technician

pharmacy technician

shift manager

construction project manager

network engineer

Jushi Holdings Inc.

When I arrived I didn't have any staff therefore, it was hands on for maintenace as a manager. This included; research for maintenance manauls for all equipment and drawing for the building. I sat up the CMMS system and ensure the data was tracked. ( i loved it because I was very busy) I was over qualified for this positon....... howvever pulling  the maintenace operation was great!

I  am much older than the majority of my colleagues ( expereince allowed me to see certain things only an expereince manager could possibily see.) This is not unusal for new managers.... (and start -ups....?????)
Therefore,  I had to refine my way of thinking an and interfacing with younger personel 
 with little Gudiance/Training on Leadership, Management, and Effective Communication Skills. ( this I hope is  viewed only as constructive critcism)

The new Manager's approach to resolve a surbornate issues was writing folk up........ turn-over of more than 30 folk with in a few months....is there something wrong with all of those employees, or lack of management skills?  I am not counting folk with disclipanry issues that need addressing. (this track record indicates there is an issue someowhere....) There again, I point at the fact we had Manager's with little management expereince.

AS a Diplomat/Director of Maintenance for many years my duties included; managing over; maintenance/construction, and renovation of properties. I also held the position of Safety Officer, with ALL of my OHSA Ceritifications.

I held a Contracting Offier Certification as well which is necessary when working on construction type projects. (The building was still under construction so this help while working at Jushi.

I had to be patience because of the lack or expereince and attitudes if I wanted to share my experience over the years. Everyone know experience is helpful in any professtion..............)
My challenges; new start-up, working through creating new procedures, learning the culture, Headquaters was based in Florida,and a lot of the management was from Pennsylvania,  which is totally different, as far as, culture in this state. The pay is way too lowfor Northern, VA. (NOVA)
No one could make a living on that amount in NOVA. I know I have been in NOVA since 1990.
 Jushi has employees with advance degrees.........making a very low salary which might be one on the retention issues. ( I assume these kinds have student loans to pay)
My boss was fair and hard working. I felt at times the fact I worked in this field for over 30.  I would sometimes had to be hummble during conversation ,,,,,,,,, because it felt like he forgot  of experience.  (Not inttentional,,,,,,I knew he ment nothing by it.) Afterall, he was the boss.

I told my manager my concern was I would be bored. The first few months were exciting because I had to set up the maintenace program.
I gained staff( 2-mechanics) My fear became reality. ( I was bored) The building construction project was behind schedule so, the revelation of more responsibility just wasnt there.  Towards the end I notice push back because of my my style, I felt. This job didnt have the level of structure I was accustom. (I have to take responsibility.......I felt this coming in the door) I absoluty hated working in a "Bull Pin". ( Construction behind....I understood)

Remember this is a start-up, however in my 30 years of working I never witness such a high rate of turnover due to the lack of expereince from the other managers.
Nice colleagues however, they lacked; lots training.I  their styles was more personality basesd; as opposed to solid leadership/management skills.   Taining should include; Leadership, Managing Conflict, how to get to YES in a negotiation with employees. 
Maybe Myer's Brigg to understand the type of manager and their strength and weakness.
Often, I was afraid to voice that opinion because I didnt want to kill anyone's moral. I felt instead of constructive  Criticism may have been interupted differetenly. (I dont know this fact because I didn't speak up) This was the most difficult of the job..........

The most enjoyable part of the job was the challenge of setting up the operation. Working for a boss who acknowledge the work. Working with me although, he understood this culture didnt feed my soul (felt like a job not fun) 
HERE AGAIN THIS WAS A START-UP AND MY FIRST EXPEREINCE WORKING AT ONE................WOW! i DID LEARN SOME STUFF (NO FURTHER COMMENT)



In no particular order: 

HR fostered a stressful culture and treated employees as liabilities rather than providing respect and support. The exception was that even the worst hourly employees were protected for extended periods, bringing detriment to morale and productivity and creating additional burdens for management. Training programs seemed intended to check boxes to avoid litigation rather than to actually develop or train employees.

Upper management, HR, and other remote  corporate team members avoided or were perhaps exempt from accountability and rarely communicated anything useful in writing. Blind allegiance, politicking, and being a 'yes man' was favored over competency. Corporate gaslighting was rampant.

