Okay, I'll try to be as detailed as I can in order to describe why I feel Domino's was a poor company to work for.
First, I'll address the job itself. Working for Domino's it a real test of your patience every single shift. As a manager, you are expected to work long, long hours...in addition those hours tend to alternate from opening and closing shifts. The glaring negative of this is that your life overall tends to lack a sense of "stability" when you work as a manager. Also, you recieve no additional compensation for said hours whatsoever if you are a Store Manager, yet they are expected, period. Domino's system is set up such that you as a manager feel obligated to do EVERYTHING yourself. By this I mean that little or no responsibility is placed on any employees other than the manager, and moreover, the labor system itself places a heavy burden on the manager to limit the hours (labor) allocated to said employees. This leads to a "send everyone home, I have to do everything tonight and save labor cause it's important for my job" mentality. Now, I'm not saying that this isnt possible, in fact you sort of get used to being overworked, but over time it's really no way to spend your working life. In general I have found the Corporate Operations staff to be woefully unmotivated in regards to practical store operations (ie, you go to a manager meeting and they are basically "Let's get motivated to work, work, work! Yeah we love Domino's!", then you leave and return back to working 70 hours a week for almost nothing). Which leads me to a major issue with Domino's...Pay.
Okay, I understand the pay for any "uneducated" position is going to be low...I really do. But the pay to effort ratio for Domino's management is simply terrible. An assistant manager for Domino's Pizza starts at $9/hr. Then the raise structure takes you up to $10/hr (and you better believe you will be working your ass off for that 10). 10 dollars per hour is the maximum possible pay you can make other than running a store. So the next logical step is to become a store manager, but when you become a store manager is when the pay to effort ratio goes out of control. Store managers make about $14/hr typically...some more, some less. This is for 40 hours salaried. But you dont work 40 hours as a Domino's manager, not a chance. You work 60...minimum. In fact I should really say 70 minimum because that's the actual number I've heard 2 different MCO's demand of my store manager. Now, alot of store managers for other businesses put in 70 or more hours per week, but the financial rewards for that are generally very good. This is not the case for Domino's. The "bonus" system to potentially make working 30 hours a week for nothing worth it is a rediculous shell game (especially if you are the manager of a medium-low volume store). Getting a bonus in alot of stores is straight up impossible. I'll just say your bonus is based off balancing inflated corporate labor ($7.25hr for drivers) with inflated corporate food (ridiculously overpriced commisary which is set up to always make a profit off stores, always) and your fixed costs (which are manipulated by Domino's at their whim...ie, advertising held off to certain months to when you have a chance at a bonus, im serious). The bonus in most stores simply cant be attained (infact I went to an area meeting a couple months ago where it was stated that only 3 of the 52 stores in our area actually made a bonus, all of which were high volume stores, of course). So there you are as a store manager, killing yourself and giving up your life for barely enough money to support a place to sleep "after work" or a car to drive "to work". It's getting by I guess, but it's not a comfortable or rewarding way to live by any stretch.
