store manager

tanker driver

crew member

local driver

customer service representative

Circle K

I really enjoy working at circle k When I get ready to go to work I do not feel like I don't want to go I actually enjoy going I don't think that anybody should have to work somewhere where they don't enjoy being there I do to do is that I am told I need to do but if I see it something needs done I get up and do it cuz it's the right thing to do I don't want to call off unless it's an absolute emergency and then I'll still try to come in even if I have to be late I try to help everybody out if they need it whether it's staying late or coming in early or maybe coming in on a day off One thing that I do think that we need to work on there is teamwork I believe that the other shifts do not they are more worried about what they can get out of doing then what they need to get done they worry more about what other people should do than what they need to do I feel like too many people leave stuff hoping others will get it done whether it's a shift or multiple days rather than just getting it done I wish that more people enjoyed working where they work so that way they would just do what they're supposed to at work and stuff worrying about others I know as I'm saying this it's me worrying about others but I try to pick up other slack but sometimes I get exhausted that works so I started going to the gym to help out with swelling in my legs my hands hurting or being able to lift things better because we have so much to do on third shift and I do not mind the work we have to do on third shift but like I missed one trash bag one time and somebody flipped out on first shift because they had one bag that was full when every night on 3rd my bags are usually full now they just started trying to make sure everybody takes the trash out and eat shift but it doesn't happen everyday maybe two or three days a week do I actually not have full bags my to change the truck but I that's about the only thing I think they need to work on is making sure the other shifts actually do what they're supposed to do I don't think there's enough follow-through when people get in trouble and we are doing things that other areas in the store supposed to be doing like we are doing the stuff for auntie Em's because they're refusing to do it and when you try to talk to the manager oh well they're short-handed well then maybe they should give the hours that we got deducted from us back instead of making us do two to five times the amount of work for less hours so I went from almost 40 hours or plus down to 28 to 30 and I'm not allowed to go over but yet I have to make sure that I do the same amount work sometimes more that's the only thing I have a problem with., One other thing that I do have a problem with is that I was started to be moved up but since the other girl in the shift was so jealous and made such a fuss about it they took away the extra stuff they had me doing like paperwork and they stopped letting me move forward because she made such bus about it I don't think it's right that I am no longer moving up in my career because of how jealous and upset she is they should have just told her to be quiet and deal with it and they should have told her to listen to me instead she does not listen very well and I have to find work around her with her instead of her just listening and being okay with it I mean it's even gotten to the point to where she's wanted to know how much I made cuz it's not fair that I got a little bit of a raise it's not fair that I got a job title so now I don't get to do the paperwork and the reason they gave me is my handwriting was bad they're no longer moving me up in the chain and the only reason I can see is because she stopped complaining once they stopped asking if I would like to move forward and I mean going to multiple managers and complaining or complaining the whole entire shift I work with her they know how to listen complaints you they know how much of a problem with customers she can be because she brings her home life to work too much but instead of writing her up they just talk to her and then as soon as nobody's around she goes back to complaining about it so I've had to listen to her complaining or agree with her to get her to stop so we can move on about our work day I should not have to make those sacrifices they should be able to control their employees. And many other employees use the group chat to complain take pictures and show other people about things they complain about I asked for help because I thought we would not be able to get a truck done one day on the group chat That's all and I ended up getting me and the team I work to it well the person I worked with ended up getting everything done except for maybe eight nine boxes and this was the last truck on Thursday September 13th I think and when we came back into work only three boxes we're done out of three shifts out of 10 so we ended up having to put the rest of it away anyways and I was told not to use the group chat only managers were allowed to but yet every other employee on every other shift complains text messages and sends pictures on it so that is something that I they know I'm a good worker and they know I'll just say okay and go with whatever they say but the other plays do not so I feel like they'll say this to me and I will agree but the other employees are not as persuasive or agreeable and I feel like the other employees should recognize the managers as their authority and they should not be as argumentative as they are and if they are then they should not be working or they should get penalized for it but I'm not a manager it's not my place I haven't been there as long as some but I would like to be able to start moving up towards management let me not be an option unless Joni allows it to be it seems.my shift has way more work to do th as n others and we always hear an excuse but no ,  changes made to help or any help put forth by anyone other than yeah maybe I look into it and we need start do write ups, but so far nothing yet.  I would just like to come into my shift but the cup stopped the lid stopped The floor is clean and you know or at least done before they leave instead of asking do you need me to do anything and then it being a half-hearted gesture of saying oh well you know we don't have time to do this so we can't do that you know it's not that I can't do things cuz I'll do it anyway so that they take the trash out or not I'm still going to do it but that means it's as tall as I am I'm still going to clean up the parking lot whether they did or not I am still going to mop whether they did or not as well my teammates but I just feel like maybe some of them don't want to be there like I do I enjoy being there I smile while I'm there and even if I don't you know I might be hot I might be whatever but I I like my workplace I like working there I do not like some of the complaining I hear a lot but that's just the way one of my co-workers are which is fine until it affected my work.but now that I'm not going to get a raise I'm not getting to learn any new paperwork I'm not moving up she's no longer complaining about me well except for this last thing she wanted to stop asking until I told her how much I made cuz she needed to know for some reason even though she has a second job and this is my only job and I have two special needs kids but apparently I don't need money like she does and I do a very good job and I work very hard and I may not do everything right but I'm willing to hear criticism some people are not and welcome ex I'd rather do things the right way even when somebody complains about something to me I say thank you I will work on that I don't argue the point but when it comes about my pay or my career path it shouldn't be anyone else's business

