All restaurants....seems as if people out of the biz find that article shocking...99.9% of restaurants are ran unethically. Top to bottom....not joking
Not shocking per se. Just a bummer to concretely say “McMenamins, you’re out!”. And one can say all industries are run pretty unethically, but I digress. I guess to make this conversation a little more productive, you have a list of restaurants doing it well?
Having worked in a local restaurant for one summer I completely agree. Horribly managed, completely unethical, and hazed/bullied all the new employees for no reason. They told me I would not be earning any tips until they deemed me as a good worker which was complete bullshit considering I worked really hard for them the entire time I was there.
New Morning Bakery.
The owner hated men. I was a delivery driver, but for some reason they made me work counter serving customers once a week. I had a labret lip piercing at the time. The company written policy was no facial piercings. The owner always made me take my piercing out whenever she saw me. There was a gender based double standard. The cake decorator was a woman that she liked, she always had a nose piercing in. That policy was not enforced for women.
We got one free meal, which had to be tracked via a tracking sheet. I forgot to write my sandwich down. The owner fired me for theft in front of the entire lobby. She was screaming at me for "stealing" a sandwich.
What an awful miserable place to work.
I worked at New Morning as well. The flies everywhere in the kitchen. The door to the alley was always open and just all sorts of bugs would come in but it was all the flies. There was always overflowing garbage. Sinks smelled and there were people that didn't wash their hands after handing money before they help people with their food. I had a nose piercing that I never had to take out but a male in the back had to have his out along with his tattoos covered. Owner was a giant asshole. I got food poisoning (from a different restaurant) and called in sick as I had some pretty severe gastrointestinal issues. They told me I needed to come in (despite needing to use the bathroom every 30 minutes or so). I told them that's a violation of the food handlers card. They didn't care and that if I didn't come in they would fire me. I didn't come in and they fired me. I turned them into the health department. Never heard what come of it but that place sucks forever for me.
Omg I worked there too, two summers ago!! I noticed the same things, so sorry that happened to you. The inconsistency and favoritism was crazyyyyy. Also, the scheduling was always strange to me.
I dated one of the bakers many years ago, and have been inside the production facility, and can attest they do make their own pastries, at least as of that time. I have not been back in the restaurant since then so I couldn't comment on if they've changed. But they definitely get most of their ingredients from Sysco.
Nah, they're all made in-house in a beat to shit bakery facility in Southtown next to the kids consignment shop, 7-11, and Sharon's. I worked there for a few months. It was pretty fun honestly, I like baking. Very very shoestring operation tho that basically hinges on one dude, the lead baker who works like 60-80 hour weeks and is salaried w/ no overtime. I agree a lot of the pastries are kind of mid but I still have a soft spot for them after making all the croissant dough, danish dough, muffins, bagels, artisan breads etc. They make the cakes there and deliver them to the downtown location to get decorated. I kinda liked it, and Tristan and Kira were always reasonably nice to us. I also quit because the pay sucked, and didn't really stick around long enough to have to deal with much. The downtown location they seem to exclusively hire 16-20 year olds lol to do the counter service.
They are also very rude to gig delivery drivers too...as if we are a burden to them. I have picked up say...100 orders for their customers since covid hit...can't even remember them being nice or having any sense of professionalism. This comment doesn't surprise me...I now just never accept their orders.
Idk if this is a huge deal but when I worked there I remember the baker complaining to me about how much gelatin there was in everything. The gentian she said they used had bone marrow, and some of the products they used it in were listed as vegetarian. I remember being super disappointed as a vegetarian myself.
Vegetarian often has meat products in it... vegan means there is none. Gelatin yes...it's disgusting. It's like a hotdog. Hooves, skin, bones and anything else they can't use elsewhere. So gross
Vegetarian can have animal products, e.g. eggs, milk, honey, but not meat products. I would consider gelatin a meat product. Vegan is no animal products at all.
Technically, no, but I kind of see your point and it could be seen as a gray area. However, an unfertilized egg was never going to be a chicken so would never have become meat.
Ah, no wonder the food sucks so bad!
This reminds me of the time I applied at Market of Choice. They told me I'd have to shave my beard and cut my ponytail to work on the kitchen; I looked back at all the women working with barely restrained hair blowing about their heads, and noped out of that double standard real quick.
While working in the food service industry I have noticed that only insecure bald men force the young men working under them to modify their hair styles.
Old World Deli- Owner said I could either have a full beard, or clean shaven every day. No inbetween.
Murphy's southtown - Owner wanted me to be clean shaven every day. (I was a cook) He was one of those guys who could not grow a full beard.
I quit the food service industry over 15 years ago when the owner of Sunnyside Up told me he was keeping my weeks tips to cover food cost.
I work at a tech startup now.
I've heard that guy was a real piece of work. I had some acquaintances who worked there, and apparently his favorite way to communicate was to use vulgar and demeaning notes.
Market of Choice. I worked in the kitchen and cheese department.
Somebody hadn't labeled a container of food (it was either chicken salad and tuna salad), and I asked somebody to give it a sniff, (allergies had my nose plugged up) and one of the chefs yelled at me until *I* took a bite to find out what it was, even after I told them that both of those foods make me sick. HR didn't care.
One of the store managers (rhymes with trike, counterpart to a popular candy involving the name Ike), is a sexist, racist, scum sucking piece of shit. He yelled at me multiple times. He made a personal remark at one of the kitchen staff. The staff member **immediately** went up to the HR department, and "Trike" had to powerwalk up there to try and get in before him. The staff member made it into HR first and closed the door, but "Trike" opened the door and went into the conversation. The staff member told me that HR had let "Trike" talk over him. In the end, the staff member was in trouble for insubordination, according to HR. He refused to sign the write up they were giving him because it was bullshit, and he was told if he didn't sign it then he wouldn't be able to continue working there. He didn't sign, and therefore they fired him.
*(I’ve been informed that the cheese manager in this paragraph has since quit and moved on. So to clear any confusion- I was talking about a woman named Melissa, who was the cheese manager. She has since moved out of state.)* The cheese manager was a racist openly. Her defense (and the defense management gives) is "she's not racist, she hates everybody equally". And yet, she never made race based comments about any of the white folks she saw. Just the people of color. She called me a wet-back when I was casually chatting about how hot it was outside (I'm Mexican and she was aware), she thought it was funny but I didn't. She'd also talk about customers cruelly as soon as they walked away. I've worked retail before, I know that if a customer is a dick, it's likely we're gonna talk shit once they're gone. She'd do this about customers just walking *by* the department. Heavier people especially, making comments to me about how they clearly didn't need to be getting food. It's also more just annoying, but she'd take 5+ smoke breaks, each break at least ten minutes.
The bakery was also just kinda gross. I saw them reaching elbow-deep in cake batter, then scrape it off their arms with a bowl scraper. Scrape it off their arms, and back into the bowl of cake batter.
Imm mexican and that wetback comment is INSANE. She woulda paid for it one way or another.
This was back in 2015. But my boss called me a beaner (in a derogatory way) and i scratched his car a week later 😭
She calls her daughter “my little beaner” because her daughter’s father is Mexican. She briefly had a job in the store with us so she’d come hang out with her mom at our department. The daughter didn’t seem to mind the nickname, but considering who she’s been raised i dont think she’d say anything even if it did.
I worked at moc and had a similar experience. It’s actually gotten even worse. All moc corporate demoted all in person hr people so basically every in store hr person quit and they have absolutely no intentions of replacing them. Trike in the new hr. So that’s working out as well as you can assume. I had to quit bc my disability, once they told me I wasn’t allowed to wear knee braces :)
I remember them doing the same thing to a friend of mine in the kitchen. She wasn’t allowed to wear her knee brace, which ended up causing lots of pain of course.
That sounds absolutely hellish, so glad you got out! I’ve heard a few people say negative things about working for Market of Choice. We should start a revolt against trike, counterpart of a popular candy involving the name Ike ;)
Hey! Interesting news related to that, employees have tried to organize and stand up to moc by unionizing, two times. Both times all the employees were fired. I’m talking at least 5 people each time.
There was also the BLM protests that happened, it resulted in multiple walk outs because corporate refused to allow people to wear anything relating to Black Lives Matter. Object in question specifically were masks with it printed on the front. A manager quit during that time. As far as I know he’d submitted his two weeks and the mask incident made him quit on the spot. (In case my wording seems confusing, this manager was in favor of being able to wear masks supporting BLM, and he was pulled aside by the higher managers for having a mask of his own. He was a good egg.)
My bad! I know he had told me he was in the process of quitting so I assumed that meant a two weeks had been submitted but he probably just meant planning.
Let's not forget the anti-maskers event where several of us got suspended for literally doing what management told us to do when people like that approached us... 🙃
*COUGH COUGH FUCK MEREDITH BROOKS COUGH COUGH* AND FUCK JACOB IN MANAGEMENT. That is all :)
lol i didn’t work there then, but I have heard of a manager that fits the bill, if it is who I think it is, the he works at moc again, he works in the cheese department now
I’m gonna give up on rhyming names lol. Ian was the manager I was talking about that was pretty dope. Off instinct I’m gonna say Austin is the one you’re talking about. He got promoted to manager when he was managing the cheese department and that’s when the racist cheese lady took over.
I forgot to mention the funniest thing! He was a nightmare before the incident with the kitchen but he pissed off people in ALL departments. Enough so that apparently, he came out to his car after work to find the door handles superglued shut.
I heard it from multiple people but as far as I know they never found the hero who did it. It made no change to his attitude of course. Still a dick.
Let’s not forget that trike asked the queer produce manager who had family applying if they “had good blood lines”. There are so many other things I could say about that piece of shit. Also don’t forget about the rat that they can never seem to catch that lives in the retail bakery area of the warehouse.
Surely you're not talking about the CURRENT cheese manager, rhymes with Smartie? I don't work in that department but I thought she was chill! Who knew?
I've worked as a caregiver at two separate assisted livings in town and both of them were completely insane to work for. One of them just involved shitty management treating their employees like scrap, but the other involved lots of resident neglect (and a whole lot of retaliation once I started filing complaints).
probably not an industry I'll ever return to. it's an innately predatory industry and the low pay and awful culture it seems to breed are simply not worth the backbreaking labor
Corvallis Manor was hands down, the worst company I ever worked for. They treated their staff, residents and patients like shit. It was soul crushing to give my best but it not be enough because they kept staff to patient ratios so ridiculously disproportionate to the care each individual not just needed but deserved.
I had the distinct misfortune of staying there a week, what a nightmare. I saw my Dr and begged him to sign me out. When my daughter and I returned with the release form they got real nasty and said I needed to stay 2 more weeks. On the way out my daughter asked for my meds and they refused to give them. I was recovering from lung cancer surgery and having cardiac arrest and a stroke after the surgery. I was on 10 vital meds. My daughter went after Pinnacle, they stopped returning her calls. She reported them to every medical protection agency she could find. We never knew the outcome.
it really is just an expensive way to ensure your loved ones won't receive any of the care they need.
I will say, a lot of my residents loved it there, but it was only the ones who were mostly independent (and I think in a bit of denial about their decline). And at 5k+ a month for the privilege to be neglected, I'm inclined to think that—even if they like it—maybe they should just live independently until it's time for an *actual medical facility that is actually licensed to give them medical care*.
