Lighten up JJs, your sandwiches aren't even that good - Anonymous employee Jimmy John's Employee Review

3.0
Jan 7, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you like driving and getting tips that will hopefully pay for your nonexistent gas and wear-tear compensation, delivery driving is not bad. I do appreciate the free sandwich + drink + chips/cookie that you get after 7 or 8 hours I think. Helps you save on food money if you're on a tight minimum wage budget. ;)

Cons

You always have to be doing something -- "if you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean". Even if it means wasting windex -- yes windex, they use it on everything -- and paper towels on bathrooms that have been used maybe once since it was last cleaned. It's extremely pointless and wasteful. They have a trash thing with three holes - trash, compost, and recycle, but it all goes into the same dumpster. And corporate has all these policies for stupid things that shouldn't matter. We can't even rearrange our chips behind the counter a certain way because "it's not corporate approved". You will grow to hate this phrase. Also, corporate controls the music that is played. In my store, it's classic rock. I HATE classic rock. Same songs every day. And we can't change it because someone somewhere decided classic rock would most appeal to our demographic in this area.

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Pros

Good pay, if there aren't too many drivers, and you're at a good place for lunch, you can expect to make around $50 in tips per day or more, and get reimbursed for mileage. The people there can be hit or miss, some people can be very fun to work with and responsible.

Cons

The upper management can be lead with too many sensitive women, who don't know how to diagnose situations properly, and take the side of the immature employees who get offended way too easily. The co-workers can be very young and irresponsible, but this is par for the course for food places if you don't have strong leadership.

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