Good place for a first-time position, not so good for developing a fast-growing career - Bookkeeper Vons Employee Review

3.0
Dec 25, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

• Great place for a first job • Very flexible with school schedules for high school and college • Opportunities for development • Excellent place to further develop interpersonal communication skills

Cons

• Not easy place to advance up in career opportunities if hours cut to part-time • Compensation increases slow to come since based on hours worked, not on performance - this makes it difficult when hours (again) are cut down to part-time levels • Union shop which forces you to join and pay initiation dues (worker beware) out of your paycheck every week • Sometimes overworked due to lack of help and not enough people on hand to finish job.

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5.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

easy job without much responsibility

Cons

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5.0
Mar 2, 2026
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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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