This is going to be long. A quick summary: Circle K was the worst job I've ever had. I consistently felt unsafe, unappreciated, I got screwed over multiple times, and I still have yet to be paid mileage from the training classes I attended nearly six months ago. The pay is not worth the work, and this job was severely detrimental to my mental health.
Job Work/Life Balance was terrible. Compensation/Benefits: I didn't stay long enough to qualify for benefits, and as mentioned above, I have yet to be compensated for mileage to attend training classes 160 miles away.
Job Security/Advancement: I did not stay long enough to advance, but from what I understood it was fairly easy to advance and receive raises.
Management: For the most part, I liked all the management I interacted with. I had one manager who wasn't great as a manager, but she was young and she was trying.
Job Culture: Everyone I interacted with was polite at the least, and I made a couple friends. But the work schedule was such that I spent most of my time alone.
I interviewed for Circle K during the summer. During my interview, they let me know they needed an overnight person. I tried to give not-so-subtle hints that I didn't want to work overnights, but I did explicitly tell them during the interview that I could not work overnights during the school year. They agreed, and it was mentioned that they would likely have more employees by then to adjust the schedule. 
It took three weeks for my background check to be completed, and I had to travel an  hour and a half away for the training classes. That is significant because I still have yet to be paid for my mileage, and it has now been nearly six months since my training class, as of the writing of this review.
As the beginning of the school year was approaching, I reminded my store manager that I could not work overnights, and he told me he might need me to work overnights for a couple weeks while they interview and hire new employees, and I agreed because it was supposed to be for just a couple weeks. I also reminded him about my mileage. Unfortunately, about three weeks into the year, my manager had some health complications and had to take leave. 
When the new manager arrived, I immediately let her know about my schedule and my unpaid mileage. She told me the same thing, that I would have to work overnights while they hired more staff, and she said she would look into my unpaid mileage.
At this point, I was already looking for another job. My grades were suffering, and I had missed my first math exam. Trying to reset your sleep schedule every 3-4 days is exhausting and inefficient.
The job itself is physically intense, and I worked by myself. There would be someone there until 10:30 pm when I arrived at 10 pm, a manager would arrive around 5 am to do manager stuff, and my replacement would come at 7 or 8 am. Outside of that, I was the only staff at the store for the entirety of my shift. There was no scheduled lunch break, no break room, and one chair in the back for the computer.
The other employees were generally friendly enough, if not at least polite, but few of them were diligent workers. My shift typically began with cleaning, organizing, and restocking, bringing the store up to acceptable standards, because it would consistently be disastrous when I arrived.
Another aspect of my job that I feel is important to discuss is that Circle K's, at least in my area, are not places you go to feel safe. Working all alone for the entire night was very stressful. Not only did I have to worry about my safety with some of the customers I interacted with, but I had to work knowing that if something else were to happen to me such as injuring or incapacitating myself on the job, I'd be stranded until someone else arrived.
I also had issues when it came to getting paid. The first 4 paychecks were directly deposited to my bank account, no problem. However, I then had a pay day where I did not, in fact, get paid. I brought it up to my manager and it was a district-wide thing, with nearly 30 employees not getting paid - 3 in our store. The next week, my coworkers got paid for two weeks of work, while I did not get paid at all. The person in charge of payroll then attempted to tell my manager that I would not be getting paid until the /following/ week. My manager sent an email to his boss, and I got paid two days later. 16 days is the time-span employers have in which they legally must pay employees, and by the time I got paid, it was day 16 from my last paycheck. A similar event happened about two weeks later where I did not get paid on payday. I quit the next day, and talked with the a man whose title I am unsure of about the fact that I did not get paid, at which point he told me that the store I worked would pay me out of the register so long as once my direct deposit went through, I returned the amount they would give me. 

