No Breaks, Not Even Bathroom Breaks. Threats of Getting Written Up. - Kitchen Worker Kwik Trip Employee Review

1.0
22 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They don't hire criminals who were caught. Free soda while working If You Have Any Time To Even Get a Drink. You get a year end bonus gift with their label on it so you can advertise for them... in front of everyone so that your coworkers think that you are being appreciated. Once in a while you will get a printed off achievement appreciation paper, but usually right before you are told you have to do your survey about your job. Register people get incentives for secret shoppers, the kitchen workers get left out. You get a profit sharing check at the end of the year that isn't directly deposited.

Cons

They threaten to write up even the good workers if they don't get everything done. They don't give you time to help your customers, because you have to get all your chores done instead or you get written up. They think equality means to treat your good employees the same as their bad ones. They are always short staffed, but your still expected to get all your stuff done or you get written up. You are told to smile while they keep pressuring you to get your work done without giving you enough time, while threatening to write you up. They refuse to give you full time, yet make you stay late and then tell you that you have to watch your hours, because you can't go over, but if you don't stay when you are asked you get written up for insubordination You are suppose to get two 10 minute breaks for an 8 hour shift, but sometimes you don't even have time to go to the bathroom to pee for 2 hours at a time and don't end up getting a break. Cooks don't get the same incentives as registers and thus end up wanting to change to being a register and thus they can't keep good kitchen help. They don't keep at least two people in the kitchen at a time. You are expected to cook, run out food, clean, and help customers with a smile all at the same time.

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Cons

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Cons

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