Cub Foods reviews

Dealing with jerkoff customers. Incompetent management.

-Hands down the worst part about this job is the pay. Clean team workers start at $7.25 and the rest of the workers start at $7.35. That may seem decent for an entry level job, but when you factor in the union dues (equal to two hours of pay per month), the pay is horrible. At $7.35 a hour, you have to pay $14.70 per month in dues, so when you do the math if you work 100 hours a month, that's only $7.203 per hour after union dues. Those on clean team at $7.25 per hour only make $7.105 per hour after union dues when they work 100 hours per month. -If you think that's bad, the pay for the first 4 months is even worse, because for the first 4 months, the union adds $25 to your normal union dues because of the union initiation fees. So, a cashier at $7.35 a hour has to pay $39.70 for union dues for the first 4 months, which comes out to be only $6.953 per hour after union dues for the first 4 months if you work 100 hours per month. -Additionally, you're supposed to get a very small 10 cents raise after you've worked 1040 hours (not including sunday hours), but they had a pay freeze for 3 years. That pay freeze ended last September, but when they ended it, they reset everyone's hours, so now, by the time I get any raise to bring me above $7.203 after union dues, I will have been there for well over 3 years. -The managers are friendly, but when it comes to money, they will try as hard as possible to pay you as little as possible and to avoid having to give you benefits. -The union does almost nothing for us. The union didn't stop Cub from freezing our pay and then resetting our hours, and the union makes it so you're almost entirely rewarded base upon how long you've worked here, not how hard you work. There's barely any incentive to work hard. -Belonging to an union may be a great thing when it's a really good job after college, but for an entry level job that pays within 10 cents of minimum wage before union dues, it completely sucks belonging to an union. I'd much rather not belong to the union because I'm a hard worker and I'd much rather have the $15 in my pocket each month. -Another thing that I really hate is that the new employees make barely any money while the employees who have been here for over 5 years make over $13 a hour just to do the same stuff as the new employee. I understand that those that have been there for 5 years have more experience than a new employee, but that doesn't mean they should be paid nearly double what the new employee makes. It would be a lot more fair if the new employees started at about $8.00 a hour, and then got small raises every 6 months to end up around $10.50 after 5 years. -They also take advantage of their new employees by keeping them on waiver for as long as possible. When you're on waiver, you don't get any of the benefits that you're supposed to get after you've been there for a year (including paid vacation time), your hours are the first to be cut when the sales are slow because you aren't guaranteed any hours, and you may get zero hours for some weeks in January and February when sales are really slow. Instead of only keeping the new workers on waiver for about 6 months, which would be reasonable, they keep the ones that they think will stay there for a while on waiver for as long as possible, so then they get away with not having to give those workers their benefits after they've been there for a year. -They used to promote people to full time position after they've worked there for several years, but now it's next to impossible to get a full time position because the company is in a very bad situation financially. I'd be surprised if Cub is still in business 10 years from now because they're in a lot of debt and Walmart is getting a lot of Cub customer's by having much cheaper prices. -Even if you're a high schooler looking for your very first job, don't apply for a job here. The pay here is so bad that even a basic worker at Walmart or McDonalds is making 5 cents more a hour than me, and it completely sucks having to go multiple years without any raises when you're only making $7.20 a hour. I regret getting a job here.