Wringing out money wherever they can - Checker Hy-Vee Employee Review

3.0
Aug 3, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Some of my direct supervisors cared about employees Very flexible scheduling

Cons

Starting pay was very poor. I moved to grocery delivery and was asked to take on extra hours and pick up slack around the department all while getting paid just a tad above minimum wage. Grocery delivery often required demanding physical labor (for example, I once delivered fifty cases of water to a customer), but yet I was compensated the same as employees bagging groceries. They didn't care about paying me appropriately for the value I added and for the difficulty of the job I took on, but rather aimed to squeeze as much work out of me as possible while paying me as little as they could. I understand that this dynamic in certainly not uncommon, especially in companies like Hyvee, so I discount this factor in my overall rating. I felt very underappreciated working at Hyvee. Of course checkers/delivery drivers are seldom going to be treated like royalty, but at Hyvee I genuinely got the sense that the company couldn't care less about their lower level employees, especially young ones.

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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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