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2.0

Owner Operator

Driver, Owner/Operator (Former Employee) – BC – 10 February 2019

Management will do what they can to lure you into buying or leasing a $40,000 van because when you have payments or you can't break a lease they own you. Before they hire you, they will tell any half-truths and use deceptive tactics to entice you to sign up. The hours are really long and some drivers are on the road 12 to 13 hours a day.
The money is good but there isn't a good work/life balance. A lot of drivers will quit when faced with a large repair bill or having to re-invest in a new truck.

Pros

steady income

Cons

long hours, mistreatment by management

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1.0

Worst ever of my life

Warehouse Worker (Former Employee) – Prince George, BC – 25 May 2019

Managers don’t do anything
Just order and sit all day
Need to change management for sure
Just fire them and get some new managers
They are just horrible
They need to pay more according to job and sacrificing sleep at 5 am
It’s just annoying that managers show up at 8 am and started ordering stuff

Pros

No pros at all

Cons

Everything at that place is con

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1.0

Horrible management lack of supplying safety gear, communication, due diligence is not in their vocabulary!

Warehouse Worker, delivery’s, office, data entry (Former Employee) – Prince George, BC – 14 May 2019

Worked for Loomis Prince George for almost 7yrs. Cheap company, they do not communicate anything with anyone, management is very poor and they do not do their job as a leader of a corporation at all. Safety gear or coveralls were a challenge to get if management ever remembered to place their orders or have correct sizes etc. This is a company that does not provide leadership or any incentive to their employees. You would be replaced before ya hit the floor, cheap company, due diligence as management etc is non existent. They never follow correct protocol and when taken to higher levels nothing gets accomplished not to mention good luck finding or getting phone numbers to talk to upper management let alone a response or to even answer the telephone.

Pros

Decent wage if ya get hours ok extended medical etc

Cons

Horrible shift no time for family life here

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1.0

Horrible managment

Customer Service Specialist (Former Employee) – Red Deer, AB – 24 April 2019

High turn over because management could careless about quality employees.
Very unprofessional upper management and regional management.
Over all a very poorly ran company.

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1.0

Management

Account Executive (Former Employee) – Calgary, AB – 11 April 2019

Mgmt has no direction. Seems to run the company as a tax write-off. No investment in staff or infrastructure. IT is lacking and is far behind others in the industry.

Pros

dedicated staff

Cons

no recognition

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4.0

the work place was very easy going

Laborer (Former Employee) – Calgary, AB – 9 April 2019

a typical work day would look like. I go in and clock in for my shift and then i start unloading trailers then load trailers with packages that are going out of calgary to other places like kamloops then me and the rest of the work crew do the end of the day clean up and get the work place ready for the next shift

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4.0

work with responsibility

Warehouse Worker (Current Employee) – Burnaby, BC – 25 February 2019

Unloading the freights and skids from trucks and trailers. Pulling the skids and loading the into the destination trailers. Loading the freights and skids into the trailers.Sorting and delivery the mail to desire trailers.

Pros

Provide safety boot

Cons

Heavy frights

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2.0

Employees are just a number

Inside Sales Representative (Former Employee) – Dorval, QC – 18 January 2019

As soon as TransForce is involved, employees become a number, unless you work at a head office there is no care or advancement. the whole job culture changed, they only care about reducing bonuses and increasing the profit for the top tier executives and shareholders.

Pros

little supervision

Cons

no stimulation

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4.0

Self Managing, Enjoyable tasks

Courier (Former Employee) – British Columbia – 10 January 2019

I enjoyed working for Loomis Express.
A typical day started with arriving at the warehouse between 630-730am depending on the season or routes workload.
From there I would load the truck with up to 300 articles in such a way to maximize the efficiency of the routes contributing factors and item size.
The delivery day started at 9am, and from there you would follow the zones optimal route to save as much time as possible.
The expression, Time equals money is painfully true in this job.
The importance of keeping track of time and speed would mean the difference of workload and stress from day to day and money earned.
I loved driving and being the token female in an otherwise male based job.

Pros

Pay could be based on efficiency

Cons

Seasonally heavy workloads

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3.0

Working as a Casual

Labourer (Former Employee) – Prince George, BC – 10 January 2019

I worked as a casual for 8 months at Loomis Express. The first main issue that when I was informed of the job, I thought it was a part time position which could have been the management or just me not understanding what they were explaining to me. The job mainly was physical and that is what attracted me in the first place. The work is always the same unless the schedule of the trucks coming in is delayed, but a typical day is: Start work at 5am, unload and scan boxes from the Edmonton trailer, then moving onto the Vancouver and Williams Lake trailer. As a casual, I would always leave first because of union rules on hours but I would work usually from 5am to 10am and then have the rest of the day to do whatever unless they needed me that night at 4:30pm. The management is okay, lots of miscommunication though as one of the senior managers always have to pick up the slack of the other manager. I have had experience one time where I asked one of the Jr Managers if they wanted me to head out after we finished the Vancouver trailer and then when I was about to leave I was told to stay by the Sr Manager which was a bit stressful because I already had the mindset of heading out but I went back and worked a bit longer. My favorite part of the job by far was sorting mail. It was always a fun thing to do and you would hear of small places around British Columbia that I never heard of before. The workplace culture is not the healthiest considering that I don't feel safe to be myself or ask questions because everyone is wound up and stressed about management and other union type things. more... This was a good starter job but not something I would like to stay in. less

