customer service representative

assistant store manager

food service associate

truck driver

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Par-Pacific-Holdings

I've enjoyed working for Par. If you like people and a busy work environment this is a good job. With it being a gas station you're going to meet everything from homeless people to the top surgeon at a hospital. So people skills is a must. The work isn't hard. Keep the place clean and stocked,  have cash handling skills. I just wish they paid more. You can have colorful hair, tattoos, I think piercings but don't quote me on that. They start you out as a graveyard most times. Once you work up you can get a swing shift. They do have steady predictable schedules, you work pretty much the same schedule every week. Benefits aren't terrible, paid time off for illness, vacation time, medical, dental, vision. You need to drug test, it's a mouth swab. I'm not sure if Marijuana is tested for cuz I feel like we hire a lot of stoners. And there's nothing wrong with that. But brush your teeth just in case. There are opportunities to move up in the company but I feel like the managers aren't as appreciated as much as they should be. They have to cover any shifts that people may call out sick, which means you could potentially have 16 hour or 20 hour shifts (24 hour stores have 8 hour shifts and non 24s have 10 hour shifts) the assistant manager is hourly so they do get overtime but general managers are salary so they do not. It's a major corporation (par is traded on the stock market, they do have an option for employees to buy in) so expect policies change often. Like any corporation they will try to get as much out of you as possible especially if your in management.

The retail corporate team(management and departments) are an absolute joke, with even less to absolutely no improvements from the four years I have worked for the company at their retail stores. The lack of communication to cater to store issues has garner continued frustration for employees, and the continued miscommunication has led to completely NO COMMUNICATION at all. The company has continued to derail itself with what they believe is the best thing when managing the PNW stores, from store level employees POV. Employee(s) have yet to see any improvement in being appreciated for the work they put in day after day, especially with people continuing to quit on a daily to weekly basis. Overtime becomes mandatory in the store levels by store managers for employees due to the lack of employees, and Regional Managers are no where to be found in assisting in managing these issues. (Stating that they are doing the best they can.) Each store has led to create their own community outside of the corporation because no one is acknowledged until BARs, State, and Federal stings come by or they decide to send out need changes that they discussed all by themselves without sending out a memo ahead. 

Day at work it's good depend on you of how your going to make your day?
I learned much that was old and new too depend on the company store if we achieve to meet the goals or not which is good because you can see the changes that what need to reaarange to keep the workflow going.
Management they're good and somewhat not good. Management that loves and care what they do is the best one to work with because they do so much to make the teams work and tried not to burden the staffs but yet the manager carry its but still work things out. The other part is manager have a problem with their behaviors that no staffs know what going on behind close door except being pressure with our schedule be any kind that doesn't look good with our health at the gas station. Staffs need to be awake and alert in the store and on the premises. And it depend on the manager mood if good or not. The hardest part is keeping yourself awake and the enjoyable is your co-workers and customers and keeping yourself busy.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I loved my job, the company, and the benefits, but management was severely lacking in every aspect.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with supervisor's flip-flopping and lack of: consistency, solid leadership, motivational skills, compassion, competence, respect for his staff, leading by example, honesty, trustworthiness, integrity, appreciation...pretty much an extremely toxic person. Extremely critical, demanding, demeaning, created an atmosphere of constant uncertainty, imbalance, destruction of one's self-confidence and ability to work without micromanagement or belittlement. Just not a healthy environment whatsoever, and upper management saw what was happening, but never stepped in to change or correct this behavior.

It's a easy job but you do have workers who try to over take you because they was there longer. You will even have workers who don't want to do cashier so they leave behind cashier so they can hide in the back. You can't play music even tho all the customers like it and start singing and dancing the only things you can play is the radio that talk about hele. If you decide to put your 2 weeks in don't think you will get the job again even tho you follow protocol they will not approve. You can say they have favoritism over workers and how they do things. You work 8 hours straight and you don't have any discounts and not able to leave the store area to get food so if you are hungry you have to bring lunch, Uber eat, door dash, ask a family to bring you food or pay full price at the store like everyone else. 

The company was amazing. You can leave for planned appts. If it is known and planned enuf time in advance.  Actual Emergencies yes you can leave obviously , I had to a few times but always came back and didn't leave my coworkers for long when I was needed..   I loved my job, I loved the people I worked with, the became my family!    Corporate cut hours back suddenly for part time to 17 and unfortunately I couldn't make it on that and gave my 2 weeks. They were kind and respectful and I learned work ethic as well as patience and time management. 

Overall is great, I think that higher pay is warranted and ergonomics are needed to sustain workers health.
I am a Medical Specialist for several years, and am trying to get back on my feet.
This company hired me with a.disability and are willing to work with needs I have and.I in turn to them.
I think working in a no drama environment is important. Working with people you have never met can often be difficult, but this company cares and tries to head off any non-compliance to the well being of all their employees by offering classes that help inform employees on how to handle differences straight away.

Small company with a toxic work environment and to top it all off are managers that have zero management experience as well as zero people skills. You’ll go to HR to report them and they won’t help you one bit. HR is completely useless. The workload here is horrible, they expect you to miss lunch, work late, and be available at any time of the day. Zero work life balance. Everyone is literally bombarded with work. They don’t hire enough people to do the work here. And management is toxic! They’ll talk to you like you’re crazy. I don’t recommend working here at all. 

If you are in the office, make sure to negotiate pay at the table upon hire otherwise you are stuck with a 1-3% annual performance increase, and you wont be getting ahead in life. Managers are stuck in the "this is how we have always done in it" mindset. Very clique based office environment; lack of providing opportunity to employees to correct behavior and quick to want to fire.

However, great benefits. Some of the best medical coverage and affordable rate I have seen. Amazing time off policy for non-retail. Lots of snacks in the office. 

Par Pacific has grown a lot in the last 7 years. We work hard to adapt to changes and support the growth. It feels like a challenge to juggle the different processes at different locations and find a way to streamline and make it all work together efficiently. I think the leaders are committed to the company and to the employees even if it seems chaotic.

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