WinCo Foods reviews

It's honestly like a concentration camp. You will live, eat, sleep and breath this place. They don't care about your family. I saw more people get divorced and have their family wrecked at this place than any other employer I've worked for. The ESOP is a joke. It may have been great when they first started this program but it isn't now. There's too many hands in the pot for your stock to grow now. Would you expect bathroom breaks at your job? Well you better shelve that expectation because you are being timed from the minute you clock in. The productivity times are so tight It's insane. This place has been through 2000+ employees since it opened. I don't know of 1 of them that left there happy. The only thing to be happy about is getting out before it destroys your home life. Do yourself a favor and skip this application. You won't regret it.

Extremely uncaring management!! HORRIBLE company culture!! No appreciation is given for excellent work: no bonuses, no raises, not even a "thank you." Not merit-based, meaning there is no chance for a raise because of hard work, no matter how excellent of an employee you are. The company practices cold-hearted socialism: employment is based on a point system, meaning, if you are sick or miss work because of an emergency or something beyond your control, you still attain "points" and will be fired. But if you are on FMLA (for a disability--no matter how meager-- or any "disorder") you get a free pass and can call out as often as you like with no discipline or consequences. A very shoddy, unethical system!!! The hard-working, smart, helpful employees are picked off while the whiny, lazy ones are protected. Scheduling is also a joke. It is all computerized and completely inhumane and sporadic. You are never given a set schedule. Schedules are made for the next Sunday-Saturday and are given out on Fridays. Therefore, you never know what you will be working the next week until the Friday before. And if you want a day off you have to request it on an impersonalized form two weeks in advance, and then it is up to management to grant the request or not. (And, yes, they play favorites.) Also, you are not allowed to ask for holidays off. Another thing, the turnover rate is extremely high. Even management is constantly changed. There is never any stability in day-to-day operations. And the employees are all over-worked and under-paid. The entire corporate structure and company culture lacks any kind of humanness or social grace. I feel like I wasted two and half years of my life there. I started as a positive, energetic, excited, and friendly employee. But the life was sucked out of me by constant negativity and unethical treatment by an overall uncaring and constantly changing group of hothead managers.