Absolute Worst Company to Work for. - Cashier WinCo Foods Employee Review

Extremely uncaring management!! HORRIBLE company culture!! No appreciation is given for excellent work: no bonuses, no raises, not even a "thank you." Not merit-based, meaning there is no chance for a raise because of hard work, no matter how excellent of an employee you are. The company practices cold-hearted socialism: employment is based on a point system, meaning, if you are sick or miss work because of an emergency or something beyond your control, you still attain "points" and will be fired. But if you are on FMLA (for a disability--no matter how meager-- or any "disorder") you get a free pass and can call out as often as you like with no discipline or consequences. A very shoddy, unethical system!!! The hard-working, smart, helpful employees are picked off while the whiny, lazy ones are protected. Scheduling is also a joke. It is all computerized and completely inhumane and sporadic. You are never given a set schedule. Schedules are made for the next Sunday-Saturday and are given out on Fridays. Therefore, you never know what you will be working the next week until the Friday before. And if you want a day off you have to request it on an impersonalized form two weeks in advance, and then it is up to management to grant the request or not. (And, yes, they play favorites.) Also, you are not allowed to ask for holidays off. Another thing, the turnover rate is extremely high. Even management is constantly changed. There is never any stability in day-to-day operations. And the employees are all over-worked and under-paid. The entire corporate structure and company culture lacks any kind of humanness or social grace. I feel like I wasted two and half years of my life there. I started as a positive, energetic, excited, and friendly employee. But the life was sucked out of me by constant negativity and unethical treatment by an overall uncaring and constantly changing group of hothead managers.