Disorganized - Budtender YiLo Employee Review

Pros: ✔️ Lower-level leads and staff work hard to keep things running despite the lack of support from upper management. ✔️ Friendly and knowledgeable budtenders and night crew who genuinely care about customers. ✔️ Some opportunities to learn if you’re proactive, but expect to deal with disorganization from management.

Cons: ❌ Upper management (store-level) is disorganized, unresponsive, and micromanages the wrong things. Leads often face pushback and lack of support. When they raise valid concerns, they are either ignored or met with unnecessary hostility. ❌ Lack of communication from upper management. Leads and staff have reported that messages and concerns frequently go unanswered, leading to avoidable mistakes and confusion between shifts. ❌ Payroll mismanagement & inconsistent raises. Employees were promised raises but never received them. Payroll is manually entered, leading to frequent delays and paycheck inconsistencies. ❌ Favoritism & sample hoarding. Management gets priority access to samples while budtenders—who actively sell the product—are often left out. ❌ Questionable product quality. Some batches of cannabis have had moldy or off-putting smells, yet were still sold to customers. ❌ Workplace drug use (by upper management). It’s common knowledge that managers and some leads smoke on the clock, especially in the bathroom. This reflects poorly on the company and sets a double standard for employees. ❌ Failure to handle violent or disruptive customers. Management is extremely lenient on aggressive or problematic customers, allowing them to return even after violent or inappropriate behavior. Employees and even off-the-clock staff or customers are left to deal with harassment, which creates an unsafe environment.

We got to work good ours with weekends off.

We got no overtime opportunity and the pay was much less than what we deserved for the work produced.