Cake Decorator - Cake Decorator Harris Teeter Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are good, and they are one of the few retail places that still hires full time. Management within the store is great.

Cons

Quality of products has gone down a lot lately, especially in fresh foods. The frosting is now extremely thick and has given me (and other decorators) carpal tunnel (I have never had issues in my 10 years of decorating), and we have been getting many complaints about the taste of it. It has to be microwaved every time you use it. 20+ hours a week of labor (flash sales, new products) has been added yet hours and staff have been cut severely since Kroger merger. Yearly raises have been lowered as well, and salary is lower than competitors and despite having a lot of experience in my field I cannot even pay my rent. Concerns are ignored by corporate. Expect to slice meat and subs during any "downtime" in bakery (there is none, but you will be sent to the deli anyways). For a cake decorator or baker, there is nowhere to move up in the company unless you want to manage the deli.

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Cons

• They talk to you like you're stupid. • Their tone becomes more aggressive when you don't brown nose them. • They don't lead by example nor implement any teamwork. • They make daily operations more difficult to complete as a flex. • They disguise their racism towards employees as company policy institution. • They become spiteful when you don't fall in line and take out their frustration on your workers while store management look the other way. • They talk negatively about you in group chats and emails. • They pretend to be inefficient when they don't want to help. • They harass & imprison your workers as soon as you clock out (by eyewitness accounts). • Management will sabotage your evaluation, hire special needs people for critical thinking jobs, & accept underperforming associates from other stores just to save money. • Higher-ups will deny qualified applicants employment while conspiring to hire the children of old classmates who purposefully show up to work late. • Store management will physically assault minors who steal on the premises and act openly racists to shoppers of color.

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