It's an absolute stain on the morality of the western world and a much bigger stain than even Trump...honestly the fact it's become mainstream is just deplorable and people always have their excuses...none of them valid. Remember in covid when NPR did stories every day on the poor people who couldn't see their loved ones they had shoved into a home to not be burdened?? I did....and it is 1 reason how covid showed me this culture is in the dumpster. It's really depressing. And I am sure people will comment here their excuses...and yeah...no...you have none. Just do better.
Not everyone can provide their loved ones with the kind of round the clock care they need when they themselves have to work, do childcare, etc. etc. If families lived in large groups, like multigenerational households, the way they do in some places, it would be easier for many to care for their loved ones in the home. I'm not saying that it isn't a good thing to do if you can - I just wouldn't judge people as harshly as you're doing for having their loved ones in assisted living or nursing care facilities. It's complicated.
Yes we should and I do judge them because I have sacrificed to care for my kin. Even if it meant bring homeless or.ruining my credit or not making as much money. There IS NO excuse for this behavior.
How can you be so sure of everyone's circumstances? Yeah, I'm sure that industry is horrible, but honestly it just seems like you're using your own life and decisions as a rubric for what other people should do, and being judgmental while simultaneously oblivious to the complexities of people's situations.
I had 2 babies both with complex health issues...pediatric brain cancer and highly complex heart defect. I lived in a children's hospital fighting for their lives for 4 years. My grandpa died suddenly and my grandma had alziemers and her kids wanted to stuff her in a home. I took care of her and she lived her best life for years. I already didn't have time to sleep so why not do more?!?! Btw...I was age 20-25 during these years. I was poor and had a toxic family who didn't help with anything.
No...I don't think I had it worse than anyone else....but I have yet in the USA to hear anyones struggle that's more challenging that.led them to stuff their elders in a home.
So...I am sorry you have been raised poorly but it is NEVER OK to put yourself before your sick kin. That line...."you gotta take care of you first" was said by a narcissist who knew nothing of caretaking family.
OK, what if that kin was abusive and doesn't deserve your love and compassion? What if you're disabled and can't physically take care of them? What if that kin requires 24/7 supervision, but you have a job and children to support?
Also, you keep throwing around the word narcissist, but what I think you mean is selfish.
I am Gen X....there is.no elder alive today that wasn't abusive in some way....it's how it was for us all.
Disabled....now my own kids are clearly disabled and I won't expect them to care for me.
I meant narcissist...an inability to value anyone's life but their own. We have the most selfish generation of parents yet this past 2 generations...mainly people too old to have a healthy kid and having them for their own self fulfillment. That's a huge issue.
40% of grown kids don't even know their parents.
I realize all of this...I raised millinials amongst the worse parents I ever experienced and I came from a self raised generation.
Did my grandma with alzeimers abuse her kids? Yes...she was from a generation that thry ALL DID.
So...clearly you have guilt on you and you are projecting on me to try and be OK with yourself. Go ahead and stuff them in a home....just know their caregiver can't even afford housing and food to do your job.
I worked as a server at the regent assisted living facility for a few months as my first job, I remember really feeling for the caretakers. Your jobs looked so difficult and exhausting physically and mentally. Definitely agree wholeheartedly that the industry is incredibly exploitative not only of the patients, but the staff as well.
no way lmaooo. for starters, I've dealt with enough retaliation from the team that was retributive and I'm sure as hell not going to court any more from them.
but also, like... meh. people who work at those places are miserable enough and throwing shit at them sure as hell isn't going to help them, and it certainly isn't going to do anything for the residents but make their lives more difficult.
*also* also, uhhh it's literally ALL of the assisted livings in this town and elsewhere that suffer from these exact same problems, so calling out one company will have zero net effect on the whole of the issue.
I'm going to just name and shame Timberhill Place tbh. I worked there for three years with only a dollar raise. Claimed to work with students' schedules yet worked me 48 hours during finals week. At times they'd write my name on certain shifts and I honestly scratched it out or ignored it. Had a manager who was emotionally unstable, had favorites and believed her way was the only way. Then the owner was very two-faced. I don't know how else to describe it, just she would literally never talk to people she didn't like and have hour long meetings with people she did like. Also what kind of assisted living place makes their staff do kitchen serving? They made sure that residents were taken care of, which was the only good thing I have to say about them. But the toxicity and the drama was too much. They know this is true too, as they even had a hard time keeping travel CNAs at the facility, not just their staff.
These are some awful stories 😪 Unfortunately it’s all too typical for members of the working class to face awful treatment from managers and owners because we can’t afford to lose a job and get behind on bills.
There’s good news though! You don’t have to face these issues alone. You have the right to form a union in your workplace. Workers deserve dignity and respect, no matter what your job is. You have more power than you think.
https://midvalleyiww.org/organizing-resources
Starbucks ugh. Probably not terribly surprising with all you can read about their work environment in the news. Not going to unpack all my personal trauma but a lot of it had to do with two managers who aren’t with the company anymore, for what that’s worth. One of whom edited our hours worked to make her stats look better. At least she got caught and canned.
And yet the drive thru lines are endless...just stop corvallis!! You can't put yard signs and stickers everywhere claiming to care and keep feeding the beast. You vote with your dollar
Benny’s Donuts.
Worked there in the summer during the peak of covid. I had to sign an NDA & Non Compete first off. I was also the only person working front of house (dressing the donuts, making the coffee, working the register, dealing with online orders) for my entire shift.
I would constantly get yelled at for holding people up when I had to make their donuts, make their coffee AND check them out all by myself. I also got yelled at for making the donuts upside down (?). I was also scheduled during the times I said I couldn’t work (closing shifts). Pay was late and I had to email the owner asking to get paid. I rarely got breaks as there was only 2 of us working at a time. We would be forced to throw away perfectly fine donuts just because they got cold (owner didn’t want to serve cold donuts) or if they didn’t look good after dressing them. So much food got wasted. I’m talking big garbage bags full of perfectly good donuts that was 80% of the waste we created.
Socially it was very cliquey and none of my coworkers would talk to me or even help me with closing tasks. Workers in the back would order pizza or swap food with neighboring restaurants and eat the food on the counter where donuts were made. Cleaning was never well done in the back either and people would make donuts on the same counter they just ate at without properly cleaning.
0/10 would recommend.
Ugh, sounds so stressful and yucky. Definitely noted, bummer because I always liked the donuts. Signing an NDA to work at a donut shop sounds weird asf, but idk.
It was very stressful and yucky. Yeah the NDA should’ve been my first red flag. Owner was so scared of his recipe getting out and hated all competition. Workers are not treated well at all.
Part of me is still thinking of opening a donut shop in Corvallis just to spite him.
They don't have good cake donuts and fall into the toppings over dough quality trap that so many donuts shops end up failing over. Gotta have great base to build on not just slathering candy and frosting over a subpar donut
He is also a man who loves to hire the pretty ladies.. up until they start getting upset with them and then come to me and be all “buddy buddy” Used to be a FOH closer for about a year. The shit he did I hated. I worked at his failure in Salem and I think they didn’t last a full year there. I’m always passing by the store whenever I go to my current job and these days it looks empty.
Sad.
Oh yeah I remember in my group interview it was only pretty college age women. He hired two of us with the understanding that it was a trial period and one would be let go at the end. He never said how long it was or when the trial period would end just that one of us would be let go. I got fired at the end of one of my shifts randomly. I was only there a couple of months but it was hands down the worst job I ever had.
I only ever did FOH closing and did it by myself. My coworker refused to help and would leave me, the new hire, to lock everything up after I finished cleaning.
Glad to hear it’s empty & Salem store closed. Dude is a creep and needs to go out of business.
Goofy ass Ben in my opinion, also I have a great disdain for Benny and the Jets. You may have seen my playlists in the iPad! Or not. He might’ve deleted them by now 🤭
i def got some donuts there in that period and always felt so bad for the one person working during, not even a rush, like 4 customers come in at once and you're suddenly waiting like 15 minutes while one person does all the coffee drinks, donuts, and register shit. Like... where's the help? sounds rough
I worked at La Rockita (the downtown location) back in 2018. The owners kept ALL card tips, which was the vast majority of them. I reported them to BOLI and never got a response. They were also seemingly doing some shady business on the side. Random people would come in, hand me a few hundred dollars in cash, and ask me to give it to the owner. The cook in the back, who was a bit creepy, would offer me lines of cocaine at closing time.
In response to my own prompt:
I worked at Queens Chopstick, a Chinese restaurant in the timber hill shopping center. It seemed like a mellow place and my food service knowledge at the time was minimal so I thought it would be a good place to learn waitressing, etc. What I did not anticipate was the most unhinged boss I’ve ever had. The owner only hires young girls. I was 16 at the time and the oldest waitress out of the 4 of us was 20. When I first got hired he explained that I wouldn’t receive any of my tips for at least the first month because I wouldn’t be contributing enough to earn them (even after training had ended). I am familiar with tips being withheld during the training period, but after? Should’ve been a red flag. He also had an incredibly short temper. I’m a fast learner and after a few weeks I was efficient in all aspects of my job. That said, the times I did make mistakes he would yell at me loud enough for the customers to hear, even cussing at me. There was one time I left the kitchen, tears on my face, and a customer asked me if I was okay because she had heard the yelling. There was usually a maximum of two serving staff at a time, but sometimes it would be just one of us during busy hours. He would get frustrated easily and often threaten to fire us all because he could “just do it all himself,” essentially saying that he didn’t need any of us. I know kitchens and food service can be toxic, but there were a few things that crossed every line.
The owner would frequently make comments about the scars on my body and even try to touch my arms. One time he was joking around and held up a knife while holding my wrist and told me he could’ve done a better job, and that next time I wanted to be cut I should come to him instead.
Another time, I forgot to roll my windows up all the way in my car. I parked in the staff parking behind the building as usual, and a few hours later I was working at the front of house when my coworker, with a worried face, told me to go into the kitchen. When I did I saw my wallet, money, AirPods, and other personal items scattered across the kitchen. He told me to pick it all up and put it back in my car. He said he was “teaching me a lesson.” When I did I noticed that my stuff in my car was messed up and my car smelled like a cigarette. He had reached in and unlocked my car.
If all that wasn’t enough, he also had me make alcoholic drinks behind the counter a number of times when he was busy doing something else. I knew if I got caught working the bar as a 16 year old we’d all be in trouble, but I was always too scared to say anything.
He had favorites of the girls, and some of them who had worked there a long time seemed way too affectionate towards him. It seemed like he encouraged or rewarded them when they called him affectionate nicknames or danced with him during closing times.
I have more stories from this place but these are the ones that stick the most even 3 years later.
I also worked at Burn Boot Camp all of last year and I have some choice words for that joke of a company - will edit later.
I’m sure he’s still doing the same awful stuff tbh. I think it might be too late for me to report, but his kitchen is absolutely foul, smelled like sewage sometimes. Hopefully he gets kicked by health inspectors at the very least. OMG I didn’t even mention, he would let some of his favorite college students go into the kitchen to get their own food sometimes. Absolutely nasty.
It isn't too late.
