Lots of cons; very few pros - Personal Shopper Hy-Vee Employee Review

2.0
Jun 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers are awesome and the only reason I stayed as long as I did. Other than that, not much else was positive about the workplace. Best to only stay for a little while (to avoid going stir crazy) so you can build your resume with the experience. Your coworkers will likely celebrate and congratulate you when you finally put in your two weeks because everyone wants out so badly.

Cons

HR isn't understanding about family matters that come up unexpectedly. There is an expectation that Hy-Vee ALWAYS comes first. My store does not follow break guidelines set by corporate -- there is an absurd expectation in Aisles Online that delivery drivers do not get breaks. Constant revolving door and always hemorrhaging workers. There is no official training protocol in Aisles Online which leads to new employees going for months without learning extremely basic tasks. The only upside is that other employees are understanding and we can commiserate with each other about our shared misery. I once found mold in the dairy cooler and even though I told a manager nothing was done about it. Dairy is being and has been rotated improperly for as long as I have been there, leading to yogurt packages MONTHS out of date. Overall, they have some pretty unwieldy expectations for $10.00 an hour. Some of the managers act like cattle-drivers to the point that they lose decent humanity and respect for their subordinates. One family practically runs the store.

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Cons

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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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