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Urb Cannabis

Former urb cannabis employee, now tattoo artist apprentice. I will start with the upsides:

 Very friendly staff, those people made me love them with all my heart and I will never forgive them for that. You will get what you put out in this environment. Easy job but hard work so the shifts go without a hitch*, and like running water. You will be selling weed to people that are already high: not exactly a nuanced craft. A strong emphasis on team work you will only feel isolated if you isolate yourself (which is something I just do naturally.)
 
Management act as an ally in my experience. nobody in that area will expect anything they do not expect from your neighbor. You are most definitely a part of a team in this environment and it operates as a team: if you cannot find your place in team yes, you will be cut from the team- there is not much you can expect from that ideology. Ultimately, all you need to succeed in this job is a profound sense of respect and social skills. If you can respect your neighbor and approach another person you will do well.

Now for the downsides: The pacing is not necessarily a downside but can be a stressful, this was easily the most physically and mentally demanding job I have ever had. Sometimes you will just shrug your shoulders and just lie, cause the only answer you can give is a lie. You know you are just selling weed and the physical and mental demand does is a false equivalency to how low the stakes are**. If you have career goals you will not have much time to work on them. You will wear yourself thin and the mental strain may not be worth the compensation though you are compensated well. 

Urb cannabis is a 10-headed dragon: when you clock in you are left to guess what mouth you are in it can be friendly and you can form bonds that may last the rest of your life with some very Wonderful people and have a wonderful time. But sometimes you are in the fire breathing mouth with a crushing jaw strength.

 My advice to anyone who is interested in this job would be weigh your work ethic against all the crazy you can take in a day. Multiply that by 10 if you cannot handle that idea don't bother even applying. 

(* There is no accounting for the customers you get: you will get the worst of the worst to deal with.)

(**you will shrug your shoulders and just say what the customer and you probably won't care. its weed they will smoke it anyway.)



Honestly save your time and apply to a different dispensary in this area. Urb cannabis is extremely disorganized, management never replies to your messages when you're trying to contact them, they have no sense of direction, you'll often find yourself with orders for customers and no item that they ordered can be found anywhere.. it's gotten a little bit better but it still happens. Urb has a ton of issues with lack of work ethic in other people, a lot of people that you work with will say that's not my job so you'll be picking up a lot of peoples slack. It's pretty messy a majority of the time the fridge never gets clean dang near the tables are always dirty bathrooms are dirty often they just tired of cleaning crew that kind of helps out but not really honestly the list of the cons can go on and on there's barely any pros you never really get samples unless you're cool with the managers any kind of brand swag goes to those who are cool with the managers if you're not in then you're not getting anything. Inventory is super messed up because people don't do their jobs correctly. If you like chaos then work here. 

The environment and overall welcoming feeling this place gave off was astounding to me, I genuinely did love working here, hard work was rewarded as long as you didn’t hide away while you were doing it, and being in inventory there was always a problem to solve or something to do. Everyone’s felt at least like they were trying to do better, then they expanded. It lost its boots on the ground feel as managers and important memebers of staff were being swapped in between new buffalo and Monroe. Problems stopped being dealt with in house and were shipped off to a distant HR to deal with, the owners have always been an issue too, job security is a big scare considering they care more about $ then they do the CRA regulations, also while it might be a nitpick, owners who’ve never touched the plant just don’t strike me with confidence to run a dispensary.

-Typical day at work is spending 10 minutes trying to find a specific product, asking inventory to help you find it, and then returning to your customer to tell them its out of stock because of an discrepancy in the inventory system. Products on display were often not in stock, making your job unnecessarily difficult.  You get 30 minutes to walk to taco bell, or risk being late trying to drive anywhere to get food. And you'll eat in your car because the break room is the size of a bathroom. 
-I will say, I learned a lot at Urb... both good and bad.
-Workplace culture is trying not to get caught being human. 
-Hardest part of the job is trying not to think about the fact that your employer is a terrible excuse for a human.
-Most enjoyable part of the job was meeting lots of cool people (coworkers) who are the only reason you would want to continue working there. 


Urb is a really fun and easy place to work! Its fast paced with lots of customers and employees, but honestly thats what makes it so great. If your cannabis knowledge is limited there’s plenty of resources and people that will teach you everything you need to know. There’s also different departments you can work in and different positions you can advance to, so there is lots of room to grow! Their management team is honestly great, I feel like I can talk to them and they’ll actually listen. and they’ll work with you if you have availability issues so thats always nice. Overall this is an awesome place to work and im excited to see what the future holds for me at urb! 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good for the weekly pay and the extra goodies, but they will let you go for “budget cuts” at the drop of a pen. Doesn’t matter if you’re a manager for years, or just passed your 90 days. Don’t expect long term because you will surely be disappointed

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not having job security, even if they told you to your face that everything is fine. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment presents itself as friendly, the culture is what I appreciated more. Just don’t get your hopes up

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Full of anxiety over job security

I absolutely adore my job at Urb! Everyone is so knowledgeable, helpful and friendly. Management is welcoming and always present with the staff! I don’t dread going to work every day. This is a place I actually look forward to going! It’s great getting to know all the products and information on cannabis! I love helping people get exactly what they need. Urb offers employee discounts, management throws out employee incentives, vendors come in to train us, and we get SAMPLES? What more could you ask for? Urb deserves 5 stars across the board. From the staff, too the management and the ownership who actually cares about their employees, it couldn’t get better. 

The most enjoyable part of my job was my coworkers. My hardest part of this job was making sure I was liked enough to keep my job at times where I shouldn’t have, like when I went on maternity leave. I learned to be as upfront as possible. Management needs training and classes as well as harassment in the workplace.
The work culture is beautiful and fast paced, it is meant for someone who does not like just sitting.
A typical day would be trying to stay afloat next to everyone who is also trying to stay afloat.

One major thing about Urb is that it is a starter position. It is normal to see nothing but turnovers at aggressive rates. 

Constantly out of product that the customer wants causing anger and the budtenders catch the bad end of it.

Managment does everything but help. They constantly lock people out of the office often times just creating tik toks or playing on their phones.

There is no real conflict resolution and the leads are carrying the weight on their shoulders Constantly it looks like.

Overworked and undervalued.

Worked there for 2 weeks the first week had zero cashier training on a new system that I was not familiar with only got to train on the computer 15 to 20 minutes before getting first customer no management help was offered when problems occurred lots of products would not scan when trying to check out a customer which created problems with the customers management could take up to 10 minutes to get to you when needing a discount or to fix an issue with the system

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