Took a position as a supervisor in prepared foods in the new store in Long Island set to open 07/17th… can anyone give me a heads up what I’m walking into…new in this company
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It's true about "over hire" in the beginning. Whole Foods will go all out on grand opening and then shortly afterwards, teams will dwindle to half and then almost nothing. If you stay there long enough, you will probably be the only one working prep foods. If it gets crazy busy, they will pull people from other departments to assist (of course, that will pi$$ off the other departments). You will be treated like your life belongs to Whole Foods for the small $ you get paid.
The plus side is Whole Foods will not fire you and there are worse places to work than Whole Foods.
they might just might let the team leader over hire for the the grandiose opening...they tend to let front end,prep foods,bakery all hire a ton of team members for opening knowing a chunk of them wont make it past 3 months....also expect your team leader to get tons of heat for sales drops and labor issues after that grand opening honeymoon period is over...ive seen way too many TLs of the above depts get the shaft after 3 to 6 months for bad regional planning and placing of stores in not so lucrative locations....been working on mackeys farm for 2 decades here....
Don’t bother probably understaffed and poorly run like every other prep foods department. Expect for leadership to take advantage of you and expect you to act like the job is more than anything beyond a pay check. I don’t know you but I assume you can do better than the dumpster fire WFM is.