sales representative

chauffeur livreur

électromécanicien de maintenance

manutentionnaire

route sales representative

Cintas

I was a Maintenance Partner, they hired me because I have my 4th Class Power Engineering ticket so they are legally covered by Albertas boiler laws. What they should really hire is a Millwright.

Cintas will really sell the position in interviews. They will speed up the hiring process to get you locked in and its not until after you understand what is like to work in a Cintas plant.

Their plants are built using the cheapest methods possible, its very cookie cut. One staff bathroom in the office side of plant, cant just put another one in production Cintas? CHEAP. 

They have extensive safety training because of the employees that have died on the job in previous years. I felt like I was a 1st gradee being taught common sense. 

Their benefits are not the best. They dont even cover quiting smoking medications. You get  NO SICK TIME. If your sick they still want you there! They offer the lowest vacation time and you dont get paid vacation until you have served for a year....and really its you who pays for your vacation time they take little amounts from each pay cheque to cover when you use it down the road.

The fumes and chemicals in the plant are toxic and cancerous but they wont tell you this or talk about it. If you care for your personal long term health do not work here. 

Unpaid breaks and lunches. You scan in using a card and they round down to the nearest 15 minute intervals always. 

Lot of the management have low IQ and common sense...however they are nice people. That doesnt compensate for the constant screw ups they make and the employees end up paying for. 

This company is fake, dont be tricked, its the worst place i have ever worked because of the dirty/toxic atmosphere, physical demands all day each day, poor equipment always breaking down...and they dont care about the environment at all.

They pump up to 75000 gallons of dirty water with chemicals into or sewer system. Then just pay the fines since its cheaper in the long run. 

Stop polluting our atmosphere Cintas. This is very much an American company with low morals and ethics.

SINTAS

I worked at Cintas for 4 years and consider the first 2 years as my best time with Cintas.. Unfortunately with Covid, company has changed direction to keep their numbers and quality of the service to the customers has plummeted. They made the priority of keeping the customers just for numbers and started to care their employees less and less every day. 

They have a great training program but they don't know how to support the employees once the training is completed. Due to never-ending short staff issues, they cut their support and expect you to excel and give your best performance without any subsequent support.

There is always some type of product shortage or uniform changes within company and for some reason distribution centres cannot keep up with the orders, this results not being able to provide the customers the service and products promised each service day. 

Management tends to avoid issues until they become a problem and they definitely not good at mentoring and directing their employees. All the promises given to the employees are for short term and can be forgotten very easily. 

The biggest issue is that company follows US Cintas directives and lots of changes happening constantly. They are all for upgrading the work place and work culture supposedly, however, the employees are always getting blindsided by these changes as there is no smooth transition. For example, one day you are told that there is no Customer Service Department in that branch anymore and you either accept the new role you are suggested or you can decide to leave.. This is not how you break the news of a big change in the branch.. 

Anyway, I would give gold star because they can actually find the best workers and hire them rightfully even though HR is very incapable with their jobs, however they do not know how to keep these good workers and often loose them within a few months due to not providing enough support or misleading regarding job requirements. 

Overall the job of Route Manager at G&K Services was fun.  You arrive to work for 6:30am, get all of your employees on the road after they all approach you indicating they are short product.  (Uniforms, Mats, Linens)....   This is where the term "The Supply Company that Cannot Supply" comes from.
Once the employees are off on their routes, depending how you scheduled your day, you would either be on the road or working in your office, unfortunately ALWAYS putting out fires.  There's never a day where you can be proactive with this company.  Unfortunately they stray far away from their CORE VALUES and the CUSTOMER PROMISE which are posted around the office and warehouse.  Customer invoices are touch negatively on what seems to be a quarterly basis.  Inventories are increased without their knowledge, annual increases which state 5% on the agreements are only 5% for garments and 10% for all other products they receive (mats, soaps, linens)....  Then there's the garment protection packages which should be reviewed with the customers, but instead isn't.  All of the above play key factors in customers wanting to quit their accounts with G&K.  

The hardest part of the job is trying to make your customers happy and believe in the company that ripped them off for the last 5 years, and then hid behind their auto-renewal clause on their agreements.  

