Terrible place to work. If you are thinking of working here I'd recommend QFC right across the street instead. I worked for the night crew for about 5 months and it was my first official job. It only took one week to find out that the night manager was very short tempered and didn't respond well to me asking questions about how to do something, and it didn't seem like I was being trained properly. (This isn't much of a surprise to me now because I figured out from an employee that knows both the owner and this particular manager, that this manager was never actually trained to be a manager, and was basically just handed the job.) On top of all of this I was never told about any policies until I was told that I was violating them, or that I was doing something incorrectly until Shane had already cut my hours and didn't tell me that it was permanent until the next week when I had to walk miles home in the dark and rain because my phone had no service and my ride wasn't coming for another 8 hours. (I quit the next day)
The problematic policy was that stockers have to face with both hands. However, there are points in time where you have to use one hand to face such as when you need to hold onto a ladder or when you need to reach in between other products that are close together and when you have to reach behind a pillar and when you can't use both hands to reach something all the way on the back end of the shelf. So when I was told t about it I faced with both hands other than in those scenarios and I figured this would solve the problem because I mentioned this to the Shane and Marry and Marry had said "Yeah we don't want you falling" Referring to holding on to the ladder when facing on it and not addressing the rest of the scenarios. I figured that if there was still a problem that someone would talk to me about it but no Shane just cut my hours as a punishment because him and his manager that was never trained, didn't properly communicate the problem.
Another thing that got my hours cut was literally me talking to a coworker even though I was working at the same time. The workers are not told that they can't talk and that same manager has conversations with the staff constantly along with no policy being against communication. Knowing this I made sure that I was only talking while I was getting work done and that I wouldn't get distracted. So my coworker and I were both talking as we ended up working the same few Isles (our pallets both had items for Isle 7&8). And when we went to the bailer it was because our carts were full of cardboard and they needed emptied out. It also wasn't hard to see that on the cameras considering that we both started working that specific isle at the same time and would have filled up our carts also close to the same time. But even though all of this was very obvious, I again never had the alleged problem addressed to me and instead got Wednesday taken off my schedule the following week, in which case in stead of letting me know the same manager let my dad know what I apparently had done wrong and I had to find out through him. If my dad never told me, I would have never even known what the problem was and why that day got taken off.
The third and final problem involves what I said earlier about lack of communication and the lack of proper training. The same night that me and that coworker were working the same isles, after I got my pallets done, I was told by the manager to open up things that needed opened up around the store and he told me specifically not to face until I opened things up. Although I was never taught exactly how much to open I saw from how the girl who worked before me and how this same manager did it that the amount of product open should equal at least nearly a full case. At this time, Isle 3 was a complete mess and very clearly needed faced, but since I remembered that I was told not to face, I made sure that everything equaled a full case when faced. After this the manager took me to isle 7 where the spices were and showed me that there wasn't enough spices opened (Whoever faced the spices before that didn't open enough) So I opened the spices and moved down that isle facing since everything else was already opened that needed opened. As I was facing down that same isle, I noticed that my coworker was stocking on the same isle and we started talking as I was still facing and he was still stocking. The manager came and told me I could go, so I assumed it was time to leave already. Then when my coworker was about to go, the manager said "No not you, just him. He's not even doing anything." So even though I was pissed I just told him that I had already opened everything up that needed opened and that I had started facing like he said. Then he said "Isle 9 looks like crap!" So I went back and opened more, then went back to facing. This was again not brought up to me but instead was brought up to my dad after my hours were already cut short (I'm an adult) read more
