Hy-Vee reviews

Wages are too low. Raises don't come frequently and when they do you might not be told you got one. You just might notice it on your paysturb but only if it is big enough to notice, which it proably isn't. Autonomy of store directors can be a horrible thing. After working in multiple stores for nearly 8 years, and thinking originally that I might want to retire with this company, I have since decided differently. I have worked for managers who have violent outbursts, affairs with subordinates, and openly exhibited sexist/ageist/racist behaviors. The dress code in most stores is something right out of a 50's movie. If I were a teenager looking for a PT job, why would I want to work for lower wages than even Target and have to where a white shirt and tie too? Although they get accolades for their diverse hiring, I have seen a much different side. It is still being run by mostly white men with a few women and ethnicities sprinkled in. And that is not necessarily a bad thing until you realize they are mostly cut from the same batch of dough. There is A LOT of nepotism so if you know someone at Corporate or are the son of a director, I would definitely apply. Department managers are mostly taken complete advantage of and do too much of the actual work. Stores have too many upper managers who do very little toward the bottom line while others do most of the work. Front ends are so poorly managed that the one thing the upper management does do is spend hours on a register doing the work of someone who should be making much less. It's probably a decent work-life balance for those who are okay with never making over 12/hour and never get asked to work OT. As a department manager, you will miss more time with your family than you can keep track of as it wiill fall on you to cover for the persistent labor shortages and increasing pressure for sales and profit increases that are feeding the growth of the company. And if you are a strong female, who isn't fake, and doesn't want to have a torrid affair with someone in upper management, and especially if you are over 40, I would look elsehere. There is no place for you in this cookie jar.

I wanted to kill myself every day I went to work. I couldn't even enjoy my days off because I was dreading going back to work that much. The management was terrible. Catty assistant managers who micromanaged every teeny-tiny thing. Every manager played favorites. I was sexually harassed by coworkers and customers alike and only heard "oh, boys will be boys"--no. Boys will be held accountable for their actions just like everyone else. Write them up; everyone deserves a safe, nonthreatening work environment. There was a b.s. "point system" that ended up costing me my job. When I started there, if you called in sick, you were given ONE point (at 18 points you were supposed to be fired), and if you brought in a doctors note, the point was dismissed. They later changed it so that if you called in, it was 2 points, 1 if you brought a doctors note. By the time I left, they had changed it (without alerting the employees!!!) So that it was 3 points if you called in and 2 if you brought a doctors note AND if you called in sick on the weekend it was double the amount of points. One time I called in sick on a Saturday and got 6 points. Later that year, I made one, tiny mistake on a WIC check and received 5 points for it; the manager told me that it was because I had worked there so long and should "know better" (I wasn't aware that long periods of employment made you invulnerable to mistakes... My bad) despite the obvious flaw in that argument that if I was there long enough to "know better" then you should know by then that I was a good employee. I left when I had made another tiny mistake on another WIC check (end of the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And knew that the points they would end up giving me would put me well over 18. I left of my own accord (I was not fired) and once I got a new job I realized how hellish hy-vee was. The only reason I stayed for as long as I did was 1) I didn't realize that it was as bad as it really was and 2) my sister worked there so I was expected to follow suit by my family. I was a teenager during my time there. No one should have to go through the trauma of hy-vee when they already are going through one of the hardest times of their lives. No matter how bad it got, I was told to stop complaining and suck it up. That's not a message you should be sending to kids.