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Dead End - System Support Technician Albertsons Companies Employee Review

3.0
Mar 7, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Laid back working environment, generally hands-off management, Flexible schedule (but you must work on-site). Decent benefits. Good for students. This job is a rut disguised as a hammock. You think you're relaxing in a hammock. You won't be micro-managed and are given plenty of autonomy. Lots of down time in-between work tasks. But your life is wasting away as your skills atrophy. Years pass as you're stuck in a rut.

Cons

Low pay. Management finally adds a cost of living adjustment commensurate with similar positions in the local job market, and acts like it's an undeserved, incredibly generous raise. Zero investment from the company in your career. No career path. Very little training or documentation for the systems you'll be responsible for maintaining. Scope of work keeps expanding, but the pay does not. Chaotic organizational structure and communications norms which causes unnecessary drama and extra work. Constant ad-hoc tasks from those in other departments who can't do their jobs correctly and are paid better than you.

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5.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

Good discounts, a free item every week through the app, hardship fund if approved, option for stocks

Cons

Not enough hours/pay to pay bills, odd hours makes it almost impossible to work a 2nd job

2.0
Mar 17, 2026
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Pros

good pay rate, associate discount on groceries, mostly good techs

Cons

Zero work life balance, unless you live to work. "Training" screams of "I don't care". They brag about how GREAT their pharmacist training is, but that was 20 years ago, today their 4 week great training has been shoved into ONE week of on-the-job training with zero follow up or concern that you can't possibly learn all you need in that time, then they shove you out the door. Training during a cyberattack that has nothing working? That's fine, you don't get any extra time despite the fact that you can't learn on a non-working system. Management BS is deep, such as "we want our employees to know why decisions are made" then no way to ask and none of the low level managers has any freaking clue as to why changing an address in the database was changed from just overtyping it to a 5 minute process of logging into a poorly written website to update - and you thought we were bad about it before! And they ask for feedback an entire ONCE a year, with no way of providing it before.

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