I learned that no matter how hard you work, no matter how many hours are put in, and no matter what kind of positive return you bring to the company, at the end of the day you're just a number.  It's a corporate environment with no care for employees personal well-being.  As a member of management, I seen first hand how employees were treated.

The most enjoyable part of the day....   Meeting with the customers.  Getting an understanding for the many businesses out there and all of the interesting contacts you come in touch with.

Great people to work with but you are mainly on your own all day except for the customers you visit. There is a HUGE learning curve and you are expected to learn quickly and be on your own after a few weeks. You are expected to increase your sales through selling customers things they don't actually need in their first aid kits. You are also expected to learn the other products the company offers in terms of safety like gloves, respiratory equipment, glasses etc. This as well on your own. The pay is very low for what they expect. They also track your every move as to where and what you are doing. You drive around in a set territory in a van that as well you are expected to keep up inventories in order to make sales. In order to increase sales you need to bring on new customers, sell items customers don't need, sell safety products, - which you have to learn about yourself. You are warrant to the elements as you work outside part of the time getting product from the van. The customers rely on you to know the OHS guidelines which you have to research and figure out for yourself what is expected. You mainly learn from the other reps who all have their own way of doing things. No consistency and no procedures in place to ensure you are following the OHS guidelines. You do set your own hours so if you start the day early you can finish early (around 3-3:30 pm) but you have to keep up with emails, dropping off catalogues to new customers, extra sales in order to make better money. The company was originally Zee Medical and is now Cintas - numerous changes within the organization and almost 1/2 of Zee Medical sales staff has left.  A great deal to learn, low pay for what is expected, very frustrating at times with what is expected. Great customers and reps.

New employees on day one are given a copy of a book called "The Spirit is the difference," a reference to their corporate culture. They also use terms like "partners" to describe any Cintas employee. This is all nothing more than one big elaborate charade. Management is very toxic and will work you to the bone, nothing you do will ever be enough. If you are not part of the "old boys club" then you will never be promoted or make it in this company. Any sort of free thinking and creativity is shunned by upper management so unless you want to be a mindless drone, do not work here.

I was "fortunate" enough to work for both the sales and service sides of the organization and witnessed many unethical business practices happen here. One such practice was the annual 3-5% price increase stipulation found in every service contract. On a yearly basis, I witnessed Cintas try at every opportunity to increase price by over 20% to existing customers, and then hope they would not notice the increase. If they did not notice, they would continue to charge these prices. If they did notice, instead of correcting the mistake and issuing credits, management would fight with the customer and then threaten them with the whole "you signed a contract and legal ramifications will be enforced if you try to leave." Absolutely terrible customer service.  Cintas would even threaten small mom and pop shop customers legally if they ever tried to leave their contract, even if it was for perfectly valid reasons. 

Overall I am disgusted to have worked for Cintas and taken part in such unethical and immoral business practices. I wanted nothing to do with joining the old boys club.

I did enjoy the job at first, until I did feel like I was pushed to my limit. The pay probably in my opinion is the only good thing about the job. I enjoyed working with my Co workers, and management I found wasn't always bad, I did find management was helpful at times. The work load was alot, some routes were small while others were very large, and almost unmanageable. You were expected to complete all service orders and make it back to depot by the time the shuttle left regardless of work load. The days are long and exhausting, some employees enjoyed the gig, while others struggled to feel heard, when asking for help, or overworked. The 4 day work week was helpful to refresh. I feel like most people are there for the pay cheque, and also the customers they service along the way.  They will let you go without reason, and make you feel under valued regardless if you worked your butt off for them. I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone who strives for a career path full of opportunities, support or job security.  The company at the end of the day wants to make as much money possible, at their customers expense with constant price increases, relentless upselling and employees are just a number. Its cutthroat, and every company needs a "culture". I don't think the pay is worth the stress or physical, mental toll it takes on a person. Taking any sort of sick days was usually frowned upon and spoke negatively about amoung everyone. Mental health days were non existent. Overall I do believe employees could be treated better, and would help with the turn over rate at this location, production staff included. 
 

