Conservative and Stubborn - Aisles Online Hy-Vee Employee Review

2.0
Jul 3, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hours, strong employee of employee community, personable asst. managers. Good first job. Very easy to find a store department fit for you if you don't like checking or bagging.

Cons

No employee benefit for part timers, almost impossible to get full time unless you're a manager or have been at the store for 15 years. Very conservative dresscode enforced only on men - female employees are given passes on facial piercings, hair color, tattoos, etc. I walked in once with my shirt untucked (bc the store is 90 degrees and they stopped enforcing it on female employees) and was threatened with being sent home. Upper management is very sketchy and communicates very little with employees unless they're being nosy or checking up on dress code. The one single benefit employees get at the store is getting employee meals for a dollar or so cheaper but the food is often reheated or completely raw. Management have no spine and will bend over backwards to comply with customers that will outright bully employees to tears.

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Pros

You get to constantly move around the store thru the different departments. Depending on the hours you work you can potentially learn how to do little things within each department, for example the deli or meat counters, which in turn opens an opportunity to get additional hours if needed when AOL doesn't have the business to keep all the shoppers shopping. Hyvee was always very good about giving you the opportunity to help in other areas of the store if your department was lacking hours or business to give you the full 40 for your work week.

Cons

The management/ chain of command often gets a little confusing as you have department managers, assiant managers, general mangers and a director. Often times I felt as if assiant managers sometimes gave different directions then the department manager would give almost condescending what you were told from your direct manager, but would fail to communicate with the department manager this info, causing conflict with employees being told to do it one way and then also getting asked why things were done that way after being trained to do it another way. Basically no communication by your assiant to the department manager causing internal conflict.

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