1) Subpar Benefits- Basic Blue Cross, Blue Shield. Also, 80 hours of vacation and sick leave respectively. These hours do not carry over every year, meaning you have to start over earning them every year. If you go over either amount, you will have to accept leave without pay. This is especially negligent during the Covid-19 pandemic. In one instance, an employee who was tested Covid positive was forced to return to work before they completed their 14 day quarantine.
2) lack of incentives for new employees- My first year, my only incentives to stay with this company were a 25¢/hr raise, a cheap plaque made in China, and 2 long sleeve shirts emblazoned with the company logo. The shirts were so poor quality and undersized I had to give them to my SO. I thought I was working for a bank’s Data Center, not Dillard’s department store.
3)Mixed bag of management- some managers are great, others I don’t know how they’ve kept their job for decades. My manager is intolerable to say the least. He and my some of my coworkers conduct have been so jarring that I’ve had to double my anxiety meds in the last year. Just some bullet points of the abuse he’s pulled in the last year:
I) Micromanagement to the point of mistakes amplifying themselves.
II) favoritism of one specific employee, resulting in extra vacation availability for said employee and the rest of us having our schedules changed regularly to accommodate.
III)Constant schedule changes towhere I have to call in before every first shift of the week to make sure what time I’m supposed to be in for work.
IV) screaming matches with a different employee, resulting in said employee storming out during one of their shifts.
V) vindictiveness, I.e., denying vacation time or making your work life miserable, or both, as punishment for going to HR over anything or for refusing to take longer than normal shifts.
VI) Discouraging sick leave, Forcing sick people to come to work with non-Covid illnesses
VII) Working from home the entirety of the COVID 19 pandemic exempt, say, 1-2 days a week in which he comes in to work. All the while, he’s made some employees come into the office the entirety of the pandemic, some who are over 60 years old and commuting a hour each way 4-5 days a week.
