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Run very, very far away from this company. Inconsistencies between management was the only consistent thing about my location. In 2.5 years we had 5 (FIVE!) different managers. Some given the position without even an interview, one that didn't even last a month, and all but one bringing their own personal agenda to the store. Happily working there is nearly impossible when there is clear bias and favoritism between management and staff and the director of retail breathing down manager's necks about meeting sales goals.

The problem with Trulieve doesn’t stem from one individual person because the problem with Trulieve is that it is a collection of brainwashed employees (and if you don’t think you’ve been manipulated by them now, just wait)  governed by people profiting off each person beneath them whether this is their own employees or their clientele. It isn’t even just Trulieve, but all Corporations, the real root of the problem. The folks aren’t even treated like patients by anyone in the company except some of the patient consultants and even less of the coordinators because of the demands of the job, which just adds to the frustration because you’re hired into the company thinking you’re going to be helping people. It’s a facade though. You’re here to jump through their hoops to make the most money for Trulieve's bottomless pockets. No matter how you jump, where you jump, or why you jump...you just better be jumping.

 Being part of leadership, I had 3/5 managers rant to me about their personal opinions about staff, their political opinions, and their s**ual lives. This created an awkward relationship for me with them because I was scared to speak to HR concerning this in fear of retaliation. Behavior like this is probably due to not screening candidates fairly and simply moving people up if they personally like them (2 managers directly told me that they were guaranteed the position before it was ever even posted on the company website). 

Trulieve does not know who/how to hire as leaders because they themselves are not real leaders and this cannot be more exemplified than by the very business model they have been executing. You see a coworker, they see labor percentage. You see freebies, they see pacifiers for employees. You see an opportunity to speak up, they see a problem. You see return abuse, they see not having to pay their taxes. You see them cutting corners with the legislation (putting you at risk), they see meeting the sales goal.You see a patient screaming at employees, they see money walking out the door. Compassion only for the cash in.

The company helped me build a lot of skills and I do want to put emphasis on this. I learned a lot about working with people and how to manage work stress due to so many irregularities within my location and across the company. Because I was given an opportunity here, I thrived for as long as I could. Don't get stuck here though if you have a true passion for helping people with cannabis.


Trulieve has a lot of talented team members who are experienced in their own respective fields, but they are unable to utilize their skill set to help move Trulieve in a positive direction. Communication functions unilaterally from the top-down, often without input from the professional staff that they hire which leads to an overall feeling of contempt from their staff as they are often stuck cleaning up messes that could easily have been anticipated and prevented by people who have years of experience on the team. The bullheaded nature of the executive staff prevents genuine constructive feedback from ever rising to the surface leading some of the people who are best equipped to move Trulieve in a positive direction to resign.

During the interview process, It was communicated that I would need to be available to work some nights and weekends. This ended up becoming an unspoken expectation to be on call around the clock, often leading me to work 60+ hours a week and making it impossible to make plans during the week or on the weekends. The lack of clear expectations and respect for personal boundaries lead to a very unstable work/life balance, which I attempted to communicate consistently throughout the entire duration of my time at Trulieve. My needs, as well as my team's needs, were continually ignored or sidestepped as our proposals for implementing better project management, strategy, and foresight to help mitigate the need for unnecessarily long hours were either met with indifference or they proposed alternatives that only made things worse. (Which was a very clear sign that they were not actually listening to our needs.)

This lack of communication and teamwork on behalf of upper management along with the complete disregard for work/life balance made me feel undervalued and underappreciated, especially given how much I contributed to the team. If you are looking to build your portfolio and gain experience that will propel you forward, I would consider alternative options.

My experience at Trulieve.  The facility was, unfortunately, one of the most disappointing and disheartening of my career. What should be a site driven by purpose, teamwork, and operational clarity has instead become a cautionary tale of how poor leadership and cultural misalignment can derail an entire organization.

Leadership Direction:
The plant operates without clear direction. Decisions feel reactive, communication is inconsistent, and leadership often lacks the guidance or structure necessary to support people on the floor. Instead of fostering collaboration, the environment encourages silence, confusion, and burnout.

HR & Culture:
HR appears to reward the loudest voices rather than the most constructive ones. Instead of addressing toxicity, it often reinforces it, which drives away strong contributors and empowers the wrong behaviors. The result is a workplace where psychological safety is low and accountability is inconsistent.

Team Dynamics:
The culture has shifted away from teamwork and shared goals. Departments often work against each other rather than together. When issues arise, it is far more common for employees to be blamed or isolated than collaboratively supported. It creates a climate of mistrust that ultimately hurts the product, the people, and the mission.

