Standards are ungodly high. I can understand if someone were to mess up too many times they'd be let go, that's perfectly reasonable. Their policies however, go above and beyond strict, and I'm not sure if I could list them here due to rules so I won't. I will however list a few I see repeated on other reviews.
1. VERY specific grooming requirements
2. Interesting schedule planning
3. Morning meetings
4. Uniforms
5. Benefits
Grooming was very uptight. I never got called out on it because I usually did a decent job grooming myself, but others did. One rule in particular caught me as plain stupid, was "no transitional facial hair." In other words, it's okay to come into the job with a beard, but you cannot start to grow one so long as you are working there.
I'm sure I could talk about my hours worked. There have been weeks where I am scheduled 30-40 hours, and end up working maybe half of that if I'm lucky. It actually got to the point where I needed to beg others for shifts simply to have a chance at meeting my own financial demands. I understand I was part time, and that a business needs to make money by shortening staff for the day, but you can schedule less people in a single day, can't you?
I will say I was terminated from my position, and I'm not ashamed to admit that, because I didn't really see this job as favorable. The reasoning I was terminated was because I had missed a morning meeting after a previous code of conduct issue was noted. I gladly admitted it was my own fault, my alarm clock was incorrectly set after all. I feel though a two-strike policy is a little extreme, especially when you put so much time and money into your employees. No one is perfect, after all.
Uniforms are an interesting thought. So instead of the employer just purchasing a uniform for you, you were the one who purchased the uniform, and you paid for it paycheck by paycheck. So instead of getting your full pay, a fixed amount of your pay went towards you uniform account. The worst part of all of this is once your uniform was paid off, the account would simply grow from there for future uniform purchases. A nice idea, but you never got to see that bit of money taken out from every check.
Finally, benefits. I don't see how this company has good benefits, I never once though "oh, this is worth it" from this job. No real part-time benefits besides a couple of free washes every week, and if you got the highest sales for a day, you get some money at the next morning meeting. That's it. Those are the only benefits I've observed for part-time associates. I don't know why this company is so highly ranked as "A great place to work!" when they do the things they do to employees.
