Mismanaged and Underpaid - Anonymous employee Fred Meyer Employee Review

1.0
8 Oct 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

+ Flexible scheduling for students. + Employees are friendly to each other and help each other out. + It is extremely hard to get fired due to roundabout disciplinary policies. + Benefits are decent if you can last a year to qualify for them.

Cons

- Store leadership does not care about the needs of any department so long as they look good when the Big Boss comes through. - Departments are perpetually understaffed. - Scheduling is inconsistent and hours are given out based entirely on how much they like a given employee. - Some store leaders are completely unaware of how the departments under them work, leading to unrealistic demands and absolutely no help from the upper managers when problems arise. - The hourly pay is inconsistent and varies widely between departments and associates, and personal raises are impossible to acquire. - Upper managers do not care about the well-being of their associates whatsoever.

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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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