Mixed Feeling - Anonymous employee Testarossa Winery Employee Review

People were pretty cool great management

tips sucked if you weren't serving.

The employees at the winery are generally very nice and the property is beautiful. I made friends I still keep from my time there. Specifically, the events team is usually very nice to the general staff, who often also have to work late.

Unresponsive and unfriendly management practices. Did not feel valued as an employee or contributor. I worked there for 3 summers (9 months total) and even by the third summer, after becoming old enough to work tastings and consistently pushing to be allowed to try out a sales ethic, I was continuously denied the opportunity, as it was frequently given to older individuals as completely new hires. I saw this as a consistent demonstration of ageism against me. Furthermore, as a GWW you will spend hours and hours polishing glasses, often working long past all the management has gone home. There is a very clearly a dominant hierarchical relationship between management and employees and low level employees were almost never engaged by the owners (despite it being a relatively small business and the owners being around all day. It honestly took me working in other environments for me to recognize how exploitative this felt. Do not recommend.