Stable, but Mentally Soul-Sucking - Cake Decorator Hy-Vee Employee Review

3.0
Jan 21, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

It is a very friendly environment and for the most part, everyone who works here is awesome. Flexible hours. Especially in the pandemic times, the job is incredible stable. The work is very rewarding and the customers are generally very nice. Benefits are pretty awesome: health and dental insurance, 401k, store discounts, bonuses, etc.

Cons

Retail in general is very awful, because not all customers are friendly and easy-going. However, corporate does not make things easier. They dole out rules and regulations and ideas for all stores that are not even feasible for each individual store. Raises are basically a thing of the past unless you ask for one. In this particular corporate world, the higher ups enjoy giving you more work, but taking away more people and hours. Perfect example of "If you do your job well, you get to do other people's work too!"

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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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