Good Starter Company - Anonymous employee Hy-Vee Employee Review

3.0
26 Aug 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good introductory company for job seekers; there's lots of young faces, and the employees have a strong connection with one another that makes it feel like a solid work family. There's LOTS of opportunity to move up within the company; they focus specifically on promoting from within. If you're looking to start somewhere and move up into management, they're a great choice. Competitive salary for entry-level positions.

Cons

Each store is run by their own store manager, and if you aren't lucky enough to get a store manager that cares, or who promotes and hires good department heads and middle management, it's extremely frustrating. There were so many issues within the bakery I worked that we consistently brought, as a department, over and over all the way up to the store director level, that we were promised would be fixed.... that weren't. It led to a lot of boiling anger and helplessness that eventually led to me and a few others within my department turning in papers.

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Cons

Your high efforts are not rewarded. Benefits only include the time you put into retail that can be considered experience. Although you have the title for a specific position you will still be forced to complete tasks of another position. Although I was a checker, I was also put on hot food line, samples, cart duty, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning spills, watching self check out, stocking, and many more. Any sense of enjoyment with other coworkers gets shut down quick by management. Availability can be ignored by management. Lots of drama with coworkers. No penalty for inappropriate and unprofessional work. Management cares about business more than employees even though it is “employee owned”.

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