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FIRST of all, a lot of those top work culture places are incredibly toxic, and they get their awards and acclamation from those that just echo their praise.
I worked at Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California. At the time, it was still owned by the Knott family. They were *ALWAYS* talking about how we’re all “FAMILY”. Well when my grandma who helped raise me was in hospice and I had days to travel to see her, they told me I wouldn’t have a job when I returned. Some *family* they were!
About to leave a job like this, where they're about "culture." Every weekly meeting ends with us clapping like we're in kindergarten, there are platitudes all over the whiteboards that haven't been touched in years, and my immediate manager thinks he's the funniest person in the building, though literally nobody laughs at his jokes other than himself. I'm not the only one leaving, either. I don't expect the company to last more than a year at most.
13:08 That's Bucee's. Worked there myself. Anytime you had a complaint they'd slap down a huge stack of applications in front of you and say quit. We got people to replace you. Managers are trained to always find something wrong even if you did the job perfect. You were constantly asked to do way more work than you physically can in the 8 hours you have.
Yeeeeeup. Hated that place. I can't even go back as a customer after working there. It's so f-ing fake it's not even funny. Every single employee is absolutely miserable because they know they have absolutely 0 value to the company. My tipping point was when a medical emergency occurred in the store and I asked where the AED was, only to be told corporate didn't allow their stores to have one due to the 'liability'
I went to Texas State University. There was a Buckees a few miles south, but I NEVER understood the allure of it. Like, why are people constantly buying merch and freely advertising the business?
It's amazing that the CEO had the fucking balls to say that compensation is only one part of the employment experience. To your employees compensation is the only part that matters. If you take that out of the equation they're going to leave right then and there.
I mean, there are other important ones to me, granted they probably only start really mattering once you get paid enough to live comfortably; good insurance, adequate PTO, and most important to me would be lack of micromanagement. I could be making good pay with benefits but if I was treated like a toddler by a boss overseeing every detail and 2nd guessing me I'd walk.
Worked at a small country feed mill. "We're All Family Here!" And they actually were: the Foreman's wife sorted the returned feed bags. Everyone in the office, about 6 people, were related through marriage. The foreman quit, so they put a feed truck driver in charge. He had the IQ of a tree 🌲 and zero experience inside the mill. I had been working in the mill for almost a year and was second to the foreman. But I wasn't "Family" bye now,
Worked for a couple of call centers that obsessively talk about how employees are 'family members', how it was a 'fun place to work' and their favorite thing to spout was their 'culture is a great workplace culture'. If the job you're applying for says ANYTHING job like that..... RUN!!!!!
When the numbnut in charge started trying g to insist we were family in the 20 minute meetings we had at the beginning of the night at a damned Walmart when any company outside a small team tries insisting on being a family you know the company is shit.
"Like a family..." Have you seen how abhorrent and disfunctional some families are? Ever lived as the scapegoat where all your contributions are ignored and you're blamed for everything that goes wrong no matter if you had no involvement whatsoever, whilst the golden child steals the credit and is handsomely rewarded for sniffing their own farts?
