Depends on where you are located and what department you work for. - Deli Associate Jewel-Osco Employee Review

1.0
Aug 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Learn a good amount of things Some people were nice

Cons

To much politics The people who worked at my store in general The people who worked in Chef's Kitchen Some customers came to the deli and order a good amount of things just to hassle you. Then they would dump all the things in the rest room. Some of the customers in general wanted you to make a fit about them. Such as they would literally start crying and saying that if you don't give them a new package they will stop shopping at Jewel-Osco. When you say that is OK they can leave if they want they would act all surprised and keep repeating the question it'll they get the answer they want to hear. There were a lot of dishonest customer The co-workers try to take advantage of you especially if you're young. The cons exceed the pros in my opinion. Limited growth potential unless you are a suck up to the managers/ Dept. Manager. My manager also reminded me of Big Mama from the play/movie Chicago. She looked and acted like her. Try getting a job with the younger folks that are your age rather than these bitter ladies if you want to work here for more than 6 months. Also some of the employees must have thought they were the police or something. I work in the back of the store where the deli was located and there is litterally no need to come into my area. Sometimes they would do "recon" work or something by walking around my area.to see what I was doing. They aren't supervisors or anything. Are they being payed commission to spy on people???

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Fun Job. Time flies when working. Learn new skills.

Cons

Management does NOT care about you only the work you do. You will be overworked and underpaid. Very little training and they expect you to know everything within a couple weeks. Managers are lazy and will put their work on you! Work place is full of drama and creepy people that HR looks the other way because of 'popularity'. This is not the only location with problems the whole company is a mess. Constantly switching out district managers. Ops were horrible, they would come boss everyone around to try to make the shop look perfect in 1 shift, often making a lot of people miss their breaks and work overtime. Frozen loads and products would go to waste due to miscommunication between managers and no one seemed to ever want to fix any problems. Extremely low morale and high turnover. Stay far away from this place unless you're really sure you're only staying a while.

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