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My position at AREAS was a good one. I met many people on their travels through the Hartfield Jackson International Airport. Travelers that I had the pleasure to greet and meet. Some of my customers added something special to my life. If I wanted to even more add to my career, doors that are available to assist me in my endeavors to become better in what I want to accomplish. It was a rewarding experience to give good service to my customers. And the opportunity to achieve some of my goals. Meeting people from all walks of life while networking.

I've learned many things from all those that I came in contact with. Travelers and my co-workers were great! Very professional and fun to work with as well. My managers always very helpful and courteous to me while working with them. 

My overall experience with AREASUSA was beneficial to my life and now to my career. I am seeking to enhance my performance in using my skills and to be more productive in helping others in finding their retail needs. I had the opportunity to meet well-known people, from television, even in magazines and history books.

 In reply to what was the hardest part of my job at AREAS, there was none. I really liked working there. The people I met and the co-workers were nice and just a joy to be around. We all worked together in times we needed back up or needed to come in on a day off we were a team.

It would be a great place to work... until you got shoved into a concept where you have no idea what you are doing. I was employeed for one concept, trained at another concept, then got transfered to a whole other concept during my time at Areas USA. 
As a supervisor, I didn't feel like my work was worth their time. I did my best with what I did, but felt ignored when all they wanted quick results. After asking them about certain ideas or items needed in the kitchen, they would go unanswered or ignored completely. When a manager said something along the same lines, it would get done within a week or two.
Working in Areas USA felt like I was both a supervisor and a FFA. When someone called out, I worked their station plus mine. When I needed something, I would get ignored by managers. We, as supervisors, are leadership, but not given the right tools to complete our tasks properly. When we run out of product, we can't go into the warehouse and grab it. When we reach out towards a MOD, we are ignored. Our best bet was to reach out to a manager that we knew was on shift to go grab it for us, even if they were on the other side of the area.

Areas USA is an OK company to work for. A typical work day at Areas is good when you have the managers there that don't have a stick up there behind.  Restroom breaks are hard to come by, with the wrong managers there. You literally have to wait until a manager come to relieve you. They have breakers but they be all over the place, doing what they want, because they have been there for several years with No advancement and no managers are worried were they are. Management sucks big time, including the HR department. They don't care about nothing but the money they make. You can go to them with your problems and it will be swept under the rug, like you never said anything to them. You never get off on-time and they won't notify  you about they next person coming in until you ask them. But..... they do expect for you to be on time for them or they will write you up if you are 1minute late behind your grace period.There is NO hard part about the job but the managers, well at least some. All managers that work there are not bad, they have a good 4 good ones still there. The most enjoyable part of the job is meeting different people from all over the world and the conversations they have with you. The pay is great and benefits are too.

I’m unsure if managers at Areas were not trained, are lazy, or both. The managers and the environment genuinely sucked.
First of all I was never trained properly, I picked up everything on my own or from other peers who were also not trained. Managers were well aware of this situation and on top of that I never got a card in order to receive a register - Its mandatory to have a cash register but they always looked past this because they did not want to go through the process of it. Managers are constantly in “meetings” about who knows what because it’s by far the worst management I’ve experienced. 
Not to mention they are extremely understaffed and they DEFINITELY underpay for labor - there’d constantly be a single lady working a whole restaurant herself! And not a small one. 
Half the workers are pretty lazy and it’s always dirty but they love to favor them. I and few other workers started off pretty strong but slowly gave up trying to even care when managers themselves really do not. 

Overall, I really enjoyed working with my coworkers and my managers. My managers were very kind and understanding of what went on in our lives.

But for the most part, it is a very cheap company. I worked 40 hours a week, had very open availability and worked my butt off for this company, but I was still labeled "Part-time." No benefits for me. I made myself available for this company all the time, worked every shift possible, and even worked 10-16 hour shifts when people called out. Regardless of working 40 hours a week and being available the whole time I was there, I never saw even a penny raise, and the company preferred to bring in outside people to be higher positions (such as shift lead) who had no clue what they were doing instead of promoting withing. 

