Great Place To Work! If you want to be treated less than human. - Curbside Clerk Meijer Employee Review

They work you to death and don't pay a living wage. During my interview, they explicitly brought up the point that they don't expect our lives to revolve around work and they want us to have a life outside of work, yet I show up and it's an entirely different story. Overtime is frequent and mandatory. You had plans after your scheduled shift? Working a late shift and are expected to come in early in the morning the next day? Too bad, you're staying 3 hours over because the workload is too much for the department to handle and new employees don't stay long because they’re treated so poorly. The work environment is unbelievably toxic. I had to deal with rampant bullying in my department, coming from fully grown adults. They seemingly go out of their way to make every new hire feel unwelcome to the point where they either quit or just stop showing up to work. The worst case I saw before I left was just someone who from basically day one they decided they didn’t like for no real reason. They'd make up false, childish rumors and talk bad about them as soon as they walked away, would constantly pin everything that went wrong in the dept on the new person with absolutely no proof from the second they showed up for the job, INCLUDING the team leader. Sad, pathetic and disgusting to see fully grown adults, including those who are supposed to be in charge, bully and harass people for absolutely no reason. And then they have the audacity to complain when the department is chronically understaffed. Can't fathom why that would be. Breaks are almost always late, which wouldn't be as much of a slap in the face if breaks were actually decent, but you literally get 15 minute breaks twice per 8hr shift (if you're lucky, I almost NEVER got my last break) and your lunch is only 30 minutes which is barely enough time to buy and eat something, go to the bathroom, etc, let alone relax and actually enjoy your break. The points/level system they use for their attendance policy is outdated, archaic and just straight up unfair. You start at level 4 and if you get down to level 1 you cannot call in, leave early, or be late for literally ANY reason or you're terminated; no exceptions. It could literally be an emergency and it wouldn't matter. You get half a point for being late or leaving early for any reason (I had to leave to go to the hospital once, brought the diagnosis papers in and everything as proof, STILL got docked the half point), and one point for every full absence even if you get a doctor's note. I get sick fairly easily and recently got pretty sick and was unable to come to work, went to the doctor and got a note for work just to find out the next day I'd been bumped down a level for attendance issues when I literally could not physically come to work without risking my safety and the safety of others. There is no compassion or understanding whatsoever from management because these rules simply do not apply to them therefore they do not care about how unfair the system is to the people it does affect. I should not be faced with the ultimatum of either coming to work with an illness that would put not only myself but everyone around me at risk; or losing my job. We are HUMAN. People get sick. It literally is not a thing anyone has control over. If you were even the slightest bit understanding and showed even the tiniest shred of human decency, maybe your employees wouldn't be so bitter. Store directors/upper management were always putting unrealistic demands on the pickup department I worked in. Their newest demand was for us to literally "be more perfect than perfect" (a direct quote from the store manager), like we weren't already horrendously understaffed and overworked. They wanted us to flag down an employee to search the back room for EVERY. SINGLE. out of stock item we had while out shopping, thus in turn making us shop slower, and also slowing down the poor stockers who were just trying to do their jobs without us having to bother them every 4 seconds to search the back room for something that 9 times out of 10 we ended up not even having in stock at all, thus making the entire thing a colossal waste of everyone's time and actually making us perform WORSE at our jobs.