Way too much to go through for $9 an hour. - Line Worker Chipotle Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Free food before or after work (if you're not closing) -Discount when not working was decent (but only is at the location you work at) That's about it. There was not a single thing that was good about working at this company.

Cons

Well, I was excited to start working for this company, since they did put me through five interviews-- All of which I had to call and bother them to give me another one. They say they would call and never did. That should have been the warning sign that I should have just not have bothered to get a job at Chipotle. -If you don't speak Spanish, good luck trying to get along with your co-workers. -Given breaks way too early, not when really needed. -Constantly ridiculed if you don't know the correct procedures and policies on your second day of training. -Very hard to get into the cult-like group of people you work with. -Not allowed to move during certain hours, even if you were just stepping foot away from your workplace to pick up something you saw fall. -Managers don't care if they are biased in terms of race. It seemed to be everyone who was of Hispanic decent was favored over the people who weren't. -No one cares if you have a personal life outside of work, they expect you to make Chipotle your life. You get called in on your days off, forced to stay past scheduled shift times, and yelled at if you even clock in a minute too early. There is so much more I could say, but yeah. I was "let go" after only two weeks because I "didn't adhere or understand Chipotle's culture enough to appropriately live up to a top performers standards." I was there for two weeks. TWO. I was told by numerous co-workers that I was doing a great job and they thought I was a fast and reliable person. Honestly, they just hired like five new people before they fired me, and all of them were Hispanic, and I feel like I was discriminated against because I was white. I saw two other people get fired (during the whole two weeks working there) get fired, and both were white.

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