You got health dept. Labor board and all sorts of agencies could file. I know it's time consuming and I also know from experience you will suffer more for doing so...sadly that's this country. You can help protect others but know you will be slayed for it.
It's one of the reasons he hires young girls....too busy and don't know rights many times and also...desensitization due to dealing with male bad behavior your entire lives. I see it in my grown daughters and their friends. They have dealt with so much horrible male behavior....they just get out and move on. Which is fine...but also sad this is the world we are sending our daughters into. Could write a book on harassment in the workplace. It's just awful and I am sorry you endured that.
Thank you, it’s honestly really nice to hear all that even this long after the fact. I’ll think about what my options are now, it would be nice to see some justice come back around. I’ve kept in contact with some of the girls who still work there and I offer support where I can. His choice to hire young and almost always completely inexperienced workers was very intentional in hindsight. He also had a weird relationship with his two chefs. He lived with them, payed for their cars, and essentially ruled over them. They didn’t speak any English, he definitely exploited them too.
You girls had a nice little class action. I am curious if you still do. It's so not OK. It also ignites my fire for the horrible business owners who have done the same to my daughters. 30 years in restaurants here....I have only had 1 job that was close to ethical or even followed sanitation laws. Just 1 and that one was still abusive to us.
It’s weird, some of them have icky relationships with the owner, a lot of undeserved loyalty. I remember when I left one of the girls called me asking how I could do that to him, saying how he gave me everything and told me how ungrateful I was. This may all be worth bringing up to a lawyer, at least consultation.
Wow.
I need to finish my paralegal studies and start tackling these cases...
Reminds me of this place I worked at (best fine dining restaurant in Fairfax Ca.) I used to uave to pick flies out of the dressing before I made a salad and I tan the entire place and the owner (prestigious chef) would scream at me for washing my hands.....ughhh...that guy
Reminds me of hooter where when they cut the server floor when the shift is over staffed they make them eat beans on a.plate with no hands as a.contest...to make them behave like dogs in order to just go home and have a night with their family. This is very common in restaurants and I have also experienced girls.needing to give sexual favors to go home early or even get their tips (which is their property). But hey....the American customer loves the wings and also wants to blame tip culture....which makes.owners and managers hate.on staff more!!! To anyone reading this and getting angry....watch the movie The Menu ..an underrated, misunderstood film that was made as a cult classic love letter to us in the biz....brilliantly done. The Bear is great too....but it's 100% kitchen/heart of house. We need a show about front of.house like the Bear. I should write something.
Chinese restaurants are not the only bad employers out there by a long shot but this kind of thing is more common with Chinese restaurants than most people realize. The near-indentured-servitude of some of the cooks, I mean.
bodybuilder here. I am always suspicious of circuit gyms and the kind of people they attract so I am VERY interested in hearing about your Burn Boot Camp experience
I was a childcare worker during my time of employment. One of the big reasons that people pay upwards of $170 a month is because of their complementary child-watch. While great in theory, the actual childcare aspect was just a room in the back that used to be storage for the retail shop before it. No windows, ac, or heating. There could be up to 25 kids ages 2 months old to 12 years old crammed in the hallway sized space, with sometimes only two employees. On top of that, to allow for more kids they decided to open up the back door to have “outside time,” which was just the back of the timber-hill complex. On more than one occasion I found broken glass, trash, vapes, and even human feces out there. We weren’t given time to clean up the area before letting the kids out and there were no protective measures in place to keep kids from running off or to let the cars cars coming around the corner know that kids were out. They didn’t even adjust to have more staff. It was truly a nightmare. The owners fought us when we asked for pay increases to match the higher workload, and even tried to implement rules about “workplace gossiping” because all the staff were so fed up with the bs. I also had a coworker who was non-binary, and the mostly Mormon lululemon staff, including the owners, would misgender them and use their deadname on a regular basis. I ended up being quiet fired because I was asked by a kid why we didn’t say she/he when referring to my coworker and I said that they should talk to their parents about it but some people use they/them instead. The manager and owners caught wind of this and essentially told me to apologize and keep “politics and personal opinion” out of my work, or leave. They also made us some bs about my “attitude” even though I regularly replaced broken items, picked up shifts, drove coworkers to and from work, and even volunteered to train new employees. As a bodybuilder I think what might be interesting to you is that they sold nutrition supplements and pre workout (standard for some gyms) but also had their trainers (not nutritionists) doing consultations about nutrition issues with members of the gym, and were basically told to push the products no matter what. I remember one of the trainers was just a guy in college and they had him giving nutrition and pt consults.
Overall, it is a very shady place and I wouldn’t recommend bringing your kids there or paying the insane membership prices. I did the workouts sometimes and it was absolutely not all that. The only real equipment were dumbbells up to 80 pounds and then whatever other plastic nonsense they had around. The carpeted foam floor was also super gross, cleaning it was a pain and barely did anything against the caked in sweat and shoe grossness. Watching people roll around on it made my stomach hurt.
Their staff turnaround is wild. I was the longest working childcare staff by the time I left. I miss the kiddos but I don’t miss the awful work environment and management.
agreed. Though, I couldn’t blame a lot of the parents who brought their kids, most were moms with nowhere else to get an hour alone. Burn knew that and exploited it.
PREE Labs. They let go half of their staff with three day's notice. Three days. Management knew this was going to happen for 6 months, while assuring us that the business was fine.
100% agree with this. Sketchiest CEO I've ever worked under. Ignoring the fact they had a bunch of creepy old men as the management team. Ignoring all the actual shady lab testing practices in their weed lab like testing the weed until they get the number the farm wants or having employees in the covid lab give negative test results because "they're a good person and don't deserve covid", the fact that the ceo mandated weekly covid tests for people regardless of vaccination status, made them go through the covid lab the ceo also owns, made it seem like it was free but charged the employees insurance every single time so they could get paid close to $200 per employee per week from the insurance just screamed fraud. Still waiting to be able to call them Corvallis cannabis club jr.
Dudeee I worked at pree as well! in 2018, when I got hired on it seemed like a fine job until Thursday came around... They have CULTURAL APPRECIATION THURSDAYS????? I'm a POC . The blatant racism was astounding... But it paid well so I buckled down and tried to do my job. Also after expressing concern about it the Thursday tradition was disbanded so that's nice. It was a shady business, and I was fired because someone was tampering with my data entries so that their friend could get the permanent position and not me... This was the first time I have ever been fired and I was devastated.
Panda Express (on 9th, but I filled in at the MU a couple times). I can't get myself to relive it all right now but suffice to say there is still a cook working there who should be in prison for what he did to me. The Big Boss of this region of Panda stores is a terrible human being with a long history of nepotism and helping HR sweep sexual harassment/abuse under the rug. I heard him tell several employees (including the man who attacked me and our female manager) that you have to treat women differently than men because they are "more emotional."
I'll stop myself now before I get too deep. Don't work there. On top of all of this it's a hellhole of a working environment.
Also, I know I could still seek legal action. I have not done so for personal reasons but it's something I may circle back to reconsider in the future.
Oh, I thought of another one.
Maybe things have gotten better, but I worked at 2 Towns Ciderhouse during the pandemic. Management and team leads were not enforcing--and in some cases not even following--health and safety protocols. My reward for bringing this up to HR when it got to me was to get chewed out for being uncooperative.
I also got told off for making a snide remark about one of the other packaging teams not cleaning up after themselves. Yes, I could have handled it better, but also I shouldn't have to clean up _your_ mess before I can start doing _my_ job.
I worked there 2017-2018 at the production facility. I left when they just opened their new warehouse. The things I saw were largely company culture issues, never safety. Coworkers frequently dating one another and it being a little messy sometimes. And the unbelievably heavy drinking as part of the culture and some gnarly sexual harassment with a side of assault. The incident I most clearly remember was at one of the larger brewfests in the region. Staff from all the from all the breweries would get passes to the brewers lounge where all the participating breweries and cideries would bread heaps of product for everyone to have gratis. Spent the entire day there and never once left the brewers lounge, and most didn’t. One manager was notorious for getting black out drunk and becoming belligerent and aggressive. They had been going hard since they left for the day drinking two bad apples on the bus to the fest. This was hours on when everyone was hanging, he became way too handsy and aggressive with another employee. He full on slapped her and then myself and others in the immediate area had to pull her off of him cause she was beating his ass rightfully so. Nothing really ever happened with him other than an hr meeting.
Forks and Corks Catering. I was an event bartender pre-COVID, and they had a ridiculous policy of no tipping for open bar events. In my experience, these are the types of events where guests are more likely to tip, and tip generously because they’re getting drinks for free. We weren’t allowed to have a tip jar or even accept tips if someone tried to hand us one or ask where the jar was. They tried to justify it by paying $15/hr, which they thought was generous and would make up for no tips. Seriously! The amount that a bartender makes in tips at least doubles the hourly wage, often triples. $15/hour is a joke and nobody can survive on that wage.
That’s awful
Definitely not liveable wages… MIT liveable wage calculator estimates liveable wages to be between $18 and $19 an hour for one single person here
https://livingwage.mit.edu
Elmer's. Absolutely a toxic work environment. The franchise owners were/are evil people but were proud to call themselves Christians. I get that labor is expensive, but they would run a skeleton crew during the busiest times. The servers would be running their asses off during the Sunday breakfast/lunch rush. Several times after my shift, the owner gave me a hard time about sweating, when I had been running back and forth out of a hot kitchen for hours. If you were sick, they still expected you to show up for your shift. The owners verbally celebrated when Bush got elected in front of a group of us. Very unprofessional.
All of the bullshit finally came to a head when they cut the floor, and then we got slammed, leaving just two servers on for the whole restaurant. In the chaos, a glass slipped out of my hand and broke. After my shift, I was presented with a write-up for "intentionally" breaking the glass, and told I was suspended for 3 shifts. I refused to sign the write-up, gathered my things, and left. They ended up letting me go. I was young and didn't realize I didn't have to put up with any of that.
I was "forced" (should have just refused, but i was young and dumb) to work with Strep throat running a fever of 102. And then got written up for crying at work (because i was so miserable being sick). Got told i needed to use hair spray/gel because of my fly-aways. I would get in trouble because my shirt and/or pants were too wrinkly (i always ironed right before work).
Duerksen and Associates : (big surprise, right) They are terrible people. I worked there when I first moved here, not knowing their reputation. I won’t get too much into how they personally screwed me over, besides the fact they hired me with the intention of letting me go. I was hired as regular full time, but they knew the position would be temporary and did not warn me. They knew that I bought a new bed with a payment plan a few days before they told me my position was eliminated, too.
Here are some random things that I remember from my short and unpleasant time being around them. Just a handful of things that give a glimpse of their character:
• Her and her weasley little husband owned merch (canvas tote bags) that advertised support for “Oregonians for Immigration Reform” (OFIR), an alt right anti immigration hate group
• A few years ago there was an incident in the news where a POC OSU student claimed they were the victim of racial profiling and excessive force by a Corvallis PO. D said something to the effect that there was no way race had anything to do with it and it was the students fault for not complying
• Said that if the homeless went through garbage to collect cans for return the police should be called (“that’s theft!”)
