1) While some stores are incredible to work for, others are really, really bad. 2) If you are the closer for a department (as I was regularly), all the burden of getting things done is on your shoulders... in the produce department (where I worked), the day crew would leave at 3 or 4 and leave all their garbage untouched, their carts still covered in boxes, and the shelves still empty... if the night crew did not get these things done, the day crew would get mad... 3) The salary is TERRIBLE!!!! You have to work for the company for 4-6 years before you make even a half-decent salary... but people leave by that time, as they have to provide for themselves and their families. 4) If you don't have an in, you'll never get promoted. End of story. 5) The store directors are never in the store. 6) The customer/secret shopper surveys will haunt you. You literally cannot get any work done, because if you leave your department to get something done/grab product to stock, you could lose all your points, and in effect, get written up if you were in the dept. the day/night of the review. 7) They pipe in new managers from outside stores almost every day it seems... with the autonomous nature of HyVee, this jacks with each individual store... you have some manager who walks in and changes the dynamic of the store by demanding people do things the way they saw it done at their last store. 8) The managers come across as condescending, power-hungry, and rude... and often, the laziest people in the store. Front end managers stand around and watch courtesy clerks bag and call other departments to bag while they stand and watch. I walk by the department head office and see ESPN on the computers.
