Horrocks Farm Market

🎭 The Wild World of Horrocks Farm Market 🐭
Welcome to an opportunity that promises zero dull moments—or moments of clarity, depending on your perspective!

⏳ The Thrill of the Fluctuation
Forget the predictability of a 9-to-5 grind! Your schedule and workload will be as dynamic as a stock market ticker:

Peak Hours: Prepare for high-octane action—you'll be moving constantly!

Downtime: When things slow down, we embrace the chill. Unless you actively seek out extra duties, your primary task is often... waiting. Consider it enforced mindfulness!

🐦 Your Critter Co-Workers
If you have a fondness for nature, you're in luck! This isn't just a workplace; it's a bustling urban sanctuary. You must be comfortable sharing your space with our unofficial (and entirely unregulated) staff:

The Feathered Friends: Expect regular visits and fly-bys from local birds.

The Miniature Clean-up Crew: Our little mouse friends also have the run of the place, making frequent, unannounced appearances.

🤫 The Phantom Paper Trail: A Masterclass in Mystery Management
This is where the job really becomes a game of psychological suspense. Be aware of our unique, stealth-based performance review system:

The Unseen Scorecard: From the moment you walk in, every minor mistake, misstep, or perceived slight is secretly documented. There is no official "training grace period" here—you are playing for keeps from Day One.

Zero Communication Policy: You will never be informed of these issues, meaning you have no chance to learn, adapt, or defend yourself. Improvement is a solo quest, fought in the dark!

The Sudden Curtain Call: The culmination of this mysterious process is a sudden, unexplained termination: "Your services are no longer required." The only time your file of secret write-ups will see the light of day is when you dare to ask why you were let go.

⚠️ Survival Strategy: To ensure longevity here, your best (and possibly only) performance metric is social standing with the higher-ups. If you want to stay, be ready to embrace the art of brown-nosing and kissing up. It's not about what you know; it's about who you know (and how much they like you).

🎁 The Silver Lining
Despite the thrills, the chills, and the lack of communication, there is one undeniable perk that makes it all worthwhile:

A Truly Excellent Employee Discount! (Seriously, it's good.)

While I worked at Horrocks it was more of a "cluster" of random things than an actually good store. The workers were normally pretty welcoming and nice, but the management was out of control. You could have three managers tell you to do separate things in the course of one day on top of the list of whatever position you were working. While I understand the need to 'help one another', it is a different matter when you are told to do side work for a different department or to clean up a mess that someone else left because they assume it's 'their time to leave'. Managers losing paperwork or shoving it on a different manager and it getting lost in confusion and then a simple employee getting fired is also not out of the realm of day to day problems. There is also a lack of "when something is out of date' when it comes to selling things. Cheese and bread is the biggest issue and the managers seem to overlook this and slap a new tag for a newer date or they simply wait for customers to bring it up that it's out of date. So being a member of this store was quite the experience, but I wouldn't go back.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Free coffee and a small discount on groceries 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They would give us instructions like don't double bag but then they would say make the customers happy well those 2 things contradict each other so no matter what either the boss or the customer isn't happy and both of those things on their own will get you fired

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
All over the place no cohesion never had a preshift meeting info was spotty at best and part of the time the computers or credit card would stop working, completely outdated operating system 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Grab a drawer and hop on a lane where you stand in 1 spot for 8 hours and you almost have to beg to take a use the bathroom it's not like in that movie Shawshank were the boss is all you don't have to ask to use the bathroom , at Horrocks you do have to ask to go 😖

What is the best part of working at the company?
My coworkers, for the most part. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The owner finding it okay to call someone nasty names for wanting something like health insurance, the owner thinking it's okay to micro manage every part of the business despite most of his ideas being less than great for everyone except him, the managers and HR not really giving a care about the people beneath them, lest it make the owner angry. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
They think it's funny to offer free sandwiches to show they 'appreciate' their employees, instead of listening to our wants and needs. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I was a bartender, so I usually had to deal with a fairly steady amount of customers and the questions they had, along with serving them alcohol.

Horrocks is a fun place to work, at first. Lots of free food, and scheduling is flexible. The coworkers and some of the people you meet are awesome, but the management absolutely sucks. Some of the department managers have no idea what they’re doing, and if you try to make a complaint to HR they’ll just take the managers side. They don’t seem to be in any rush to hire more employees, even though our department only had 1 or 2 people closing most nights a week. The owner refuses to pay for the proper equipment, or to fix broken equipment, and would rather hodgepodge together a fix that inevitably breaks again. It’s a good first job, or a part time job while you’re in school, but I definitely wouldn’t want to try to stay here too long.

Very few raises, poor management where the managers don’t know what they’re doing most of the time. The coworkers are great people though and really help to make the day go by. Owners always have something new planned that they will force upon you without any extra pay or compensation. HR is not your friend and won’t really do anything to help you. A lot of drama which can take a toll on you. But like I said the work isn’t that hard and there are some great people who work there.

There is no room for growth with in the company because of it being a family owned managers are there for the long hall. Most of the managers think they can say and do what ever they want because they know the only way they will get fired is if they are stealing, and HR is worthless to talk to. If you even go into HR with a problem you get told she doesn't have time and if you come in again you'll be fired.

I worked at Horrocks for a few years and there were some really awesome shifts and some not so great shifts. The pay was decent and  I made some great connections with coworkers. At the time I worked there, the general manager was a bit of a sexist but it’s been a few years so hopefully that changed. Many of the customers can be uptight and Karen-like but there were some great regulars. 

Overall a mixed bag but I would say, it’s a fine place to work. Just make sure to have a good work life balance. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing in all honesty I mean it’s a good first time job it teaches patience and good customer service but that’s about it 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The managers never following the rules 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s stressful but the coworkers are nice 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A lot of standing you can not sit down you will get in trouble

Fun place to work for a little bit definitely not a long term job hard to get raises new employees have been hired making more than employees that have worked there way longer you are micromanaged good portion of the time management is definitely corrupt all the managers are friends and HR  is close with all the managers hard to report anyone if you have problems with them because of that 
They belittle you and sometimes make you feel like idiots 

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