Good People, Terrible Hours - Store Associate Food Lion Employee Review

3.0
Apr 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

No layoffs during the pandemic. The people who work in there are really nice. Hard work is recognized.

Cons

Hourly pay is poor, no advance scheduling so it is really difficult to plan things in your personal life. Even if you only work 20-25 hours in a week the spread it out to make you work 5 days and over the weekend. Not much chance of advancement unless you come through Delhaize management program.

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Pros

Knowledge of the financial aspect of keeping inventory

Cons

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Pros

They (management) can be reasonable at times, such as with your breaks and scheduling.

Cons

My current management isn't giving me enough hours to be even decently sustainable, yet they have open-shifts available that they could assign to anyone, so why not give those hours to people who are severely underscheduled? If you want your workers to work for you, treat them right and compensate them fairly, and stop expecting them to come in everytime you text them just because someone else called out, maybe you need to give the people who constantly call out less hours because they aren't being reliable, and you need to give more hours to the people who do come to work and get things done, because they've proven to be reliable and willing to come in on their assigned days.

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