Wegmans Food Markets reviews

Where to begin...the workload, inconsistent scheduling, lack of work-life balance, and unreal expectations alone is enough to make this by far the worst job I've ever had. -While they do offer competitive benefits, there are plenty of other companies that offer much more, and don't make their employees wait 1 year into the job for them. The hiring process takes forever, and when you need help it can take months. - Part time employees make their own schedules and aren't held to very high standards, which causes an immense workload for full time and management. - There are many more part time employees than full time, and the part timers also seem to be the ones that say Wegmans is a good place to work. I personally have only met a handful of full time and above employees who actually enjoy working here. - People get promoted to positions when they have no qualifications, while many employees who deserve promotions can post multiple times with no luck. - There are quite a few managers I know that have had sexual relations with their employees sometimes during work and nothing happens to them. They usually just get moved to a different store or department. - Wegmans is tremendous at self promoting. They constantly remind us that they're the best place to work and they hold annual "Who We Are" meetings where we watch videos of current employees talking about how great it is to work there. - When I first started every employee I came across acted like they drank the koolaid, but as time went on you begin to talk to people and realize that for the vast majority it's an act. - As stated above there is almost no work life balance. They claim there is, but even if you're just a full time employee, let alone management you are expected to be available 24/7, every weekend, every holiday. (this includes phone calls on your days off/vacations). - There are plenty of days when the workload is so heavy we don't get lunches or breaks, sometimes working 10-12 hours straight. Knowing that Wegmans is a retail company, I almost feel dumb for complaining about it. However, I think if they didn't spend so much time telling us it's such a great place to be, I would have known going in that it was going to be a terrible job.

The management in the PA regional stores is adversarial, degrading and prone to being politically motivated for all internal movement. They promote 'fairly' from within, but the DM is hired from outside the company. The managers seem to be modeled after the 25 year old frat boy style of managerial entitlement. The 'family' thing only works if you are in a successful store, if you have a horrible store manager, you're pretty well screwed and destined to cross your Ts and dot your Is and Cover you Arse to avoid being sucked into the hole of lateral career movement with no hope of upward mobility. Drink the kool-aid. Be a yes-man, watch and ride the TLs so they can harass the full timers, so they, in turn, can beat on the part timers (who are like excrement on the bottom of your shoe) ... The stores are run by low paid team leaders, overseen by a handful of well paid managers, who are beat on by per/non perishable managers who are ridden like thoroughbred racehorses by the store managers. Its a dysfunctional, adversarial and stupid management setup. Full timers make poverty level wages and are told how lucky they are to have a job their. The whole system is infected, from top to bottom, by entitlement, nepotism and favoritism. Walmart is a pig, Wegmans is a pig wearing pearls. Pretty, but still a pig.