The company also absolutely refuses to give overtime. If I was called at 2:00 in the morning to come to work because someone didn't come in, I came in, but instead of letting me keep my other shifts and get over time, they took away shifts I was already scheduled to work and gave them to the people that had called out. Just to keep everyone under 40 hours.

The management was horrible. They randomly changed hours without telling you. This caused me to have to work at most 7 days in a row since they scheduled my days off one week on Monday and Tuesday then the following week on Wednesday and Thursday . If you were a good employee, they would schedule you to work as much as possible during the busiest times, so you'd be overwhelmed by the amount of work required on your end. They didn't show much employee appreciation. Another problem was that once you do something, it becomes your new duty. So let's say if you only worked on weekdays then they ask if you could work on a Saturday and you say yes because you wanted the extra hours, next thing you know you work every Saturday. Another is, maybe one day you're closing up shop and you decide to mop for your supervisor, now you must mop everyday. Aside of that, people would always call out and next thing you know, you're working a double because management doesn't want to pull a double since all they do is sit on their butts all day long and come up with excuses to why they cannot help you or allow you to close shop when it's only you working that day.

Obviously working with people is a big plus; but being able to mentor and assist people toward their goals is great too. I like the fact that the skill sets required to be a competent or great manager is transferable to many industries; after all, managing means to manage people. 

There is nothing about managing that I don't like. 

Challenging –yes, especially when you move to a new industry or company. Relationship building skills will help you in this regard. 

I don't believe opportunities necessarily come to you. Reach out for the job no one wants. Let my superiors know where you want to go and what I am  willing to do. 

I Take on challenges. Very early in my first career I was tagged as the 'go to' person because I reached out to everyone, spoke to everyone, learned from everyone, and I identified opportunities where I could strut my stuff. This lead to several new initiatives. 

I have had two wonderful careers in two different industries. People and the opportunities to learn and make a difference kept me there however, I am now looking for my next career move. I like meeting new challenges, learning, and of course meeting new people.

It’s a nice job if you have nothing else going on in your life you only get 5 days off a year use them wisely they rope you in with the promise of competitive pay and paid orientation however what they won’t tell you in the ad Is the cost of parking 60 dollars every month. the money from the orientation goes straight to the union and then some which also takes 70-82 dollars out of your check so basically with fees and taxes you'd be making about 1100 every two weeks. If you are completely fine with that be prepared to spend 40-60 minutes to get on the employee shuttle that is always somehow broken down and then spend another 30 going through tsa only to be stopped every time I came to work today a whole hour early and I'm still on the shuttle my shift starts in 10 minutes I'm late every time I've typed out this whole review waiting to arrive at my terminal

It is not the worst, but definitely not among the best.
The good:
1.Free lunch.
2.Some of my co-workers were very helpful and cooperative, however, that's not the case for most.
3.Flexible to an extent.
4.Customer-base is generally cool.

The bad:
1.It can be quite stressful and hectic due to the usual lack of proper staff during the busiest times.
2.Other shifts don't fulfill their duties, either due to negligence or being short-staffed.
3.The more you give, the more they'll ask, you do something out of niceness for once, it becomes your task.
4.Unfair distribution of responsibilities, some have to work way more than others for no obvious reason.
5.Most of my co-workers were inconsiderate and unhelpful, I could say the same about some of the managers.
6.Schedule isn't always consistent and expect your hours to be cut at times.
7.Benefits and pay aren't much for what you give.

Note that the case may differ from one location to another, this was my experience, some may have had it better.







come in and do your job basically. The job is easy, as long as you come in on time and everyday that you are scheduled to work. Its fast pace so time does by fast, Pay is good. Management is up and down. You have good ones and bad ones, mostly bad. The bad ones wanna try you everyday until you put them in your place, talk to you like your below them and try to run you all over all day like you aren't the only one maybe and also are lazy as I don't know what. The good ones let you do your job because they are not gonna do it because they know you know what is needed and what to do. They've had some managers that just don't know how to talk to people. Missing check money and slow responses. Higher ups don't ever want to address things and rather you "solve it amoungst yourselves". But as long as you do you, you don't have a problem with anyone.

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