Grocery clerk, 3rd shift - Grocery Clerk Harris Teeter Employee Review

1.0
Jul 5, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Clean, well-lighted, temperature controlled environment. Colorful, neatly blocked product aisles (thanks to us grocery clerks). Piped in music 24-7, which stops momentarily for customers who come in the door and wonder, "what did i come here for?" It gives them time to think.

Cons

All employee training is done via a computer program: On Boarding; many employers use this, as it frees up supervisors time, since time is money. Employees must clock-in/out for work and lunch; after working HARD for 4 hrs, must climb two flights of stairs to an un-conditioned break room. Must carry over 100 boxes to shelves, tear open boxes, stock shelves, break down boxes, take flattened boxes back to the crusher; then after 5AM block or face-forward stock for that neat unbroked appearance that Harris Teeter mgmt. likes to see--UGH! Yes you will work up a sweat! All this for $8.50/hr. Flipping burgers pays the same and takes far less work. Young people: go to college/trade school, so you can get a GOOD job! I know, because with a B.A. in Microbiology starting at a hospital, I was earning twice Harris Teeters starting salary, and >4 times that amount after 20 years of working at a hospital.

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Pros

You get paid every week.

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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