do... The stress on your body and the stress from your Supervisor is in no way worth it. You have to be perfect and go fast doing it. Safety bonus are a joke $490 after taxes if you have zero wreaks or break nothing in the stores. Promotion is impossible unless u are best friends with upper sales managers. And what's the point you take a pay cut doing it to below $50k nobody cares about you your just a driver....trucks are a joke no power no jakes and 6-speed Allison Transmissions....Do yourself a favor and haul salt water for more money and less work. No 401k!!!! Profit sharing after 35 years will leave you with $30000....average american needs $2 million

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5.0
May 8, 2026
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Pros

Positive supportive culture. Managers who care. Strong compensation structure. Technology that makes a difference, no unnecessary crm busy work.

Cons

Fuel casts and windshield time.

1.0
May 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There was always food. They catered food in constantly from their customers for different events. Fridays they would have free doughnuts in office. They had great coffee machines, and always gave away free beer. Nice offices downtown and most of the employees are really nice people.

Cons

There was a lack of leadership in the part of the downtown Fort Worth offices in the tech area. A lot of changes and no one seemed to know what they were doing. The leadership at the downtown office did not know much about the technology and was trying to implement a new application that nearly wiped out the entire Fort Worth branch because they chose to pay a third world company millions of dollars to develop something that the employees that they had in office could have completed with half the hassle and most likely half the price. But the leadership team does not know enough about the technology they are trying to implement to know what they have in front of them. I saw many good programmers leave or get forced out by the use of performance plans with unrealistic expectations. We had a guy that could write code in 5 different languages. he learned PHP just for this job, then when upper management decided they were going to use the third world company to write the code for their sales application, they put him on an employee performance plan and kept changing the goals to get off of the plan, which eventually led to his termination. They are also falling behind technologically, still using COBOL and JCL when they should have upgraded systems years ago. All of the programmers are older and have either been there forever or are contractors because they can not keep new employees. As a programmer I would suggest looking elsewhere unless you like COBOL. Then this place may be right for you.

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