Regular restructuring made for an unstable sense of job security. Leadership pushed the stereotypical "we are a family" type of ideology but when it behaved otherwise it was "just business." The company had no clear direction for growth but dangled the carrot of promotion opportunities with alleged pending expansion.

Requests for safety process or equipment improvements were largely ignored, dismissed, or delayed unless there was an incident. 

Chain of command was weak and there often seemed to be too many chefs in the kitchen for decisions that could've been made by one or two roles. 

Town hall meetings by visiting executive leadership tended to bring down morale.

As far as cultivation, the facility was poorly designed and put together, despite being relatively recently built and looking decent at a glance. Many opportunities to be truly "state of the art" were missed. During much of my time, the cultivation managers were holding things together in the absence of knowledgeable and organized direction from above. This was achieved through unsustainable work/life balance with the help of a few competent leads and technicians. Several great employees left or became disgruntled due to the limited and rare advancement opportunities and/or when they realized they were compensated no different from poor/lazy employees who they picked up slack from.

As with most cannabis companies, there were some genuine, down to earth, and fun-to-work-with people who cared about the plants, each other, and the customers, but overall, experience, professionalism, and competency were lacking, especially in upper management and above, making it an unnecessarily stressful environment.

I went into this job with so much hope and excitement. It lasted all of a month. It was extremely stressful from the beginning because we were ridiculously short staffed, but it was nothing I couldn’t handle. Unfortunately the management very rarely backed you up or listened when you needed assistance. Managers, supervisors and anyone else with an AIC badge basically refused to literally do their jobs. They’d leave it on those of us who were at the bottom and rarely helped enough to keep you from feeling completely overwhelmed. There’s zero consistency i how things are done, no SOPs, no actual continued training and it’s obviously because they have no idea how to really run a well organized team. Schedules were constantly given 2 or 3 days before they started. They allow so many of their employees to just goof off most of the day and then wonder why their good employees make mistakes or get burned out. Higher ups couldn’t care less about finding out why they have such high turnover as well. They actively stayed away from the employees who have been there for a while to avoid hard conversations. Handling of discrepancies and errors is extremely inconsistent. Several employees have lost their jobs due to a single event of human error, that is caught before anything illegal happens (hence why we check id’s several times). Then on the other hand there are several employees who have had multiple discrepancies, some in a single week, resulting in a loss of profits and noncompliance, but they are still working there. There is no consistency, real leadership and there’s a real backstabbing type of situation there. The new general manager literally told an AGM at our sister location how much they wanted to fire everyone in the store as soon as they arrived. I really just wanted to work in the cannabis industry because I know the products, I believe in how much they can help people. What I got was high school pettiness, terrible management and a lot of stress. The only positive is that most of my non management coworkers are amazing, I’ve formed some really great relationships with them. Too bad management is beyond hope. 

Working in the cannabis industry is not supposed to suck. This is the worst company i have ever experienced. If you have cannabis knowledge they do not care and you will be on a cash register. Everyone in management have no idea how to even be a manager or run a store. The company could give a care less about their medical patients. All they care about is the money they can make from the recreational customers. We never know what deals are going on till halfway through the day or when a customer tells us because there is no communication. The higher ups in the company are all jokes and know nothing about cannabis or truly what the medical benefits are. Best believe if they can go to rec only and have no medical side to their stores they will. The managers promote friends and who they want, not actually who is qualified for the job. There is absolutely no training for the new hires they are thrown in and expected to know the job and what to do. Management does absolutely nothing besides sit in their office all day while us employees actually do work and sometimes drown in that work because managers don’t want to do their job. I have never be so disgusted working for a company before. If you can AVOID THIS PLACE PLEASE DO. I am so sorry to all the medical patients that have been so mistreated by this company.

