delivery driver

hvac technician

store manager

retail sales associate

customer service representative

Mirabito

This is from an IT workers perspective. 

IT Leadership needs a new direction. 

Aggressive tactics and unreasonable demands; including unpaid overtime and neglect of personal oversight. 

Joining this male dominated team feels a bit like being hazed - you either submit to leadership machismo or you are broken. 

Regular comments on appearance and consistent "shock jock" ridicule.

Reports to HR are discouraged through intimidation.

This reflects poorly on Corporate Leadership.

You will be asked regularly to work beyond established expectations. 

IF you are at the "bottom" you will know it personally.  

An apparently "wealthy" company withholds beneficial profits from its labor force by offering salaries alongside minimal benefits and paltry PTO plans.  

Any apparent poverty will be taken advantage of in order to seduce desperate laborers into low wages and degradation. 

This is how they get you to work beyond your agreed hours; by keeping you hungry while leadership dines with the CEO and other fatcats.

Working beyond your hours one day will not allow you the flexibility the next that you'd expect in a salaried position.

High turnover in IT.

IT workers beware being the replaceable cog.

Everything is a cog to the man who believes he owns the engine.  Cannot recommend in good conscience working here.

Projects are regularly delayed and over-budget while IT is understaffed and mismanaged.

Tech is desperately outdated or brand new being deployed untested causing massive headaches for both customers and technicians. 

Current management is in overwhelming disarray.

 If you value self-esteem, sanity, and work-life balance: beware this workplace like the plague.

It takes about half an hour to drive to work, when I arrive I sign on my register and check the coffee island supplies. Then I will check and face the coolers while cleaning up a little here and there. Usually I do not have a lot of time out on the floor when I arrive at work since I am often scheduled to come in during the afternoon rush. When I am on the Subway side of the store I will sign in and then do my cash-in count, wash my hands and start taking care of customers if there are any, if not then I start on dishes or any preparations that need to be done. Around 8 p.m., when on either side, I start working on the clean up for the store and close by 10.

I learned more responsibility in dealing with the sales of alcohol and tabacco, better team working skills as in previous jobs there was not much of an overlap in scheduling.

The management can be good, but often the solutions management comes up with to problems makes no sense.

I have some very good co-workers and some that are not so good. The good co-workers are willing to help others out if needed, the not so good ones are only there for themselves or have other unprofessional qualities.

The hardest part of the job is dealing with upset customers, there is only so much cashiers can do and sometimes the customers simply need someone to yell at.

The most enjoyable part of the job is seeing customers that I have built up a friendship with and have a few moments to talk with while they are in the store, other than that it would have to be when closing because that means the shift is over.

The upper management never allot the store enough hours to keep it properly staffed. Basically we couldn't hire another person if we wanted to even though we only have four employees right now. Nine to 10 1/2 hour shifts are the regular and you work these alone and without a break. We don't get breaks at all, they make you sign a waiver. My coworkers are pretty cool but since I only ever work about an hour of overlap with them it doesn't really matter. Be careful or you'll end up doing all of the managers duties too. Managers prioritize themselves first and people with kids second. So if you're a person without a kid who wants a holiday off? Don't bother. Minimum wage with no hope for improvement. They call the raising of minimum wage (which they're obligated to pay) a raise. Even if you start training to be a manager there's still no guarantee for a raise until you become "proficient" at it or get your own store. But now you'll have all these great new skills the manager can take advantage of. Prices are ridiculously high and you'll be stuck there all day paying those ridiculous prices so you can eat/drink (which is required to live) while getting minimum wage in return. If you're working at one in a small town some customers are the best and others are down right awful. Do now work at these stores if you lean to the left for politics because you will never hear the end of people complaining about you and your people. All in all the job duties themselves aren't bad when you're able to do just your own and not everyone else's. Hostile and soul sucking work environment.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They rarely fire people. It’s a good job if working in recovery so many employees don’t do the required work. And they still have jobs.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
This particular demographic of customers, is extremely brutal. This customer base is usually mean, verbally, abusive, attacking, taunting, and baiting. I get yelled at all the time, every shift, by customers. Very personal and mean attacks.
The business model is a negative feedback loop.
All employees are told they are not doing enough, repeatedly.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Apathetic, negative, careless.
No teamwork. Extremely frustrating.
A culture of people calling off, the employees who do the work, continually get more work to make up for the people who don’t work.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Processing a High, customer volume, who bring in anger, negativity, and verbal attacks, with every transaction.
No company or employee support. High turnover of staff.
Trying to keep up: indignantly dissatisfied, customers, and management.

