Fred Meyer reviews

Every single employee I know hates working there. No one wants to be there. They don't hire enough people so you are overworked and feel like you must go into work even when you are sick because there is no one to cover your shifts. The pay is abysmal. If you get sick during the week of a holiday, even though you have sick time and even though you worked the holiday, you lose your holiday pay. It's a union job but the union does absolutely nothing to help workers. I talked to my union rep once and he was never seen from again. The managers are bad at their jobs. They don't know how to right a schedule, they take advantage of you, and they don't treat you with any respect. They never take responsibility for their mistakes or actions and shove blame and work onto others who can't complain. Corporate is swimming in money while people work for low wages in severely understaffed stores. It is grotesque.

NO support from management. Totally unrealistic expectations. They do company, management and work environment surveys but nothing changes, and that is what happened throughout my 10 years working there. Fred Meyer does raises based off of hours worked, and to have received my final raise it would have taken me 25 years. And that wage was under the Portland average for my previous position. I was on the union negotiations team, and the Fred Meyer representatives laughed at us when we asked for a nickel more than what the food department received. Reason why that's sad is because the non-food departments make a $1+ less than the food department.