Beware Small Department Team Leaders - Anonymous employee Wegmans Food Markets Employee Review

My biggest advice to anyone who works at Wegmans is to work in a department where you will be working directly with your department manager. Many departments such as Dairy, Frozen Foods, Nature's Marketplace, Bulk Foods and others are run by the Team Leader and not the Department Manager. Each of these small departments fall under the jurisdiction of a larger one and this is where things get tricky. For example. If you work in dairy, you rarely, if ever work with the grocery manager, but he is the one who does your review. How does he do your review if he doesn't work with you? He bases his judgements solely on the comments of the Team Leader. This gives Team Leaders in smaller departments a dangerous amount of power. Because they are mostly unsupervised by department mangers or higher ups, many Team Leaders will deliberately sabotage any coworker they deem a threat. The department manager always sides with the Team Leader no matter what. Considering that most of these Team Leaders have little to no managerial training or skills, it is very foolish to always side with the Team Leader. So if you are going to work at Wegmans, make sure to work as a Cashier or departments such as Grocery, Produce, Bakery, Deli, Meat, Seafood or Cheese as you will actually be working directly with your department manager. Performance reviews will be far more accurate when your manager is working directly with you, instead of basing it on hearsay from the (often incompetent) Team Leader.