security officer

supervisor

marijuana budtender

general manager

security guard

Perfect Union

No regular schedule. Every day and week, the hours are different. Be lucky if you work more than 30hrs/wk, even though they will call you full-time. The manager and leads cursed more than Sam Jackson in a Tarantino film. Constant threats of being written up for asinine reasons, such as clocking in a minute early after lunch or wearing comfortable pants. Supervisors talking smack about your coworkers. Lamest of uniforms with zero creativity.  Most locations are not unionized, even though they sell it during the interview and hiring process. Background check policy is inconsistent at best. Lousy communication at all levels, especially after they took email addresses away from front line employees. Zero money spent on upgrading and upkeep of the store. No local marketing or advertising. Hot products will sell fast but then you will never see them again. Haphazard inventory process with so many chances to screw up. You will spend more time windexing glass cabinets and staring at your phone than actually helping customers or real work. No tips. HR is feckless. If someone from corporate does visit, they will tell you the location's performance is poor and you will be punished as a result, even though you did nothing wrong. 
In a nutshell, the most unprofessional and anxiety-inducing workplace I  have ever experienced. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay is decent and we sell cannabis.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management is quite frankly, awful. It’s a cesspool of backstabbing staff hired by an inexperienced and poorly trained general manager.  Supplies are always in short supply, communication between the GM and everyone else is non-existent, the GM plays favorites - the younger and prettier you are, the better he treats you.  

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hostile and there are cliques - the GM has a bad habit of hiring groups of friends and they cover for each other and lie about what they have done. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Either slow with nothing to do or frantic because a bunch of staff called out. That’s what happens when you hire a group of friends and they all want to something together but it was unplanned - they all call out for their shifts. We are also always scrambling for basic supplies like paper towels and toilet paper, register tape, paper bags, etc.

This place has amazing frontline workers and my former staff is as good as it gets. The new upper-management and CEO that took over are outstandingly bad, and the CEO is horrendous with distinction. They truly had the best Budtenders around and a better-than-most work environment, and now they will wither away and simply be but another stepping stone in the Cannabis game. 

I worked here for many years, It was a service industry. I enjoyed helping others. Over the years, the pitfall, excessive management changes, unfair staff treatment. Floor staff and supervisors get mistreated and overworked by corporate. The pay starts 15 a hour, only .50 cent raise a year, and even if you work hard, you get no tips or extra commission. They took away everything meaningful. The benefits were healthcare and 30% discount (even though the product was overpriced). Heads up, the union does nothing, just takes 50 dollars out of your paycheck a month, you cannot opt out of the bargaining contract. I would suggest looking for another job, you probably won’t make it past first month. 

There really isn't any real opportunity to advance in this company. All the positions you have to wait until someone quits or gets fired. They have a hierarchy based on seniority which doesn't give any opportunity to those that actually take a job serious and are hard and diligent workers thay care about doing things correctly. So many times I have seen only 2 or 3 of a managent team of 7 be able to actually know how to do every aspect of the job and want to work. The rest just got there because of seniority and since there is no concept of performance based scheduling or performance based promotions or raises you get the most mediocre and lazy people running the show. 

They indirectly laid off my whole store without warning by selling us off to another company, that got rid of us in a couple of weeks.

They would always talk about how fun the job was, but that was just to distract from the disorganized disaster of inventory night (80s technology used), demanding yet inconsistent & disrespectful management, especially the sac ones and their rude IT who acted like we were always a bother. 

Only pro was that they backed you up if you had an issue with a rude customer. If you had someone creep on you, we could ban them from entry. 

Tenders aren’t allowed to accept tips, they also just stopped hiring from within so no internal advancement opportunities anymore. Very high turn over rate. Rules constantly change. Seldom a free sample of all the new products. (Hard to sell a product you can’t afford to try) Space is super limited for storage so it feels like a hoarder house most of the time. No room to have an actual break but it’s in a nice neighborhood for walking so at least there’s nice spots outside to sit for your break. 

After my year of employment at PU, I was eager to leave for any other job. Good vibes with other front line workers, but management and corporate didn't view us as important members of the team. The expectation is high, as you are meant to have product knowledge of every single item in the shop, even though they would never give samples. The employee discount on overpriced products doesn't get one very far, especially when the pay is only $17/hr. They will find any reason to write you up. Be prepared to be treated like a child. 

A typical day at work starts out with a daily meeting where we are reminded that we will be immediately written up for any minor infractions. Perfect-Union does not allow tipping and the wages do not keep pace with the increase in the cost of living. Many budtenders here work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Please boycott this company they do not care about the community or their employees.

Toxic environment to work in! New policy and procedures are always  changing and make no sense ! This company does not promote work smarter not harder! Not a mature environment to work in its very clicky- like high school!!!!!  Standards are not being met and this local manager can not manage and allows other employees to bully and talk about other employees ! Also, when your new hire training stops … trainings over. No more on new brands, strains- nothing just done ! 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Security officer 17 salaries reported	$19.56 per hour
Supervisor 9 salaries reported	$21.11 per hour
Marijuana budtender 4 salaries reported	$19.38 per hour
General manager 1 salary reported	$66,560 per year
Security guard 9 salaries reported	$19.18 per hour

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