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Westborn Market

Most customers are very tame. Management is incredibly cold, overschedules, they constantly ask employees to work on days off, and show blatant favoritism to certain employees. They are somehow simultaneously overstaffed and understaffed. I see new employees literally every week; I can't imagine how bad the turnover rate is. Working here is incredibly stressful, made my skin horrible. At least two-thirds of the cashiers are minors (because they can't get anyone else to work), so managers spend most of their shift running between registers ringing up alcohol for various cashiers. Though we all make more than minimum wage, the pay is pathetic compared to the $15/hr+ that many other places are offering for similar amounts of work (or even for much less work). The only genuinely redeeming quality of the job is my coworkers. At worst, they are perfectly tolerable and at best, very wonderful people; perhaps we have all bonded over the trauma our managers have instilled within us. 

I have heartburn just thinking about coming in to Westborn next week. Cool hats, though.

Hi! I'm a former cashier at Westborn Market, I worked there for a year and it was lovely. I loved my coworkers and everyone there was overall very kind. Management is understanding and flexible with schedules and life events. As long as you communicate ahead of time and show respect to those around you you will get that in return. For family emergencies, they are very understanding and supportive, they usually will have no problem covering you. Overall a wonderful work environment, and the clientele is not bad at all either. Most of the shoppers are elderly or middle-aged adults and are very polite/sweet. The only bad part about this job I would say is the pay. My pay was terrible starting out. It was my first job so I was expecting minimum wage, but the starter for cashiers is just $10 an hour. This may have changed but I doubt it. I am still very young, but when I turned 18 they gave me a $0.50 raise, and shortly after (after working there for 6 months) I got bumped up to $11 an hour. I worked there over this summer but I left in August because I was starting college and I needed to find a job that paid more. Upsides: work environment - Downsides: pay. Hope this helps somebody out!

I will start off by saying that my coworkers are great for the most part. but management is incompetent and uncaring. communication is awful. they yell too much and stress over things that don't matter. they're inconsistent with expectations.  the managers are constantly bickering with each other making it hard to get things done. because of all this staff are scared to make decisions or do things because it might be done wrong and they'll get yelled at. turnover rate is high. i think in the year i worked there i had 20+ different coworkers in my dept alone. management won't fire you they'll just slowly stop scheduling you and/or ignore you. the schedule is only given a week at a time. it often comes out on a friday night and you don't know if you'll be working on the next sunday. its hard to have a life outside of the store because you don't know what your schedule will be. 


I was an important team member at the floral department. I worked nearly full time at multiple locations, and was a full time student simultaneously.
Management will guilt trip you for calling in sick, randomly cut your hours without any communication, and the level of micromanagement was incredibly toxic. No matter what you do, it will never be enough. Scolding bordered on abusive. You are not allowed to coordinate switching shifts with coworkers; I was taken off the schedule for several weeks as punishment for this. 
Floral operates under the guise of a “drama-free workplace, but this is just so you’ll be harshly scolded for discussing or sharing opinions (privately) with coworkers  
When I joined, tens of employees had just quit due to this toxic manager  
Other levels of higher management are toxic as well  As far as I know, produce is okay, but DO NOT WORK FOR FLORAL

As I can really only speak for our produce staff - the team was amazing at the time, from managers (my department/asst. manager and gen. mang.) to employees, the time flew by with them being around. Honestly not hard work, if you can count to ten you should be able to handle the work/pace of the work, however with that being said... You will be paid as such with minimum wage. 

Limited opportunities of advancement were shown as many people have been their for years (part-time and full-time) so you would most likely be very behind the pack. Overall it was a very cool place to work, great for a first job - but if you really would rather not getting paid minimum wage there are indeed other options for you, especially if you have experience.

Westborn scams the woop out of anyone under 18, claiming to pay you state minimum wage, until you notice you are making far less, they then say you are making a “minor minimum wage”. I worked here for about three years and still wake up with nightmares from how terrible my time was. My coworkers weren’t that bad, but there was SO much drama, and the owners, CEO , and management are all full of doodoo. I would do so much extra work during my shifts, and never received any extra compensation, when I was basically doing 7x the work as everyone else in my department as well as training everyone. 

love everyone i work with, great. Most things are finished, The managers are just clearly picking favorites specifically the other departments getting better treated and being able to not do much really. But the managers clearly act like children with letting others clearly get away with more and always picking on me and specific other people seems very targeted. Didnt get dress coded for 4 months straight and then the store manager finally says something after me wearing it for 4 months.. Clearly super childish about things just needs to make this is all 50/50 if you’re going to listen to the rules everyone needs too not just one. Also just so draining and toxic there always stressed and lately always upset about something everyone here as been complaining about it. Glad im never coming back👍🏻👍🏻

Worked for the company for 5 years and learned that you do your job and just leave. Once you show initiative to do more, they will give you tons of work with no extra compensation or recognition. 

Lots of favoritism- if you're not in the "in" group, you won't go far or get treated as nicely. There's a lot of competition between employees so it can be stressful at times. There's also a TON of gossiping that goes on about everyone and anyone in the company.

Management does not work together and communicate, so no one knows what's truly going on which also causes frustration and lack of desire to succeed.

The owners are absolutely wonderful, but anyone below them is hit or miss. 60% miss, 40% hit.

pay was below minimum wage, was told it was a "minor pay". I was also told by coworkers that I'd probably get a raise sometime after my first year. I did not. management also showed favoritism and was cruel to employees they perceived as being "problems". also, there was never one concrete way of doing things, every person in charge had a different method and got really mad when people questioned it. it was also really lonely at times, and I didn't feel like I could make any meaningful connection with my coworkers.

They make you work a lot and offer very little pay. Sometimes they want you working 3 different departments even though you applied to a specific department. They don’t have a set schedule for people which is not convenient if you have children. 
The only nice thing about working here is they give you free lunch on holidays and they have employee appreciation week in the fall with a lot of food trucks and raffles and gifts.

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