Uline reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,538 total reviews)
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Dick Uihlein

74% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Uline has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,538 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Uline employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Aug 30, 2023

Worse than micro management, ridiculous rules

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Uline pays fairly well, at least where I was at but not more than other industries/companies, and vacation time is reasonable.

Cons

I'd call it micromanagement, but it's far worse. If you're on a phone call for more than 10 minutes, you have to explain who you were talking to, and why it took so long. If you have two children, you can have a picture of your son and daughter, but you can't have a picture of your son and a picture of your daughter. Only one personal item is allowed at your desk. If you leave an empty folder on your desk overnight, or a spare phone charger cord, you'll be talked at by your supervisor (I had 4 different levels of managers talk at me about having a charger on my desk overnight). Every year you're expected to go to a rally thanking Liz and her husband for permitting you to work there. When Liz walked through a new building, she noticed that she couldn't see through the building to look at the woods, had the entire floor reconfigured. A lot of moving departments for the sake of moving.

1.0
Jan 4, 2017

Awful

Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay to start, paid time off, profit sharing bonus yearly, benefits are well, and holiday pay is a bonus

Cons

You essentially are competing against other employees for productivity and you will definitely get a lot of backstabbing selfish people only concerned about their own productivity and skipping over work to hit their quota and leaving you the hard work that they deliberately skipped, versus helping a teammate out to get the job done. When you notice management they basically could care less honestly and it is absolutely sickening. At the end of the day literally everyone gets the same review either way from what I have had other people tell me which is a 3% increase no matter how much you sacrifice and work more than the other person or believe you are doing more than average, you are not, according to 'Uline' standards. I had perfect attendance for the year but was rated a 3 out of 5 for my attendance. How does that work? They do not care about you at this place. Claim there is "great opportunity," but really they are just moving you to a building further away from your home. You will most likely also work more overtime at this location that is already taking more time out of your day due to the drive, making for long work days at a mundane job at best. A building manager came up to me during my lunch on a Friday( I usually always stay in and bring my own lunch which is an hour long) and asked if I was ready for the move on Monday. I had no idea what he was talking about but apparently I was being moved to another building that no one notified me about. He was upset and said "this is not the 'Uline' way" stating that he would call me in to his office to further address the issue and make sure I was taken care of. Guess what, I never got called in to his office and had to figure it out on my own, so much for the 'Uline' way. I have been accused multiple times of taking steroids by a building manager telling me that I should go inject some more steroids into my @**. Ironically the next day I had a "random" drug test. I asked a building manager when we were training one of our guys on a reach truck because we could really use the help. He smirked and looked at me saying "sometime." We had a new employee start working for us and he had a gallon of water which was store at a desk fairly desolated, safe out of site. A building manager was walking around doing an audit on our department and instead of addressing to this brand new employee right in front of him that we apparently cannot have those in our building, he took a picture of the gallon and wrote an email to our managers plus those above him about the situation. We receive errors for product picked incorrectly. There was an employee that had four errors on a single picker page which is usually eight lines total, instead of getting all four errors he only received one. I personally know that he knows people that work or have worked here. Call it ironic or what but if that was me or any other employee I can certainly guarantee I would have received four errors versus one. For example, a new employee put some skids back to stock literally the first day he was officially trained. Apparently there was a miscommunication but honestly it is terrible training. They blame you for everything when in reality it starts up top and trickles down. Anyway, he received 26 errors for not stocking those skids in at all, in my opinion, because of the terrible training they provide. Guess what? He got all 26 errors and those did not get condensed into one error like the other guy. Ironic? In all honestly if you are doing it for the money, go ahead but still not worth it in my opinion. If you want to feel appreciated and respected, I highly recommend you stay away.

1.0
May 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

For the Middle of nowhere Wisconsin, the pay is decent. But the salaries are on the lower end of the average salaries for software developers in Milwaukee, Chicago and especially the rest of the country

Cons

As the headline says, they'll try to stop you from leaving by suing your potential employers. Uline culture: - 5 days a week in office, formal wear (men -> ties, women -> skirts even in winter) - Women get dress checked more than men (discriminatory). - Quotas on promotions - HR, IT Executive Admins play favorites by enforcing rules for who they want in IT - HAVE to be clocked in for 9 hours a day -> 45 hour work weeks - PTO days count as 8 hours. For every day you take PTO you have to make up 1 hour. Penalty for taking PTO it seems. (not sure it's legal, certainly unethical) - Lots of politics, especially for an IT and tech departments. You can work really hard and not get a promotion because of this. - Please look at the other reviews for what Uline 'small quirks' are. Uline says if you don't like the 'family', you can leave. But that's also a lie. As you read above, the 'quirks' that Uline has pushed many people to look elsewhere. Another company, let's call it company A, in Winter of 2023 - 2024, took our best developers and more. Company A offered what Uline cannot - Uline (mid-level) software developers were being interviewed & hired for Senior positions at Company A. This could have been preventable if there weren't quotas on promotions, no favoritism and cultural improvements. Instead of Uline using this as opportunity to fix their culture, they decided to sue! Company A had to immediately stop hiring anybody from Uline and sabotaged many careers in IT, preventing them from going to the next step. Besides that, Uline IT executive admin and HR are also a big part of what make it a horrible experience. They have favorites, enforce rules for who they don't like and let it slide for those they do like. If you decide to leave your cube and take a mental break on a couch, IT Executive Admin WILL keep track of that and use it against you, and inform HR or your manager. This include personals calls, conversations outside of the cubes, etc. Want to report them? Uline hates IT and will side with managers, HR, and ITExecutive admin. This is why it's crucial to have individuals of integrity in those positions, which is not the case, especially for IT Executive Admin that sits amongst us.

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