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Applied for Manager in Training Position (No Offer) - Anonymous employee Panda Express Employee Review

1.0
26 Aug 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You get one free meal per day. That is about the only thing that I can see is good about working at this place.

Cons

EVERYTHING. I had two in interviews and a final, third interview that they call the "on job preview." I have a master's degree so I expected to be learning about balancing accounts, reviewing gain and loss, etc. I was totally wrong. As a manager, you are essentially nothing but a glorified cashier/server. All I did the whole time I was there was serve food and clean. There were no "management" aspects involved. The "trainer" was also extremely rude. We were trained for a total of five minutes before we were expected to serve customers, know the entire menu, plate sizes, etc. I was yelled at for mundane things such as "not holding the spoon properly." This place was a complete waste of my time. I would not recommend this job to anyone unless you are a high school/college student trying to make some money. If you have a degree, go elsewhere.

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