Pros
The coworkers are usually really nice. If you get a decent manager, it makes things way easier.
Cons
Oh man. I’ve been with the company for about five years now. Buckle up. 1. The pay. Or, lack thereof. Meijer, being the gracious people they are were the last store in the area to pay $15 an hour. One of the first to cut hazard pay for Covid. Despite having worked there for years, I now make the same as somebody they hired yesterday. The raises are laughable, and they cut bonuses for regular employees barely a year into me working there. 2. Don’t work hard, or they’ll take advantage of you. If you enjoy a good days work, watch out. All of the sudden, you’re their go to for gigantic messes or huge grocery loads. Some managers are quick to throw you under the bus despite you working an entire department by yourself. 3. They’re cheap. Especially with hiring. My shift has a pathetic ten people or so on it at this point. Everyone who has worked here a long time has burned out and quit. New hires burn out, or aren’t very good and get fired. They claim it’s due to a lack of decent candidates. Which might actually be true, considering the pay sucks and some stores are actively known for places even other team members won’t transfer to. 4. It’s never good enough. No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you try, you’re doing something wrong. The standards are ridiculous. Not everyone can put up 70 cases an hour. And lord forbid you’re tired, sick, or just aren’t feeling it that day. You can tell by the look on managements faces that they’re angry. 5. Speaking of management, they’ve hired some beauties. In my several years here, I’ve had three managers who were racist, one even to my face. I’ve been called a racial slur. Try going to HR? They sweep it under the rug. None of them were fired for it. Other managers have been either incompetent or pathetically groveling to whatever suit is visiting this week. They’ll also switch from being friendly with you to issuing Stalin style justice the next day. 6. They won’t leave you alone. Despite working the same areas for years, managers still think they know my job better than I do. They can’t let people work. If they get their feelings hurt, they often call meetings and all of the sudden everything is an infraction that can lead to termination. Grow up.