Business Outlook:
It’s hard to feel confident in the site’s long-term stability when operational misalignment and internal dysfunction are all converging. Instead of improving, the atmosphere feels increasingly uncertain and strained.

Overall:
Trulieve could be an amazing workplace — the product matters, and there are talented people there who genuinely care. But the current environment is weighed down by mismanagement, cultural toxicity, and a lack of unified leadership vision. Until there is real change from the top down, I cannot recommend it as a healthy or sustainable place to work

My experience with this company, including this specific location, was deeply disappointing. Employees are not treated with respect or dignity, and the overall culture prioritizes profit over people. There is a pervasive atmosphere of dishonesty, manipulation, and micromanagement. We were discouraged from forming connections with coworkers and told to focus solely on upselling, with little regard for genuine customer care.

Workplace comfort and mental well-being are disregarded, and human resources frequently acted in ways that felt retaliatory and disingenuous. Layoffs and terminations often seemed abrupt and lacked transparent reasoning. Despite frequent staffing shortages, hours were not equitably distributed—many employees, myself included, struggled to secure enough hours to maintain a basic standard of living. Compensation was among the lowest in the industry.

Furthermore, the company’s treatment of LGBTQ+ employees was especially concerning. I witnessed what appeared to be targeted terminations affecting trans and LGBTQ+ staff, fostering a hostile and exclusionary environment.

Basic necessities such as toilet paper, soap, mop heads and receipt paper were often unavailable, and employees were regularly forced to bring their own supplies or retrieve them from other locations.

I cannot in good conscience recommend working here to anyone seeking a respectful, inclusive, or supportive workplace.

The customers were the only reason I stayed as long as I did, it was a very hard decision to put in my 2 weeks and leave.

I've had to really take my time writing this because I've been torn about the right thing to do, and whether or not doing the right thing would still result in my being sued by a multi-million dollar company. I'm pretty sure everything I'm about to say is still within my 1st amendment rights.  This is not the place to work if you have a problem with unfairness, as there is no other way to explain them.  First off tips are paid to managers as well and by an hourly rate.  
So for example if you make $40 in your shift but it happens to be a shorter shift, then your managers who HAVE to work longer hours just got more of your tips than you did.  UNFAIR. 
There is a huge amount of favoritism in this company all the way up to the top, if your not one of them then you don't have a chance.  Even if you are one of them you'll still never receive a raise unless you move positions .UNFAIR.  
Instead of having managers pay attention they assign knowledgeable people next to less knowledgeable.  Suddenly we are now a trainer without extra pay.  UNFAIR. 
If you take your time to explain things to a patient and build trust you end up getting told you took too long.  "Get 'em in and out".  This isnt described as a sales job but turned into one.  UNFAIR
Originally lunch break was 30 minutes for everyone even if you worked a full day.  Now you have to take a one hour lunch per 10.5hr shift. Work 4 10.5hr shifts and you lose 4hrs pay in lunches.  Work 5 8hr shifts and lose 2.5hrs pay in lunches.  UNFAIR.
And the 5 YEAR non compete is intimidating at best.  Pair this with paying $5hr less than anyone else in the field and you realize the reason for the 5yr non compete.  UNFAIR.

I'll start with the good: my coworkers at my specific location were marvelous, plus a substantial employee discount on product. 

The bad: upper management (meaning corporate, and some GMs) is soulless, a word I don't use lightly. They will fire indiscriminately and make transfers and promotions difficult, not to mention mid-level positions are not worth the extra work they burden you with. Twice the work for a handful of dollars an hour, especially when the base pay is already low for the industry. They will have sales constantly, all on different products, sometimes without telling employees. Stocks are never consistent and your experience completely depends what location you're at (I was at a good one, don't want to imagine the bad). Few people thrive at Trulieve, most just survive and spend all their profits on product. The return policy and "always say yes to the customer" attitude also means employees get trampled frequently and company "policies" are flexible, except when they want to let someone go, then they're set in stone. Training is also extremely inconsistent and consultants will contradict each other unknowingly.

The neutral: they'll hire just about anyone, so if you're looking to break into the industry, this is a place to start. This can mean you can work with a good crew, as I did, or a bad crew, as most do.

Addendum: be gentle with lower- and mid-level employees—they're totally at the mercy of corporate, and if you want to work for corporate: don't.

