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Pros
Better work experience and pay than other grocery stores. Management is very involved in the day-to-day; they are always walking the floor. They can be very helpful at times and provide good support when a team is short-staffed or rushed. Most of the other employees are nice and easy to work with, but they can be a bit cliquey.
Cons
Management is very involved in the day-to-day, and they are always walking the floor. They can be incredibly critical and punishing for small issues. Beneath the guise of being a "family," competitiveness is often encouraged, especially among team leaders. Management often plays favorites, strongly reprimanding some for things outside of their control, while being overly forgiving of others for genuine issues. Team leaders are also given much more responsibility than at larger retail stores, for only slightly better pay. I often felt overworked and underappreciated. The holiday bonus is a gift card to the store, the value of which is subtracted from your paycheck for that week. The CEO is a bad leader; senior management often criticizes his choices behind his back, and he can be very retaliatory. It is a quality he passes down through the company, prioritizing loyalists over good businesspeople.
Pros
The company values high quality
Cons
The pay is not the best
Pros
Always growing in my position. Helping find new talent was fun and exciting to train. Great atmosphere to work in. Leadership in Operations were always helpful and willing to teach.
Cons
Low pay and a lot of hours. Picked up slack from Store Team Leader. Felt like I was juggling 2 positions and not being compensated for it.
Pros
Friendly, communication, conflict resolution, overtime
Cons
Pay is not the best for the work they expect
Pros
absolutely nothing. there are no redeeming qualities to this company.
Cons
low pay. no flexibility. you want one day off? have fun working 10+ days in a row to make up for it. you will be belittled, disregarded, disrespected, and exploited to the highest degree. do not work here, seriously. i cannot stress enough how awful it was to work for these horrible people.
Pros
Better work experience and pay than other grocery stores. Management is very involved in the day-to-day; they are always walking the floor. They can be very helpful at times and provide good support when a team is short-staffed or rushed. Most of the other employees are nice and easy to work with, but they can be a bit cliquey.
Cons
Management is very involved in the day-to-day, and they are always walking the floor. They can be incredibly critical and punishing for small issues. Beneath the guise of being a "family," competitiveness is often encouraged, especially among team leaders. Management often plays favorites, strongly reprimanding some for things outside of their control, while being overly forgiving of others for genuine issues. Team leaders are also given much more responsibility than at larger retail stores, for only slightly better pay. I often felt overworked and underappreciated. The holiday bonus is a gift card to the store, the value of which is subtracted from your paycheck for that week. The CEO is a bad leader; senior management often criticizes his choices behind his back, and he can be very retaliatory. It is a quality he passes down through the company, prioritizing loyalists over good businesspeople.
Pros
Good coworkers, people you work with on the floor are nice and generally helpful
Cons
- The con is management. That is the con of this place. These stores are extremely poorly managed, and owned by a guy who spends all day pacing around the isles on his phone like a maniac. (If he’s not doing that, he’s complaining about the one item on the shelf that is half a centimeter crooked, very helpful, thanks so much Matt.) - Do not expect a promotion if you are not white, able-bodied, and “mean-enough,” (management has explicitly held promotions back from loyal employees because, quote, “they’re too nice.”) - Know that if you call into work sick, the manager Poppy will be incredibly passive aggressive and childishly rude for the rest of the time you stay at Plum. - They will not give you a raise, no, it does not matter how good you are at your job, or how long you have been there. You will never move up from the pathetic starting rate they offer. Also, benefits are nonexistent. Matt Jonah could not care an ounce less about the people who keep his pocket’s lined. - You could literally DIE at this job and nothing will be said of it, the company will help with nothing and still charge you full price for funeral flowers. Watched it happen. - watched the manager Poppy listen to a mother complaining about the fact that there are no accessible brail signs on the bathrooms, as is legally required, for absolutely nothing to change in over 6 months. You can’t even provide basic accessibility? No surprise from a company with managers who will gossip about how “difficult” it is to work with the few disabled employees this place hires. - Just don’t work here, I know sometimes a job offer is something to immediately jump on, but this place is not worth the peace it will take from you. You will feel used and abused every day, and it wears so visibly on everyone still working there. Stay away, take literally any other job!
Pros
Coworkers are typically very friendly. The boss is all for practicality, and is a pretty nice person— but the actual Jonna’s are insane. A 20% discount on products and a 50% lunch.
Cons
The pay is absurd. The job is boring, as are all of them, and you have to be very disney-like to meet Plum’s standards of customer service. Some people just don’t do their job.