Start when you're young I guess - Systems Monitor, Ad Product Coordinator Meijer Employee Review

2.0
Oct 27, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

slight (10%) discount on general merchandise, nice coworkers, and not much more than that, sadly. Working as an Ad Product Coordinator is great if you love putting away/arranging/pulling stock in a dimly lit warehouse under soul-raping, life-force robbing, yellow Sodium lights. I can't decide what I loved more, organizing carts full of makeup and shampoo for the inventory crew or stocking tampons. After 5PM anyone else who had a key to the server room was gone for the day - so I could hang out for the last hour or so and watch netflix on my phone in a nice cool room. They're at least able to offer jobs to a lot of people who are either just starting out or really can't do much of anything else (I'm sure there's a nicer way to put that - but nobody gets an MBA to be a greeter)

Cons

Meijer is not a place where you can go in to as an adult and make a livable (non-poverty level) wage. There's basically no flexibility whatsoever on starting pay and benefits were expensive, especially for what you got - during the 6 months I worked there, they had to file a legal waiver because their max coverage level was 1/5th of that required by law ($20K instead of 100K) for catastrophic accidents. During the time I worked there I was a Systems Monitor/Pricing Integrity Auditor and then a Ad Product Coordinator. As a systems admin, the things I was given access to as a minimum wage employee were shocking - the server room, administrative tools, ability to change pricing within the store. If anything suspicious was flagged in the system it would come right back to me to investigate as the Pricing Integrity Auditor.... In order to work full time, I had to move away from Systems to the warehouse - I did not like the warehouse at all. My boss said he needed somebody with a brain for the APC job (I can tell you this isn't true). What he needed was someone who could haul overloaded pallet jacks across the store all day. That manager once scheduled me for a 12AM-7AM shift (covering for another position) and a 12PM-5PM shift on the same day. When I asked him about it and mentioned how far away I lived he said, "Can't you just sleep in your car in the parking lot or something?". No - no I'm not sleeping in my car to make $30.

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Direct coworkers were great to work with. I also enjoyed being left to do my work and not babysat by management.

Cons

Management doesn't know what they are doing. Resets and floor plans were regularly not done properly. The store I worked at has a skeleton crew so I never got help (but was expected to stop everything I'm going to go help other departments/areas). Also meaning good luck to any customers needing help, especially when I was the only person working my area of the store, so when I wasn't there, no one was. Management also regularly disappeared into the offices or were on vacation. Also was terminated for reasons outside my control even though I was told they look at the reasons for attendance incidents before termination. Never got to get the FMLA or accommodation to my doctors before being terminated two days after I requested them. Didn't bother asking for a raise either. I did multiple times and got nothing.

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