Good place if you want to be a cog in a big big bureaucratic machine. - Anonymous employee Safeway Employee Review

1.0
May 19, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Regular routine. No surprises. Good place for lifer if you like doing the same thing over and over again. After working here for about 6 months, you will identify with Dilbert (like in the Sunday cartoons).

Cons

Very bureaucratic management. Lots of chiefs, not enough workers. About half the company generates excel spreadsheet reports for the other half. Many in management ranks started out as clerks and baggers. Some don't even have a real degree - they got their "MBA" from a diploma mill. Micro-managers. No sense of urgency. Lots and lots of politics.

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