Now, specifically in regards to my unpaid mileage: I submitted the information to my manager when I arrived to work immediately following my training classes. A month or so later, I was discussing my mileage with a coworker who also had yet to be paid, and I brought it up again with my manager. He said that he would put it in again but that the mileage often took a long time to push through. About a month after that is when he left, and I immediately let the new manager know about my mileage. I gave HER the information, and she said she would take care of it. A month after I quit, I contacted my old manager once again to see about getting paid for my mileage, and received no response. A few weeks later, I contacted the man I went to before when I did not receive my paychecks, and he assured me that he would put it through to /his/ boss and contact me back in the following few days. He never did, and it has now been about six weeks.

Another note: navigating the Circle K employee website was consistently frustrating and confusing. The contact info for HR is not displayed anywhere on the site, nor is it easy to find online. I was only able to acquire the information after sending an email to an address meant for customer inquiries and feedback.

I would rather work at all of the other jobs I've ever held before, before I would ever consider going back to Circle K. It was the worst job I've ever had, and I continue to deal with issues directly related to my employment there.

The store that I worked at was an absolute mess with rude, lackadaisical employees and management and a very high turn over rate. the store management changed multiple times in the first few months with my hiring manager showing up at 3am, leaving his keys and telling the brand new third shift guy he just couldn't do it anymore and left, he was offered a promotion shortly after this, which says a lot. the pay is very low compared to other companies, starting at 8.60, 9.00 with experience, and the promise of UP TO .70 cents after 90 days if you do a good job. They were in the process of replacing everyone at the store in the hopes of turning the store around, but when they pay is so low it is very hard to find good people who will show up and work, we mostly got the scraps of those who couldn't handle working at mcdonalds or wal-mart, and management does little to nothing in terms of holding people accountable because they have so few applicants that the hiring pool was limited and finding a replacement was difficult.

 The one benefit of the high turn over rate is that if you do show up and work and do a good job it is a great place to move up into a management position as people were always quitting or getting arrested for theft or failing police stings, I was hired in january, i was an assistant manager by april. as an assistant manger I was tasked with doing pretty much everything the store manager should be doing, including bank deposits, payroll, scheduling, tracking lottery ticket sales, weekly inventory counts of cigarettes, placing supply orders, often times showing up for second shift to find nothing was completed during the day when they were fully staffed with 3 employees plus the manager, and was expected to do everything at night, with one person, meaning i spent many days staying late after my shift to catch up on the daily tasks and paperwork during third shift, and was also expected to be on call 24/7 so after clocking out i could expect at least 2 calls asking for help, or that they need me to come in and help do something thus there was no work life balance, i lived ate and breathed circle k, even customers would ask if I ever go home. I was gone before the sun came up in the morning, and very rarely was home before it went down, and then would get in trouble and have my hours docked for going over 40, but was then expected to still work outside of my scheduled times, requested days off were often ignored, and when explained that i have kids that want to go out to halloween, i was told i was needed to cover shifts at another store because they have no one there willing to work that night, this was how every holiday went.

