| Category | Rating |
|---|
| Pay | 0 |
| Respect | -4 |
| Benefits | -1 |
| Job Security | 0 |
| Work/Life Balance | -4 |
| Career Potential/Growth | -4 |
| Location | 4 |
| Co-worker Competence | 0 |
| Work Environment | -5 |
I've worked with Sobeys for 5 years, and it is a horrible place to work for several reasons.
First of all, our Store Manager is an alcoholic who spends about 2-3 hours at work before leaving for a bar to get wasted. He’s even come in for closing shifts completely drunk. Whatever his job is I would really like to know because I never see him do much of anything. Doesn’t even know what is going on in the store or anything at all about any of the departments. Gets clerks to do his paperwork for him.
Most of the staff spend a couple hours of their shift actually working, the rest of the time they are wandering around doing nothing or just leave the store completely and come back later, and why do they get away with that? Well, because the dept managers don’t really do anything either. They don’t work in their departments, they don’t do their paperwork or even keep an eye on their departments. They come in, spend a little bit of time talking to the staff (nothing even work related of course.) One of the department managers has started dating one of the FE Supervisors, and they take 1-2 hour breaks together. This supervisor comes in late and her boyfriend punches her in for time she hasn’t worked. Even though this has been brought up to the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager absolutely nothing has been done about it.
Many of the Supervisors will make the customers wait at the tills for a good 15-20 minutes sometimes, even though they aren’t doing anything at all besides sitting upstairs in the office talking away on their cell phones on company time. Or instead of jumping on cash when there are major lineups, they just sit there and watch. They also get paid just for showing up at work and doing nothing at all.
Even though I’ve been there for 5 years, I’ve called in sick 3 times, been late only once, yet when I call in sick with a legitimate reason (an injury received the night before where I was unable to use my hand at all), I get pulled up to the office and yelled at because the other grocery clerk was left to work on his own. The other staff who don’t really work at all can call in sick every couple of weeks, and nobody seems to care when they do. They will overwork the staff who do their jobs and those who don’t can do whatever they want and keep their jobs and get all the hours too while the ones who do work hard are the ones being written up and disciplined. When I was management, I got threatened to be demoted for simply not answering my phone at 8am in the morning on my day off. Not my fault, I need my sleep.
The sales floor can look like shit constantly, and that’s okay. Sales or customer service don’t matter at all right? As long as everybody cleans it up right before the DM (or whatever the title that they have given them is now) walks in for a tour. Why they announce it, I’ll never know. Especially when they know that most of the stores get everyone in to clean up right before. Ever hear of a surprise visit, then you might actually see what’s going on.
Sanitation is never done because there is not enough hours given or time, and they just keep cutting them more and more.
Lots of favoritism, the ones the dept managers are friends with are strangely enough very high paid. I’m in school early every week, yet I’m being scheduled past my availability and given all the lousy shifts even though everyone else in the department doesn’t have to be up at 5am every morning.
For anyone that says If I don’t like it, why don’t I leave? Well, that’s exactly what I am doing. I’ve stepped down from my bullshit manager position and have gone back to school to get a real job.
There are so many more problems with that company, but I just don't want to type anymore.