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Slegg Building Materials

I worked at Slegg for 8 months, when I applied I was promised I would be driving in 3 months after I learned product. I was employee of the month my first two months, just to show you my work ethic.. By the end after me asking continuously I was told "maybe you could be a back up driver." I realized I had just been hired to fill another position in the yard and soon found out many other yard employees had been told they could be drivers too! Even though I had been hired for that and was more qualified then them. During slow times sometimes you didn't have anything to do, there is only so many times you can sweep a bay. When you asked what you could do they would just say "help customers" but there wasn't any? So you would then be in trouble for doing nothing. You were made to ask customers multiple times if they needed help or told to just stand by them. The shipper would see a customer that you already helped, ("Hi there can I help you find anything?" "No, I'm ok" "Okay well I'll just be over there if you need anything"), and get mad and swear loudly thinking you hadn't helped them. Pay was decent to start but my raise of 45 cents was the highest one awarded among the yard staff. Boss was funny and nice but didn't seem to know what was really happening in the yard and left two angry people to run it. Often understaffed due to high turn over, management would ask people leaving if it was the other staffs "negative attitude" Inside staff were often belittling and rude over the radio and wouldn't go outside to check anything even when they know yard staff is busy. During heavy snowfall and power outages you spent 8 hours a day shovelling and having 2 customers a day asking "Why are you guys even open?"

Overall a well put together business that continues to grow each year. 
Sleggs is known for the decent benefits package...  but that's about it. 
Hourly wage is a huge drawback, even if you've been there for 10 years it wont grow too much.

BUT if you apply today, you could actually start at $18-$20 for a lot of pretty basic, simple position (jobs that require no experience, great for youth/students) mainly because they're very desperate for staff.

The sad reality is the long term and experienced staff who have been there for YEARS will be making less than you. Pretty awkward situation when the new staff mention their wage to the veterans, so I'd recommend you keep your mouth zipped.

Imagine this: you're being trained by a long term employee at a company you've just started with, and you spill the beans that you're making more than them. 
You'd make them feel betrayed, and not very valuable. 
These issues are partially reflected in the high staff turn-around.

That being said, if you can keep a secret and need a summer job with average at best wage, Slegg Building Materials is 100% the place for you. 

While the position offered some opportunities to develop technical skills, these were overshadowed by a deeply problematic workplace culture. There was a consistent sense of exclusion, with certain employees regularly left out of key discussions and decisions. Favoritism was also prevalent—promotions and recognition were often based on personal relationships rather than merit or performance.

The lack of accountability across departments created a disorganized and frustrating work environment, where responsibilities were frequently unclear or shifted without warning. Even more unsettling were the sudden, unexplained layoffs, which contributed to a climate of uncertainty and mistrust.

On top of these issues, the office environment itself was poorly maintained and unhygienic, which only added to the overall sense of neglect and low morale.

Unless major cultural and organizational changes are made, I would not recommend Slegg’s corporate office as a healthy or rewarding place to work.

I worked for Slegg for about six years. The job was good enough for what was needed at the time & I had a little bit of movement upwards in the business. It did not come with a pay increase, hence me leaving. My first position was just a yard labourer. Throughout my time there I showed initiative & picked up responsibilities which had me move inside to get into a sales position. Unfortunately the company changed hands just before that happened & there was no pay increase to be had. In my annual employee report I was actually deemed as being worse than the year before, as my knowledge with previous products was of no use in my new position. These reports dictate your pay raise, so I was kind of screwed by the management. I literally went from exceeding expectations across the board to being well below it. Slegg is nowhere near what it used to be, that is more a fault of the new owners than the managers. Before giving my two weeks I felt more like a number, rather than an employee of a local business.

Slegg is a toxic work place. Bosses devalue/dehumanize you behind your back and to your face. Full benefits take 18 months to get, never except to get a decent raise, the raises are a huge slap in the face. You can go above and beyond constantly but they will only focus on the one thing that you did wrong. It’s a revolving door so nobody gets trained properly which means safety is a huge issue, they honestly don’t care at all about safety, especially when it affects turn around times. This place is a mess with no job security and they don’t care about their employees safety or mental health, customers are usually miserable because their orders are consistently wrong, because nobody stays long enough to learn what they are doing, which means not only do you have to deal with working at a place that doesn’t appreciate anything you do, you also have to deal with some pretty aggressive people on site. Equipment is not maintained and ran into the ground. I highly recommend working anywhere then at Sleggs. 

Slegg is an average company to work for. Depending on your position within the company you are either given a ton of training or told to "sink or swim". This company was bought out a few years ago. So they are still relatively "green". Their upper management says they are working on improving morale, but they are slow moving with this. The company needs to realize that they cannot change everything overnight. 

It will take time, and if they want all of the "upgrades" to stick and be accepted, they need to find a way to ensure buy-in from the employees and STOP treating the employees as if they are expendable. Treating employees as expendable causes morale to decrease and increase the turnover rate. 

This company has the potential to become amazing, they just need to find a way to have everyone on board and have them feel as though they matter.

while the role initially seemed promising and offered some chances to develop administrative and technical skills, the underlying corporate culture quickly revealed serious red flags. communication breakdowns were routine, projects would shift without notice, and leadership often failed to provide clear direction or feedback.

there was a noticeable lack of leadership training across management, leading to unnecessary tension and mismanaged team dynamics. it often felt like you were left to figure things out on your own, with no accountability or support.

what made it worse was the visible favoritism in promotions and decision making, which demotivated many high perfrming employees. unfortunately, unless ure in the "inner circle," it's hard to feel valued.

No room for you to advance or get cross trained despite how many areas there are to potentially grow. 

This is due to very weak management that is generally comprised of former contractors/yard employees who are only in said position of authority due to their tenure at the company. 

Very few professionally trained people who are generally too preoccupied to help you. 

HR isn't present at a lot of locations 

Be prepared to have a competitive wage at the start and then never go up beyond general increases in minimum wage/not at all. 

You will learn quickly that the talented hard working employees are kept at the bottom and are at the heart of the lack of growth and high turnover. 

Slegg can be good to you for interm work or as a first job. But beyond that, you will be verbally abused and/or taken advantage of until they can get another replacement.

Slegg's management promotes such great opportunity while interviewing with them and during your initial beginnings with them. You very quickly learn how toxic of an environment it truly is. Training is limited, you're more or less expected to sink or swim.Turn over is crazy. Someone is always quitting or being fired. Morale is very low among staff which doesn't appear to be of concern to management. Customers continuously complain how bad the service is since WSB Titan has taken over. It is very unfortunate as Slegg used to be a name known for its customer service, quality products and a great place to consider for employment.

I worked for Slegg for a number of years, most of which I enjoyed.
Lately, I felt that things were changing for the worst.
Management is not supportive of their employees, and underpay for most positions (no wonder they are always hiring).
There is next to no upward trajectory possible, and nepotism runs rampant. I would not recommend working for this company, as there are many other businesses hiring that will treat you fairly.
It's really too bad, because I had a very positive attitude when I first came to this company, and that did not last very long.

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Order picker 23 salaries reported	$24.64 per hour
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Delivery helper 16 salaries reported	$22.59 per hour
Boom operator 11 salaries reported	$34.64 per hour

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