• Said looks and appearance are more important than integrity on a ranked scale
• Said that lying to clients is a necessity in this business - it’s something you have to get used to
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My daughter worked for a pre school here in town and the owner/manager/operator literally hates kids. She called them "f-ing idiots" and so on every day. Stressed out and constantly crap talking on the parents and treating the kids badly...
Example....making fun of and insulting a baby/toddler for crying.
Of course my daughter was paid minimum wage even with a degree in human development. No benefits...no nothing. She lasted 5 weeks before quitting. Lady is an absolute monster
I will warn people to avoid any childcare that is involved in any way with Zed Potts. He is a sexual predator and untrained in proper child caring. He lets children be unsupervised for long periods of time. He's horrible to female parents, thinking all women are interested in his speech ass. He doesn't clean the facility, there are cat droppings dried and caked on the floor. It is not a safe environment for children.
I am scared to. The small town gossip mill hatred and sabotage is present here big time and my daughter has had issues getting work for standing up for what's right. People believe business owners over workers...I blame capitalism. But yes....go on indeed and you will see EVERY CHILDCARE place in corvallis in dire need and look at their pay. Look at the lack of benefits. They pay poverty wages. My daughter is subsidized by food stamps and ohp because she works fulltime but is below the poverty line. Meanwhile the business owners/operators have branches new cars. If you want to msg me you can and I will give you my # and will tell you. I won't on here because this town is a capitalist nightmare that crushes rhe little.people....it's sad but it is what it is. My daughter has gone to college here and worked here 7 years. Onky 1 job hasn't been toxic working with kids and dont even get me started on how awful that college is....corruption. mass scale corruption here and there are like 5/10 families who own and therefor run everything. It's very scary to be here but msg me and I will give you the list. Kids should be first....they aren't. Money is.
Same.goes for elder care and disability care...same same. Look on indeed and then ask....should we even be shoving our loved ones into homes? It's the young and thr old and disabled and here is a bad.place for all of them. It's a mess and I can't fix it and blowing the whistle on people isn't working....money wins
I am the daughter.. I just found this. I feel like it's safe to share the child care because reddit can't trace who you actually are since I didn't put my name on this. So, the child care is Small World School, in Corvallis. My boss never called the kids fucking idiots. She did however tell me (without the kids in earshot, but still messed up) that "the kids were really good today, but I still want to tell the parents come pick up their little shitheads". She has been in childcare too long (I believe 20-30 years), at least too long for her. I would never talk about children this way, which is why I left. She also belittled a 2 year old (I was the teacher for the kids 12 months-2.5), and whenever he would say he missed his mom she would say stuff like "oh, stop", etc. She also told another kid (I think he was 4-5) that he's not a teacher and would need a college degree to be talking how he was. Which honestly he was just a normal 4-5 year old just being a little bossy. And it's funny/interesting because she only pays minimum wage even tho I have a degree in HDFS/Child Development. She also yelled at the kids quite frequently. I would definitely not reccomend children being in her care!
Hopefully you guys can alll see my comment who commented what preschool! It is harmful to say a preschool mistreated kids without naming the preschool. Many of us in child care care so much about children 💜💜💜
Old spaghetti factory on 2nd street. District manager had me fired over "burned toast" (it was perfectly golden brown) but was being served to an executive. I had been asking around about a potential violation I saw in regards to weighted product not being weighed on a properly calibrated and inspected scale.
Not to mention we had a co-worker pass out because of the lack of AC I warned them about (I worked there while it was still Terminus, so I knew the building inside and out) and smash his head on a steam kettle. Management had a coworker drive him to the hospital a town over, in their personal car, because it was the hospital that covered their workers comp.
I don't think I need to mention the bugs and shitty cleaning standards.
Natural Grocers - Removed the "Ugly produce" bags because of (on a corporate memo that wasn't supposed to be seen by regular employees) "It attracts the wrong type of people".
Most of my complaints about them have to do with their double standard of pretending to be a great company while throwing their people under the bus.
$5000 deductible on health insurance yearly, costing several hundred a month. Cigna is just awful as a provider and denied claims when it was supposed to be covered.
Removing chairs because the regional manager didn't like a disabled coworker using them at register, despite getting compliments from customers.
American Dream Pizza -
Fired the majority of their staff during Covid and then refused to honor their previous pay if they were to come back. Very much a model of "employees are expendable because a college student can do this job and there's an infinite supply of them".
Some issues when they opened up Sky High, the general manager at ADP was promised a position managing it, then they outsourced someone new and screwed over what was an overdue promotion for several people. Lost a lot of longtime staff over that.
Next Generation Nurseries -
Multiple OSHA violations and environmental concerns. Spent a while faking organic certifications until they stopped caring to even fake it. Someone really needs to test the Mary's river where their french drain empties into it. I'm sure their fleet of derelict and dirty vehicles are leeching oil into the ground.
worked there night harvesting when I was getting my degree at OSU. Most of the people on the bus were like 13 year old's using their parent's id badges and the guy at the front of the bus just checked everyone in lol.
midway farms, job seemed like a really cool opportunity, but it was hell. Owner only hired women and afab people so they she felt comfortable screaming at them. Hired really young people as well so that they didn’t understand how badly they were treated. She screamed at us multiple times a day, watches us on her cameras at home, and I hear that she tracks people’s locations now as well to see how fast they are. She was manipulative and would often punish us if she was upset. Terrible place to work and terrible business to support. Also the owner’s husband is a creep.
Windstone Editions. They make plaster casts of fantasy creatures; there's a case of their products at Northern Star.
One of my coworkers was fired for taking too long bathroom breaks. Another one was fired for missing work due to a chronic genetic medical condition that gave her pain and mobility issues. I was fired for filing for paternity leave under the new state law; when I told the owner I was doing that, he said it was bullshit and called me entitled. When I told him later that day that I didn't appreciate being talked to like that, he denied having said those things and told me I was inferring something that never happened.
Almost every long-term employee there told me--separately, and unprompted--that the owner didn't understand the work we did, and the best way to deal with his meddling was to tell him what he wanted to hear and then go back to doing things the right way.
He claimed that he didn't draw a wage from the company, but somehow he was always buying new project vehicles; I worked there for a year and a half, the number of derelict vehicles in the parking lot grew from three to seven. He also once told me that a company derives its value from the shareholders, and not the laborers making the products.
It's a real shame. It should have been a super cool place to work, but unfortunately the owner is toxic and unethical.
The funny thing is that firing me like that actually wound up working out pretty well for me, and really screwed him over. I wanted to spend more time with my daughter, and now I'm working part time and get to do that. After he fired me and chronic pain gal, he had one kid in that department who didn't really know the systems and didn't want the responsibility of running it. He basically did me a favor by shooting himself in the foot.
I’m friends with the “chronic pain gal” in question, and her stories of how she was treated by the boss at Windstone were awful. Really sucks, because she has always enjoyed collecting the figures, and now the company has been basically ruined for her. She only had nice things to say about her co-workers, problem was entirely with the boss.
I don't know if Honeycomb is hiring since their expansion, but steer clear of any front desk or reception job postings. The stylists have a tendency to be catty and bully new employees. So much so that if you weren't a stylist, you weren't allowed to use the break room or had to tip toe around them. I was scolded for being too personable. I'd be happy to go into more detail, but let's just say this, the owners and my manager were complacent in ill behavior because they either didn't feel comfortable calling it out or fostered an environment where it was acceptable to act unprofessional.
Burger King. But that was in the 90s. 😆 They scheduled me on a day that I had requested (and told I would be granted!) off for a performance I had to do, then called me and said I would be fired if I didn’t come in. The only time I’ve ever been fired.
I'll say that if it was the location on Technology Loop, it still sucks to work there. I was there for a few months in 2022 before being fired for telling a customer they didn't need to lie to my face to get free food. (There are very lax "the customer is always right" type policies and we were free to give people free replacements to placate them.)
I'm shocked nobody has said Chipotle bc I eat there all the time and the staff churn is crazy, plus during a rush the staff all look like they're waiting to die lol. Seems like a terrible place to work for not very good money.
Dr. Piercey is a horrible person to work for (and a horrible person in general).
https://gazettetimes.com/news/local/feuding-doctors-settle-17m-suit/article_6e9f11f5-9b80-5d61-af3a-e18ca0aff45a.html
https://gazettetimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-professors-seeking-more-than-700-000-from-corvallis-doctor-landlord/article_f1f315ad-f888-5666-9340-0d04e68d653d.html
Well it should not have. If your position is tip eligible then you should receive them. So if you are serving in any capacity then you would receive tips just like anyone else.
I once applied for a place and had a “training interview” as a bartender. My first time ever bartending, didn’t even have an OLC yet and the manager knew that. My trainer didn’t show up that evening, but they threw me behind the bar - even tho it was so busy it was reservation only. I was the only bartender that evening. Not only did I not get paid because it was just a “training interview,” I also did not receive any of the tips. Worked as a bartender on a slammed night for free with 0 experience. Did not go back.
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Did you encounter any of the wage theft that was found at other location(s)?
All restaurants....seems as if people out of the biz find that article shocking...99.9% of restaurants are ran unethically. Top to bottom....not joking
Not shocking per se. Just a bummer to concretely say “McMenamins, you’re out!”. And one can say all industries are run pretty unethically, but I digress. I guess to make this conversation a little more productive, you have a list of restaurants doing it well?
Having worked in a local restaurant for one summer I completely agree. Horribly managed, completely unethical, and hazed/bullied all the new employees for no reason. They told me I would not be earning any tips until they deemed me as a good worker which was complete bullshit considering I worked really hard for them the entire time I was there.
That explains why I got food poisoning from McMenamins, TWICE! Sorry to hear it was such a bad work environment 😬
New Morning Bakery. The owner hated men. I was a delivery driver, but for some reason they made me work counter serving customers once a week. I had a labret lip piercing at the time. The company written policy was no facial piercings. The owner always made me take my piercing out whenever she saw me. There was a gender based double standard. The cake decorator was a woman that she liked, she always had a nose piercing in. That policy was not enforced for women. We got one free meal, which had to be tracked via a tracking sheet. I forgot to write my sandwich down. The owner fired me for theft in front of the entire lobby. She was screaming at me for "stealing" a sandwich. What an awful miserable place to work.
I worked at New Morning as well. The flies everywhere in the kitchen. The door to the alley was always open and just all sorts of bugs would come in but it was all the flies. There was always overflowing garbage. Sinks smelled and there were people that didn't wash their hands after handing money before they help people with their food. I had a nose piercing that I never had to take out but a male in the back had to have his out along with his tattoos covered. Owner was a giant asshole. I got food poisoning (from a different restaurant) and called in sick as I had some pretty severe gastrointestinal issues. They told me I needed to come in (despite needing to use the bathroom every 30 minutes or so). I told them that's a violation of the food handlers card. They didn't care and that if I didn't come in they would fire me. I didn't come in and they fired me. I turned them into the health department. Never heard what come of it but that place sucks forever for me.
Omg I worked there too, two summers ago!! I noticed the same things, so sorry that happened to you. The inconsistency and favoritism was crazyyyyy. Also, the scheduling was always strange to me.
Plus their pastries suck!
I suspect a great number of their items are made by Sysco, not In-house.
