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• Worst decision, dont apply unless you have no other options. They ask availability but will still schedule on days you can't work, never enough staff and the turnover rate is insane. Benefits are minimal for part timers and that's if you even get them. Management is horrible and communication is 0. No one knows what's going on in the store.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 1 May 2022 by Rater #28 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Worst company ever to work for.
  Treats employees like garbage.
  Their management is disgusting.
  You get in management and they move you around. You never get a chance to built a working unit. Most idiotic business model I have ever witnessed.
  They also allow managers to put old meat out.
  Don't trust this company anymore.
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  Posted on 4 February 2019 by Rater #26 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Farm Boy is overrated. They're not unique. There are plenty of other grocery stores that do exactly what Farm Boy does, except better.  

  Posted on 13 December 2018 by Rater #25 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Inconsistent at best. My experience at two stores were very different. One store I worked at was bad. You didn't feel like you played an important role. Possibly because it's a big store, probably because the store manager was cold and distant (you could tell they didn't care about their workers.)
  
  The next store I worked at was way better. You feel like you're helping the team and the manager is very jovial and comes in to chat occasionally. This is the kind of business where morale comes from the top-down and you need strong leadership.
  
  Still, Farm Boy needs to work on its labour relations strategy because most stores are chronically understaffed and overworked. Department managers are doing the best they can but unless head office gives them the resources, nothing will change. My department manager stays hours after they were supposed to go home to get everything done because we simply *don't* have enough people to get stuff done on time.
  
  I genuinely believe the majority of employees at Farm Boy who love their job work at home office, not the stores.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 28 January 2018 by Rater #24 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• This company literally survives off of it's non-unionized employees. The standards that the company wants it's employees to uphold is absolutely ridiculous when the pay is the same as places like McDonald's. The management is terrible and the companies cares far more for it's customers than it's employees. They monitor employee's social media, and act like overtime is expected. No one who ever worked for this company will say they respect their employees or even care about them. They monitor the speed of cashier's with a broken system that can be manipulated to give better speeds. All-in-all, this place is a terrible place to work, and if everyone knew it, they would be out of business until they learned how to treat their employees half as good as the employees treat customers.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 14 February 2017 by Rater #23 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Pretty much the only thing that gets me through the day is my amazing co-workers.
  
  Management is horrible in the company. Granted, I can deal with the department managers, but the store managers and retail specialists are the worst. Most of them are full of themselves and walk around the store like they own the place. You're often criticized for the work you do and they never end up pulling their own weight. If something goes wrong, it's always you who will be punished.
  
  Hours always tend to be a problem as well. Casual employees sometimes can receive maximum 5 hours a week, and if the store's sales aren't going as good as they should, they'll let you go early.
  
  Seriously do not recommend to anyone.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 10 May 2016 by Rater #22 | Comments (1) | Flag as inappropriate

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• If respect and appreciation of the work you do is important - Farm Boy is not for you. Management is very unappreciative of their staff and it shows by how poorly they treat them. Managers frequently don't pull their own weight and expect their staff to pick up the slack, and if they don't, it's the employee that is reprimanded, not the manager. The stores themselves are usually very small and can make it very difficult to do your job if there are a lot of people shopping because there is no space to move.
  
  The company has "Specialists" for each department, and they are worse than the managers - very disrespectful and condescending to the employees that make them their money in the first place. Think about that. It is a very unpleasant atmosphere. Bullying, intimidation, manipulation and harassment are a real problem with this company.
  
  Honestly, do yourself a favour - save that resume you were going to waste at Farm Boy and bring it somewhere else.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 4 April 2015 by Rater #18 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• horrible place to work!  

  Posted on 11 January 2015 by Rater #16 | Comments (1) | Flag as inappropriate

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• This company has a great business model and vision, and places customer service and quality above all else. Employees are encouraged to take pride and ownership here, with an outside the box thought process.
  
  As an expanding company, training and development can be difficult to get through, especially in regards to management who are sometimes thrown straight into battle without any guidance and support. The hours can be long; most managers work over their scheduled 44/week, and when labour is in short supply, even casual employees can work 30+ hours. The pay however is lucrative, which includes bonuses and company benefits, and advancements are frequent.
  
  I began working for Farm Boy as a part time student while in college, and have since moved into management. I would never make a career in retail anywhere else but here. I would reccomend this company to anyone, part time or full time, who has a passion for food and a commitment to the best of customer service.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 30 March 2014 by Rater #15 | Comments (1) | Flag as inappropriate

