retail sales associate

forklift operator

bakery clerk

meat cutter

assistant store manager

Mitchell Grocery Corporation

There are several problems with this company.  First of all, the management there is ineffective with absolutely no leadership capabilities whatsoever.  The managers try to intimidate you to make sure that you know that they are in charge, even though they can barely do their own jobs.  None of the managers have any sort of formal training in management and they definitely have favorites.  Second, there is no such thing as work/life balance at this company.  The way it usually goes here is if you are one of the favorites, you can get anything you want.  If you are not one of the favorites, no matter how hard you work, you are expected to drop everything outside of work.  You are expected to sacrifice things like family, church, etc. because you needed a job.  If you ask off for anything, the managers will complain about it.  Third, the pay is absolutely terrible.  You start out making minimum wage with the promise of an evaluation after 90 days.  This promise is rarely ever kept.  If you do ask for a raise, then you are labeled by management as a complainer.  Most of the people that I know have gotten raises have had to threaten to quit to get them.  As far as workplace culture, everything is fine if you are one of the favorites.  However, if you do something to make any of the managers mad, they will hold a grudge and make working there miserable.  They will try to get back at you through the schedule, either by scheduling you to work only on nights and weekends and/or by cutting your hours.  Some of them will go so far as to not even say anything to you directly, but will talk about you to other employees behind your back and then lie about it if confronted.

The good ol boy club at its absolute finest with this place. The folks in the front office were great while I was there. They always helped me whenever I had a question about something. The problem lies in the warehouse itself. I was on 2nd shift and it's just chaos. If you're in the "click" you're fine and the bare minimum is expected of you.  Don't get your hopes up for a weekend. They don't exist. You'll work holidays and if you're on 2nd shift you'll work 16-17 hours to fill the void the other shift left. There's no air conditioning in the summer and it's basically an oven, you operate barely clinging to life equipment, the floor you drive on makes state highways a pleasant experience, there's barely any room for the stuff they have but they'll continue to unload trucks on you. The place is just a mess. The front office folks were great and from what I seen they're left in the dark about the warehouse for the most part.  The clinic is about the only good thing the place has going for it.

Working in the grocery business is tough. If you don’t like people or working most if not every holiday and weekend, then I would suggest finding another industry. The owners seems not to care all that much about the general direction of their business and their attitude matriculates down to upper management. The current management team where this reviewer was located has a lot of work to do to become better managers and leaders. They will smile in your face and act buddy buddy, but at the same time prod you away by keeping you at arms distance. Of course compensation is heavily reliant upon the overall productivity of the store, however; they can’t expect good workers to come for bad worker pay. If you can at all help it, go to the big green store or red one, but if not pad your resume and learn from those who will be willing to teach you so you can move on. 

There is absolutely no room for advancement here unless you get into the Meat Department and that means just getting the knowledge on how to cut meat and then seeking employment elsewhere. 

They pay only minimum wage. I was there for 2 years learning to cut meat before they increased my pay to $7.75. The hours were terrible and I felt like I was there all the time. Other places will pay upwards of $15 an hour for someone who knows how to cut meat but here the manager of the meat department was making only $10. They will not pay you what you are worth.

I really liked the people I worked with but this place is something you do during or just after high school to get some sort of job experience otherwise it's just a dead end job.

Very racist place to work if the location is in Cloverdale. POOR mangement and has high school students in the office being over the cashiers. Don't follow their rules and lets under age employees give other under age employees permission to sell alcohol and tobacco products without licenses often. Doesn't look at cameras and take customers words over yours. Some customers are racist and rude toward black people. Don't count pans right and fires people based on false accusations. Very very poor training and chews you out when you make mistakes instead of preventing issues before you make them. Do not work here because they are very lazy when comes to helping you with anything and most customers have walked out mad.

I worked for this company for 21 years and I always did my job never called in even came in and worked when I was sick I had a entire department to run by myself and I ran it well but the reason I had to resign was due to the produce manager provoking me and harassing me sometimes on a daily basis this person would accuse me of doing things that I didn't do I went to the store manager many times about her but he refused to do anything about it so I was forced to resign because I couldn't work in that type of environment anymore.  This company definitely plays favorites and if you aren't one and don't kiss up you will have a very hard time working here it doesn't matter how long you work there or your work ethic. 

Overall on awful play to work but, raises are slim to none. Managers act like the money is coming directly out of their pocket. They will over work you up to 10 hours a day with only a 30 minute break. Will also make you work 39.5 hours a week but refuse to give full time pay or position. Beginning pay is $7.25 and you'll be lucky of you get a raise after a year of a quarter. Most of the people they hire are high school students who can't even be there to do the most important part of the job the truck. Managers turn a blind eye to anything they don't want to see. They expect your world to revolve around Foodland. Will call you in at any chance they get. DON'T DO IT!!!!

I had worked 15 minutes of overtime during a holiday so my manager has the overtime removed. Basically he stole it. He also did the same thing to an elderly employee who was working to supplement his social security income. If you can find somewhere else to work you'll be better off. They pay minimum wage and your lucky to get a raise. My experience working there taught me that Mitchell grocery employs liars and thieves for managers. When I told senior management about the overtime incident I was treated like it was my fault. The meat market manager at the Hanceville WDG location is a liar and thief.

This place is the bottom of the barrel, literally. The work conditions are terrible and very unsafe. They ask impossible task, and if you are not a favorite then you will fail those task or give up every single break your offered just to, maybe, scrape by. The management is terrible. They don’t follow protocol. The equipment doesn’t work. Not only will they ask you to do your job but everyone else’s too. And i can not stress this enough, favorites favorites favorites. That is the only way to accomplish anything in this place otherwise they just treat you as awful as possible until you either quit or they can find a way to fire you.

Management has no grasp on the departments or how they operate. They expect unrealistic sales goals when competing against people with better products at lower prices.

The pay for work is just insulting since you often find yourself doing someone else's job on top of your own, and you already aren't being compensated fairly for your own job. Raises only occur when there is an emergency such as multiple people quitting or when nobody else will do the work you do and they know it.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Retail sales associate 2 salaries reported	$12.50 per hour
Forklift operator 2 salaries reported	$13.10 per hour
Bakery clerk 1 salary reported	$12.50 per hour
Meat cutter 1 salary reported	$12.50 per hour
Assistant store manager 4 salaries reported	$15.88 per hour

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