Decent job, but you deal with terrible employees at times and managers. - General Merchandise Clerk Meijer Employee Review

3.0
Feb 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

For retail, you actually receive raises. The manager can be good, but it can vary as no person is the same as the other. After a year your able to transfer to a higher paying department. Another good thing is that they have a union; so that means they can't fire you just because they don't like you. For example, they can't fire you because you like a type of music they think as bad.

Cons

There are by far more negative things about Meijer's them there is positive. While some managers are good, others are terrible, not friendly and they play favorites. Cooperate always sticks their noise in and tells you how things should be done even though their not the ones working on the floor and they don't know glow that store in that area should be ran and why things are done a certain way. The union is good but also bad. People who have been there for a whole and full timers know how to use the union so they don't have to do any work or just the bare minimum, making it so when you work second shift you have a lot more work to get done. As a general merchandise employee you don't get to leave until all your work is done or you have worked a full 8.5 hours. Just terrible

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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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