Because of their high standards, it can make it seem excessive. Like hiding sanitary wipes from customers view because it’s unsightly, having to recertify on stations you already know, and forcing superfluous rules because one store in the franchise isn’t successful. But my main issue is labor. Labor cost issues cause a domino effect throughout the store. Because labor is too high, they resort to running shifts on skeleton crews. If labor is 15% or higher the owners throw a fit. They cut you down to 2 people in the morning prepping for $3000 worth of sales on their own, stagger who comes in at what times so you don’t start breaks until 4 hours before the shift ends leading you to scramble to close quick to not increase labor even further. You bounce around do everything with no time for a breather at times. And because of the skeleton crew, you can’t effectively train anybody at all. You’ll have the same person on one station for 3 months because we can’t train them on anything else because the guy who works with them the most also only knows the opposite station so you can’t switch them. If you work at a well staffed store, pray they don’t open another store close by because they’ll cannibalize your store and leave you with 3 people a night.
Raises before you become a manager are pretty consistent. They’re every few months you’ll get bumped up 25-50 cents. But if you get promoted, that stops. You’ve made your money, now work. The incentive is gone. And that’s only IF you get promoted, which they only do when they get desperate and that’s only after begging for a year and a half. Otherwise your pay is getting capped at like 13 MAYBE. At the end of the day, the owners will make their own decisions, thinking with their wallet first.
