Terrible Experience to say the least. - Crew Member Chipotle Employee Review

1.0
18 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are a few pros to working at Chipotle, including paid breaks, one free meal on the clock and 50% employee discount off the clock.

Cons

I'm not trying to bash the company in any way, but this was my personal list of cons working there for one month: - management lost my application - management could not set up my direct deposit - took management forever to get my employee ID number (needed to clock in, as well as to get your pay) - what little training I was provided was not sufficient - you are constantly being timed if you are doing prep - i feel i had biased reviews from managers on my timing (they kept telling me I wasn't working fast enough, when I was working just as fast as my fellow employees and was prepping alongside one of the managers and I was keeping pace with them) - I was told I was too slow working the line (where your put the food together for customers), yet in my section I had 6-8 customers' orders waiting on the next person's section to do their part so that I could have any room to take more orders. - the most hours I was scheduled in a week was 20, usually averaging 18ish. and my last week they had me scheduled 11 hours.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Learning and growing to cultivate your own career path into a competent General Manager. The hours are longer than regular but the position is labeled as salary hourly with a minimum of 50 hours per week which guarantees 10 hours if overtime per week.

Cons

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