So Beyond Unprofessional - Courtesy Clerk/Bagger Hy-Vee Employee Review

1.0
23 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The work shirts were free.

Cons

Training was done by a teenage boy who was saying offensively nasty things about the women managers, and screaming, "Just fire me, already!" in the parking lot while he was supposed to be showing me how to gather carts. This kid literally put a plastic bag of groceries on top of a newborn baby in a carrier in the cart, and when I quickly stepped in to remove the bag from the baby and apologize to the rightfully-horrified mother, he yelled at me for "undermining his authority." When I asked for a new person to train me, I was told that I was overreacting and that I shouldn't be "tattling" on my coworkers. I ended up quitting after a week because the work environment was so toxic and unprofessional. Additionally, they offered no accommodations for my medical disabilities which included heat intolerance and episodes of low blood sugar. It was the peak of summer and they made me go gather carts in my polo and long black pants, then criticized me for sweating through my shirt and having to take a break because my blood sugar got dangerously low.

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You get to constantly move around the store thru the different departments. Depending on the hours you work you can potentially learn how to do little things within each department, for example the deli or meat counters, which in turn opens an opportunity to get additional hours if needed when AOL doesn't have the business to keep all the shoppers shopping. Hyvee was always very good about giving you the opportunity to help in other areas of the store if your department was lacking hours or business to give you the full 40 for your work week.

Cons

The management/ chain of command often gets a little confusing as you have department managers, assiant managers, general mangers and a director. Often times I felt as if assiant managers sometimes gave different directions then the department manager would give almost condescending what you were told from your direct manager, but would fail to communicate with the department manager this info, causing conflict with employees being told to do it one way and then also getting asked why things were done that way after being trained to do it another way. Basically no communication by your assiant to the department manager causing internal conflict.

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