deli associate

certified pharmacy technician

checker

courtesy associate

baker

Yokes Fresh Market

Getting hired there is fast and the company itself is great. The people who work there come in with smiles and are happy. There are a lot of older people. You are going to be over worked and tired. Yelled at and demeaned by the customers. You get called in a lot on your off days that your not scheduled to work and have a lot to do while taking care of the costumers. You have to let them know in advance that your not going to be available on those days due to something you planned or an appointment. Really it was a good company to work for and the benefits arent bad, just be prepared to have short staffing issues. 

A typical work day was food production, refacing and setting out the merchandise, restocking and ordering items needed. Getting the customers their food and were happy. Taking special orders for people and answering the phone calls for the seafood and meat department. Cleaning and sanitizing the area. Working along side the meat department and helping them if they need help stocking or other things. Making sure the labels and tags were right according to the laws on seafood and food safety.  When shutting down making sure you have the day's check sheet and the weeks check sheet checked off of what needs to be done for that day and cleaning the drains and de-icing the cases. Making sure the cases are cleaned, sanitized, setting up and shopping for the next days order list on food items needed to be made. Making sure everything is air tight and put awhile safely at the right temperature and in the right areas. Cleaning the windows and taking out the trash. Refacing and restocking the meat department shelves and the seafood area before leaving.

Best part working there was building up your clientele and helping them and seeing them again happy with your and your co-workers work and wanting try more stuff. 

Most people maximize the minimum. Management does nothing about it and actually tells those individuals “good job” which leads them to believe they are actually doing something productive. Creates more work for individuals who actually work hard because they have to pick up the slack of those who maximize the minimum. Terrible work environment for anyone who actually works hard and is always looking for something to do. If you try to talk to management about that issue of your coworkers not working as hard as you or wasting time you get singled out and told to “worry about yourself”. There were too many days where my coworkers would either be talking to each other and not working, on their phones and not working, taking numerous “bathroom breaks” and not working or just simply working very very slow so that they weren’t given more then 2-3 tasks throughout their day and when it was time to leave for the day they left.  Like i said before all that does for the individual who works hard and is getting tasks done in a timely manner and not wasting time is create more work for them because everyone else is only given 2-3 tasks and that individual who works hard is now given 7-8 tasks or more instead of asking those who are wasting time to do more. No one cares to change the way they do things and it starts with management. Horrible work culture. 

a typical day at work,was usually very busy,fast paced environment. I have learned how to deal with angery customers, upset co-workers and how to talk them down from their issues. One co-worker would always come to me and complain about how the others treated her. I would always tell her she just needed to make sure she did her job to the best of her ability and let the person she was having an issue with know how she felt. But she wouldn't do it and she wouldn't go to management and would ask me to say something and help her get things worked out so we would do it together. Hardest part of the job was having to listen to my co-workers complain about each other and try to defuse the problem before it escalated into a big disagreement. My most enjoyable part of the was dealing with the customers. I had several people that would come in and just want to chat while they were being waited on. Many would come in while I was there and ask for me beacuse they felt I treated them extra special. I didn't treat them any different than other customers just treated them as the people they are. I must have made their sandwiches or pizza just right or it was my attitude. It didn't matter if I was having a bad day I still treated my customers as if they were the most important person there.

I loved working for Yokes, the only reason I moved on was for a more professional position with my college degree. This is a great company for a college student or someone looking for a great family style environment. 
This company is all about helping their employees succeed as well as caring for the customers. Whenever this company makes an accomplishment they recognize their employees as being a big part of the accomplishment. I worked for this company for 6 years, 3 of which was all during college. They worked around my college providing me 2 days off as well as making sure I had full time. If I eve had a schedule collision they fixed it the best they could. 
Training was a priority, they made sure you completely understood everything about your job and answered questions whenever you needed help.

Yokes, is an amazing company to work for. I would recommend anyone who gets a chance to work here to take it.

In the 9 years I spent at yokes, I never had too many bad experiences between my co-workers. However beware of working in the grocery industry. People become infathomably irate over the littlest of things and have no problem berating you over things you can't control i.e. prices rising, other coworkers that the customer thinks treated them wrong, and just generally thinking they are entitled to whatever they want. 

Yoke's as a company is a great company to work for. I didn't work during the COVID-19 pandemic there, but I've been told the company has compensated their workers well for everything they had to put up with. 

It's a decent place to get basic job experience for a resume but full time is reserved for a select few and schedules tend to be different each week except for employees with 5+ years experience. Every Yoke's has different clientele and work hours vary based on amount of customers. My store personally is very slow paced and it feels that more time is spent waiting for customers than working with them. However the customers are more reasonable than other areas of retail (food service, clothing retail) and they generally are in a good mood day to day.
Bottom line is if you want a part time job and don't mind inconsistent schedules then it's a fine place to work but if you're looking for consistency and full time I'd look elsewhere.

Such an awful place to work, especially as a cashier. Breaks were often skipped and no water bottles were allowed at the registers. When covid happened, we got the most pathetic shields possible that were put where the customers don't even stand in front of. No hazard pay, but HR decided that we could start wearing jeans all year round! What a joke. Don't expect to have any kind of work/life balance or even a consistent sleep schedule at this place. Front end manager constantly schedules cashiers to work 6-8 days in a row with random shifts every week. Managers will be relentless about getting you to come into work on your off days as well when you're just trying to relax from a long work week. Will also try to get you to come in even if you called in sick. Only work here if your seriously desperate for a job, otherwise stay away. 

A typical day in seafood was basically customer service, and production. Everyday was different, but everyone had their part. I did ordering, merchandising, pricing, stocking, customer service, production, display, quality control, among others. What I learned was how to manage my time efficiently. My co-workers were fun, and reliable, and for the most part did their work. Management was always encouraging, and uplifting. The most enjoyable part of my job was helping customers. The hardest part of my job was getting many tasks completed while attentively helping customers, to their satisfaction.

You get to listen to the same music over and over again, 
the schedules are a joke and only 1 week at a time usually. 
people are trained like it doesn't matter making others have to pick up their slack while making others work solo and expect people to keep up with things. 
don't completely rely on managers word. 
managers make it feel they do not really care about you unless you mess up. 
few of the employees are really cool but then there are some that just constantly talk bad about people behind their back seems like a big game or something rather then improving the situation
this is a temp job for people temporarily needing a job to get by, just don't get stuck there

Overall I enjoyed working at Yoke's, despite the cutstomers being uppity and rude most of the time. Unfortunately I had two co workers who made it impossible to have a good shift if you worked with them. I approached managment three times about their behavior and nothing was done until a cutsomer witnessed their behavior towards other employees and complained. 

Unfortunately, their behavior only got worse and I decided to put up with it no longer. 

Other than that, the job wasn't very hard and paid pretty well. The hours were great, I never got less than 35/week. Most of my other coworkers were pretty nice, however I was very undertrained when I started and was mostly thrown to the wolves which created some conflict. If you just need a job to make some money, this place wouldn't be a terrible choice.

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