Spread too thin all the time - Field Consultant 7-Eleven Employee Review

2.0
May 6, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Able to have an open schedule. If you meet the right people, your experience can be much better than the whole. There are good employees and franchisees throughout the company to learn from. Company car is provided, with gas, for some positions. Some of the fringe benefits can be great.

Cons

There are too many initiatives that are deemed important at one time. Any time sales go down, there always seems to be one too many fire drills. There are far too many individuals who are in leadership positions who really should not be there. The politics are the worse I've ever experienced. There is too much of a mistrust between corporate and the franchisees which lead to major headaches for frontline corporate employees. Store expansion is too ridiculous and can and will eventually hurt the company no matter what is preached. There is little chance for advancement unless you'd like to move to Dallas, and if you cannot or unwilling to do so, you get blackballed. Far too many stores need remodels and upgrades and are not getting them. Long term goals as well as budgets are unrealistic. The culture of Servant Leadership that has always been preached is never properly fulfilled.

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5.0
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Pros

good work value and environment friendly

Cons

The manager would call my phone at 3 am to tell me to unload a truck full of drinks alone, constantly, even though it was never mentioned or docked as pay.

2.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, Schedule Flexibility and Local Teams - That is where the pro's stop

Cons

Upper Management don't seem to have a clue! They do cuts throughout the company every 2 to 3 years just to hire back/hire new people into roles they eliminated 6 months earlier. They say they value people and their concerns but the majority of workers say nothing about the toxic work environment created by Zone Leaders and above in fear of being singled out. They create positions that don't add value to the field and add more and more work onto field staff. Size of areas continually change - first its 10, then 12, then 16, back to 12 and back to 14+ stores. No consistency in there direction, they train you to manage the whirlwind but the problem is...... they create the whirlwind! Upper Management is a do as I say, no questions asked

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