 customers are extremely rude if the line gets longer than 2 or 3 people even when they can see you are the only one working they will demand you open another register, and often times I was forced to run 2 registers at the same time just to keep the lines down because we were constantly understaffed and the higher ups would not allow us more labor hours to hire and schedule needed staff because they allotted labor hours to suit their bonuses, and not what stores actually need. as an assistant manager you are eligible to receive a quarterly bonus based on 10% of the store managers bonus, if your store actually earned a bonus, and that amount would go down to 5% if there was a second assistant manager. 

 You will be exposed to weather, changing 12 or so trash cans each day rather it is 110* or -10* during an ice storm, you will stock a 33* cooler and beer cave if your store has one, heavy lifting and climbing ladders in dangerously small areas was a daily task, as was cleaning up human waste both inside and outside of the store and picking up and disposing of used needles left in the parking lot and trash cans.

 All in all working at circle k was a horrible experience, with low pay and extreme expectations from higher ups, although it is a great place to get management experience, there are much better places to get this kind of experience. There was no drug test, just a background check, we did not hire felons

I work the graveyard shift (10pm - 6am) five nights a week, usually starting my week on Friday night.
The customers are usually high, drunk, and rude between the hours of 10pm and 2am, which are the hours I am allowed to sell beer, in compliance with Oklahoma state laws.
The MIT was plucked off the street, has no prior management experience, and doesn't know how to do his job.  He is always between 15 and 30 minutes late on Monday morning and I usually do not get off work until around 6:30 because he isn't ready to get on his register.  The other managers are lazy and have to call the other area stores daily to be informed about their job duties.
When I moved here from my training store, I cleaned the coffee, cappuccino, and fountain drink machines thoroughly because ALL three had drink residue that looked months old and in the coffee machines, there was mold starting to grow.  I also stocked the cooler fully because there was nothing stocked and I trashed most of the "grocery" items because they were months out of date (the eggs especially).  When I have my two days off, or am scheduled to work at a different store, nothing gets done.  I always have to spend two days re-stocking the cooler and trashing expired merchandise.  All three drink machines aren't cleaned unless I am there and do it.
The neighborhood that the store is located in is so bad that the out side restrooms are locked from 3pm - 9am.  The store has been robbed, with the clerk being held at gun point, four times in the last year.  (Thankfully, I hadn't started working there yet).  
Customers will throw drinks at me.  The managers never leave the fountain drink boxes in stock, so every night, at least 4 of the 10 available sodas are out of stock.
Overall, I like my job.  I do not like the lazy co-workers I am employed around and I do not enjoy smelling the tweakers and the alcoholics, with their shirtless bodies and shoeless feet, in the store.  The pay is so low that I could afford car insurance working at Wal Mart and had to cancel it recently because I had to choose between food for the week or having a legal car.
I think that Circle K should have more very brightly lit parking lots, to deter theft, and two people working on the graveyard shift, to ensure the duties of the job are fulfilled and to deter theft.  I go to work every night fearing that "tonight will be the night I get robbed and get fired for being robbed."  I have voiced my opinions about the store condition, the fear for my life and job I encounter nightly, and the lack of responsibilities being fulfilled by the other shift employees.  However, nobody seems to take my concerns into consideration and it's slowly but surely pushing me out of this job.
One last thing:  there are plenty of hungry and needy people roaming this earth, at no fault of their own, and yet, I am told to throw away AT LEAST $20 worth of donuts on a nightly basis, rather than give them to customers who would gladly take them and enjoy them, fresh or not. The amount of waste I personally have to see every night is shameful and I would much rather see the company I work for contributing to the ongoing hunger crisis, rather than waste perfectly edible food.  It kills me.