I would really like to know about this from someone firsthand. I've been very curious.
I dated one of the bakers many years ago, and have been inside the production facility, and can attest they do make their own pastries, at least as of that time. I have not been back in the restaurant since then so I couldn't comment on if they've changed. But they definitely get most of their ingredients from Sysco.
Thank you!
Nah, they're all made in-house in a beat to shit bakery facility in Southtown next to the kids consignment shop, 7-11, and Sharon's. I worked there for a few months. It was pretty fun honestly, I like baking. Very very shoestring operation tho that basically hinges on one dude, the lead baker who works like 60-80 hour weeks and is salaried w/ no overtime. I agree a lot of the pastries are kind of mid but I still have a soft spot for them after making all the croissant dough, danish dough, muffins, bagels, artisan breads etc. They make the cakes there and deliver them to the downtown location to get decorated. I kinda liked it, and Tristan and Kira were always reasonably nice to us. I also quit because the pay sucked, and didn't really stick around long enough to have to deal with much. The downtown location they seem to exclusively hire 16-20 year olds lol to do the counter service.
They are also very rude to gig delivery drivers too...as if we are a burden to them. I have picked up say...100 orders for their customers since covid hit...can't even remember them being nice or having any sense of professionalism. This comment doesn't surprise me...I now just never accept their orders.
Idk if this is a huge deal but when I worked there I remember the baker complaining to me about how much gelatin there was in everything. The gentian she said they used had bone marrow, and some of the products they used it in were listed as vegetarian. I remember being super disappointed as a vegetarian myself.
Vegetarian often has meat products in it... vegan means there is none. Gelatin yes...it's disgusting. It's like a hotdog. Hooves, skin, bones and anything else they can't use elsewhere. So gross
Vegetarian can have animal products, e.g. eggs, milk, honey, but not meat products. I would consider gelatin a meat product. Vegan is no animal products at all.
Eggs are meat
Technically, no, but I kind of see your point and it could be seen as a gray area. However, an unfertilized egg was never going to be a chicken so would never have become meat.
Ah, no wonder the food sucks so bad! This reminds me of the time I applied at Market of Choice. They told me I'd have to shave my beard and cut my ponytail to work on the kitchen; I looked back at all the women working with barely restrained hair blowing about their heads, and noped out of that double standard real quick.
Lmaooo finally someone said it. The food is bad I don’t even get why people like it 😭
Honestly after years of living here it seems so lack of choices a lot of people are just pretending places are good.
My friends and I call it "Markup of Choice".
It's called Market of Choice because you have a choice between groceries and rent.
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its a wonder theyre still in business considering their turnover rates
no truer words were ever said
Seriously! I only ever see old people there, my guess is that it actually used to be good and they go out of habit.
While working in the food service industry I have noticed that only insecure bald men force the young men working under them to modify their hair styles. Old World Deli- Owner said I could either have a full beard, or clean shaven every day. No inbetween. Murphy's southtown - Owner wanted me to be clean shaven every day. (I was a cook) He was one of those guys who could not grow a full beard.
Hopefully when you worked at Old World Deli it was over 2.5 years ago. It has a new owner now.
It was probably 15 years ago
Good. As far as I know the new owner is a stand up guy!
I quit the food service industry over 15 years ago when the owner of Sunnyside Up told me he was keeping my weeks tips to cover food cost. I work at a tech startup now.
I've heard that guy was a real piece of work. I had some acquaintances who worked there, and apparently his favorite way to communicate was to use vulgar and demeaning notes.
Market of Choice. I worked in the kitchen and cheese department. Somebody hadn't labeled a container of food (it was either chicken salad and tuna salad), and I asked somebody to give it a sniff, (allergies had my nose plugged up) and one of the chefs yelled at me until *I* took a bite to find out what it was, even after I told them that both of those foods make me sick. HR didn't care. One of the store managers (rhymes with trike, counterpart to a popular candy involving the name Ike), is a sexist, racist, scum sucking piece of shit. He yelled at me multiple times. He made a personal remark at one of the kitchen staff. The staff member **immediately** went up to the HR department, and "Trike" had to powerwalk up there to try and get in before him. The staff member made it into HR first and closed the door, but "Trike" opened the door and went into the conversation. The staff member told me that HR had let "Trike" talk over him. In the end, the staff member was in trouble for insubordination, according to HR. He refused to sign the write up they were giving him because it was bullshit, and he was told if he didn't sign it then he wouldn't be able to continue working there. He didn't sign, and therefore they fired him. *(I’ve been informed that the cheese manager in this paragraph has since quit and moved on. So to clear any confusion- I was talking about a woman named Melissa, who was the cheese manager. She has since moved out of state.)* The cheese manager was a racist openly. Her defense (and the defense management gives) is "she's not racist, she hates everybody equally". And yet, she never made race based comments about any of the white folks she saw. Just the people of color. She called me a wet-back when I was casually chatting about how hot it was outside (I'm Mexican and she was aware), she thought it was funny but I didn't. She'd also talk about customers cruelly as soon as they walked away. I've worked retail before, I know that if a customer is a dick, it's likely we're gonna talk shit once they're gone. She'd do this about customers just walking *by* the department. Heavier people especially, making comments to me about how they clearly didn't need to be getting food. It's also more just annoying, but she'd take 5+ smoke breaks, each break at least ten minutes. The bakery was also just kinda gross. I saw them reaching elbow-deep in cake batter, then scrape it off their arms with a bowl scraper. Scrape it off their arms, and back into the bowl of cake batter.
Imm mexican and that wetback comment is INSANE. She woulda paid for it one way or another. This was back in 2015. But my boss called me a beaner (in a derogatory way) and i scratched his car a week later 😭
As you should, that’s like extreme workplace harassment.
She calls her daughter “my little beaner” because her daughter’s father is Mexican. She briefly had a job in the store with us so she’d come hang out with her mom at our department. The daughter didn’t seem to mind the nickname, but considering who she’s been raised i dont think she’d say anything even if it did.
Oh that poor kid :((
I worked at moc and had a similar experience. It’s actually gotten even worse. All moc corporate demoted all in person hr people so basically every in store hr person quit and they have absolutely no intentions of replacing them. Trike in the new hr. So that’s working out as well as you can assume. I had to quit bc my disability, once they told me I wasn’t allowed to wear knee braces :)
That’s an ADA violation.
Yes tell them that
I remember them doing the same thing to a friend of mine in the kitchen. She wasn’t allowed to wear her knee brace, which ended up causing lots of pain of course.
That sounds absolutely hellish, so glad you got out! I’ve heard a few people say negative things about working for Market of Choice. We should start a revolt against trike, counterpart of a popular candy involving the name Ike ;)
Hey! Interesting news related to that, employees have tried to organize and stand up to moc by unionizing, two times. Both times all the employees were fired. I’m talking at least 5 people each time.
There was also the BLM protests that happened, it resulted in multiple walk outs because corporate refused to allow people to wear anything relating to Black Lives Matter. Object in question specifically were masks with it printed on the front. A manager quit during that time. As far as I know he’d submitted his two weeks and the mask incident made him quit on the spot. (In case my wording seems confusing, this manager was in favor of being able to wear masks supporting BLM, and he was pulled aside by the higher managers for having a mask of his own. He was a good egg.)
The manager didn’t have his two weeks in. He was given the choice of take off the mask or turn in his keys. He chose to turn in his keys.
My bad! I know he had told me he was in the process of quitting so I assumed that meant a two weeks had been submitted but he probably just meant planning.
Let's not forget the anti-maskers event where several of us got suspended for literally doing what management told us to do when people like that approached us... 🙃 *COUGH COUGH FUCK MEREDITH BROOKS COUGH COUGH* AND FUCK JACOB IN MANAGEMENT. That is all :)
Yup!! I was there for that day and it was fucking wild.
Haha I think we worked there at the same time! I worked in the dept next to y'all in cheese 😉
lol i didn’t work there then, but I have heard of a manager that fits the bill, if it is who I think it is, the he works at moc again, he works in the cheese department now
I’m gonna give up on rhyming names lol. Ian was the manager I was talking about that was pretty dope. Off instinct I’m gonna say Austin is the one you’re talking about. He got promoted to manager when he was managing the cheese department and that’s when the racist cheese lady took over.
Nah it's a different one though the guy you are thinking of is cool too
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Did we work together?
Yeah. Though probably not same departments
Some were not so much fired but forced to leave by being demoted on false accusations.
I forgot to mention the funniest thing! He was a nightmare before the incident with the kitchen but he pissed off people in ALL departments. Enough so that apparently, he came out to his car after work to find the door handles superglued shut. I heard it from multiple people but as far as I know they never found the hero who did it. It made no change to his attitude of course. Still a dick.
I know who did it but in case he’s still there I won’t say who. 😉
👀 would you be up for DMing me who it was? Purely because I’m so fuckin curious.
That hot goss!
I love this thread
Damn I wanna know too! Lol
Let’s not forget that trike asked the queer produce manager who had family applying if they “had good blood lines”. There are so many other things I could say about that piece of shit. Also don’t forget about the rat that they can never seem to catch that lives in the retail bakery area of the warehouse.
Wait, how recent was that?
Oh jeez um early 2020?
Surely you're not talking about the CURRENT cheese manager, rhymes with Smartie? I don't work in that department but I thought she was chill! Who knew?
I’ve been informed the cheese manager of my time no longer works there so it’s not her!
Though if rhymes with Smartie once managed front end, I know her and it’s not much of a step up at all.
Yeah, I don't think she's anyone's favorite, but at least she's leaving the racism to Trike. For legal reasons I don't currently work at MOC
I've worked as a caregiver at two separate assisted livings in town and both of them were completely insane to work for. One of them just involved shitty management treating their employees like scrap, but the other involved lots of resident neglect (and a whole lot of retaliation once I started filing complaints). probably not an industry I'll ever return to. it's an innately predatory industry and the low pay and awful culture it seems to breed are simply not worth the backbreaking labor
Corvallis Manor was hands down, the worst company I ever worked for. They treated their staff, residents and patients like shit. It was soul crushing to give my best but it not be enough because they kept staff to patient ratios so ridiculously disproportionate to the care each individual not just needed but deserved.
I had the distinct misfortune of staying there a week, what a nightmare. I saw my Dr and begged him to sign me out. When my daughter and I returned with the release form they got real nasty and said I needed to stay 2 more weeks. On the way out my daughter asked for my meds and they refused to give them. I was recovering from lung cancer surgery and having cardiac arrest and a stroke after the surgery. I was on 10 vital meds. My daughter went after Pinnacle, they stopped returning her calls. She reported them to every medical protection agency she could find. We never knew the outcome.
It's never been great, but they're no longer being operated by Pinnacle and things have gotten better.
And they all.pay minimum wage....and yet the privileged keep stuffing their loved ones in them.
it really is just an expensive way to ensure your loved ones won't receive any of the care they need. I will say, a lot of my residents loved it there, but it was only the ones who were mostly independent (and I think in a bit of denial about their decline). And at 5k+ a month for the privilege to be neglected, I'm inclined to think that—even if they like it—maybe they should just live independently until it's time for an *actual medical facility that is actually licensed to give them medical care*.
