Pros
You can take your van home and avoid tolls, $50 phone allowance
Cons
Everything is a con in the first aid and safety division in Houston. All of the corporate character they preach is lies. They want you to rip off your customers and stuff their first aid cabinets. Every month they come up with a new ridiculous focus item to stuff in the cabinets. Last month is was liquid bandage, hand lotion, pain away (excedrin), and glucose. They claimed those items were immparitve to the health of people with diabetes. In reality the only thing that would actually help is the glucose. It’s funny they force you to sell two servings of glucose for $15!!! $.50 Pixy sticks is literally the exact same ingredient. Anyways, that’s just the unethical aspect of the company. The 2nd problem with Cintas is that they don’t care about the employees. In their mind they can easily replace their SSRs. They also act like they treat us amazing and boast abouy their 16k salar they pay us. It’s laughable. You make commission on top of that, most people are making under 40k bc they keep splitting people’s routes. There used to be SSRs that would make 55k plus, heck some people made 65k-75k, but once you make good money they will split your route. I seriously know people who can barely pay their mortgage now bc of their route splits. Our turnover rate was 66% a year ago, it’s probably even worse now. One average we lose at least one SSR a month. Management acts like we are an ethical company but they secretly are pushing us to sell things to our customers they don’t need. Not only that, but the internet is so much better for our customers. I feel like a used car salesmen when I sell a box of DayQuil for $65 when you can buy the same box on amazon or staples for $15. Literally everything we sell is marked up 600% bc our corporate is super greedy. Also, when you lower the price just a little bit you go from making 11% commission to 5%. So if you want to feed your family you have to sell it at the rip off price.