The manager is a great woman. She listens to myself and the other employees when we have suggestions or concerns for the store. She is very flexible with everybody's hours. For instance, if i needed to have a couple days off, she would work it out between herself and the remaining employees to give me those days off. Very seldom did I get scheduled on a day I requested to have off. The other employees are great as well. We all get along and work together to make the store a comfortable and welcoming place for our customers. I love the customers. Majority of them are so nice and understanding if we make a mistake or something happens where their transactions take longer to complete than normally expected. Very few customers have given us problems, but that is expected working in a convenience store environment. I enjoy the job duties of restocking the beverage coolers along with the grocery shelves. It makes our shifts fly by. My only issue with the job is that it is minimum wage and I occasionally work nights.

The management is nice on a personal level, beyond that they have no clue what they are doing. They hire people for management all the time and regulate them ALL to clerks, but want you trained in all aspects of opening and closing a store without an increase in pay. 30 years of management experience only garners an additional $.20 an hour in pay and when the NYS required pay increases hit, you lose your experience bonus. They regularly hire friends of the owners at higher rates of pay but they do far less work. They will not get you the tools you need for the job, like proper brooms. On the food service end standards are lax, many food makes on the store side don't wear hats or gloves when making food. The only perk for employees are game tickets they get. But the family only likes Buffalo, NY teams so if your not a fan of a Buffalo team its worthless. They really just don't care about their staff at all.

Horrible company to work for CEO's and managers do not care for their employees or their growth in the company. The hours are horrible low hours especially for the good workers they get hardly any good pay and hardly any hours and they dont give u paid time vacations or paid sick leave or paid holidays off u have to work holidays and they dont give pay raises to often and they dont give position raises either do to they are afraid the good workers will take their spot or stores from them and so they come up with lies and excuses on why they fire u and then fire u and keep the horrible workers who never come in and call off or dont show up or call out but the good ones who show up who never call in who stay double or triple shifts cuz the horrible ones dont show get walked all over for being good employees. I loved working with customers but hated the company

It was a job at a gas station. The job itself was pretty basic, but the people it allowed me to work with and for were awesome.
My manager was a real people person and an excellent judge of character. He made working in the store feel less like work and more like hanging out with friends.
It was great to come in and see my regular customers every day and it was very easy to learn the basics.
You spend most of your time cleaning the store (sweeping, taking out garbage, cleaning the bathrooms, stocking or straightening the shelves, etc.) and ringing up customers.
The people you work with and around make the job what it is more than anything else, so the nature of the job is probably highly dependent on the location and your manager.
I loved the job, honestly.

Lot of things went untold, you get tossed in blind at the beginning, seeing as you only get about a day total to figure everything out, then you're on your own, minus what you can ask while on shift, promising there's someone there to even help you out. Very easy job once you get used to it, but if you don't learn it on your own within the first bit of being hired, you're pretty screwed (almost had this happen to me twice within the first few weeks of me being there). They try their best to get someone to cover your shift if needed but they'll still try to get you to come in even if you've been very clear you can't. Otherwise, as long as you get a good group if people and a good bunch in terms of who to turn to with management, it's a good part time at best.

If you're not willing to run to management for every little inconvenience you won't be one of the favorites and believe me they have them and you'll know. It doesn't matter if you work 40 hours a week or the 60 a week I was working they will throw you away like you're garbage if you don't bend over backwards for them and their favorite employees. I've never seen a company that chooses an employee who walked out of the job after 5 weeks over someone who's been there 4.5 years and works 60 hours a week and knows their job. I've also never had a manager that just downright hated me and made it obvious in any way she could. The Mirabitos themselves are very nice people who do good by their employees but the management is the worst I've ever seen. Also the benefits are horrible and not worth the trouble. 

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