Potential for Career but easy to get stuck - Department Manager Food Lion Employee Review

3.0
31 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work is straightforward, even as a manager. Schedule can be flexible depending on your team. Culture is based fairly in-store, but the corp. culture intends for positivity. Good benefits.

Cons

Pay is on lower end of retail jobs in the same industry, often even having part-time/full time associates in other stores out-performing managers at Food Lion. Very easy to get throttled in position due to lack of movement or corporate working with you to further your career. Especially in small-town areas, you will be met with a lot of resistance to moving up, whether it's to another store or locally.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

They (management) can be reasonable at times, such as with your breaks and scheduling.

Cons

My current management isn't giving me enough hours to be even decently sustainable, yet they have open-shifts available that they could assign to anyone, so why not give those hours to people who are severely underscheduled? If you want your workers to work for you, treat them right and compensate them fairly, and stop expecting them to come in everytime you text them just because someone else called out, maybe you need to give the people who constantly call out less hours because they aren't being reliable, and you need to give more hours to the people who do come to work and get things done, because they've proven to be reliable and willing to come in on their assigned days.

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