Speedway reviews

There are not enough hours allocated to any store (I have worked at 3 stores,in Ohio and Michigan) to adequately perform all the duties expected of each employee. Going up the line, most of my managers have been easy to work for and excellent in their management abilities. District Managers have what I call DMitis. Although they may have worked stores years ago, they have forgotten what it is like to be in the trenches. When you get up to the higher level of management, they really don't have a clue as to what goes on in the company. Even the people in recruiting cannot believe the negative remarks made on this site by former and current employees. If I was just starting out in my life and spent a few months working at Speedway, I would start looking for other opportunites. They treat management like slaves. It is almost impossible to get fired from speedway if you are in management because they do not want to pay unemployment. They will offer you the opportunity to step down and if you choose not to, you quit. Than they don't have to pay unemployment. What I don't understand is why district managers try to sweep things under the rugl I could give a few good examples, but that my endanger my position in the company, and since I am not upper management I could be fired! And they would find a way to not pay me unemployment. They also fight paying workers compensation claims.That is something that I totally disagree with. Having worked in insurance I realize the need to investigate, but to put someone in a position who is incompetent in that position to keep from paying workers compensation knowing they were hurt on the job is totally inexcusable. I could go on and on but I think you will get the gist of what I am trying to get across.

I was paid just a bit above minimum wage. It was either 7.50 per hour or 7.75, I don't remember which. MEMORIZING ALL OF THE CIGARETTES IS SUPER SUPER HARD. I was good at memorizing things in school, but that didn't help me very much. It seemed like there were at least 50-60 different brands of various tobacco products and it took me at least a week to memorize where all of them are. Most of the customers were very patient and a lot already knew where their type of cigarette was and helped me, but it was still hard for me to memorize all of these at first. (Though after a few weeks it was second-nature.) Lastly, I was lucky that I wasn't at a Speedway that had a third shift, but if you are working at one that does, I don't think it's safe. If you want to see what I mean, google "Speedway Ypsilanti robbery" or "Speedway robbery Chasity." Those were the ones that happened while I was working. The security footage for the Speedway Ypsi one is actually pretty epic. Also, there is NO employee discount. One last thing that bothered me personally is that I felt like Speedway was quite wasteful. We cooked food a couple times a day, and after a few hours, if no one bought it, you had to throw it out. No donating it, no eating it (unless you bought it), nothing. And we had to throw out almost all of it, it seemed, because it wasn't purchased that often. Also, we had certain quotas to reach that were extremely unreasonable. Like we were supposed to sell a crazy amount of candy, and were were supposed to try to ask the customers to buy it, like "Hey, I see you're buying a soda, wouldn't candy go great with that!?" I have never had this happen to me when I am shopping at a gas station, and frankly if it did, I would be kind of annoyed. But if the Speedway regional reviewer person came in and noticed we didn't do that, we would get in trouble (or our manager would). The reviewer person (I forgot the official title) came in once a month on a random day to make sure we were doing everything right. Which was okay and understandable, but sometimes we would get in trouble for silly things that seemed like rule-enforcing for the sake of rule-enforcing, not actually improving the business. You know, silly rules that existed but had no real purpose. We were also expected to hand out a crazy number of membership cards. Our numbers were supposed to be almost 100%, but not all customers wanted these cards, so it would have been really annoying to them to force them to take the cards. So it was another thing, like the candy, designed to help the business but not actually helping anything.