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UNCLE TETSU

I work at the Santa Clara location, and we're currently understaffed. It gets pretty busy on the weekends, but we manage to make it work. Customers are nice, and the job difficulty is pretty on par with the pay. The work environment is nice, almost family-like. Even though it can be stressful, management always tells me to relax and that we'll make it through. Overall, the job is a nice balance between stressful and easy-going. If you like baking, this is definitely the job for you. My only complaint is that scheduling is super inefficient. It's all done on paper rather than an app like Homebase.

The job itself was super straight forward and enjoyable, the problem is upper management plays favorites with who they schedule and the current store manager who is in training is constantly talked down to by upper management and they won’t even allow her to make the schedule without being cleared with them. People who have been there since the store opened are being pushed out through minimal hours, and new employees who have been promised full time employment are being minimally scheduled as well. In fact a pregnant worker there has had to deal with scheduling  retaliation from upper management as well. 

I worked for the Bake Shop where they sold their cheese tarts. Things got so bad for me there that I had to quit in the first two weeks. I was diagnosed for Bi Polar right after though I believe I had been for several years prior. Shortly after quitting they went through all my past job experiences and started asking around about me. You can see how stressful and paranoid I became after that. Management is run by ice cold young adults basically. Some coworkers were sweet and kind while others drove me insane with anxiety. I don’t recommend anyone with some form of anxiety to work here. Employee atmosphere is not the best.

Uncle Tetsu in the beginning was a good job until I started realizing that management can’t order every day items, such as sugar and flour on time. Management has messed up, orderings on more than one occasion. Their overall attitude, and passion for the job has significantly lowered due to some unmotivated workers in the mix. The management does not imply, correct discipline when it comes to employees breaking rules.

High stress environment especially when it's busy. The interview process doesn't really prepare you for the work or reflect the process of working at all. The social environment is very friendly. The scheduling is very random at times and hours aren't guaranteed.

My manager at my location makes a lot of the employees stressed and feel as if we can never meet their expectations no matter how much effort we put into our work there’s always an issue. We are never given praise for our work and they have unrealistic standards for the quality and amount of work we can do. Overall just don’t work here unless you love cleaning and being micromanaged.

Applied here as a temporary job while searching for opportunities similar to my career aspirations. 

There is a lot of labor and high expectations. You have to be perfect with everything or you might potentially get written up for small mistakes. Managers are doing their best to support you, but supervisors are unreasonably tough. Flexible schedules, but don’t expect to work full time. 

If micromanagement to a detriment is your style then you might like Uncle Tetsu. Management is constantly changing  and expectations are constantly changing making it nearly impossible to keep up. 

Like the work, but general manager has a problem when workers aren’t constantly in a cheerful mood even if you’re in the back of house with no customer. I got scolded for not looking “happy” 

-Always busy on holidays needed 2 bakers while on slow day 1 baker only
-I learned how to work one man job working for Uncle Tetsu.
-The hardest part of the job is not getting help when I'm struggling and I still need to help my coworker at same time.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Baker 70 salaries reported	$21.06 per hour
General assistant 54 salaries reported	$26.19 per hour
Shift leader 14 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour
Assistant manager 5 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour
Bakery manager 9 salaries reported	$29.38 per hour

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