Ok company if you dont want a life. - Department Manager Hy-Vee Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay as long as you don't mind working all the hours and having no family life.

Cons

Great pay if you don't mind working 60-65 hours a week. They treat their saleried employees like garbage and do not allow them to have a life outside of work. They also set you up to fail by giving you unreal numbers to achieve. For example, my department was ranked above average in the market and I was still let go because the new director didn't agree with me and thought we were on diffrent pages even though it was very hard to succeed when you are given a crew that is not up to par and they (upper mang.) will not allow you to let them go or move them to another department.

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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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