Would be great if the pay matched some other companies. - Assistant Department Manager/Stocking/Checking Safeway Employee Review

2.0
Jul 26, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly relaxed atmosphere unless the night manager is on duty that night. Take breaks pretty much whenever you want to for a couple of minutes as long as you finish on time. Everyone else at the store was awesome, all the other people were very helpful and would answer any questions. Store manager was a very nice man as well.

Cons

Relatively unfair pay for a demanding job.Schedule writer seems to not have a grasp on the amount of hours in a day, nor the days in a week. Night manager is difficult to say the least. He spends his time complaining about new employees not getting things correct the first time even though his "training" happened to be a 10 minute session basically not telling you what you need to know. Everyone already knew this was the case at this particular store, but it is still rather frustrating to be new to something and unable to ask a question because you're afraid you will get yelled at / removed from what you were doing.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Genuinely hellish work environment. Management is lazy and absent, customers are the most disrespectful and clueless I have ever encountered. Complete unrealistic labor allocation and expectations. As a PIC, I have to run 9 SCO robots, unlock cases for customers, perform transactions at Customer Service, and answer external phone calls. Customers rightly get frustrated at the complete lack of care by corporate, and take it out on employees.

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