No work life balance - General Manager Wawa Employee Review

2.0
Mar 24, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation, and friendships you build

Cons

No work life balance at all. You're expected to be on call 24/7, 365 days a year. You see your store team more frequently than your own family. When you express concern over work life balance, you're basically deemed 'lacking ownership". In order to get promoted, you must 'prove' yourself and always be thinking of new ways to increase profit, even when your not at work. Which takes more time away from the very little time you already have with your family. Expect to always be there, even in a blizzard. You're essentially forced to pick up associates because you have to stay open, and you're risking everyone's lives.

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

(Depending on your manager) you can take the tasks at your own pace and do what feels best, based on what you see. The position I'm in allows headphone use if you're not visible to customers.

Cons

Skeletal shifts are the norm, employee burnout is rampant and unaddressed. Manager turnover is very high at my store, which makes establishing consistency impossible. I get the impression that the conditions for employees vary greatly by store. That said, if you find yourself stuck at a rougher one, your options are to either take the toll to your physical and mental health, or to quit/transfer to a better store. I have personally experienced many legal violations at my place of employment. (keeping the store open and functioning when the workers don't have a bathroom [OSHA fixed that]) (and a few incidents where hours were not properly entered for employees, causing them to work without pay) I have worked here for 4 years without benefits, one year only missing the hour-cutoff for it by an average of 20 minutes. Consistent schedules are very uncommon for employees.

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