Safeway Sucks - Checker and Self Checkout Safeway Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Getting Paid every week

Cons

Pay is horrible, they say full time but won't provide hours. It takes 3,600 Hrs. For a 25 cent raise that = 3yrs they won't work with people who has a second job because they want all your priority even though they pay the bare minimal there is no diversity in the company's management I notice a lot of the same races in management In different stores. They work you like a slave and pay you barley enough to live by. There hiring all the time because people around my age 22 keep quitting while the older people making $22 an hour stay until they die getting TRIPLE PAY ON HOLIDAYS and the new hires only get $1 extra an hour on most holiday and time in a Half on certain holidays when y'all feel like being less cheap that Gap in payment alone is unfair Mind you it only took older people 500 hours for there first raise 500 vs. 3600 hrs. The union sucks it seems like Safeway is paying them off Safeway Profits is going up but pay is going down not the company it use to be! Horrible now

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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