Work here only when you have nothing else. - Cashier Safeway Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is okay for cashiers. Customers are extremely nice (for the most part), and makes you're job enjoyable. You get paid every week.

Cons

Working here is physically exhausting. Coworkers do not work together and will throw you under the bus for their own benefit. Managers will walk around with nothing to do but micromanage. You are always at a constant fear that you aren't doing something right. Too many ridiculous rules. Managers will always be trying to give cashiers work when they see you're not busy, but not realize that the most simplest job will take hours because of the interruptions of customers. Even if you are not busy that second, you just have to wait half a minute to get more customers. The coworkers that brown nose the managers will get special treatment. Not the employees that are actually doing their job. Technology is ancient. You will kill your back due to the lack of hand scanners for heavy objects.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Genuinely hellish work environment. Management is lazy and absent, customers are the most disrespectful and clueless I have ever encountered. Complete unrealistic labor allocation and expectations. As a PIC, I have to run 9 SCO robots, unlock cases for customers, perform transactions at Customer Service, answer external phone calls, and move freight. Customers rightly get frustrated at the complete lack of care by corporate, and take it out on employees. Management in the morning all skip out on the evening management early every single day, a luxury the closing staff are not allowed.

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