Promises for moving up, nothing but excuses - Guest Service Team Member - Cashier Pilot Flying J Employee Review

3.0
Sep 29, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly environment, good shifts, easy work. I absolutely loved my coworkers and had some really amazing times at this job. I’m really sad that management didn’t appreciate me and took out their frustrations on me.

Cons

I worked there for almost a year and was supposed to get a raise at 3 months that never came. I never called in and always took shifts. I was hired for weekends but was soon working 6 days a week, essentially managing the store. Placing orders with vendors, working as the sales specialist, replacing managements shifts, training multiple new team members at once, staying late w no pay, etc. All for 14.15$ and a lot of promises. The top dog for the store told me I was their favourite and promised me a management position. Even the new hires assumed I was management and got mad when they found out I wasn’t. I worked every holiday and every shift I was asked for, with 0 notice. I called in 2 times total and the last time, the response I got was “there’s always something.” I never went back

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