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Labatt Food Service reviews

3.3

67% would recommend to a friend

(216 total reviews)

Blair Labatt

79% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Labatt Food Service has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 216 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Labatt Food Service employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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216 reviews
1.0
Jun 22, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Typical 8-5, Monday - Friday schedule. Decent pay. That's about it.

Cons

Where to begin.....Since the pandemic started no one was allowed to work from home including employees with underlying health conditions, employees that had kids with no daycare available, etc. Doctor's notes, ADA letters being denied left and right. You don't matter, only the companies' needs matter. If you have any self-respect do NOT work for this company. Many people were also laid off including half of this department. Management lying to employees being terminated that their whole department was being removed entirely to make it seems justifiable that it wasn't just them being targeted. Employees having to take unpaid time off for their own safety or underlying health conditions since they did not want to approve employees to work from home and then being seen as selfish by upper management for doing so. Feeling like there's not job security because there is a world pandemic going on and can't help but take unpaid time off for fear of getting sick. First year no vacation, no time off. After the first year, 5 vacations days, third year 10 vacations days, then after 10 years 15 vacation days max. Fear-based Culture. Very uptight and lack of transparency. Sick time accumulates at 1 sick day every 3 months.

1.0
Apr 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

•Good pay •Good experience •Smart coworkers •EXCELLENT networking opportunities •Company keeps growing •Very innovative! Develops it's own software

Cons

•Cult-like atmosphere – a blind devotion and love for the company is expected at the expense of anything not directly related to Labatt. •Executives trash-talk former employees in front of current whenever they leave. •Benefits besides pay are substandard (vacation and holidays are a joke) •Labatt would rather ask employees to flood the internet would positive reviews than try to fix their problems. Review their rating trends and check out some of the earlier reviews. They started out terrible before an influx of positive reviews rolled in. •A top executive has stated that “Democracy is governance by the poor,” claimed that an upper class is needed to step and guide the lower class, and has cited a famous communist manifesto as a major influence on the company’s philosophy. Employees are treated like children and executives want to control what they do outside of work. I have been personally pulled into an executive’s office and chewed out simply for eating lunch with a former employee. •If the company gets the feeling you might be looking for a job with another company, they will fire you without bothering to check for actual facts. They have lost lawsuits over this. •Employees who stay too long have a hard time finding jobs elsewhere. There is largely because much of Labatt’s software is outdated or proprietary (the company developed and owns it), meaning if you learn how to use it you are learning how to use software not used by other companies. •Has a bad reputation around San Antonio. Many non-Labatt professionals view Labatt management as a joke. Ask around.

1.0
Aug 12, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

...? Met some very nice co-workers. I suppose discounts on over-priced food product can be considered a pro as well?

Cons

I challenge you to find more arrogance, nepotism, and hypocrisy in a single company. Any training/professional development received while at this establishment can be found, used, on amazon.com. Any career advancement can be found, at thrice the pace, at another company. Please, don't waste your time here.

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