It’s an awful place to work for. Employees are never appreciated. It’s more of a sweat shop than anything else and the fact that such young people are capable of keeping everything flowing quite nicely while management is always barking down everyone’s neck about how we need to be making more money, it will always be beyond me. There are many people that can barely afford this program, however employees are forced to try to up-sell to patients. Employees are forced to rush through educational courses because management wants as many new patients seen, so these patients can be another number added to the day. There is so much unnecessary work they stress everyone over. Every transaction of a new patient had to be documented to see how much money we were making off of each new patient. Employees had to track each and every time a patient went to another dispensary that wasn’t ours (for numbers sake of course). Was anything even getting done with those numbers? Was corporate even checking those numbers? No, not that I ever heard of. It was busy work for absolutely no reason what so ever when we could’ve spent more time focusing on the real reason why Curaleaf exists today....the patients. There are many faces I miss, I do miss helping people daily as well. With the stress of management, it made helping people harder each day when they aren’t compassionate or caring what so ever of the ill people walking in and out of those doors. Especially patients that have their care givers come in and have little to zero education about it, those are the people that need the most patience because they truly want to make the right decision coming there for medicine. Multiple people have left this company because of lack of well management. Patients have gotten frustrated and I’ve even spoke to patients that refuse to come back because of how rude some employees were.... I promise patients, it’s never anything personal. The amount of stress the bud tenders, admissions people, and consultants are put under are HIGH levels of stress, almost unexplainable. When it gets to the point of not wanting/caring to go to work, not caring how much you are getting paid hourly... because you live in fear of your manager or constant discomfort of your superiors...that is when there is a problem. I miss the cannabis community and I miss being such a big help to a lot of the patients that need help with learning their medicine. Doctors typically aren’t too much of a help with the program, they just qualify people and these people come to us with high hopes of us telling them everything they need to hear. It’s truly hard to be everything we need to be for patients when management doesn’t let us help. I apologize for anyone that’s had a bad experience at this dispensary. It’s most definitely a work in progress...
