A taste of Slaveway - Courtesy Clerk Vons Employee Review

1.0
Dec 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

weekly pay fancy dress code (if your into that)

Cons

Multitude of problems to numerous to count. Being their for only 1 month is all one needs to illuminate the atrocious values of this company. To some I might come off as pessimistic and entitled (for one who is only 16) lamenting common rhetoric as, "Be grateful that you have job", but despite this connotative aphorism of "gratitude"for work does not mean that one has to settle for a dead end career. This company is the mcdonalds for supermarkets; that-like mcdonalds- is one tremendous fallacious pyramid centered around the cornerstone of bureaucracy and squeezing out any form of individuality among it's grunt workers. Cons include but is not limited to the lack of trust, lack of flexibility due to its corporate structure, unrealistic work expectations, constant justification of any action you make; this wouldn't be an issue if it only occurs once in a while, but the constant pervasive nature of management is so unbearable I'm surprised anybody could breath working there. An example of this would be the constant surveillance of employee's; the people who work for the von's are some of the most ethical people you will meet yet they'll get fired for sneaking in a sip of crushed in soda that they are forced to throw out anyways. A typical manager at vons would consist of the most boring and mundane person humanly possible; it's almost bone chilling to even speculate how utterly average the managers are. The managers love to exercise their power (it's makes them feel important) for instance I got repremanded for being to accomidating for a customer. I personally quit this job and moved over to trader joes where they treat me as an individual and not just an employee number. I actually hang out with equally quirky co workers after work and look forward to clocking in. So over slavery

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5.0
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Pros

Excellent, straightforward, comprehensive training program and learning modules to ramp up quickly. Management was reasonable and attentive. It was welcoming and I felt respected, and gave my all as a result. They also make sure people don't stay longer or go without a break after the 5-hour mark; this is a California statute with which I was unfamiliar (I was guilty of working long hours without a lunch break in CT due to

Cons

This likely comes with the territory, but a significant percentage of the target customer demographic are of the needlessly disrespectful, uncivil, infantile, entitled, and rich variety. They contrive conflict and attempt to pin it on the workers, or needlessly change their order after it has been obtained. It is child's play. Company policy says to never call the police unless they are a threat to safety, but they absolutely do disturb the peace and ruin the experience for others. It doesn't help that there is an expensive (not necessarily upscale in terms of class) drinking establishment in the same plaza.

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