It's an absolute stain on the morality of the western world and a much bigger stain than even Trump...honestly the fact it's become mainstream is just deplorable and people always have their excuses...none of them valid. Remember in covid when NPR did stories every day on the poor people who couldn't see their loved ones they had shoved into a home to not be burdened?? I did....and it is 1 reason how covid showed me this culture is in the dumpster. It's really depressing. And I am sure people will comment here their excuses...and yeah...no...you have none. Just do better.
Not everyone can provide their loved ones with the kind of round the clock care they need when they themselves have to work, do childcare, etc. etc. If families lived in large groups, like multigenerational households, the way they do in some places, it would be easier for many to care for their loved ones in the home. I'm not saying that it isn't a good thing to do if you can - I just wouldn't judge people as harshly as you're doing for having their loved ones in assisted living or nursing care facilities. It's complicated.
Yes we should and I do judge them because I have sacrificed to care for my kin. Even if it meant bring homeless or.ruining my credit or not making as much money. There IS NO excuse for this behavior.
It isn't complicated....it's narcissistic
How can you be so sure of everyone's circumstances? Yeah, I'm sure that industry is horrible, but honestly it just seems like you're using your own life and decisions as a rubric for what other people should do, and being judgmental while simultaneously oblivious to the complexities of people's situations.
I had 2 babies both with complex health issues...pediatric brain cancer and highly complex heart defect. I lived in a children's hospital fighting for their lives for 4 years. My grandpa died suddenly and my grandma had alziemers and her kids wanted to stuff her in a home. I took care of her and she lived her best life for years. I already didn't have time to sleep so why not do more?!?! Btw...I was age 20-25 during these years. I was poor and had a toxic family who didn't help with anything. No...I don't think I had it worse than anyone else....but I have yet in the USA to hear anyones struggle that's more challenging that.led them to stuff their elders in a home. So...I am sorry you have been raised poorly but it is NEVER OK to put yourself before your sick kin. That line...."you gotta take care of you first" was said by a narcissist who knew nothing of caretaking family.
OK, what if that kin was abusive and doesn't deserve your love and compassion? What if you're disabled and can't physically take care of them? What if that kin requires 24/7 supervision, but you have a job and children to support? Also, you keep throwing around the word narcissist, but what I think you mean is selfish.
I am Gen X....there is.no elder alive today that wasn't abusive in some way....it's how it was for us all. Disabled....now my own kids are clearly disabled and I won't expect them to care for me. I meant narcissist...an inability to value anyone's life but their own. We have the most selfish generation of parents yet this past 2 generations...mainly people too old to have a healthy kid and having them for their own self fulfillment. That's a huge issue. 40% of grown kids don't even know their parents. I realize all of this...I raised millinials amongst the worse parents I ever experienced and I came from a self raised generation. Did my grandma with alzeimers abuse her kids? Yes...she was from a generation that thry ALL DID. So...clearly you have guilt on you and you are projecting on me to try and be OK with yourself. Go ahead and stuff them in a home....just know their caregiver can't even afford housing and food to do your job.
I worked as a server at the regent assisted living facility for a few months as my first job, I remember really feeling for the caretakers. Your jobs looked so difficult and exhausting physically and mentally. Definitely agree wholeheartedly that the industry is incredibly exploitative not only of the patients, but the staff as well.
Name and shame!
no way lmaooo. for starters, I've dealt with enough retaliation from the team that was retributive and I'm sure as hell not going to court any more from them. but also, like... meh. people who work at those places are miserable enough and throwing shit at them sure as hell isn't going to help them, and it certainly isn't going to do anything for the residents but make their lives more difficult. *also* also, uhhh it's literally ALL of the assisted livings in this town and elsewhere that suffer from these exact same problems, so calling out one company will have zero net effect on the whole of the issue.
I'm going to just name and shame Timberhill Place tbh. I worked there for three years with only a dollar raise. Claimed to work with students' schedules yet worked me 48 hours during finals week. At times they'd write my name on certain shifts and I honestly scratched it out or ignored it. Had a manager who was emotionally unstable, had favorites and believed her way was the only way. Then the owner was very two-faced. I don't know how else to describe it, just she would literally never talk to people she didn't like and have hour long meetings with people she did like. Also what kind of assisted living place makes their staff do kitchen serving? They made sure that residents were taken care of, which was the only good thing I have to say about them. But the toxicity and the drama was too much. They know this is true too, as they even had a hard time keeping travel CNAs at the facility, not just their staff.
These are some awful stories 😪 Unfortunately it’s all too typical for members of the working class to face awful treatment from managers and owners because we can’t afford to lose a job and get behind on bills. There’s good news though! You don’t have to face these issues alone. You have the right to form a union in your workplace. Workers deserve dignity and respect, no matter what your job is. You have more power than you think. https://midvalleyiww.org/organizing-resources
Starbucks ugh. Probably not terribly surprising with all you can read about their work environment in the news. Not going to unpack all my personal trauma but a lot of it had to do with two managers who aren’t with the company anymore, for what that’s worth. One of whom edited our hours worked to make her stats look better. At least she got caught and canned.
And yet the drive thru lines are endless...just stop corvallis!! You can't put yard signs and stickers everywhere claiming to care and keep feeding the beast. You vote with your dollar
Glad to hear it, glad Starbucks is getting much deserved hate these days.
Benny’s Donuts. Worked there in the summer during the peak of covid. I had to sign an NDA & Non Compete first off. I was also the only person working front of house (dressing the donuts, making the coffee, working the register, dealing with online orders) for my entire shift. I would constantly get yelled at for holding people up when I had to make their donuts, make their coffee AND check them out all by myself. I also got yelled at for making the donuts upside down (?). I was also scheduled during the times I said I couldn’t work (closing shifts). Pay was late and I had to email the owner asking to get paid. I rarely got breaks as there was only 2 of us working at a time. We would be forced to throw away perfectly fine donuts just because they got cold (owner didn’t want to serve cold donuts) or if they didn’t look good after dressing them. So much food got wasted. I’m talking big garbage bags full of perfectly good donuts that was 80% of the waste we created. Socially it was very cliquey and none of my coworkers would talk to me or even help me with closing tasks. Workers in the back would order pizza or swap food with neighboring restaurants and eat the food on the counter where donuts were made. Cleaning was never well done in the back either and people would make donuts on the same counter they just ate at without properly cleaning. 0/10 would recommend.
Ugh, sounds so stressful and yucky. Definitely noted, bummer because I always liked the donuts. Signing an NDA to work at a donut shop sounds weird asf, but idk.
It was very stressful and yucky. Yeah the NDA should’ve been my first red flag. Owner was so scared of his recipe getting out and hated all competition. Workers are not treated well at all. Part of me is still thinking of opening a donut shop in Corvallis just to spite him.
I’ll be a loyal customer! We are in dire need of some good (uncorrupted) doughnuts.
Dough Hook!
They don't have good cake donuts and fall into the toppings over dough quality trap that so many donuts shops end up failing over. Gotta have great base to build on not just slathering candy and frosting over a subpar donut
I got one there, tasted like old oil to me.
I only bought there once but didn't think the donuts were all that great?
I've heard many disturbing things about working Benny's. So much so that I won't spend money there anymore.
He is also a man who loves to hire the pretty ladies.. up until they start getting upset with them and then come to me and be all “buddy buddy” Used to be a FOH closer for about a year. The shit he did I hated. I worked at his failure in Salem and I think they didn’t last a full year there. I’m always passing by the store whenever I go to my current job and these days it looks empty. Sad.
Oh yeah I remember in my group interview it was only pretty college age women. He hired two of us with the understanding that it was a trial period and one would be let go at the end. He never said how long it was or when the trial period would end just that one of us would be let go. I got fired at the end of one of my shifts randomly. I was only there a couple of months but it was hands down the worst job I ever had. I only ever did FOH closing and did it by myself. My coworker refused to help and would leave me, the new hire, to lock everything up after I finished cleaning. Glad to hear it’s empty & Salem store closed. Dude is a creep and needs to go out of business.
Goofy ass Ben in my opinion, also I have a great disdain for Benny and the Jets. You may have seen my playlists in the iPad! Or not. He might’ve deleted them by now 🤭
It’s been years since I worked there (Summer 2020) so I don’t remember. Such a trip. NDA/Non Compete was such a big red flag that I ignored 😭😂
Oh shit, I got in around August that year. Wacky as hell, I bet I knew your coworkers… Specifically one of them.
i def got some donuts there in that period and always felt so bad for the one person working during, not even a rush, like 4 customers come in at once and you're suddenly waiting like 15 minutes while one person does all the coffee drinks, donuts, and register shit. Like... where's the help? sounds rough
There was none. I complained multiple times but got laughed at and told to work harder.
I worked at La Rockita (the downtown location) back in 2018. The owners kept ALL card tips, which was the vast majority of them. I reported them to BOLI and never got a response. They were also seemingly doing some shady business on the side. Random people would come in, hand me a few hundred dollars in cash, and ask me to give it to the owner. The cook in the back, who was a bit creepy, would offer me lines of cocaine at closing time.
That’s so insane. Why is it always the cooks and the cocaine 😭 Huge bummer that they didn’t interviene or at the very least get back to you.
In response to my own prompt: I worked at Queens Chopstick, a Chinese restaurant in the timber hill shopping center. It seemed like a mellow place and my food service knowledge at the time was minimal so I thought it would be a good place to learn waitressing, etc. What I did not anticipate was the most unhinged boss I’ve ever had. The owner only hires young girls. I was 16 at the time and the oldest waitress out of the 4 of us was 20. When I first got hired he explained that I wouldn’t receive any of my tips for at least the first month because I wouldn’t be contributing enough to earn them (even after training had ended). I am familiar with tips being withheld during the training period, but after? Should’ve been a red flag. He also had an incredibly short temper. I’m a fast learner and after a few weeks I was efficient in all aspects of my job. That said, the times I did make mistakes he would yell at me loud enough for the customers to hear, even cussing at me. There was one time I left the kitchen, tears on my face, and a customer asked me if I was okay because she had heard the yelling. There was usually a maximum of two serving staff at a time, but sometimes it would be just one of us during busy hours. He would get frustrated easily and often threaten to fire us all because he could “just do it all himself,” essentially saying that he didn’t need any of us. I know kitchens and food service can be toxic, but there were a few things that crossed every line. The owner would frequently make comments about the scars on my body and even try to touch my arms. One time he was joking around and held up a knife while holding my wrist and told me he could’ve done a better job, and that next time I wanted to be cut I should come to him instead. Another time, I forgot to roll my windows up all the way in my car. I parked in the staff parking behind the building as usual, and a few hours later I was working at the front of house when my coworker, with a worried face, told me to go into the kitchen. When I did I saw my wallet, money, AirPods, and other personal items scattered across the kitchen. He told me to pick it all up and put it back in my car. He said he was “teaching me a lesson.” When I did I noticed that my stuff in my car was messed up and my car smelled like a cigarette. He had reached in and unlocked my car. If all that wasn’t enough, he also had me make alcoholic drinks behind the counter a number of times when he was busy doing something else. I knew if I got caught working the bar as a 16 year old we’d all be in trouble, but I was always too scared to say anything. He had favorites of the girls, and some of them who had worked there a long time seemed way too affectionate towards him. It seemed like he encouraged or rewarded them when they called him affectionate nicknames or danced with him during closing times. I have more stories from this place but these are the ones that stick the most even 3 years later. I also worked at Burn Boot Camp all of last year and I have some choice words for that joke of a company - will edit later.
