Worst job experience - Cashier El Pollo Loco Employee Review

1.0
Dec 7, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you work in the evenings it can be decently fun because you'll be working with college students.

Cons

The management is absolutely terrible. They call meetings where they complain about employees breaking the rules but then ask you to break the rules for them when they want a larger discount. They are extremely mean and yell at all of their employees, telling them to shut up and putting them down constantly, tell them to go home early for literally no reason, honestly really awful people. Worst experience of my life, had nightmares about work every night. They rushed you so much that they would get mad if you tried to wash your hands after handling the cash register and you had to serve food. Only enforced cleanliness when the inspectors were going. Don't recommend that anybody eat or work there. The other people who worked there were great but everyone wanted to quit because of the managers. Many people considered reporting them but were afraid of losing their jobs.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Not much else other than free food

Cons

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