Pros

Sorting Mail

Cons

Management styles clashing and constant changing work environment

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3.0

Physically demanding work

HUB Supervisor (Former Employee) – Calgary, AB – 15 December 2018

Basically the job requires very hands on work moving packages. They do have conveyors, pallet jacks and a forklift, but this doesn't eliminate the manual labor required loading and unloading the trailers. I personally enjoyed the work but many people complained. There are also stressful deadlines and the company is stingy with OT which means you needed to work harder to get it done.

The union puts strong emphasis on consistancy which makes it impossible to treat individuals like individuals. Management needs to be over sensitive to avoid upsetting the balance of treating people like people instead of just workers.

Pros

Become physically fit

Cons

Stressful deadlines, hard to keep up

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1.0

very bad pace to work

Hand pallet jacks (Former Employee) – Calgary, AB – 30 October 2018

supervisor is a 18 year old worked there a month and put in to run the show never know if your working 4 hours or 10 hours a night convers some times not working

Pros

some good people

Cons

horrible place to work

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2.0

Terrible place

Transport (Former Employee) – Calgary, AB – 22 October 2018

I worked for this company for 11 years. No training given, management hide behind locked doors when there is crisis, employees get blamed for all the problems, much of the warehouse is filthy, management blame employees for problems than take any responsibility. Got harassed by management for years, union know there is a problem but do little and take a portion of your money earned. I had to get out of there. Really not worth eleven years, I had no chance to move out of the company, moved on to a new job and got the kind of advancement in one year Loomis never gave me in 11.

Pros

more than 2 weeks off after working for several years

Cons

no training, being bullied and harassed especially when injuries happen

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1.0

Make more working anywhere

Driver (Former Employee) – Canada – 1 October 2018

If you have s class 1, you would be crazy to work for there wage. So below industry standards it should be criminal. Go somewhere else, let them struggle till they pay a livable wage.

Pros

Easy

Cons

No money

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2.0

Lack of communication

Customer Service Associate (Current Employee) – Edmonton, AB – 14 April 2016

A lot of pressure to preform, and little rewards. Very high expectations by management. High stress environment. Not a lot of training - had to learn as you go. High turn over rate. I have learned a lot about logistics though - but it was a lot of self taught knowledge.

Pros

Union - security

Cons

Lack of communication

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4.0

Your Workout Gym

Warehouse Helper (Former Employee) – Burnaby, BC – 30 March 2016

Some of the highlights of the Job.
1. You loose that extra fat every day. Its non stop action from start to end.
2. You get to watch and learn. and have the opportunity to create your own idea.
3. The hardest part of my job was moving a truck full of car tiers.

Pros

Paid workouts

Cons

short breaks

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5.0

Fun and relaxing place to work

Casual Operator Truck Driver (Current Employee) – Edmonton, AB – 16 March 2016

I have been with Loomis Express for many years. It is a very relaxed environment, with many different positions. It is unionized so you must obide by all union agreements and terms. The pay is not the greatest.

Pros

Very relaxed

Cons

Not great pay.

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4.0

A good work fun job life

Warehouse Labourer (Former Employee) – Saskatoon, SK – 29 October 2015

Fun job with good people has its real busy seasons and then its dead parts as well management is kind of no good but warehouse crew knows what they are doing and gets things done right.

Pros

Good people

Cons

Not very good managment

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2.0

Boring place to work

Inbound Collector (Former Employee) – Brampton, ON – 2 June 2015

As a inbound collections intern, I was very self driven and given little to no training. Definitely not a job I would pursue further.

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4.0

Loomis Express Customer Service

Customer Service and Administration (Former Employee) – Brampton, ON – 31 May 2015

Worked here for over 5 years - very flexible while I was in school, amazing pay for part time. Management made a lot of on the fly decisions that at time made no sense. Unionized environment which can create a lot of office politics. Overall good place to work, steady hours and employment.

Pros

Flexibility, hourly wage, clean / nice office

Cons

Office politics and on the fly decisions

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2.0

that's a place with no respect

Customer service supervisor (Former Employee) – Edmonton – 22 April 2015

They don't really care about there workers. they always push workers to work hard they don't care how busy you are plus they don't talk to people with any respect

Cons

long hours

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