Many values sacrificed in the name of speed. - Anonymous employee Jimmy John's Employee Review

2.0
Sep 12, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The manager I started working with was very accommodating to new employees, but he didn't last long. The company is willing to hire people with little to no experience. Training is easy. Learning deliveries, table prep or cashier isn't hard at all. You usually get put wherever they need you. Discounts.

Cons

Speed is more important than hygiene. I was the main cashier and I was always told to go from ringing people up to putting gloves on and making sandwiches. I would stop to wash my hands and several managers (including the district manager) frown upon it. Washing my hands would take too long and sandwiches could be passed out faster if I had gone from handling money/dirty credit cards to food. I find this practice to be extremely gross, but maybe that's just me. Dirty lettuce is recycled and portions are often very stingy. Extremely strict corporate and the 5 managers I went through while working here were all extremely 'power hungry'. I've had a manager fire a girl for taking day-old bread home after closing then becoming too lazy to replace her. He then had me stay after my shift was over with no break to cover for her, I worked that day from 11:00 am till close. Again, no break. You only get a free sandwich if you work 6 hours, I was always scheduled for 5.5 hours. The high volume plus high productivity always results in high stress. Extremely sexism and gender discrimination. If you can handle the strict uniform policy (and yes, it's fairly strict), insane corporate, power hungry managers than this is the place for you.

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The upper management can be lead with too many sensitive women, who don't know how to diagnose situations properly, and take the side of the immature employees who get offended way too easily. The co-workers can be very young and irresponsible, but this is par for the course for food places if you don't have strong leadership.

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