Good as a starting job, but limited opportunities for advancement - Home Sales Clerk Fred Meyer Employee Review

3.0
24 July 2016
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Pros

Great for developing skills out of high school, for learning about people and how to work in teams. Great people work for this business who have great personal skills and wicked senses of humor. Job can be engaging and challenging when busy, which I consider a plus.

Cons

Limited advancement opportunity. Most roads lead to a lower-level management positions where hourly-salary and salaried employees are overworked, underpaid, and often scapegoated when corporate sees mistakes being made. I have not been part of management, but have seen this happening from the outside. Managers do not focus on personnel development. Pay-scale setup for union associates is detrimental to worker productivity.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

If you have good relationship with your manager and you can trust them to have your back, it is an amazing place to work, and you will find success easy.

Cons

If you have lost the confidence of your manager, or have bad communication with your manager, it makes it very hard to be seen and be successful.

3.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Job can be fun and interesting Always something new to learn Lots of personal fulfillment as a manager when things go right

Cons

Unsupportive upper management Toxic work culture, unpaid overtime is rewarded and even expected or forced, even to the tune of multiple weeks in a row with no days off when you are salaried. They claim to support work life balance but even the smallest effort to set boundaries is heavily punished. Not paid as much as we should be for everything we have to do and deal with

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