Stay away from SYGMA

And other folks are happy make good money there and are home daily !!!!

Guess it depends on location !!!!!!!

 

Hmmm...one or more contributors in the other Sygma thread appeared to be little more than 'internet recruiters'....

 

i worked there for 6 years. it was good money and good hometime. example i always ran single layover routes. i would go out monday around 2100, get to the hotel around 0700, start up again around 2000 tues eve, get home around 0700 wed morning. off rest of the day wed, go out again 2100 thurs night, get home around 0700 sat morning. off rest of the day sat til monday night. the downside: it is B.S. work. mall deliveries suck. winter isnt fun when its -10 below out and youre out workin in it all night.

 

You are far better qualified to comment than I am as my experience had only one positive: education! To be fair, my 8 weeks with them was when they were just starting up back in 1998 and they probably picked the worst possible people to start the operation with.

Many of us had little or no previous food service experience and the majority of those that did had numerous employment, legal, social, substance abuse problems, etc.

My previous experience in this field was two short stints back in the '80s delivering wholesale meats to vendors and delivering product to Jenny Craig stores.

I know the SYGMA operation I was part of was 'cleaned up' shortly after I left; the new facility manager's first day was the day I left after giving notice one week earlier. I don't remember the pay being anything else than mediocre.

I had not driven a commercial vehicle for over two years previously (customer service manager?!!?) and decided to get back into Trucking as nearly every CS operation I worked for shut down like dominoes and I was a complete 'bad fit' in the final one. The difficulty of trying to manage people and be a successful 'social worker' too can't be understated, especially in openly chaotic situations. I'm not 'cut out' to manage 'adult daycare centers'; had to learn the hard way!

Never the less, SYGMA ran a sizeable ad in the local paper at the time and I gave it a shot. Thinking I've learned my lesson and will stay involved with commercial trucking for the duration. Will I ever get involved in food service transportation/ delivery again? I'll never 'say never' but probably not.

 

I'm starting with them in a few weeks...

Hopefully your issues were a Texas thing and not a Colorado thing. So far I've been treated excellent by the Sygma team and I'm excited to join the roster.

Who knows how much smoke they blow in order to get someone to step foot in the door.

 

If anybody has worked for Sysco and Sygma, which one is better?

 

I interviewed with Sysco in Louisville once in the last 18 months. Let me sit in a waiting room for over an hour past the interview time then talked to me about 15 minutes before leaving me alone for about 20 minutes. The HR manager made a point to leave a huge stack of applications out on her desk, I am talking about 120 to 200 paper applications, it was huge. She kept looking for a reason to disqualify me on my records but I have no accidents or tickects. I got a bad vibe because they kept complaining about the Cincinnati office and how bad the drivers were there in my ear shot. I think it had more to do with the current Economy than me but that vibe (no worth drivers) made me find a reason I wouldn't work there and I stayed were I was at. I didn't think I would have any value there.

I have never met a Sysco driver that wasn't happy or not earning a good living. Sygma I don't know much about. Have seen many of their trucks around Columbus OH.

 

sysco is mostly all daycab and pups, daytime, home in the evening routes. sygma is almost all during the night when the places are closed. having a sleeper truck and 48' though that makes it easier. almost every sysco has guys that have been there 20+ years. that says something.

 

Working for Sygma is by far the most difficult job I've ever done...

I've only put in 3 nights so far, and maybe I've just got some adjusting to the night work, but phewww.

Figured since I've always been in the asphalt industry and worked my ### of their, that this would be cake. Nope, this job is a totally different animal and you better be willing to work harder then you've ever worked in your life.

The money is good but there's no way I could make any sort of long term career out of this. Putting in just enough time to pay off my pickup and small medical debts, and MAYBE get a nest egg then I'm out.