Pros
- Tons of opportunity to grow and move up - You’ll work with a lot of really good people and make plenty of friends along the way - You’ll generally be treated really well by store management - Customers appreciate H-E-B and they will tell you that - If you want to have a career at H-E-B you can make that happen - Your fellow partners and managers will always have your back when personal issues arise - Pay is competitive - Really efficient, well-run company - Paid weekly - Time and a half on holidays
Cons
- You only get your schedule one week at a time, so planning for life outside of H-E-B is hard - If you have open availability your schedule will be all over the place, at least on the front-end. You could work 6-2:30 Monday, 3:30-12 Tuesday, and then 10-6:30 on Wednesday. Just makes it hard for your body to adjust and again, hard to plan for life outside of H-E-B - Your first year of full-time you get very little vacation, although it does go up to 2 weeks your 2nd year. - You can only call-in or be tardy 9 times in a year, which isn’t awful, but if you have kids or just a few personal issues arise in a given year it can become a problem. Some managers are more lenient with “occurrences” and may cut you some slack, but it all depends on your manager. Some are very “by the books” about things. (If you call in multiple days in a row for the same issue it only counts as one occurrence, so keep that in mind. If you have the flu don’t worry about getting multiple occurrences. Call-in every day until you’re well, and then come back to work.) - Not a lot of opportunity for overtime, which isn’t an issue if you don’t want to work more than 40 hours a week, but if you need extra hours to pay the bills don’t expect to be able to pick up more than 40.