Groovy M.
Yelp
I was a manager here & didn't last for more than two weeks let me tell you why, first off andrea isn't a bad person I THOUGHT i want to start by saying that. She owns her own business with multiple locations around atlanta area. But the problems i had was first off there are no benefits 401k,health,dental,discounts etc. andrea informed me that working there for 3 months i would be able to get a performance bonus based on that month depending on what the store sales were & i get a percentage of the profit, i had to think about that because thats not guaranteed every month. For example if the store usually makes 50k a month & it will make 70k next month i would get a percentage of the 20k which was cool but again not sustainable in my opinion & you cant compare or swap that out with benefits , i have two young daughters & i am the provider for my family. So at that point i was going to talk to andrea about this situation once i seen how the first paycheck was looking. She started me off with 50k which isn't bad. But no benefits come on, But another problem i had was her actual cakes & cupcakes supply for the store. She hired a delivery guy to bring all her cakes & cupcakes to both her mall locations Lennox and Cumberland every morning. Because the work you had to do is a full time thing, you take all the cupcakes from the pantry on treys from the warehouse, then roll them out to the van, another problem is had was the way andrea wants you transport the actual product. With all theses years in business i would expect for her to have safer & better practices with her products (cakes and cupcakes) you take the cupcakes on a trey then put them in a big plastic bins. Problem with that is theses bins are never cleaned. Remember we dealing with cake and butter cream. So you can try and drive slow as you want the cupcakes will fall over & make the bin messy, sticky, and dirty. And butter cream will be all over your clothes everyday how you want her managers to be clean and presentable when they doing delivery boy work everyday getting they self sticky and nasty. She not looking for a manager she looking for someone she can have to about 2-3 peoples job without paying them. Just paying you the minimum while your doing the maximum. With that being said my first day when she was showing me how to do it the bins must've not been cleaned in months they were filthy, she told me "we have to clean them out today" but the delivery guy who works there secretly told me they NEVER LIKE NEVER clean it. He's like "she said we have to go to the carwash and wash them? Why we never do that" And he basically was "training" me for the day. being that he told me she told him, don't come back until i need you, because the manager will be doing deliveries for now on. Ill get into why that would be a problem later. But we cleaned the bins for the day, she Doesn't have a gas card for the company so we were running out of gas and the kid who was training me put money out his own pockets into the company car, you can tell this was the first time of her cleaning the bins because there was no proper way to do anything & It was sooo nasty and gross im like how could you even let this build up. The flies would be in the bins its sticky and nasty & when you take the treys out the bin you have to put the bin on the concrete ground which is nasty as well because your putting your cakes which people are eating everyday in there. Very unsanitary, why not install shelves in your company van so the cakes wont spill over and get nasty on a plastic bucket which is never cleaned and filthy with flies & filth from the ground, it was a transit so i know its possible to do ( she tries to save money on everything ) which i don't blame her for but do it the right way. So from 7am - 3pm was our agreement which was great for me. But from 7am-9am i had to wait for her pantry ladies to finish the cakes then from 10pm-1pm i had to deliver the cupcakes & cakes to each store without spilling them & loading and unloading, by time i get back to the warehouse theres either no time or little time left, im sticky im full of cake. And i HAD TO DO THIS but she also wanted me to do inventory on every product in the store,schedule employees,pick up products from supermarkets, clean up each store & warehouse, break down all boxes & take to trash, ALSO DO customer deliveries coming in on Shopify so this could be at any moment even when your about to go home you still gotta do that delivery, that wasn't to bad but make it make sense i have no access to anything at home, so i can only do things at work even though im salary, but if i work from 7-3 how am i getting all this done? HOW SWAY? And she will hold the expectations high. The job seems easy and it was for the most part, just not for 50k & NO BENEFITS, why fire your delivery man to put all the work on your manager? Mind you i have no problem doing theses things Ive been a manager over 10 years. I've MANAGED