Holiday Stationstores reviews

Coming from a long history of convenience store work, Holiday is more of the same, and not in a good way. I worked for Super America for a few years and my experience was somewhere in between a comedy and a horror story. I was then able to switch to Kwik Trip, where I had a wonderful experience. Due to certain circumstances, I had to leave Kwik Trip and I ended up picking up my position with Holiday. My shift has repeatedly been given an unreasonable amount of work. It is doable with myself and another seasoned employee, but when the company standard is 1-2 days of training (I was told I was spoiled with 2 days and my manager actually expected some sort of substantially higher performance from this) and the pay is a few pennies up from minimum wage, nobody wants to stick around. They are so desperate that they hire anyone off the street. I've had employees come in reeking of Marijuana, high school dropouts that can barely spell their own names, people with chronic physical disabilities, yet I'm expected to scream at these people every 5 seconds to do a dozen different tasks that they never receive training in. Our manager calls it "crash course training", many employees become very anxious and quit early on. Recently, our store received "food safety excellence" and a certificate from Holiday. I personally saw food service areas go days without cleaning. Is that what qualifies as excellence? It's true that I've had my role to play as well but it's been a nightmare trying to keep up as employees drop out left and right. It's not worth the pay, as just about anywhere pays more and has a better work environment. I believe my convenience store career ends with Holiday. It's an unrewarding unforgiving thankless pile of stress. For low pay, I've seen management making less than 10 dollars an hour with a college degree and years of experience.

There is zero work life balance as you are always on call and are the fill in if a shift is not covered. 99% hourly turnover rate, says it all. Be prepared to train all the time as the staff operates on a rotating door system. What is the bare minimum amount of employees needed to run a successful store and than cut that number by a 1/5 is staffing at Holiday.