Stressful and generally not worth it - Associate In-N-Out Burger Employee Review

2.0
Nov 9, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The starting pay at this particular store was $12/hour, which is insanely amazing - Free burger, fries, and drink every day that you work

Cons

- Favoritism: If you aren't a manager's pet, you'll see yourself get reprimanded for things other people do all the time - Expected to be nice and peppy to the point of fakeness while managers themselves are rude and not motivating in the least - Extremely strict dress code, once got in trouble for wearing ankle socks instead of mid calf socks (oh the horror) - Some days you get off two hours early, the next you're held over your scheduled time by two hours without any notice - Sometimes you aren't given breaks at all - You will personally be mocked and made uncomfortable if you work at this particular store - You will be shown once, very quickly how to perform a task, and then expected to do it yourself, just as quickly, without making a single mistake. To put it simply, the training definitely needs to improve - A lot of the store's procedures lack efficiency - You'll stink of burgers even after a shower - Managers give you a hard time for things you have no control over - Employees will actually tell on you for things, and once again, if the manager likes them more than you, you'll get in trouble for it - Managers behave extremely unprofessionally - Takes forever to move up - Every manager acts as though they own the world when they flip burgers for a living

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