Don't work here, very low morale - Anonymous employee Hy-Vee Employee Review

1.0
17 Sept 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Full-time insurance is good but it's really hard to get and there are a lot of great employees you get to work with and meet

Cons

Hy-vee as a whole don't listen to their employees. Theres a lot of favoritism and you're undervalued. You get treated like you're beneath managers as a person. Promotions and discipline are based favoritism. Way underpaid. Managers won't always let you know when you've done something wrong. Communication is awful. With cutting hours they want one person to do the work of 2 or 3 in less time than it took with 1(managers and departments have this problem)  Sometimes that's impossible which is exactly why a few employees clock out and keep working. It's hard to have a life when you open some days close other days, work 10 hours this week and 40 next

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Pros

Paid breaks. Can be lazy and get the same pay as a hard worker.

Cons

Your high efforts are not rewarded. Benefits only include the time you put into retail that can be considered experience. Although you have the title for a specific position you will still be forced to complete tasks of another position. Although I was a checker, I was also put on hot food line, samples, cart duty, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning spills, watching self check out, stocking, and many more. Any sense of enjoyment with other coworkers gets shut down quick by management. Availability can be ignored by management. Lots of drama with coworkers. No penalty for inappropriate and unprofessional work. Management cares about business more than employees even though it is “employee owned”.

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