Becareful! - Assistant Store Manager Food Lion Employee Review

1.0
30 Aug 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you enjoy customers you'll like working here. They just adjusted the pay scale for full time associates so you wont be a slave with low wages ... just mediocre wages and still a slave they do not drug test they do not check your education experience they do not call previous employers so you can lie about everything really

Cons

its a big joke... if you have an opinion and express it you will get fired.. maybe not immediately but it will happen. You will work at least 60 hours a week even though you get paid for 45 hours. They do not have drug testing, and allow associates to do whatever they want really with no outcome especially I you work in AltaVista va. HR is for the store manager not the associates. ( since they are not a union) If you have any kind of criminal background then they will not hire you, they wont tell you that's why.. but If you even put it on your application they wont call you, and if you do get called in and you tell them they will let you know that they chose someone more qualified.. EOE is a load of crap ive wanted to hire someone before that had a charge for possession 15years ago and HR told me to let them know I found someone more qualified even though I HADNT. The store managers are usually incompetent half of them were demoted during the restructuring of the company and were stuck back in the store... the one in AltaVista she comes to work late, no one likes her , and she uses drugs but that does not matter because the upper management does not take anything seriously. Its all about who you know and what you do for them that gets you anywhere

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