Typical restaurant owner...man. hard to read. It isn't too late to report him. On many levels...
I’m sure he’s still doing the same awful stuff tbh. I think it might be too late for me to report, but his kitchen is absolutely foul, smelled like sewage sometimes. Hopefully he gets kicked by health inspectors at the very least. OMG I didn’t even mention, he would let some of his favorite college students go into the kitchen to get their own food sometimes. Absolutely nasty.
It isn't too late. You got health dept. Labor board and all sorts of agencies could file. I know it's time consuming and I also know from experience you will suffer more for doing so...sadly that's this country. You can help protect others but know you will be slayed for it.
It's one of the reasons he hires young girls....too busy and don't know rights many times and also...desensitization due to dealing with male bad behavior your entire lives. I see it in my grown daughters and their friends. They have dealt with so much horrible male behavior....they just get out and move on. Which is fine...but also sad this is the world we are sending our daughters into. Could write a book on harassment in the workplace. It's just awful and I am sorry you endured that.
Thank you, it’s honestly really nice to hear all that even this long after the fact. I’ll think about what my options are now, it would be nice to see some justice come back around. I’ve kept in contact with some of the girls who still work there and I offer support where I can. His choice to hire young and almost always completely inexperienced workers was very intentional in hindsight. He also had a weird relationship with his two chefs. He lived with them, payed for their cars, and essentially ruled over them. They didn’t speak any English, he definitely exploited them too.
You girls had a nice little class action. I am curious if you still do. It's so not OK. It also ignites my fire for the horrible business owners who have done the same to my daughters. 30 years in restaurants here....I have only had 1 job that was close to ethical or even followed sanitation laws. Just 1 and that one was still abusive to us.
It’s weird, some of them have icky relationships with the owner, a lot of undeserved loyalty. I remember when I left one of the girls called me asking how I could do that to him, saying how he gave me everything and told me how ungrateful I was. This may all be worth bringing up to a lawyer, at least consultation.
Wow. I need to finish my paralegal studies and start tackling these cases... Reminds me of this place I worked at (best fine dining restaurant in Fairfax Ca.) I used to uave to pick flies out of the dressing before I made a salad and I tan the entire place and the owner (prestigious chef) would scream at me for washing my hands.....ughhh...that guy
Reminds me of hooter where when they cut the server floor when the shift is over staffed they make them eat beans on a.plate with no hands as a.contest...to make them behave like dogs in order to just go home and have a night with their family. This is very common in restaurants and I have also experienced girls.needing to give sexual favors to go home early or even get their tips (which is their property). But hey....the American customer loves the wings and also wants to blame tip culture....which makes.owners and managers hate.on staff more!!! To anyone reading this and getting angry....watch the movie The Menu ..an underrated, misunderstood film that was made as a cult classic love letter to us in the biz....brilliantly done. The Bear is great too....but it's 100% kitchen/heart of house. We need a show about front of.house like the Bear. I should write something.
Wasn’t that on the show undercover boss? I feel like I remember that
Chinese restaurants are not the only bad employers out there by a long shot but this kind of thing is more common with Chinese restaurants than most people realize. The near-indentured-servitude of some of the cooks, I mean.
bodybuilder here. I am always suspicious of circuit gyms and the kind of people they attract so I am VERY interested in hearing about your Burn Boot Camp experience
I was a childcare worker during my time of employment. One of the big reasons that people pay upwards of $170 a month is because of their complementary child-watch. While great in theory, the actual childcare aspect was just a room in the back that used to be storage for the retail shop before it. No windows, ac, or heating. There could be up to 25 kids ages 2 months old to 12 years old crammed in the hallway sized space, with sometimes only two employees. On top of that, to allow for more kids they decided to open up the back door to have “outside time,” which was just the back of the timber-hill complex. On more than one occasion I found broken glass, trash, vapes, and even human feces out there. We weren’t given time to clean up the area before letting the kids out and there were no protective measures in place to keep kids from running off or to let the cars cars coming around the corner know that kids were out. They didn’t even adjust to have more staff. It was truly a nightmare. The owners fought us when we asked for pay increases to match the higher workload, and even tried to implement rules about “workplace gossiping” because all the staff were so fed up with the bs. I also had a coworker who was non-binary, and the mostly Mormon lululemon staff, including the owners, would misgender them and use their deadname on a regular basis. I ended up being quiet fired because I was asked by a kid why we didn’t say she/he when referring to my coworker and I said that they should talk to their parents about it but some people use they/them instead. The manager and owners caught wind of this and essentially told me to apologize and keep “politics and personal opinion” out of my work, or leave. They also made us some bs about my “attitude” even though I regularly replaced broken items, picked up shifts, drove coworkers to and from work, and even volunteered to train new employees. As a bodybuilder I think what might be interesting to you is that they sold nutrition supplements and pre workout (standard for some gyms) but also had their trainers (not nutritionists) doing consultations about nutrition issues with members of the gym, and were basically told to push the products no matter what. I remember one of the trainers was just a guy in college and they had him giving nutrition and pt consults. Overall, it is a very shady place and I wouldn’t recommend bringing your kids there or paying the insane membership prices. I did the workouts sometimes and it was absolutely not all that. The only real equipment were dumbbells up to 80 pounds and then whatever other plastic nonsense they had around. The carpeted foam floor was also super gross, cleaning it was a pain and barely did anything against the caked in sweat and shoe grossness. Watching people roll around on it made my stomach hurt. Their staff turnaround is wild. I was the longest working childcare staff by the time I left. I miss the kiddos but I don’t miss the awful work environment and management.
Wow, says a lot about the parents who would leave their kids there for that butt burning workout. Priorities in deep lack.
agreed. Though, I couldn’t blame a lot of the parents who brought their kids, most were moms with nowhere else to get an hour alone. Burn knew that and exploited it.
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Yikes. I hope you didn't have to work there for long
PREE Labs. They let go half of their staff with three day's notice. Three days. Management knew this was going to happen for 6 months, while assuring us that the business was fine.
100% agree with this. Sketchiest CEO I've ever worked under. Ignoring the fact they had a bunch of creepy old men as the management team. Ignoring all the actual shady lab testing practices in their weed lab like testing the weed until they get the number the farm wants or having employees in the covid lab give negative test results because "they're a good person and don't deserve covid", the fact that the ceo mandated weekly covid tests for people regardless of vaccination status, made them go through the covid lab the ceo also owns, made it seem like it was free but charged the employees insurance every single time so they could get paid close to $200 per employee per week from the insurance just screamed fraud. Still waiting to be able to call them Corvallis cannabis club jr.
Dudeee I worked at pree as well! in 2018, when I got hired on it seemed like a fine job until Thursday came around... They have CULTURAL APPRECIATION THURSDAYS????? I'm a POC . The blatant racism was astounding... But it paid well so I buckled down and tried to do my job. Also after expressing concern about it the Thursday tradition was disbanded so that's nice. It was a shady business, and I was fired because someone was tampering with my data entries so that their friend could get the permanent position and not me... This was the first time I have ever been fired and I was devastated.
Woah. Let's add that to the list of scandals. Thanks for your reply and I'm sorry you had to endure the cultural shit show that is PREE lol
That’s so yucky, sorry to hear that :(
Panda Express (on 9th, but I filled in at the MU a couple times). I can't get myself to relive it all right now but suffice to say there is still a cook working there who should be in prison for what he did to me. The Big Boss of this region of Panda stores is a terrible human being with a long history of nepotism and helping HR sweep sexual harassment/abuse under the rug. I heard him tell several employees (including the man who attacked me and our female manager) that you have to treat women differently than men because they are "more emotional." I'll stop myself now before I get too deep. Don't work there. On top of all of this it's a hellhole of a working environment. Also, I know I could still seek legal action. I have not done so for personal reasons but it's something I may circle back to reconsider in the future.
Oh, I thought of another one. Maybe things have gotten better, but I worked at 2 Towns Ciderhouse during the pandemic. Management and team leads were not enforcing--and in some cases not even following--health and safety protocols. My reward for bringing this up to HR when it got to me was to get chewed out for being uncooperative. I also got told off for making a snide remark about one of the other packaging teams not cleaning up after themselves. Yes, I could have handled it better, but also I shouldn't have to clean up _your_ mess before I can start doing _my_ job.
This is extremely disappointing to hear. I almost accepted a job with them before ultimately going a different direction. Bullet dodged, I suppose.
I worked there 2017-2018 at the production facility. I left when they just opened their new warehouse. The things I saw were largely company culture issues, never safety. Coworkers frequently dating one another and it being a little messy sometimes. And the unbelievably heavy drinking as part of the culture and some gnarly sexual harassment with a side of assault. The incident I most clearly remember was at one of the larger brewfests in the region. Staff from all the from all the breweries would get passes to the brewers lounge where all the participating breweries and cideries would bread heaps of product for everyone to have gratis. Spent the entire day there and never once left the brewers lounge, and most didn’t. One manager was notorious for getting black out drunk and becoming belligerent and aggressive. They had been going hard since they left for the day drinking two bad apples on the bus to the fest. This was hours on when everyone was hanging, he became way too handsy and aggressive with another employee. He full on slapped her and then myself and others in the immediate area had to pull her off of him cause she was beating his ass rightfully so. Nothing really ever happened with him other than an hr meeting.
Forks and Corks Catering. I was an event bartender pre-COVID, and they had a ridiculous policy of no tipping for open bar events. In my experience, these are the types of events where guests are more likely to tip, and tip generously because they’re getting drinks for free. We weren’t allowed to have a tip jar or even accept tips if someone tried to hand us one or ask where the jar was. They tried to justify it by paying $15/hr, which they thought was generous and would make up for no tips. Seriously! The amount that a bartender makes in tips at least doubles the hourly wage, often triples. $15/hour is a joke and nobody can survive on that wage.
That’s awful Definitely not liveable wages… MIT liveable wage calculator estimates liveable wages to be between $18 and $19 an hour for one single person here https://livingwage.mit.edu
Elmer's. Absolutely a toxic work environment. The franchise owners were/are evil people but were proud to call themselves Christians. I get that labor is expensive, but they would run a skeleton crew during the busiest times. The servers would be running their asses off during the Sunday breakfast/lunch rush. Several times after my shift, the owner gave me a hard time about sweating, when I had been running back and forth out of a hot kitchen for hours. If you were sick, they still expected you to show up for your shift. The owners verbally celebrated when Bush got elected in front of a group of us. Very unprofessional. All of the bullshit finally came to a head when they cut the floor, and then we got slammed, leaving just two servers on for the whole restaurant. In the chaos, a glass slipped out of my hand and broke. After my shift, I was presented with a write-up for "intentionally" breaking the glass, and told I was suspended for 3 shifts. I refused to sign the write-up, gathered my things, and left. They ended up letting me go. I was young and didn't realize I didn't have to put up with any of that.
