Toxic management and high turnover create a miserable workplace - Department Lead Meijer Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

My coworkers were some of the best people I have ever worked with. The training was fairly in depth which I appreciated.

Cons

1. You are allowed 6 attendance points before being up for termination. Arriving late or leaving early is 0.5 points. Calling off is 1 point. No call no shows are 2 points. Employees are treated as numbers from the very beginning. 2. Management is extremely out of touch. The store director spends most of the day in his office until his boss comes in to do a walk through. Only then does he show up on the floor and help, and he's threatened a former coworker's job if he didn't get a task done in an unreasonable amount of time because of the walk through that day. 3. The store director asks for more and more of the employees despite being short staffed. He does not spend enough time on the floor to know what the job actually entails. The turnover rate is insanely high and he just demands more of the employees who stay when people inevitably quit. He needs to spend a day in each department. 4. A huge reason that the store is so short staffed is because the store director gets a yearly bonus depending on how much money he spends on the store. 5. The store director is a gaslighter. 6. My team leader played favoritism and gave me an attendance point for having a 101.3 degree fever at work because apparently I didn't HAVE to tell her. I was expected to handle food and produce all day and spread my germs to our customers and my coworkers. 7. My team leader reacted to my leaving early with anger nearly every time. 8. My team leader ignored my attempts at communication outside of work, which were always about important topics. 9. There is a general air of misery and frustration among the employees. I didn't go a day without hearing people complaining being angry. 10. This is honestly a genuinely traumatic place to work.

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Great leadership and atmosphere to be a part of. The job always has something new to offer every day so it is very engaging.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

Direct coworkers were great to work with. I also enjoyed being left to do my work and not babysat by management.

Cons

Management doesn't know what they are doing. Resets and floor plans were regularly not done properly. The store I worked at has a skeleton crew so I never got help (but was expected to stop everything I'm going to go help other departments/areas). Also meaning good luck to any customers needing help, especially when I was the only person working my area of the store, so when I wasn't there, no one was. Management also regularly disappeared into the offices or were on vacation. Also was terminated for reasons outside my control even though I was told they look at the reasons for attendance incidents before termination. Never got to get the FMLA or accommodation to my doctors before being terminated two days after I requested them. Didn't bother asking for a raise either. I did multiple times and got nothing.

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