Toxic Environment / Lack of actual Leaders among Global Teams - Global Fuels Manager Circle K Employee Review

2.0
Feb 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Low expectations due to fairly incompetent leadership.

Cons

Company has broad goals overall but very few true leaders to actually drive results. Managers, Directors, “Head Of’s” lack general experience needed for success and tend to pass failure on to reports. Executives try to “build” leaders by sending them through company-sponsored leadership programs which only produces inflated egos. The failed model of promoting based on tenure vs. ability has started to catch up since 2020. The company and culture originally built by the founder and CEO no longer exists. Toxicity is often hidden from Executive level.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

Something new every day. You rarely have a boring shift.

Cons

Well, everyone could definitely use some more money lol But they do pay pretty good.

2.0
Jul 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits such as health/medical insurance

Cons

Massive company. I worked a couple different roles from the “corporate” side, even if I was in stores a lot of the time. One thing I learned is that the “office” or “corporate” roles don’t really have a day off. Sure, it’s a Monday-Friday job but it’s like regardless of what you do there, you’re on call in some way but there isn’t any sort of incentive in return. You’re likely not going to get a sufficient work-life balance working here, because, again, someone is going to be calling or emailing you on the weekend or in the evening where either you have to handle it, or pass it onto someone else who can. Lack of thorough vetting has resulted in unqualified leadership with challenging management styles that hurt daily team morale.

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