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Stress level to the roof - Training Leader Panda Express Employee Review

1.0
13 Nov 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive pay, training bonus, free meal.

Cons

Stress level to the roof. You will not have work life balance. You will get call and message from leadership team on ur day off, and daily from as early as 7am till 11:59pm. Basically you are unintentionally forced to work for free. HR is buddy with leadership team, no such thing as putting people first. Leadership team managing and leading from fear, putting so much pressure on management at store level while all they do is meeting and come up with something that they can’t even control it. Favoritism on getting promoted, some supervisor are uneducated and very unprofessional, but just because buddy with the VP. Be ready for extreme make over on the store and on yourself when they announce CEO is around. You are told to be authentic but also taught to say only what they want to hear. Don’t mind having a two way communication, leadership team just want you to listen and deliver the final results that they want, they don’t care about your thoughts, inputs, challenges, progress, and support needed. There is no such thing as diversity, been on recruiting team with the leadership team, they literally make comments for moving forward candidates based on color, race, sexuality, looks and proportional weight.

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Panda Express Response
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We appreciate your feedback. People are the heart of the Panda family, and we are deeply rooted in our core value of respect. We understand an inspirational leader can impact the work experience and want to elevate. We will be sharing this with our Ops management team and look forward to improving the experience for all our associates. We welcome you to share your experience in further detail via our “My Voice Matters” confidential hotline: 626-799-9898 x6053. We look forward to learning more about your experience. ​

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