Western Refining Reviews

Pros

Great people to work with and for, great benifits and pay with bonuses, and never any worries on wheather you job will be threaten by the economy, happy to be working for this company.

Cons

If your not a hard worker and willing to work long hours this isn't the job for you.

Advice to Senior Management

i feel mamagement is doing a good good on keeping this company going as good as it is considering I just came from a company doing the same line of work who was losing work more and more as each month past, parking drivers one day every othrer week because there wasn't enough work.. Keep up the Good work Mamagement !!!!

Pros

There are many opportunities to learn, to teach, to encourage, to interact with and be part of a growing team.

Cons

There is no trust or no need to trust, there is only Policy. Policy. Policy. Policy. Policy. Policy. Policy. Policy.

Advice to Senior Management

Sometimes, Store Managers do know best, how else do you think we got this far? Let us Manage our stores.

Pros

very autonomous, expect little to no supervision or contact with your management unless something goes wrong. This is good because you can run your store as you see fit, within corporate guidelines of course.

Cons

no feedback, poor compensation, no communication, lack of work/life balance. Because of the lack of communication and supervision, you don't really get noticed if you are doing a good job and have little growth opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Levels of management are too far apart, store managers rarely have contact with district managers, and next to never with operations managers. Upper management does not have a realistic view of operations on a day to day basis.

Pros

Western is only a good place to work if you have no other options and need to have an income to pay the bills

Cons

Management has no respect for the people actually working and running the refinery. Yorktown was a great place to work, but Western has destroyed it.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that the employees are your greatest asset and treat them as so.