Pros
The only positive to this job was the people who I worked with at the same level as me. Those above you are on an insane power trip and think they know everything. The rest of the employees are aware that they are in the worst work environment ever and encourage helping other people to escape. Ren's is surrounded by forest so if you really wanted to escape you could run into the woods during your day and just not come back. I guess that's another positive.
Cons
- don't expect to take breaks. If you take a fifteen minute break AND your half hour lunch during your 8.5 hour shift, you are ironically enough seen as not hungry enough to see the company succeed. I need a snack, this is why I take breaks, I'm actually quite hungry. Also, expect them to be monitored to the minute. If you run out to Tim Horton's and the head honchos give you 7 breakfast orders, you still better be on time when you deliver their food because that's company time. - Ren's could be a game show called the Blame Game. No higher ups are accountable, they will find someone in another department or someone below them to get in trouble or fire. Usually fire. - I don't mean to be overly offensive but there's no way to describe most of the Department Managers or the Executives without just admitting they are not intelligent people. They are actually dumb. They can't plan sales, they can't order products correctly, they can't follow protocol, they don't understand new ideas or how the world works... they are lost in their make believe world where Ren's is a happy and successful place. - no order, no standards, no protocol, no work flow... zero direction. If you tried to sit anyone down in any department and ask how they complete their job, they probably couldn't tell you. There's no work process put in place which means there's no such thing and training and honestly there's no such thing as doing your job well. Everyone is stressed and overworked because they do not do their job in an efficient and logical way. - People try to make more efficient ways to complete work, train new hires and complete tasks, but it generally is not received well. Management may agree it is a good idea but they don't encourage following new procedures that only help to make the company run smoothly. Ren's loves last minute decisions made with zero planning or thought and they probably will never change. - The turnover rate at Ren's is ridiculous, when I reached six months I was considered a senior employee. Fast food jobs have a lower turnover rate than Ren's. Usually it's three months, however people have been known to send an email at 8pm saying they won't be back in the morning. This happens after two weeks sometimes. It's not common that people give notice, generally quitting is an amazing escape and no one wants to come back even for a day once the chains are removed. - They post jobs boasting doing great work for the company to further yourself. It's all lies. You'll end up doing stuff no one else wants to and picking up slack. Slack picker upper would be the most accurate description for anyone hired who is not a manager. The manager roll would be best described as the Sit on Your Butt and Have Everyone Else Do Work That You Don't Even Understand and Will Never Bother to Learn. - They expect you to put their company over ANYTHING that involves yourself. Working late and on weekends in some cases is just expected. Why wouldn't you want the executives to get a bigger bonus! If they grace you with a day off, you should be aware that you owe that time if they ask you later. - There are so many more cons but I just don't even feel like getting into it. Everyday something new and awful happens.