Poor Opportunities For Growth and Advancement - Shift Leader Five Guys Employee Review

2.0
Feb 13, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

I have a great team for the most part though with a crew consisting of mostly high schoolers the quality can vary from person to person. The work is not especially difficult.

Cons

They have put lower management in limbo for the past year and a half due to their experiments with a "Red Cap Program" and the following freeze on all raises due to going $8mil over budget. Meanwhile our district level managers and higher are being given new company cars and increased benefits. It's been over two years since I received a performance evaluation and I've even talked to our HR and regional manager about the situation. Our bonuses are largely based on subjective questionnaires where the perception of being "enthusiast" and "very enthusiastic" often means losing $70+ each week.

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Five Guys Response
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Thanks for sharing your insight here. We will work internally to evaluate the situation you have described to ensure that all of our team members are evaluated and understand the growth opportunities that are available.

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Pay. That's the only reason I left, I would have stayed with the company if I could have gotten a raise and I would definitely return if they offered something comparable to what I'm making elsewhere.

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