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Cannabis & Glass

I will begin with saying my time with Cannabis and Glass was invaluable when it comes to the connections and relationships I made as well as gaining some truly incredible experience and honing my skills for future endeavors. That being said, it was also a great example of how NOT to treat a business and your employees.

 I started as a budtender, now titled as a 'Retail Sales Associate', and moved my way up through several positions during my employment. While there is ample opportunity to move up there isn't much hope for an employee unless they have a college degree, and the promotions always involve a heavier workload than the compensation reflects. There are also frequent promises of moving up to employees without ever having any follow up and complete radio silence when these employees try to find answers or reason. Additionally there are also several 'lateral promotions' which typically involve massive influxes to your workload for absolutely no compensation other than a new job title. Moving up also involves blind adherence to an unethical set of standards and policy that become more twisted the higher up the chain you go.  

It is very clear that the ownership does not believe in investing in their employees: why are they ALWAYS hiring? Because workers do not feel valued here. Employees quit or are fired on a weekly basis but upper management does not bat an eye and moving up does not mean any more job security. Ownership cares more about maximizing profit and opening up new locations without first ensuring that their existing stores are set up for success with ample employees and support from upper management.  The teams that work in the stores work tirelessly through a pandemic to create profit for a company that cannot even find it within themselves to thank them for their work. 

Working in the stores involves a great team and usually hectic environment but this is depending on which location you work at. It's clear that almost everyone tries their very best to make what they have work and create a positive atmosphere and good team solidarity, even though Upper management frequently makes changes to policy and job qualifications without properly addressing staff and changing the structure of job positions and titles. 

If you apply for this job please understand the demands and nature of the position before submitting your application. It is entirely possible to enter this job with the most positive mindset, intent on doing good, only to disillusioned by a broken company that doesn't seem to really know what it's doing. The experience and connections created were invaluable, but this is not a job where you can expect a long-term commitment.  

WARNING DO NOT APPLY HERE! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE APPLYING!

C&G Management aka Cannabis and Glass is a horrible company. They strategically use employees incorporating a variety of fear and coercion tactics. The average employee tenure at this company is 6 months. They lose 4-5 employees every month because the company treats them so poorly.

Pay - undervalued and overworked. The pay for budtenders used to be $15 but when minimum wage went up to $13.50 they dropped the budtender wage to $13.50. Even Walmart doesn’t do that. They took the budtenders tip jars away because they were making more money than managers. So instead of giving the managers a raise, they cut budtender wages. 

Schedule - I hope you don’t want to have a life or family outside of work. There are 3 locations and you will be bounced between them on a daily basis. Your schedule changes so frequently that you can’t get in a basic eating and sleeping routine. They say they won’t make you “clopen” but they will make you work an open at 1 location a close at a 2nd location the next day and then a mid-shift the next day at a completely different location. Numerous employee's marriages/ homelife have fallen apart due to this company. They just cut shifts from 5 hrs to 4 hrs so you won’t have the availability to work a second job.

Benefits - there are none after the initial excitement of working in the industry wears off. Every other shop gives free samples but not here, you have to earn points that you can “cash in” for product AT FULL RETAIL. You are allowed 1 holiday off each year, either Thanksgiving OR Christmas but you will never receive holiday pay regardless of the holiday you work. You will not receive an annual wage increase so as the cost of living goes up you will continue to earn less year over year. There are no bonus incentives, only the threat of punishment.

Employees have tried to unionize TWICE with this company because they are so fed up with the treatment. Each time the executive team has taken steps to systematically fire the employees that stand up for themselves. You as a potential applicant deserve to know the truth. They will promise you a great position with upward mobility in a “rising industry” but buyer beware. Get everything in writing from your schedule, your pay, pay raises, timelines for reviewing your work (30,60,90). If you don't get it in writing they will use and abuse you. They are some good catfishers over at C&G. If you want to work in the industry look at any other company. 10 out of 10 DO NOT recommend this place. Save yourself the heartache.

This job is awesome. Having the privilege and opportunity to work in the industry, while gaining knowledge and relationships with like minded people has been a game changer. It will be 2 years I've been at C&G in October, and everyday I'm just as happy to be walking in the doors. We laugh, have fun, talk about cannabis, help people, & grow as individuals every shift. The thing is,  it's all on you. It's work. From the attendance, to your actions and how you treat others. We are an array of backgrounds here, accepting but hard working and the same is expected. Our 6 point attendance policy leaves no room for anyone to excessively call in, while still providing you the ability to call out times needed. For whatever reason. You have 6 points, every unexcused call out is a point. They fall off 6 months to the day you receive it. You essentially get a call off a month. You also, get incentives for showing up to work with perfect attendance for a month. You also gain PSL (paid sick leave) that you can use at your leisure, if available, that you gain and get access to every other week( opposite of pay day.) So many perks, and much better atmosphere than 90% of other jobs. Again all on you! You have to come to work, do your job duties, have fun, make money, and not show up to work so drunk you look like E.T down by the river and have to be escorted out. There are employees here who have been here 5 years plus. It's for a reason. Can't wait to  meet you! :) 

This is the worst dispensary you could ever work for. They do not believe in internal promotion at all. The managers have no control over anything and are stretched so thin they offer little to no support to any bud tenders. People who have worked there for a year were told they do not deserve raises just for being there a year, and none of them have received any type of raise or promotion despite their amazing performances daily. They took away discounts for edibles because we used the discount “too much”. They told us we could no longer open product, not even in the vault, because “it looks bad”. They create new rules everyday for us to follow and constantly give disciplinary points but hardly ever give any type of gratitude or incentive beyond store credit. They are run by two totally out of touch people and anyone in HR must be a heartless robot. They’ll put you on probation for missing work due to a funeral and offer no type of condolences but instead give disciplinary points. 
They are completely about making money, they do not care at all about employee retention. I have never worked for a company that so badly wants their employees to be miserable day in and day out. 
I truly hope they somehow scrounge up some humanity and empathy before this company crumbles. You’ve been warned. 

