If you don't mind low pay with ever increasing demands on your limited time, This is the job for you. - Shift Supervisor Pilot Flying J Employee Review

2.0
23 Dec 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working with the public can be an enjoyable experience until you have to take on all the responsibility placed on you for corporate's bad decisions.

Cons

This company sets you up for failure. Store hours are constantly being cut back, but the expectations remain. Through the winter months especially, employees are expected to do the same work with up to 100 less hours available. Training for store management is non existent. The store is allowed 30 hours a week for three weeks of training, but they are never given the opportunity to learn what they need to know, and then held accountable for not knowing what they weren't trained for. Store management is instructed to "make sure that no one gets any overtime." Including deducting actual hours worked to make sure the employee will receive absolutely no overtime pay.

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5.0
5 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing co-workers and leadership in the company.

Cons

Nothing really. I have had a great time at Pilot.

2.0
12 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay is decent for Knoxville Benefits are good Coworkers are the only thing holding this place together

Cons

The culture has taken a nosedive. The new CFO sets the tone, and that tone is basically “I don’t care.” That attitude trickles down through leadership and it shows in every decision being made. The return‑to‑office mandate is a perfect example. It’s not about productivity — it’s about control. People with long commutes are burning hours of their lives just to sit in the office on Zoom calls they used to take from home. Morale is the lowest it has ever been. Entire teams have been gutted because people are quitting faster than they can be replaced. The workload dumped on whoever stays is unsustainable. Communication from leadership is cold, dismissive, and out of touch. Feedback goes nowhere. Concerns are brushed off. Decisions are made with zero regard for how they impact employees. Constant reorganizations create chaos. Roles change overnight, expectations shift constantly, and employees are expected to absorb more and more with no support. The company used to feel people‑focused. Now it feels like a machine that’s grinding down the very people who keep it running.

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