They don't care - Budtender Zen Leaf Employee Review

1.0
Apr 6, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The samples and the insurance that's it

Cons

Higher ups only looking out for themselves. Budtenders and AICs are replaceable in a heart beat to them. You try to take off an hour early once in a blue moon for a Dra appointment or anything you have to take a half day of 4 hours of PTO to take the 1 if you have none to use it's an attendance point 8 of them in the year your fired. You can't be more then 3 minutes late you can't start more then 7 minutes early. Was full time but only got 25-30 hours a week and had to pull teeth to get the extra 10. Oh best part worked there a year got no raise. Brought it up to them a month and half after it was supposed to be done cause we changed all management in the time I was supposed to and then got canned a week later cause I said I wanted back pay for the 2 months they missed. Work life balance doesn't exist here at all. You have to be open available everyday doesn't matter. Constantly calling the group chat for people to pick up shifts. They brought the kiosks in and expected it all to be okay when now customers are hostile as heck. Coworkers are fighting each other for the greeter position just so you can have some down time from the 45 minute wait time lines the customers have now. Oh also the higher ups literally told me that 30-45 minute wait times are a good thing. Never have I wanted to wait for something that long. I always leave 🤷 oh also all the seniority they had at any of the locations in Illinois went to zero really quick they either fired or they quit for better opportunities. Some of them worked there since the dispensaries opened. Stay away as much as you can. Their CEO doesn't care either unless it's filling his pockets hence them bringing in the kiosks and cleaning out all the dispensariss of their seniors to pay part timers which they never did in the past. Basically just know you are replaceable to them they just see you as a number

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5.0
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Great tips, family environment, flexibility, and benefits.

Cons

Management claims to have a concern for you as an employee, treats them otherwise. Very intimidating higher up.

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2.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

Cool and friendly coworkers, occasional “free” samples (if you don’t have a med card, you will have to pay taxes on them.) and tips in addition to regular pay.

Cons

Management is inexperienced and lazy; they never come in to fill a call out unless absolutely necessary and still will end up leaving early. They don’t know how to schedule around the high turnover rate but seemingly have no real sense of urgency to hire more people to fill the gaps either. The higher ups don’t care about the customers, just about squeezing the most money out of them as possible. Keep breaking things that weren’t in need of changes and keep firing people and expecting everyone else to pick up the slack with no extra pay.

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