Pros
Peers seemed to be really nice and supporting. 30-40 hours combined with a weekly check. Doing overnight stock is like weight training and cardio (if your trying to keep in shape). Fellow stockers were helpful.
Cons
Overnight management power struggles amongst themselves. Your treated like a piece of meat and not a person. Yelled at with curse words (for not knowing how to operate a piece of stocking machinery that my partner, who called in sick during my second day of training, hadn't taught me yet. Micro managed. Bosses hover over you. Night crew managers barked out orders military style. Night crew managers seemed to always be under extreme pressure and anxiety of failure. Management fears "higher ups" and took it out on employees. Many people knew management was bad but also felt there was nothing they could really do about it. The biggest con was that I actually liked vons before working here because if its environment and nice setting...but it is like having a beautiful car...that was really tore up on the inside. This changed how I see vons. I also got in trouble from manager "B" for listening to manager "A". These two would tell me to do handle sections that the other did not like so that they could make each others job harder. Using me as a middle man. Example: manager A needs to examine aisle 1. Manager B tells me not to stock aisle 1 but to start at 8. Manager A gets mad at ME for listening to manager B. Vice versa. This place is a circus.
