Terrible - Shift Leader Subway Employee Review

2.0
Dec 9, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people to work with, always a fun day with right people working. Great communication and leeway with things, always got a day off when requested a head of time. Great manager. Free food and drinks whenever.

Cons

Very very long hours at times for me an average day would consist of starting at 10:00 am or so and not leaving until about 12am-1am that night. Was typecast for days and hours always worked weekends for 6 months straight no weekends off EVER. Slow to rehire back employees when others quit or get fired. You're given more shifts and overtime cause of that not pleasant . Pay is minimum not worth the time to work there IMO. Customers are the worst sometimes seeking some sort of entitlement and giving advice on how to run things there. Overall not a bad place to work at if desperate or first job wouldn't recommend it otherwise. Hours and schedule are a bit odd either you get too many or very little never an in between there. Very little room to move up unless you become chumy with bosses and such. No benefits what so ever.

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Pros

Very flexible scheduling, especially if your manager is willing to work around all their employees. You usually get a 50% discount that you can use once a day too.

Cons

Direct district management at this location does not know how to manage people. He will not really do anything to help or assist until his supervisors look into his stores and what he does. He will shift blame onto any general manager he can, and if any district manager decides you are doing your job incorrectly or you need to adjust what you are doing, there will be little to no support in helping you become a better employee. It really can become a "popularity contest" when you work in store management. If you are a regular employee or shift lead, you won't really have any direct contact with district management.

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