New manager was hired and things changed.  did not follow up on things he said he would do, doesn't really care about the employees, because you can be easily replaced. Can be fired mid-shift without supervisors or leads knowing. payroll makes mistakes on payroll and will take money out of paycheck the following week. rivalry between shifts, one shift does most of the work and fixes errors from other shift consistently. if there is not enough work then you get moved to another to "help out" without pay improvement (departments you help out make more hourly), so your doing work for people that make more than you. I enjoyed the team I worked with, they were great people but management and direction need more training. they are primarily focused on production and meeting numbers, which I understand but team moral and support is lacking, management stinks and is untrustworthy. cant increase production if there are mistakes daily with direction, label requirements, quality of goods, etc. cultivation always dealing with mold and powdery mildew, so most of flower heads to extraction, but its low quality product. its a comp ay that got started to make money and doesn't know what they are doing!

For starters, when I interviewed, both the interviewer and I agreed that I would be full-time. Then when I was formally hired weeks later, I was only given part-time, but took the job anyway. Management was never on the same page about anything, getting help from different managers meant a different outcome each time.
Then there were the corporate people who didn't help, but would instead just come and hover around the store, walk around the back, and act all friendly to you, when they're making 5x the money for 1/2 the actual work.
Worked at one of the busiest, if not the busiest, dispensary in the country, through holidays and all, only for the company to lay off over half of the employees in one day, two weeks after Missouri recreational dispensaries opened up.
Not to mention half of the procedures we had to follow seemed to be designed as inefficiently as possible, which only made customers mad at us floor employees. 
The only upside was the money, although the majority of that was from tips. They did also give us many snacks in the back. 

Camaraderie is high among peers! Low level management is awesome and they really do their best to take care of their people. Expect deadlines that make no sense and quota pushing to defy logic. Management from the director level up is out of touch with the working requirements of their departments, and Director of Operations spends about three minutes a pay period behind the GMP doors, which as you can imagine isn't really enough to connect him to the people or the processes that are performed there. People leave in droves because a few key employees (Hint: Not entry level ones) are so firmly embedded in the company that anything that could be construed as unprofessional is brushed off with, "Well, no one else has said anything," as though a department is required to gang up on their leadership for there to be a problem worth addressing. Hopefully with enough time better management will be cycled in, but again, the Good Ol' Boys club is strong here. 

The place and business model has a lot of potential. That being said, the place is a gossip mill. I watched one person get singled out and mocked and the managers didn't help because they were friends of the people doing it. HR doesn't respond to emails unless they feel bothered enough too and even then, it's probably just to fire whoever sent them the email in the first place. HR would get the email call the managers who would gossip on the employee and HR fired them before they even questioned the person. They have surprise firings where the employees walk in get suspended and then escort them out without even a write-up being given sometimes. The managers have extremely little customer service expierance so the salespeople have even less, and often fought with customers and would have me try to intimidate them. The management tries to come off as corporate, but that only applies to people they don't like. The positives well the discount is good, and the hours are flexible. The plan or original business model of a more relaxed type of store is nice. 

A typical day at work was fast-paced, which I personally enjoyed. The role often required long hours, including occasional weekend work, but it provided strong exposure to the industry. Over my five years with the company, I gained valuable knowledge and experience within the cannabis field and found the work itself rewarding.
In my experience, management communication and workplace dynamics could sometimes be challenging. There were occasions where I felt employee feedback was not always received constructively, and concerns were not addressed as thoroughly as I would have hoped. I also observed inconsistencies in workplace support and inclusivity that impacted my overall experience.
The most enjoyable part of the job was the opportunity to grow professionally and deepen my industry knowledge. The most difficult aspect was maintaining balance and navigating workplace challenges over time. Ultimately, I chose to move on in order to pursue a healthier and more positive professional environment.

I felt like an inmate in prison working there. The starting rate for packaging is $3 less an hour than processing for the same work. We'd constantly be told we're breaking records and then they'd push us harder for time. I had to sign out to use the disgusting bathrooms that were not properly cleaned in my entire time there or sign out to take a sip of water on the other side of the door. I had to put my cellphone at the front of the room, and if I used it without permission I could get written up. They'd give us unachievable goals halfway through the shift. HR is entirely unhelpful. Would never respond to emails or texts. I just heard that they scheduled mandatory overtime for 2 weeks. They don't care if you have kids, if you get so sick you run out of PTO, they don't care about you. They're only worried about how fast they can move product out of there. That place broke me down. What a waste. I learned that no amount of experience is worth the mental anguish of going to work there everyday 

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