I have been employed with the company going on 5 years. I was hired as a CSR, by the second year asked to be an Assistant Manager, then 3 years later actually finished training for assistant. I then later asked out Market Manager at the time if I could be promoted and join their MIT program because I was ready to move forward with my career with this company. I had my interview to become a store manager, he wasn't going to put me through MIT training since I have been doing management work for the last year. I also stepped in for a month when my manager went out for a heart attack. I was at the time just waiting for a store to open up to be promoted. In December of 2012, we had a realignment with new MArket managers, and new Reginaol Directors and of course we got the one that has only been employeed with circle k for a short time and the MM was a total you know what. NO one liked her, she ran things way differently than I have ever seen in the 5 MM I had worked for. A few months go by, I was working as hard as I normally did,even being pregnant worked harder than mangement and the employees there. I asked my new MM about the stores because we had several stores in our district open up, and no one was working in them as a manager. She told me since I am not flexible enough to her, i can not move forward with the promotion I was promised a year ago by a different MM. MInd you, I have been working the same shift, same hours, same days for almost 5 years. All of a sudden i needed to work weekends, 2nd shifts, and night shifts.I simply replied by NO!. I am not going to work these hours because YOU want me to.I was interviewed by 2 MM that did not say anything about my current work schedule being any issue to become a manager. This all comes after they find out I am pregnant, then proceed to ask me what my plans are with my children when I get called into work? Last I checked it was nobodys business what my plans for my children will be if I am called into work. I thought it was illegal to ask such a question. I called HR and told them I feel like im being discriminated against, HRS answer" Nothing I can do for you, talk with your Reginol Director". HM. nothing you can do for discrimination? Just shows what kind of company this is. today had a talk with her 3/8/13 and I told her i was stepping down , and they wanted to take my pay away that I worked hard for every dollar I made. I was promised a .50 raise for stepping in as management when they needed me, and they took a whole dollar from me. THis was the 2nd time I had to step in for manegmant because no one wants to work for someone that talks to you like your garbbage, and your a nothing to the comapny, when i nreality, we are everything to this comapny. THe MM or ROD could never handle the things we have to deal with everyday. I have will not reccomened this company to anyone, nor do I even shop here.I am still employed here butt I refuse to give them any money because they have taken so much, time, effort, and cash out of my pockets. DO NOT APPLY HERE!!!!! THey expect you to live your life around Circle K.but no one has time for that we all have our own lives

A typical day at work consists of standing 8 hours ringing up customers purchases which consist mostly of the fountain drinks for 86 cents and 75 cents for refills, gas purchases, chewing tabaco, cigarettes, chips, energy drinks, btl sodas, constant purchase of Lottery tickets, etc.  No lunch breaks, No bathroom breaks, No any breaks.  If you need to use the restroom you have to run to the bathroom and get back to the register asap.  You are required to clean both restrooms that are used as public restrooms. Yard crews come in all day to use the microwave and bathroom, So consider how nasty they get. The men use the women's restroom on a daily basis because the men's rr is always in use.  You are required to clean all areas of the store, replenish hot dogs, Cook and prepare kalaches and place in warmer. On my shift I have to cook 2 batches of 4 different types of kalaches.  You also have to make and keep 4 different coffees fresh during the shift.  Stock the dairy cooler and large beverage cooler daily.  Clean and stock the condiments daily. Stock all cups, straws, lids. Clean and stock the Cappuccino machine and constantly take the machine apart because it gets clogged up.  Wash containers for use of hot dogs to store in cooler.  Check on bathrooms every 2 hrs.  Sweep the parking lot and inside of store. Take garbage (4) out of inside of store, Empty garbage cans (6) outside by pumps and doors. Stock and restock tobacco products, count and sign in vendors and products all during the week. You never get to sit or take a 5 minute break but management sits in office for hrs. doing paperwork and looking at emails. You also must maintain your cash register and balance at the end of your shift.  All of these tasks that have to be done with only me on the only open register all day. No room for advancement, management does not want to train anyone for any type of advancement.  I was told you have to have prior convenience store management to be considered for any type management position.  You are required to complete training periodically in order to receive any type of raise. However my manager and asst. manager will not run the register so I can get on the computer to complete my on going training.  If you work at C-K be prepared to start at 7.75 per hr. and be a career cashier.  Everything you do and say is videoed and recorded for the sake of having documentation on everything that happens or is said while in the store and at the pumps. Worst job with the lowest pay of any job I have ever had.  Too much work required and expected from each employee for a pathetic 7.75 per hr. All of these tasks are required on every shift while ringing up around 200- 325 customers on morning shift and afternoon shift. You must work Christmas, Thanksgiving, July 4th, Memorial day and the day after to keep your job and get paid.  Managers are always off on these days with pay.  C-K is not a store or position I would recommend.  C-K company and management do not care about their employees. Do not work for this company.

