- I was told after being hired that my age almost cost me the position, there was worry that I was too young.
- The company always worried about Wall Street before their employees, often laying off employees or cutting their jobs completely (hourly staff) in order to make budgets.
- My job was a traveling role, which was supposed to be Tuesday - Thursday for travel days. I often was traveling Monday - Friday, leaving well before 6:00 am Monday mornings and returning home well after 6:00 pm Friday evenings.
- Upper management is terrifying, they only value people based off of titles. The teams I worked with would idolize the Regional VP, bending over backwards to accommodate her (things like ensuring she had her choice of seat in meeting rooms, with the rest to follow).
- During COVID-19 the company did everything in their power to change client contracts (with client permission) to ensure there would be no loss to the business. Regardless, hourly and salaried employees were either terminated or laid off for over 7 months and were given less than 48 hour notice that this was happening.
- Overall the experience was terrible. I would never work for Aramark again, and I would never recommend them as a service provider in a corporate office setting. I worked in higher education at the company, and the work they do is pathetic and quite frankly frightening. There were many times where a student would have a problem or complaint and it was immediately sent to legal to handle. They were terrified constantly of lawsuits, yet did nothing to prevent students or clients from being upset with the lack of service and caring from the teams. There were always excuses being made, sometimes there were even meetings where Aramark teams would be discussing how to get out of sticky situations rather than how to prevent situations from happening again. The management was horrible, my boss once slammed her fist so hard on her desk that she apologized for scaring her dog. It was made abundantly clear that if we didn't sell meal plans and meet performance, that we were to be punished by forcing us to go to our college campuses to sell meal plans ourselves. It was a horrible job, terrible company, and the best day of my life was when I finally got to leave that place after almost two years of being mentally manipulated.
