Subway reviews

Subway has been falling down the stairs - in consumers' minds and with employee treatment - for 5 years straight. Founder passed away and would be absolutely sickened by the absentee mgmt. style of his sister (now CEO), and at the performance (franchisees bleeding money) of the amazing brand he built from scratch. When I started in 2000, this company valued its employees, cared about their career success and allowed a work/life balance. From 2012 and after, the company paid way more lip service to valuing/caring for employees, but all of its actions said - you're a number, you don't exist outside here. Example: the company tried to achieve "Great Places to Work" status via anon. employee surveys, but fell short. Rather than making it a great place to work, they strong-armed Directors into having their people all retake it and give good ratings.

I had to work the dinner rush all by myself, there was literally a line out the door for hours. the only way we could get a raise is if the store made higher sales, regardless of your quality as an employee, so I was stuck with minimum wage indefinitely. If you failed to say 'welcome to subway' within 3 seconds of a customer walking in you could get written up, if that happened to a secret shopper you would get fired. this job was the worst.