After punching in I fill the milk case because it is usually empty. Go to the registers and ask if there has been anything new to report. Start working on shift change, making sure all registers is counted and reports for each credit card and lotto machine as well as money orders are printed. Start pulling cartons of cigarettes for stocking later. Then start filling all empty holes in the cooler and dairy cooler, making sure the all soda as well as beer are stock and ready for the customer. Next start pulling all inside trash, stack the trash in the back for later to be brought to dumpster. Stock cups, straws, and lids, during all this time making sure that you service the customer at the register while continuing to clean. Pull the mop bucket out back and fill it with hot water and floor soap for later. Sweep floor then start breakfast routine. Start coffee, microwave breakfast sandwiches and start putting hot dogs and tornados on grillers. As each job is being completed at the same time as well as continuing to service the customer at the register once all the jobs for breakfast are completed. I start by taking out the trash, and then start mopping the floor. Check the shelves to organize any products miss-placed by customers. Then start on day close shut down all pumps, consolidate and count all drawers as well as reports. Turn pumps on then start stocking cigarettes and snuff. Manager arrives for beginning of 1st shift and does a quick run through to make sure everything is in order for the day. Maintain coffee pots during morning shift count my drawer before leaving, Punch out and go home.

What I have learned.

Continues miss-information you must follow up on different sources to verify. Take anything and everything with a grain of salt. Deal with all customers the way you would be treated even if they treat you poorly. Try to follow all of managements request even though they change periodically without reason, don't ask why.

Co- workers.
Help your co-workers don't get into long conversations, try not to talk about their personal lives. Complement their efforts but not so often that it doesn't mean anything. Try to provide then with a personal gift (not off the shelf at wal-mart) at Christmas time to show them you care they have helped you throughout the year.

The hardest part of the job.

Doing more with less ( Corporate S.O.P.)

Not having enough time to do everything required. Telling them why they are not making enough profit. Showing them how to increase profit and increase customer expectation.

The most enjoyable part of the job.

Talking to the customer and helping them with anything they need.

Typical day:
Interact with and serve hundreds of regular customers in the capacity of grocer, bartender, bookie, gas attendant, banker and barista.
Clean and stock store as customer volume allows, at slower locations it's entirely possible to find yourself looking hard for something to do if you're on the ball with keeping the store up. 
Remain ever-conscious of safe cash handling procedures and personal safety policies. 
Get to know co-workers and store community a little better every day. Cumulatively, the invariable result is some lifelong friendships.

Managerial duties are numerous little things (depending on how much your manager is willing to delegate) that will provide an excellent overview to retail management in general. You can walk away from this position with some excellent resume bullets if you are proactive in accepting responsibility and producing results.

Management and co-workers is a mixed bag. Given payroll limitations and work conditions, neither will be remotely cream of the crop, but the work culture is one that potentially finds gems in the rough and puts a little polish on them. I've seen a man with no diploma rise to manage several stores, and better than most degree holders I would add. If you don't look the best on paper yet, but know you have something that others don't, Circle K may be a good starting point.

The hardest part of the job? I would have to say the nagging worry that tonight might be the night that I become the victim of violent crime. Most of the stores I worked at were in very high crime areas, this with being an alcohol vendor with a reputation for poor training standards and poor security, can be, and often is, a volatile cocktail. I have survived an armed robbery, been shot at twice while performing outdoor duties, had a supervisor attacked and mutilated inside the store, had two female customers engage in a lethal knife fight in the store, had drunks drive through two different stores, and so on over the course of several years. Security officers are a godsend at locations where the area manager will authorize them, but criteria could have been better defined at a corporate level while I was there.

