Decent, if you're pro-union - Cashier Jewel-Osco Employee Review

3.0
Sep 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Union (some people like this, some don't), paid breaks with an optional unpaid lunch, holiday pay and flexible hours Working at jewel osco is a good experience, but if you don't work up or find a different job you should get out. There are opportunities to get switched to other departments such as floral, meat department, bakery... which would be a good "apprentice" type experience if you were looking to branch out or work at an actual bakery or something. Also they have mandatory raises set up, but they aren't very large.

Cons

Management is often not in touch with what is actually going on. The union is uneccesary and ruthless, they will come begging for more money despite the fact that it's a grocery store, not a coal mine, there really isn't a need for a union. Raises are small, starting pay is small. I know grocery stores that are similar and start with much higher wages.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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