Being a sales representative for over 5 years here is what I've experienced.

Sales managers are mandated to interview 3 new people a week even when they are not hiring.  Keeps potential good new hires guessing if they are going to get a job.  
Poor compensation pay
Targets in sales unrealistic to hit PC
To get promoted you need to pretend everything is great and that you have the best job in the world 
Sales salary below standard.
3rd paycheck of every month in sales in almost zero
Need to rely on the competency of your Sales manager to approve expenses on time or you get a zero paycheck every 3rd week. 
Sales schedule start at 7:30a - 5pm 
Managers only look at the sales numbers and when top performers stop producing they ignore and go to next rep who is the flavour of the week. 
Service reps are told by managers to short customers and to throw additional items or products on a bill to grow the business without  client knowing. 
Huge Price increases over CPI and hope customer doesn't notice. 
Cintas bought a major competitor in North America which impacts selling new business 
If you are a top performer and want to move to a different division outside your current role they will hold you back and make your job harder. You are as good as your last week.  

To become part of this prestigious cult you need to wear a Black or navy suit, white shirt and blue or red tie and clean shaven .  

Cintas has constant production and supply issues in which make selling impossible.

🤔 Asked me to shave my beard🧔off...completely OFF to a clean face, I tried to compromise and I told them I would shave it down but I ain't shaving it off. So basically what they're trying to say is that you won't be able to sell anything to any Customer because you have a beard? that's the saddest thing and the most discriminatory thing I've ever heard in my life when we were kids we're taught not to judge a book by it's cover that's essentially what you're doing it is up to the employee to make the customer feel as though they are a customer and appreciated it doesn't matter whether I have a beard or have a whole body full of hair I don't have tattoos on my face I don't have earrings on my face or anything like that but again even that shouldn't matter and it's discriminatory to think otherwise it's not like it was Food Services where in which case I might have to shave my beard or I would have wore a beard net I have never been asked to shave my facial hair in any interview in my life this is horrible and I hope you guys do better just know I went to CP24 with this review and I hope they review it on your show cuz I know I'm not the only one. At my last job I had customers calling my boss asking specifically for my services no one else's hit the boss said he was going to send somebody else they didn't want the work to be done they just wanted it to be me I wonder why that is play Cintas you guys just lost a really good guy and i didn't even get a chance to work for you guys BECAUSE I JAVE A BEARD 🤷‍♂️😡!! 😤😤😡🖕🏼🖕🏼

A typical day at work would consist of arriving to work and finding out if there are any changes to your route, checking to make sure you have waiting emails or messages from management or clients. Resolve those or figure out how your going to resolve those on top of your work load in the day. Check your route over to make sure you have all your delivery's and bulk items, and if you don't load them up or find out where they are and make plans to deliver them later. Start your delivers for the day and find out what customers need while your on site. Organize the lockers and bulk item areas to make them look neat and tidy. Carry in cloths by hand or with buggy and arrange them by locker number. Collect all soiled garments at each location and check for repairs needing to be done. Take those to the van and hand bomb them in. Speak with the clients and employees trying to up sell products we have available. After the day is done with go back and organize your dirties for the night shift and unload required garments into the the specials carts. Once you have cleaned up your truck organized your paper work and called your customers back. Check to make sure there is no special deliveries to take with you on your way home.

Cintas is difficult to put into words, it is 100% a self driven give and take job. The more you put into it, the more it will give back to you. 
The guys you work alongside on the ground with are what make this company great. 

However the training you receive and the real life situations you will come into are really what sets this company above. You polish, fine tune, or even gain your personality and business skills through a company like this as you will be placed in situations that require you to be a strong minded individual on a consistent basis.

The training is extensive and will set you up for success, although you will have to keep your mind open to change as this company changes its policies, and rules, and regulations often to better suit their corporations needs and goals. 

The beginning is always the hardest anywhere you go, especially with Cintas. You will have to be willing to study the material, work many extra unpaid hours, and continuously push yourself to succeed.

Overall is a great place to start your first career and gain world applicable knowledge, and polish your own set of skills.

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