16 years of regularly thinking, "I've got to try something else." - Assistant Store Manager Safeway Employee Review

1.0
Jul 18, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

flexable schedule for college students. good pay if you make it to journeyman. work life balance for backstage employees is good.

Cons

only 15% of employees get 40 hrs. In many stores and in upper management, promotion is based on political games instead of skill. Only 20% of stores can reach bonus targets and even then sometimes the target is moved up with most of the year gone. Work life balance for in store management is non existant.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Nothing at all, only work at Safeway if you're about to be literally homeless

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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