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• Training was poor with utterly no support material such as a comprehensive list of department expectations and procedures. The manager consistently refused to respect the training process despite being asked to do so repeatedly. I was constantly berated for not knowing processes that I was never shown how to do. The manager forced a sick employee in to work and then this employee worked with no gloves endangering staff and customers. The manger left a leaky cooler unfixed for two weeks until a black sludge had grown beneath it. The manager showed me how to clean a slicer by turning it on and holding a knife to the edge of the blade. I took the punishment when I complained. A very unethical store in my opinion do not work for fb.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 14 June 2013 by Rater #14 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Very cool idea nice building and cool co-workers, but a vast majority of managers are completely useless. They think that just because they wear their little "store manager coat" when the real store manager isn't there, they are powerful. They are not trained, and have very little respect. One time a skid of produce came in with raw meat on top of it. even after it was brought to the store managers attention, nothing was done about it. all in all, very petty people, and a store manager that had no idea what he was doing. I would not even buy produce from a place like that, especially after seeing blood leaking onto produce and it still being sold like nothing was wrong.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 1 May 2013 by Rater #13 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Shockingly disrespectful to staff, with management showing complete disregard for the needs of the employees. Worked there for four years and only survived there because of my great co-workers, but I never got one raise that wasn't government mandated, never got a promotion, and had a really poor work environment. Leaving that company when school finished was one of the best days of my life.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 3 August 2012 by Rater #12 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Very poor management, lack of proper training, minimum wage, no respect for employees, if your looking for a real job, don't bother, look elsewhere, you will thank yourself.  

  Posted on 17 July 2012 by Rater #11 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Bad management. hazardous workplace. poor pay. a lot of harassment.  

  Posted on 4 June 2012 by Rater #10 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I worked there for 2 months and was complimented on my quick learning and good work ethic. Despite being a good employee in the eyes of the management, the manager who had hired me often called me by the wrong name without even noticing, I was made to feel stupid anytime I asked for help, regardless of whether anyone had given me proper training in the task or not, I had to deal with a bitter older employee because she felt threatened by the management's favorable opinion of me, and when I gave my two weeks notice, I was harrassed and pressured to stay at a job that I'd made clear I didn't want. Overall, one of the worst jobs I've ever had. I would advise working for a smaller company if you get the chance, it's nice to know that the person signing your paycheques would actually reckognize you with out your frumpy uniform on. :p
  
  PS They also never guaranteed hours, and they often didn't put up the schedule until 2 or 3 days before you were scheduled. Maybe that's convenient if you have no life, but as a full-time student with an already busy schedule, it made planning anything virtually impossible.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 5 February 2012 by Rater #9 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Worst job I ever had. My manager was terrible, no respect for anyone, looked like she liked to make everyone miserable. I was hired as full time, but was given less then 24 hours a week. I had to BEG to my manager to get my hours and got humiliated. She told me that 10 hours a week would not make a difference, oh well, but for me it does make a huge difference in the end of the month to pay my rent and other bills. I was also FORCED to work on my day off, basically because I was in my probatory period and she made pretty clear that I had to work any way. I felt threatened all the time by the way she talked to me and I was not the only one. She made every single worker in my department cry for constant humiliation. Specialists are even worse, they treat everybody like morons and with no respect at all. Could not take it any more, so I left. It is better to have debts than work in that hell, especially when you have a terrible person as manager. Not all the managers are bad, as I was told, but some are really really awful. The payment is not the worse: 11.10 per hour and the job is relatively easy, specially at the cheese department. Co-workers are really nice people, and when the manager was not on the floor it was easier to work and we had great atmosphere. What ruins that place is the terrible management and the fact that the department managers consider themselves super special and superior people. Do not expect have the hours that their promised you without a good fight. Consider this job only if you are desperate, and maybe you will be lucky enough to get one of the rare nice managers in that place.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 9 July 2011 by Rater #8 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• A good place for students looking to gain work experience. No one can complain about the pay: minimum wage is all you're going to find at an entry level retail store. Expect scrutiny by management and specialists, along with the CEO and owners who show up every now and then to lurk about. The higher ups think they're something of importance compared to everyone else, but you may luck out like me and have a department manager who is cool to be around and hates the specialists as much as you do.
  All in all a good job that requires a lot of teamwork, communication, memorisation, and above all attention to detail; Farm Boy is obsessed with image. the managers and specialists are specifically trained to seek out and nitpick everything until they are satisfied.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 16 June 2011 by Rater #7 | Comments (3) | Flag as inappropriate

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• Worst job I've ever had.
  Favortisim runs rampant. You work your butt off and are paid very little (minimum wage).
  Managers have no respect for employees, they find any possible way to yell at an employee and treat them like they are not even human.
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  Posted on 5 July 2010 by Rater #6 | Comments (1) | Flag as inappropriate

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• 
  I worked at Farm Boy for six months and hated every minute of it. It is a really bad sign two weeks after being hired and still going through my "training" my Manager got fired and was replaced with a woman who had very little experience working in the grocery industry.
  Farm Boy is not run very well, the store manager at my store was horrible and very rude. All the managers act as if they are better then the employees and in turn there is no loyalty and high turnover. Pay is terrible, of course and even with all positions filled my department was understaffed
  Very disturbingly the company likes to throw staff out there without properly training them and following Canadian law. Five months after working at Farm Boy I was finally trained at WHIMIS and took the test. My Manager called the office twice when I was reading the material asking why I was taking so long, she hated to actually work the floor)
  Glad to leave, never going back into Farm Boy,
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  Posted on 1 June 2010 by Rater #5 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Was there for a year... worse place to work...specialist and managers think there better than you, the pay is not that bad for me but for others that were there for 11 years had minimum wage. Work load is too much. i do no recommend this employer.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 27 January 2010 by Rater #4 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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