Terrible experience - Anonymous employee Wawa Employee Review

2.0
Mar 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Starting salary- yet minimal/no raise

Cons

I worked at Wawa for 4 years and was beyond grateful when I quit. I've promised myself to never work for this company again. The work load was too much to squeeze in 1 shift. Employees were often "talked to" by management if they weren't keeping up with the pace. Frequent discouraging visits from corporate. Management make the work load and environment far too stressful. After leaving this job I've had 2 other jobs that pay well and treat me fairly. My current jobs have further proven to me how terrible of a business wawa is. Managers constantly complained that their work load was too much, just as regular employees complained the same. You can never ACTUALLY be sick and call off work or you'll get the cold shoulder and accused of lying! Customers constantly treat employees terribly but management will always defend the customer because that is all corporate cares about. Wawa presents the idea that all workers are "family" but quickly transfer workers when employees become too close. I will never work there again!

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Skeletal shifts are the norm, employee burnout is rampant and unaddressed. Manager turnover is very high at my store, which makes establishing consistency impossible. I get the impression that the conditions for employees vary greatly by store. That said, if you find yourself stuck at a rougher one, your options are to either take the toll to your physical and mental health, or to quit/transfer to a better store. I have personally experienced many legal violations at my place of employment. (keeping the store open and functioning when the workers don't have a bathroom [OSHA fixed that]) (and a few incidents where hours were not properly entered for employees, causing them to work without pay) I have worked here for 4 years without benefits, one year only missing the hour-cutoff for it by an average of 20 minutes. Consistent schedules are very uncommon for employees.

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