Worst Retail Job I Have EVER Worked - Food Clerk Safeway Employee Review

2.0
16 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The only pro was the pay rate. I started off topped out for the food clerk pay rate due to coming from a previous job with a similar pay.

Cons

NO ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE STORE AT ALL. Managers are constantly scrambling to make shifts work due to forced understaffing thanks to corporate riding them about payroll every single week. Very often employees would do whatever they felt like doing, even straight up walking away from their registers or work stations without notice, and there were no consequences for the effects this behavior had on their coworkers. The front end manager would rather spend her days in the office so she can watch the cameras or text on her phone than be on the front end doing her job. The store director does nothing to hold his employees accountable for their work ethic. Certain customers would regularly abuse, swear at, insult, and otherwise mistreat workers and we were NEVER allowed to ban them from the premises. The environment at this store was so toxic that after less than 2 years I was so deeply depressed that I could no longer function. I would not return to this job even if they doubled my pay. I have worked retail for almost 20 years and I can say with 100% confidence that this job was the worst I have ever had.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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