WinCo Foods reviews

Pay should be greater, especially for PICs who are the backbone of the company and enforce the will of the store manager and the policies of the company on a personal and daily basis. PICs make the same salary as a checker that stands in one place all day just beeping groceries, yet have management responsiblities and duties. Little care is given to the hourly empolyees, whether it be ridiculou scheduling that doesn't allow for anything that could be considered a "life" to proper training to lousy managers who have only scraped by in the company because of other people who support and correct mistakes before they are recognized to be complete failures to promoting unqualified employees to PICs when they have neither the intelligence or ability to properly handle the responsibilities or duties of said position. The workplace is like a high school and everyone stabs anyone in the back for any reason.

- Training is awful. You're basically left to the wolves here and have to figure out stuff on your own. - Pay is not competitive. WinCo drags their feet with giving raises to match comparable work in the area. - Consistently understaffed and overworked despite being one of the most busy stores in the entire company. - Lofty expectations for skeleton crews. - Upper Management and HR comes across as apathetic which makes it hard to talk to them about problems at work and in personal life. In some extreme cases, they act like you're just making up stories for attention. Thankfully I only know a few instances where such accusations were flung at coworkers in dire circumstances and once for myself. Some actually are decent people, but need better people skills and need to know how to practice active listening. Fewer still are fantastic and actually are approachable, but they do exist. - Total disorganization among higher ups in most departments. Everyone has different requirements for how things should be done which is absolutely dizzying for newcomers. Over time, you do learn to compromise and figure out whose say actually holds the most weight and why, but I feel things should be way more clear.