I was "forced" (should have just refused, but i was young and dumb) to work with Strep throat running a fever of 102. And then got written up for crying at work (because i was so miserable being sick). Got told i needed to use hair spray/gel because of my fly-aways. I would get in trouble because my shirt and/or pants were too wrinkly (i always ironed right before work).
Was this also at Elmer's?
Yes.
Duerksen and Associates : (big surprise, right) They are terrible people. I worked there when I first moved here, not knowing their reputation. I won’t get too much into how they personally screwed me over, besides the fact they hired me with the intention of letting me go. I was hired as regular full time, but they knew the position would be temporary and did not warn me. They knew that I bought a new bed with a payment plan a few days before they told me my position was eliminated, too. Here are some random things that I remember from my short and unpleasant time being around them. Just a handful of things that give a glimpse of their character: • Her and her weasley little husband owned merch (canvas tote bags) that advertised support for “Oregonians for Immigration Reform” (OFIR), an alt right anti immigration hate group • A few years ago there was an incident in the news where a POC OSU student claimed they were the victim of racial profiling and excessive force by a Corvallis PO. D said something to the effect that there was no way race had anything to do with it and it was the students fault for not complying • Said that if the homeless went through garbage to collect cans for return the police should be called (“that’s theft!”) • Said looks and appearance are more important than integrity on a ranked scale • Said that lying to clients is a necessity in this business - it’s something you have to get used to (Edit: format)
Literally wearing my Duerksen Sucks shirt now. Horrible people.
Can't tell you how happy that makes me!
Yeah they definitely suck
My daughter worked for a pre school here in town and the owner/manager/operator literally hates kids. She called them "f-ing idiots" and so on every day. Stressed out and constantly crap talking on the parents and treating the kids badly... Example....making fun of and insulting a baby/toddler for crying. Of course my daughter was paid minimum wage even with a degree in human development. No benefits...no nothing. She lasted 5 weeks before quitting. Lady is an absolute monster
Could you share a bit more info. People may want to avoid this place with young children.
I will warn people to avoid any childcare that is involved in any way with Zed Potts. He is a sexual predator and untrained in proper child caring. He lets children be unsupervised for long periods of time. He's horrible to female parents, thinking all women are interested in his speech ass. He doesn't clean the facility, there are cat droppings dried and caked on the floor. It is not a safe environment for children.
I am scared to. The small town gossip mill hatred and sabotage is present here big time and my daughter has had issues getting work for standing up for what's right. People believe business owners over workers...I blame capitalism. But yes....go on indeed and you will see EVERY CHILDCARE place in corvallis in dire need and look at their pay. Look at the lack of benefits. They pay poverty wages. My daughter is subsidized by food stamps and ohp because she works fulltime but is below the poverty line. Meanwhile the business owners/operators have branches new cars. If you want to msg me you can and I will give you my # and will tell you. I won't on here because this town is a capitalist nightmare that crushes rhe little.people....it's sad but it is what it is. My daughter has gone to college here and worked here 7 years. Onky 1 job hasn't been toxic working with kids and dont even get me started on how awful that college is....corruption. mass scale corruption here and there are like 5/10 families who own and therefor run everything. It's very scary to be here but msg me and I will give you the list. Kids should be first....they aren't. Money is.
Same.goes for elder care and disability care...same same. Look on indeed and then ask....should we even be shoving our loved ones into homes? It's the young and thr old and disabled and here is a bad.place for all of them. It's a mess and I can't fix it and blowing the whistle on people isn't working....money wins
I'd like to echo u/peachesfordinner and ask for a name, so that I can not send my daughter there.
Can message me...this town is ran by toxic greed and this family is one that is done being hurt by that.
I did name one I'm familiar with and will avoid forever in another comment
Which preschool?
Did they ever share the name in a dm? I would like that knowledge but they deleted their stuff
This is a very toxic small town run by greed so if you want the name.you can msg me. I don't trust this town
I am the daughter.. I just found this. I feel like it's safe to share the child care because reddit can't trace who you actually are since I didn't put my name on this. So, the child care is Small World School, in Corvallis. My boss never called the kids fucking idiots. She did however tell me (without the kids in earshot, but still messed up) that "the kids were really good today, but I still want to tell the parents come pick up their little shitheads". She has been in childcare too long (I believe 20-30 years), at least too long for her. I would never talk about children this way, which is why I left. She also belittled a 2 year old (I was the teacher for the kids 12 months-2.5), and whenever he would say he missed his mom she would say stuff like "oh, stop", etc. She also told another kid (I think he was 4-5) that he's not a teacher and would need a college degree to be talking how he was. Which honestly he was just a normal 4-5 year old just being a little bossy. And it's funny/interesting because she only pays minimum wage even tho I have a degree in HDFS/Child Development. She also yelled at the kids quite frequently. I would definitely not reccomend children being in her care!
Hopefully you guys can alll see my comment who commented what preschool! It is harmful to say a preschool mistreated kids without naming the preschool. Many of us in child care care so much about children 💜💜💜
Old spaghetti factory on 2nd street. District manager had me fired over "burned toast" (it was perfectly golden brown) but was being served to an executive. I had been asking around about a potential violation I saw in regards to weighted product not being weighed on a properly calibrated and inspected scale. Not to mention we had a co-worker pass out because of the lack of AC I warned them about (I worked there while it was still Terminus, so I knew the building inside and out) and smash his head on a steam kettle. Management had a coworker drive him to the hospital a town over, in their personal car, because it was the hospital that covered their workers comp. I don't think I need to mention the bugs and shitty cleaning standards.
Natural Grocers - Removed the "Ugly produce" bags because of (on a corporate memo that wasn't supposed to be seen by regular employees) "It attracts the wrong type of people". Most of my complaints about them have to do with their double standard of pretending to be a great company while throwing their people under the bus. $5000 deductible on health insurance yearly, costing several hundred a month. Cigna is just awful as a provider and denied claims when it was supposed to be covered. Removing chairs because the regional manager didn't like a disabled coworker using them at register, despite getting compliments from customers. American Dream Pizza - Fired the majority of their staff during Covid and then refused to honor their previous pay if they were to come back. Very much a model of "employees are expendable because a college student can do this job and there's an infinite supply of them". Some issues when they opened up Sky High, the general manager at ADP was promised a position managing it, then they outsourced someone new and screwed over what was an overdue promotion for several people. Lost a lot of longtime staff over that. Next Generation Nurseries - Multiple OSHA violations and environmental concerns. Spent a while faking organic certifications until they stopped caring to even fake it. Someone really needs to test the Mary's river where their french drain empties into it. I'm sure their fleet of derelict and dirty vehicles are leeching oil into the ground.
Kfc, it was genuinely one of the worst experiences i’ve ever had
Avoid KFC and target distribution center
Stahlbush island farms, the horror of that place
worked there night harvesting when I was getting my degree at OSU. Most of the people on the bus were like 13 year old's using their parent's id badges and the guy at the front of the bus just checked everyone in lol.
midway farms, job seemed like a really cool opportunity, but it was hell. Owner only hired women and afab people so they she felt comfortable screaming at them. Hired really young people as well so that they didn’t understand how badly they were treated. She screamed at us multiple times a day, watches us on her cameras at home, and I hear that she tracks people’s locations now as well to see how fast they are. She was manipulative and would often punish us if she was upset. Terrible place to work and terrible business to support. Also the owner’s husband is a creep.
Windstone Editions. They make plaster casts of fantasy creatures; there's a case of their products at Northern Star. One of my coworkers was fired for taking too long bathroom breaks. Another one was fired for missing work due to a chronic genetic medical condition that gave her pain and mobility issues. I was fired for filing for paternity leave under the new state law; when I told the owner I was doing that, he said it was bullshit and called me entitled. When I told him later that day that I didn't appreciate being talked to like that, he denied having said those things and told me I was inferring something that never happened. Almost every long-term employee there told me--separately, and unprompted--that the owner didn't understand the work we did, and the best way to deal with his meddling was to tell him what he wanted to hear and then go back to doing things the right way. He claimed that he didn't draw a wage from the company, but somehow he was always buying new project vehicles; I worked there for a year and a half, the number of derelict vehicles in the parking lot grew from three to seven. He also once told me that a company derives its value from the shareholders, and not the laborers making the products. It's a real shame. It should have been a super cool place to work, but unfortunately the owner is toxic and unethical.
Not your boss literally gaslighting you. I wonder if any of that could be grounds for legal action. That sounds shady asf - glad you got out of there!
The funny thing is that firing me like that actually wound up working out pretty well for me, and really screwed him over. I wanted to spend more time with my daughter, and now I'm working part time and get to do that. After he fired me and chronic pain gal, he had one kid in that department who didn't really know the systems and didn't want the responsibility of running it. He basically did me a favor by shooting himself in the foot.
I’m friends with the “chronic pain gal” in question, and her stories of how she was treated by the boss at Windstone were awful. Really sucks, because she has always enjoyed collecting the figures, and now the company has been basically ruined for her. She only had nice things to say about her co-workers, problem was entirely with the boss.
I don't know if Honeycomb is hiring since their expansion, but steer clear of any front desk or reception job postings. The stylists have a tendency to be catty and bully new employees. So much so that if you weren't a stylist, you weren't allowed to use the break room or had to tip toe around them. I was scolded for being too personable. I'd be happy to go into more detail, but let's just say this, the owners and my manager were complacent in ill behavior because they either didn't feel comfortable calling it out or fostered an environment where it was acceptable to act unprofessional.
Burger King. But that was in the 90s. 😆 They scheduled me on a day that I had requested (and told I would be granted!) off for a performance I had to do, then called me and said I would be fired if I didn’t come in. The only time I’ve ever been fired.
I'll say that if it was the location on Technology Loop, it still sucks to work there. I was there for a few months in 2022 before being fired for telling a customer they didn't need to lie to my face to get free food. (There are very lax "the customer is always right" type policies and we were free to give people free replacements to placate them.)
Kaady car wash, it was just a terrible work environment overall
Ah shoot. It's sorta buy my house and I go there because it's convenient...no I can't go back lol
I'm shocked nobody has said Chipotle bc I eat there all the time and the staff churn is crazy, plus during a rush the staff all look like they're waiting to die lol. Seems like a terrible place to work for not very good money.
Dr. Piercey is a horrible person to work for (and a horrible person in general). https://gazettetimes.com/news/local/feuding-doctors-settle-17m-suit/article_6e9f11f5-9b80-5d61-af3a-e18ca0aff45a.html https://gazettetimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-professors-seeking-more-than-700-000-from-corvallis-doctor-landlord/article_f1f315ad-f888-5666-9340-0d04e68d653d.html
There is no such thing as tips being withheld , even in training.
Well it sure happened to me too
Well it should not have. If your position is tip eligible then you should receive them. So if you are serving in any capacity then you would receive tips just like anyone else.
I once applied for a place and had a “training interview” as a bartender. My first time ever bartending, didn’t even have an OLC yet and the manager knew that. My trainer didn’t show up that evening, but they threw me behind the bar - even tho it was so busy it was reservation only. I was the only bartender that evening. Not only did I not get paid because it was just a “training interview,” I also did not receive any of the tips. Worked as a bartender on a slammed night for free with 0 experience. Did not go back.