What started out as such an empowering, rewarding job, fell quickly to the inconsistency and disgusting demeanor of the company as a whole. Absolutely no consideration for their employee's, let alone the patients. You would think with how much they profit from their china brand devices, moldy- spider mite flower cups, etc. they could bump the pay up, but they're so greedy they will NEVER do that. They are the most unprofessional, uneducated, medical cannabis company to work for. If you're good at your job by giving a proper introduction to a first-time patient, take your time explaining their trash overpriced products, and build a first name basis with "their patients", you will lose all incentive quickly because they simply do not care how good you are. The new management at Clearwater Trulieve is an absolute clown, that should stick to retail because she has no idea how the cannabis industry operates. The tip out is a joke. They didn't even have HR until maybe 8 months ago, there is a lot of illegalities that are conducted through their business that will be brought to light eventually. Please do yourself a favor and stay away from Trulieve. Go work for the competition that will value you as an employee and make working in the cannabis industry as wonderful of an opportunity as it should be! A dispensary in Tampa starts you out at $15.00 as a med tender and actually gives you an educational basis to help the patients and their conditions, rather than just selling products.

Trulieve is a horrendous company who places profits above all else.  Employees are viewed as expendable and replaceable, and treated as such.  I was terminated over text message on my day off because the legal department decided there were too many full time employees with benefits.  I was making less than $15/hour and the benefits I had weren’t even very good, yet that’s why they terminated me.  My position is now posted as “part time, up to 40 hours, no benefits,” so clearly they only cared about  not paying benefits.  Prior to this I had attempted to move up into management positions, however those were just left unfilled when someone left or was fired.  The other employees were expected to pick up their job duties.  At the retail level they are making GM’s and Assistant GM’s work more hours because they are salary and can’t get OT.  Patient wait time was already long and patients were complaining before they started these layoffs.  I would recommend any prospective employees try to get a job with any other employer is this industry before you work with a company as bad as Trulieve.  Although you will be employed in the cannabis industry, other employers do not view Trulieve as a great company to gain experience or knowledge.  They do the bare minimum amount of training, the majority of knowledge on cannabis I learned on my own time.  I would only recommend working at Trulieve if it was your only job option.  Deliver door dash, or instacart, or anything before Trulieve.

I would strongly warn anyone considering employment at Trulieve to think twice. What I experienced here went far beyond a “bad job” and crossed into a pattern of hostility, intimidation, and disregard for employee well-being.

From the start, management culture felt punitive rather than supportive. Communication was inconsistent, expectations shifted without notice, and employees were treated as disposable. When I raised legitimate concerns in good faith, I was not met with professionalism or problem-solving—I was met with retaliation and silence.

What stood out most was the complete lack of accountability. Policies were applied selectively, leadership protected itself rather than staff, and there was no meaningful avenue to report mistreatment without fear of consequences. The stress created by this environment was not incidental—it was systemic.

This company markets itself as progressive and employee-focused, but my lived experience was the opposite. Mental health, disability accommodations, and basic human dignity were treated as inconveniences rather than obligations. Instead of support, I encountered stonewalling and procedural gamesmanship.

If you value transparency, fairness, or your own mental and emotional health, I would urge you to look elsewhere. No paycheck is worth being subjected to an environment where employees are treated as liabilities instead of people.

I’m sharing this so others can make an informed decision—and avoid going through what I did.

I wanted to help people and remove the stigma of medicinal cannabis but all I got was a crash course in how to operate the P.O.S system, how to minimize transaction times,and set up and break down your station at the beginning and end of the day. It is non stop from the time the place opens until they decide to stop letting people in. People are always gruff because they have been waiting for up to 4 hours at time.

You are expected to be on your feet for up to 12 hours a day with minimal breaks,and be mentally sharp for your entire time which is almost impossible considering the sheer volume of clients that arrive.

Patient consultant is the most demanding job in the building and they treat you like a machine.They are the only ones held accountable for anything,while the people in the front surf the web all day and the people in the back watch You tube,and order food.(to be fair, there is usually one or two people working their tail off fulfilling the ridiculous amount of web orders).

It is a very young industry,but for the amount of money this company makes,that excuse will not fly for very long.

They tell you that you will receive tips but what they don't tell you is that everyone in the building gets a share. I've watched someone drop 10 dollars in my jar and walked out with 8 dollars for the entire day.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Associate 92 salaries reported	$13.83 per hour
Cultivation technician 4 salaries reported	$15.38 per hour
Inventory manager 10 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour
Assistant general manager 8 salaries reported	$49,688 per year
General manager 14 salaries reported	$57,714 per year

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