I am completely and utterly drained from going in to work these past few days and busting my ass for a company that does not care, I am dreading going in today, but it's too late to call out now. I'm not looking forward to the other 2 closing shifts I have right after this one, and then an opening shift on Saturday. I spend the morning stressing about work and then have to deal with idiots and assholes the rest of the day. I literally got on my hands and knees this morning and begged and pleaded with whatever higher power that could be listening to let me get a job that I recently interviewed for. I am so done with this fucking place.

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My kid got a job here in New Orleans at WF. He was asked to come in at the beginning of the week for training. On arrival he was told "the system is down". It's been down every day since.

Is this for real or are they simply politely saying they don't want him after all? I mean, I assume Jeff can get an onboarding system fixed.

Anyone else's store in ecomm having the same problem where all deliveries are saying delivered for the customers but all the bags are still in store? Like all of our coolers and shelves are filled to the brim with all these orders that are not getting delivered. Whatever bags are left (which is a lot) have to get put back tomorrow morning. Like we still have to shops these orders for what? There's always something going on with Amazon/WFM each week. Even Cornerstone is down. It's been going on for a few days now.

tested the A to Z app today and it’s working for me.

very limited functionality and so far I’m not impressed.

but, I can certainly see where they are excited to roll this out.

looking for advice on what this looks like and the pros/cons of making a move in the same level.

At our store, we go through it like crazy

I’m not sure what happened, but one of my coworkers saw them crying, carrying some bags and the Store Leader escorting them out. Later, I was on my lunch and all of the store and team leaders started filing into a room. I got told later that they were let go.
I feel really bad for them. I feel like they were one of the only members of leadership that actually stood up for us Team Members. I guess I’m feeling a bit of grief over them no longer being here. I’m not the biggest fan of the other ASTL’s (one of them is alright, but another is just not very kind and honestly just straight up rude). I can’t imagine your entire life just being turned upside down like that. It’s insane to me.

All my part timers, do you work less then 24 hours? When you switched your availability were they cutting back your hours? Who uploaded their availability on the new ukg pro app already?

Put my two weeks in June and my final day was the 26th, I bank with a credit union which always pays out on Wednesday.

Thought I was going to get my PTO on my final check but that wasn’t the case on the 8th. It’s the 22nd now and nothing.

It’s sad for me to say this, but after having worked at Whole Foods for 10 years I am leaving my 2 week notice.

Amazon has taken over company culture. It’s no longer fun to work here. Leadership only sees you as a number. Metrics are all that matters.

There is no more mission. No more worker centric vision. It’s a sad joke of what it used to be.

You will get written up for breathing in the wrong direction. Leadership is never satisfied no matter how hard you work. Don’t work for Whole Foods if you value honesty, integrity, and intelligence.

Left my notice today and a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulder. For those who remain I wish you the best of luck. It now feels more like an Amazon warehouse than a health food store.

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The latest issues with contaminated lettuce from Taylor Farms is concerning and I just learned today that WF 365 brand lettuce is sourced by Taylor Farms.

We all need to be careful with the packaged lettuce, salad bars etc.

I see TMs wearing Whole Foods t shirts, long sleeve shirts and vests instead of their aprons. My question is where do I get those? I’m a new team member that was recently hired.

As the title says, I was applying to jobs earlier today and applied for a couple whole foods positions. Within an HOUR of applying I was contacted and told I got the offer for the flex shopper position and while I’m glad, I was still applying to other positions and stores as well (this one isn’t too far but there are a couple closer stores to me). Would it be a bad idea to keep applying to other positions/stores when I have this offer already? Would the hiring manager know?

Where did you work now? What did find another job prior?

I'm thinking about it, but being capped out makes it hard to find something that would pay similar right out the gate

Has anyone else had this problem? I come in at 4 AM to shop for orders and for the past couple of weeks the shelves have looked like this. Today has had to be the worst day. It sucks because the early morning crew members, which is around 3-5 people (depending on the day), has to unpack the shelves which leads us to being backed up on current orders.

Some of the members speculate that it’s fraud, but I don’t understand how? Idk I just want to know if any other store is experiencing this.

Edit: this picture was from last week, today it has doubled

I just got hired as a PT bakery clerk on Sunday. Did the verification and background yesterday and currently waiting on the email from workday. I have two other whole food locations nearby and noticed they now have job postings for positions i was originally interested in such as cashier or grocey. Are you able to cross train and pick up shifts at other stores? just curious.

Do you work for Whole Foods?

Is it normal to do a less than 4hr shift and cram a lunch in between?

Hi, I am a new tm but wanted to request my time off for a vacation I had scheduled prior to being hired for December. I am confused on when going into time off request for unpaid, what Hours (Daily) means. Should I put 0, 8 (what i usually work), or 24 hours? Thanks!

This should clear up right? I thought PRTO protected UPT reductions?

I'm asking because I'm 20 and have barely worked any other jobs. But I have done some seasonal stuff (worked at a convention as well as all-day 18 hour shifts for the election commission), and pretty much everything else I've done has felt easier purely because there's some natural downtime between work?

Like for example working a customer facing job, there's some downtime between each customer walking up to the counter, and that time might be 0 seconds or a few minutes depending on time of day. Of course during the morning rush you might have a line, but later in the day even a minute of downtime between each customer feels so important for making it through the shift.

I remember when I first got hired it used to be like that and we'd have a ton of shoppers hanging around between orders. But nowadays I'll work an 8 hour shift sometimes and still won't see the order count drop below 80.

I know your employees having 0% downtime while on the clock is managements dream, but surely someone in the leadership realizes that it's bad that the highest turnover rate is on the role that requires 3 months of practice to get used to?

I'm not gonna lie and say that flex scheduling and UPT aren't incredibly useful, but the pay just seems lacking for the amount of work. In my area the cost of living is high and most places hire at the same rate as e-commerce, so if you're a college student looking for a job on the weekends the choice between making coffee as a barista and running around the busiest store all day for the same amount of pay just seems like a easy decision, and its apparent because we've been so understaffed for the longest time. And being a barista you can talk to your coworkers most of the day because you're working nearby them, unlike here where it's pretty much just you moving around.

Not being able to use headphones also feels really annoying, as that would make time go by so much faster. Some days I feel like my brain has actually been damaged after shopping for 8 hours straight with no music or podcast or anything else. And I'm making this post because apparently everyone around me is fine with this? I know people here who've worked for 5+ years and I just can't imagine how, is it just a job that some people are uniquely suited for?

I'm starting a new job next week that's in my field of study, and the one thing I'm looking forward to the MOST is just being able to do multiple types of things during the day. It just feels like my brain is actually rotting doing the same thing day after day here, with no advancement track or anything.