Great co-workers, terrible corporate management. - Anonymous employee Caribou Coffee Employee Review

2.0
Aug 14, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The fellow employees have all become personal friends to me even after leaving, and are just generally great people. Even the management at the store level was usually good.

Cons

The corporate management was clueless, especially in trying to make up ground against certain other large coffee retailers, which often led to miscommunication and added responsibility that shouldn't have been given to employees making minimum wage or slightly above.

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Pros

Free drink but only one per shift

Cons

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