The best part of the job? While I was there, it was always my co-workers and community. Sure you'll have a flake or three, but a non-judgemental attitude goes far in any work environment. Since I've left, the above holds true but I can now add a pretty wide array of useful experience, though I never would have realized it at the time.

Circle K is a great place to work if you are looking for competitive advancement. There is always room to move up the ladder, if you are willing to do all the work for minimum pay. I worked my way up to Store Manager. My favorite thing was just learning. I love to learn new things, and I love being challenged. I was lucky enough to have managers that were willing to feed that eagerness to learn. I was never too worried about the pay, anything below Store Manager is pretty much as close to minimum wage as possible (even assistant and bonus assistant manager). Being young, that did not matter to me, I just wanted experience. 
I also enjoyed my co-workers, I made a few lifetime friends through working there and I am grateful to have met them through Circle K.

I believe the hardest part of my job was, as a Store Manager, I lost my life. Of course, not literally. But I would spend at least 12 hours (if not more) a day in-store, answering phone calls, helping my employees, doing paperwork, preparing for audits, etc. It would not have been so bad, but there is very little gratification. No "good work" from the boss, no pat on the shoulder. Of course this is not something to be expected, but sometimes it would have been nice. Managers do work on salary, so of course anything over your 40 hours is free work. I never met a manager who spent less than 50 in-store per week. I also had a boss that did not alert me when I was doing something incorrect. I thrive on constructive criticism... My mentor did not train me to do quite a few things, I had too figure out a lot on my own, and when I thought I was doing a great job, I found out months later that the entire time I was doing (insert task here) wrong. I took the Manager Training course three months into being a Manager (which I believe they should have all new managers take BEFORE they get placed into a store). Three months into the game and I learned a lot of things I was not aware I was required to do, stuff I was never shown to do. Six months into the game I lost my job, because the damage of the first three months could not be fixed (sales numbers down, hours and budget cuts I was not told about so therefore I overspent, stressed employees, etc.).

This was just my experience, as a first time manager. Circle K does have great mentors (they are few and far between) but they are there. They do have great benefits and discount programs for managers.

Overall, excluding my personal feelings, I give Circle K 3/5 stars.

A typical day at work for me would be, me coming in clocking in spending time on the register for a little bit helping customers and, stocking cigarettes when I can and helping with food, then I usually clean after that and do forecourt trash and indoor trash, sometimes I front face and stick, definitely not as much as I should but I'm picking back up on that and then I usually cook food before I leave and count down my register then shift count on lottery, I clock out after that and leave. Not usually stressful or anything, it's usually pretty exciting and enjoyable.
I've learned patience for sure, I've learned about benefits and how they work, I've learned about foods and pastries, I've learned how real this job can be and I've learned how enjoyable it can be if you do what you need to do.
Management is pretty great to( at my store) and then corporate management is great also. They train and help you with everything you need help with and if you feel off about anything if have a problem in the work space or need to talk to someone there usually there.
Don't know much about culture to be honest with you, so no comment.
The hardest part of the job can honestly differ. It all depends on you mainly and then how the customers are feeling. Sometimes the cleaning can be the most difficult thing and then sometimes dealing with customers can get to be the more complicated part, and I think that cooking is honestly only hard or stressful if no one is paying attention to the food like there suppose to or we have a rush an can't get to it because all hands are on deck at the moment and then we have to rush an take everything down that's old and hurry and cook everything we need again but other than that it's pretty easy. The most difficult part for sure would be when get a truck that delivers for our freezer and they stack everything in there and then yu have to in pull everything out and then go back in one by one and switch stuff around so the older goes out before the newer.
The most enjoyable parts of the job are the moments with my coworkers for sure and then certain customers when they come through with positive energy, but yes we really rely on each other alot and have a lot of trust with one another and we are like a family so I think it's pretty cool.
OVERALL RECOMMEND THE JOB TO ANYONE WHO IS REALLY Willing TO WORK.

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