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As some of you saw, I now work for Whole Foods Market.
I've worked retail before. I've worked fast food. I've worked behind the scenes and in front of the customer doing retail. And nothing could have prepared me for what awaited me.
I like, no wait, love the company I work for, and my job. I get great pay and benefits, the food is awesome, the customers for the most part are actually pretty nice (but this is a very, very, very upscale place), I'm just blown away by the sheer volume. Albertsons offered me $5.65 an hour for a deli position a couple of years ago - no benefits, maximum of 30 hours a week, and the store I would have worked at no longer exists anyway. Whole Foods gives me $10 an hour, pays for my medical insurance, and I have benefits out the ass along with a solid 40 hour a week schedule (and I work in WFM's version of a deli - which takes up about 1/4 of the store, "Prepared Foods").
Every time I'd shopped in the store before, it was usually fairly empty, but it was usually close to closing too. During the day? Every register is open with a line 3 to 5 people deep. Every department in the store has a line during the day, and believe me, we're very well staffed and from what I'm told we have pretty much the lowest employee turnover in the industry. We don't care about "items scanned per hour" or any of that bullshit, the company's the most customer service AND employee focused company I've ever seen.
So yeah, to all of you working in grocery, I have a hell of a lot of respect for what you're doing. More than I did before for sure. And uh... go apply at WFM if you have one in your area. The 20% employee discount (even on beer) is worth it
I've worked retail before. I've worked fast food. I've worked behind the scenes and in front of the customer doing retail. And nothing could have prepared me for what awaited me.
I like, no wait, love the company I work for, and my job. I get great pay and benefits, the food is awesome, the customers for the most part are actually pretty nice (but this is a very, very, very upscale place), I'm just blown away by the sheer volume. Albertsons offered me $5.65 an hour for a deli position a couple of years ago - no benefits, maximum of 30 hours a week, and the store I would have worked at no longer exists anyway. Whole Foods gives me $10 an hour, pays for my medical insurance, and I have benefits out the ass along with a solid 40 hour a week schedule (and I work in WFM's version of a deli - which takes up about 1/4 of the store, "Prepared Foods").
Every time I'd shopped in the store before, it was usually fairly empty, but it was usually close to closing too. During the day? Every register is open with a line 3 to 5 people deep. Every department in the store has a line during the day, and believe me, we're very well staffed and from what I'm told we have pretty much the lowest employee turnover in the industry. We don't care about "items scanned per hour" or any of that bullshit, the company's the most customer service AND employee focused company I've ever seen.
So yeah, to all of you working in grocery, I have a hell of a lot of respect for what you're doing. More than I did before for sure. And uh... go apply at WFM if you have one in your area. The 20% employee discount (even on beer) is worth it
I'm used to the timed conveyor ovens that the big pizza chains have. As long as I have someone working with me I'm usually fine, but if I'm alone and get hit with a bunch of people, well, I get to scrape a carbon pizza out of the oven. I've had to basically unlearn everything I knew about pizza from Papa John's (except for how to slap dough), since they do everything completely different.
Seriously, there are blue potatoes, I've eaten them, they're actually more of a purplish color. They taste sort of like the red-skinned potatoes, but the flavor is more intense. And they make yummy chips! (or crisps, as they're called in the UK)
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