Employment Trap - General Merchandise Clerk Meijer Employee Review

2.0
11 Sept 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy work, very flexible hours

Cons

Customers will treat you like garbage, and managers will never step in to defend you. Underscheduling is prevalent, and you will be stretched thin at all times. Customers will complain about their checkout time and wait and you just have to sit there and say sorry. Managers sit in meetings all day and the times they aren't, they are talking with other managers on the floor. You earn paid time off (because of the union, not the kindness of Meijer) but good luck trying to cash that in! You never know who is responsible for your schedule, and trying to get it changed for your schooling is a nightmare. Also, they don't HAVE to fix your schedule for school, which can make you miss classes or other familial obligations. There are places to work that can actually work with you, so try and apply their instead.

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Cons

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Pros

Direct coworkers were great to work with. I also enjoyed being left to do my work and not babysat by management.

Cons

Management doesn't know what they are doing. Resets and floor plans were regularly not done properly. The store I worked at has a skeleton crew so I never got help (but was expected to stop everything I'm going to go help other departments/areas). Also meaning good luck to any customers needing help, especially when I was the only person working my area of the store, so when I wasn't there, no one was. Management also regularly disappeared into the offices or were on vacation. Also was terminated for reasons outside my control even though I was told they look at the reasons for attendance incidents before termination. Never got to get the FMLA or accommodation to my doctors before being terminated two days after I requested them. Didn't bother asking for a raise either. I did multiple times and got nothing.

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