Typical corporate incompetence - Anonymous employee Jimmy John's Employee Review

1.0
14 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Drivers can sometimes earn decent amounts in tips. Especially for the lunch shift. That's really all I can say.

Cons

Overworked and underpaid. Underappreciated by both upper management/owners (always) and customers (frequently). Persistently, woefully understaffed. Employee training videos are cheesy, demeaning, and ineffective. Surrounded by demeaning, offensive, horribly idealistic capitalist signs on the walls with quotes by Henry Ford, Warren Buffet, etc. that are so obviously tonedeaf it's incredible, yet somehow not surprising they were allowed to be put up. Terrible transparency and communication. Rudest customers I've ever dealt with. Every day. Incredible amount of food wasted. Full trays of bread going straight into the dumpster. Shameful amount of wasted food. Store layout is so small and cramped we are constantly bumping into eachother and into pointy corners. The constant pivots and bending over destroys the lower back and joints.

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Cons

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4.0
22 June 2026
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Pros

Good pay, if there aren't too many drivers, and you're at a good place for lunch, you can expect to make around $50 in tips per day or more, and get reimbursed for mileage. The people there can be hit or miss, some people can be very fun to work with and responsible.

Cons

The upper management can be lead with too many sensitive women, who don't know how to diagnose situations properly, and take the side of the immature employees who get offended way too easily. The co-workers can be very young and irresponsible, but this is par for the course for food places if you don't have strong leadership.

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