Does not offer proper resources - Assistant Department Manager Fred Meyer Employee Review

3.0
3 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Can be challenging in a fun way, you have some control over how your department operates, they are generally good about getting everyone their breaks, time off, etc. There are always opportunities for training and advancement since there is a lot of turnover in management.

Cons

Irregular and long hours. Micromanagement from store managers and corporate. Metrics that are impossible to reach. Constant cutting of hours until you have hardly any labor to work with. Unethical business practices regarding their payment system (most people who have worked there long enough had issues with their pay being shorted somehow). The worst is that they fail to staff some locations with security (again, cutting hours to save a buck), so regular employees are left to deal with daily encounters of criminal activity without any support.

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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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