Full time positions have very little work life balance, depending on department, you could end up closing every night, OT generally not allowed unless you worked for a high profit department, Some departments were more prone to ridiculous drama. Sprouts corporate makes it near impossible to fire people who need to go. high percentage of coworkers are not punctual and quite a few had high call out rate. I worked at 3 different stores, and all 3 had similar issues. Corporate caters to share holders more than customers or employees and they are out of touch about how their decisions impact store level employees. New directives and initiatives are piled onto already overworked employees and no more hours for the departments to implement those changes well. Every week I had to schedule over the forecasted hours just to have an ok amount of cashiers. Its pretty bad when most front end people gave up on calling for back up. Customers constantly complained about not having enough cashiers on duty. Every full time employee I have worked with is on some level burned out, Some of us got screwed on pay raises as we moved up and when they changed from 6 month reviews to annual and little communication about those changes trickled down to store employees, raises were often not truly reflective of our work. New system everyone gets same percent, which is a rip off if you are the type of employee who goes above and beyond every day. Culture surveys are a joke, because when everyone started being honest, they quit doing them or told us our answers were about store level and not corporate (most of us loved our store team, but wanted corporate to hear what we had to say), PCR (corporate audits) were ridiculously detailed and unrealistic (food safety is great but some of the other stuff we were graded on was silly), very little freedom to get creative with ordering or merchandising without someone from corporate butting in and if multiple corporate people came in often what they were telling us to do conflicted what others were telling us to do. Prices are WAY too high for the consumer market I worked in. Many employees abused breaks and lunches, while others would not get theirs. Every position I have had with Sprouts beyond the cashier role, did not have great training so it felt a bit like a sink or swim type situation the higher up you go.
