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Steve Ells & Montgomery F. Moran
Current Employee – been working at Chipotle full-time for more than a year
Pros – -good food
-fun upbeat environment
- great people
Cons – -lots of long grueling hours
Advice to Senior Management – - promotions should be taken more seriously
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-20 22:29 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Chipotle full-time for more than a year
Pros – Its an okay environment to work in. If you're a hard worker management will recognize that and show their appreciation by giving you the days you request off and will work with you to create a schedule that works for you. Raises every 6 months if you meet or exceed the standard.
Cons – Petty drama and bad hiring resulting in coworkers who don't work or follow standard procedures.
2013-05-21 11:21 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Chipotle part-time for less than a year
Pros – Good yummy food and very health conscious. Good growing business with plenty of opportunities for folks that work there.
Cons – Get Fat while I work and not enough stock options.
Advice to Senior Management – More food
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-09 17:03 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Chipotle part-time for more than a year
Pros – The food is good and healthy and you learn how to fold burritos.
Cons – There is way to much favoritism from the management for certain employees and its obvious.
Advice to Senior Management – If the management says and teaches us to do something they should follow through with it...
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-10 09:06 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Chipotle part-time for less than a year
Pros – benefit
decent salary with great raises.
Cons – hours were sometime way to long.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-06 08:43 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Chipotle part-time for less than a year
Pros – People you work with are generally really nice. Work is constant and time goes by pretty face.
Cons – The store I work at is known to replace people often. You will have little one on one meetings and they will tell you same thing to pick up pace or to have more "character". Will ask you if you "really want to work there?" and to show them. Job does not feel secure even for people there over a year.
Advice to Senior Management – I don't think the job is stressful for me. What is stressful is thinking you are always replaceable and worried a slip-up might mean being fired any moment.
2013-05-06 13:44 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Chipotle full-time for more than a year
Pros – Very fast promotions. Lots of opportunity to grow.
Cons – Overall hard and tiring on your feet
2013-05-03 18:00 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Chipotle full-time for more than a year
Pros – Great Upward mobility
Flexible Schedules
Highest Standards
Benefits
Cons – Very Busy
Sometimes massive workload
Common to get called in on days off
Customers are good people but theres always bad apples
Advice to Senior Management – Try to see some conflicts within the crew more often and put a stop to them.
– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-28 20:28 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Chipotle full-time for more than a year
Pros – Great crew
Free food
Learning new skills
Promoted with in
Cons – Late nights
Busy rush
Tiring
Stressful at time
Customers can be difficult
2013-04-25 17:36 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Chipotle part-time for less than a year
Pros – 1) The pay was good. It was $8.25 per hour which is 40 cents above minimum wage in my state.
2) I met a few decent people while there and gained my first paid work experience ever.
3) One free meal per day…that’s if you have time to take your break which is seldom. Half off a meal on the days you don’t work.
Cons – 1) There was no official training period. I came in my first day to watch maybe three or four short videos and by the next day I was working the line with the rest of my coworkers who had been there for a year already. Of course my coworkers had no time to explicitly explain the work they were doing so I just had to observe and pick it up as we went along. This resulted in a lot of contradictory information. This might have been somewhat tolerable if I didn’t receive a poor job review three weeks into my employment. My manager said I wasn’t progressing fast enough and I feel like my lack of training contributed to this greatly. How can I be expected to progress so quickly if I was never trained?
2) Lots of condescending attitudes. Managers, and certain coworkers, were in the habit of talking to you like you were 5 years old. Maybe that’s average in the work place but one kitchen manager was fired two weeks after I started for slapping a fellow coworker…that’s a little extreme. There just existed a general disrespect at this job and yet they wanted you to dedicate your life to this work.
3) Very many coworkers expressed to me that they had developed either Carpal tunnel syndrome or arthritis as a result of working there for too long. I too experience immense pain in my wrist after working there for a short time. It’s totally not worth risking your health in this way…
4) No one was on one accord. Like I said before there's so much contradictory information. So and so says do it this way and then the manager says do it that way. It’s crazy…you land in trouble virtually every day for doing your job the way you were taught by various misinformed individuals.
Advice to Senior Management – Train your employees. There’s a reason why half the new hires have either quit or were fired in less than six months and it’s because they don’t know what they’re doing and yet somehow you want them doing it at incredible speeds. Also hold yourself to your employees standards: if you can take 5 million smoke breaks why can't I get my lunch break every now and then?
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-15 17:57 PDT
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