| Category | Rating |
|---|
| Pay | -4 |
| Respect | -5 |
| Benefits | -3 |
| Job Security | 0 |
| Work/Life Balance | -4 |
| Career Potential/Growth | -5 |
| Location | -3 |
| Co-worker Competence | 1 |
| Work Environment | -4 |
Pay: I got paid in minimum, sometime under 3 bucks a hour for over time and overnight benefits. Sometime I don’t get paid for overtime or overnight shift benefits. That was the worst paid job position I ever been in.
Respect: I kept getting mistreated by employees, especially with this Indian woman who worked as cashier. She requested the price check over the announcer speaker and I didn’t realize that she was calling my name. A minute later, she approached me and exploded at me for wasting her time and embarrassing her in the front of her customers. I sort of yelled at her with signing language that I’m DEAF. She stormed back to her line and squatting the bad things about me at her customers! That was the worst insult I ever received from my entire life!
Other thing is, when I’m not working ( off schedule ), they kept calling me in for work, especially when I’m out of Toronto for a weekend, they gave me a trash talking for not being committed on the job. Committed to keep the job for on call job position, my ass. They even tried to call me in Sunday morning, while and before I’m in church!
Benefits: No benefits, no vacation and I asked for a week off request a month before Christmas, a week off for Christmas holiday with family was denied! They expected me to work on 23rd, 24th, 26th and 27th on Christmas week.
Job Security: Eh, the police kept coming in and asking me for managers. I do caught some thieves around the store and I never received a thank you or a praise for my hard efforts. Instead, I get like this “That’s cool, now get back to work!”
Work/Life Balance: They always try to call me in for replacing someone, and sometime I cannot make the call, and I get shitwhacked for it.
Career Potential/Growth: Funny thing you asked, first few months Spadina Sobeys was doing allright until managers, who was foolish enough to realize that this store was losing the money because of too many spoiled/unnecessary orders. I don’t do the ordering, my supervisors and managers do. The next thing I knew is that they cuts back the hours and wages for every employees. some of us resigned / quit working for sobeys just because of that.
Location: Sobeys #934 at Spadina & Bremner.
Co-worker Competence: I kept getting mistreated and disrespected by those employees, no matter what my performances are. One time, I was working for a week as overnight shift, they kept cramming the skids in the fridgerators and left the messes for me to cleans up, especially when I requested them not to, and they ignored me.
Work Environment: Some of customers managed to have some guts to being rude at me, for not respecting my disability, by not doing the written communication. I had some customers who could do the sign languages, and I managed to satisfy them with their needs at no conflicts. Some of employees and employers doesn’t wash their hands after their breaks, and they put the perishable items back in the box and display after it fell on the floor. Some of them doesn't follow the sanitization procedures at all.
Health inspectors, if you are reading this, better prepare the surprise visit, and see it for yourself. the area aren’t always clean, and they are full of it.
A friendly tip, for a first time working at sobeys, you are better off not working there at all in any places. They are expensive, high expectation and they’ll shitwhack you if you don’t do what they want, EVEN in small details!
Best Experience: I’ll just name a few workers I have been happily worked with:
Tino C., Nick W, Nandezhda, some Indian dude at hot/cold dept, Peter G, Martin M, and Alev.
Alev and Tino, you’re the best and understandable employers I ever been worked with, so I wishes you the best for your future!