Terrible ownership. I cannot stress ENOUGH how sinister the owners are. 

There are some good people at the corporate level who are clearly trying to instigate positive change in the company but are cut off at the knees by ownership. The employees in the stores are fantastic and make the best out of a difficult situation but it's hard to form bonds and work as a team because people quit or are fired on the daily. The managers are seriously overworked, severely underpaid and are not given the option to advance their skill-set or promote upwards in the company. 

Join the C&G team if you want to work at a place where you are not valued, where you are not allowed to be a human being with human issues (like needing time off to go to a Dr. appt or finding out your car is not starting that morning. You should expect to be terminated on the spot for not dedicating every waking minute to slanging bud for their pockets to grow). They don't care. You are only there to make the owners richer and you will do so for pennies above minimum wage. There are some really great dispensaries in the region, this place is simply just not one of them.
I am walking away from this job with some serious PTSD at what i have witnessed. I honestly doubt I will ever work another job as terrible as this one has been. 


I thought this would be a great way to break into the 502 industry but I was wrong. My fellow budtenders and store managers are great co-workers however the corporate structure of this company is a mess. The company is run by those who do not understand the cannabis industry. They try to run company using a basic retail corporate structure however the cannabis industry is not just another retail store and so their structure falls apart. Their main concern is profit Cannabis & Glass has the lowest paid employees in the entire industry. There is little to no communication from corporate. The turnover rate is extremely high at this company, budtenders typically have a longevity of 6-8 months and mangers only last 1-2 years. Hiring, disciplinary, and firing actions are all taken by corporate so the managers who run the stores and actually see what is happening have little say in how their store is run. Policies are added and changed on a weekly so it is incredibly hard to keep up with what your full job really is. Cannabis farms will not or choose to sell our store product last because of the relationship between the farm and the corporate big wigs. There is much more I could say and review however I will just say all in all it is not worth it to take a job with this company. 
 

There are a variety of reasons why a person may not want to work for this company. 

Poor management, low pay, lack of opportunity for advancement, poor working conditions, and a toxic work environment are all excellent reasons to not work for C&G. 

Keep in mind that companies can incentivize their employees to leave positive reviews on job search sites. So when job hunting....pay attention to companies that have a lot of negative reviews and then all of a sudden ONLY positive (and seemingly out of place) reviews are being left. 
The owners of C&G are in it for profit. Most business owners are. But the difference here is that it is profit over EVERYTHING ELSE. Company Culture, Product selection, and employee health are ALL sacrificed in order to line the pockets of the 2 owners. Make sure you go into employment with C&G with your eyes wide open. Use them to get your foot in the door of the industry but please know they will absolute use you and spit you out just as quickly. So do the same to them. Give the bare minimum and collect your pay. If you care, work hard, and invest in others it will not be rewarded. So just do the bare minimum until you can move on to a more suitable place for long term career advancement. 


Working at Cannabis and Glass has been one of the most rewarding industry shifts I have made in my career. One of the biggest pro’s is the people I work with. It’s not just the budtenders that make this company great to work for. It’s the hardworking all in mentality across departments that give it that fun start up pace. What makes this company so much fun is how everyone is able to lend a hand and educate on industry knowledge to help you see just how your efforts impact the business as a whole. AND YES it is true 50% employee discount as well as $100 in store credit for perfect attendance, is a real thing. Getting a chance to make historical moves in this industry with a company that has the foundation and infrastructure to be a front runner nationally is very exciting. Working here you’ll be surrounded by people that love to laugh, work hard show up early. If you’re looking to get into this industry this is going to be the company you’ll want to do it with.

I cant express this dumpster fire. It is impossible to remain a professional when your requests are met with "we are working on that" to never be met. Ownership and senior management take little ownership for their mistakes and then get irate when others point to these errors. They care little for their staffing and have 0 regard for your time outside of work. They do not provide consistent notice on schedules and change things at their own discretion. When concerns are brought up about changes made, you are told it is below your pay grade and it does not concern you. Even when the changes directly effect you or you work force. The moral culture here is not one concerned for the individuals working their. The clear goal is to maximize profits EVERYWHERE possible. Tech is dated and the ownership clearly has no desire to INVEST in their own established stores. This is a joke. Save yourself the stress, you would be better off with a less paying position. 

This is a company who has not funneled any money, time or focus to improving the terrible company culture. Employees are replaceable and are made aware of this fact daily. They expect budtenders to be highly educated and openly grateful to work for C&G but they only pay at or slightly above minimum wage to work for them. Make it make sense!
There is NO work life balance at this company. If you have a sick kid or a flat tire or a delayed bus, there is no grace for you. Expect to be reprimanded and even terminated for having a life outside of slanging bud for ownership. It's well known in the cannabis industry that budtenders coming from C&G are mistreated. I run into so many former coworkers now working at other shops and the difference in their energy and spirit is astonishing. A person can truly carve out a fulfilling career in this industry but it needs to start with feeling good about who you work for. And for your employer to truly take care of your well-being. There is a reason there is such MASSIVE turnover with this company. The average person can't take the brutality of the culture for longer than a year. 

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