Questions and Answers about BC Liquor Distribution Branch

Do your job and you will be fine. Walk around like you are 'all that and a bag of chips' on your third day type of attitude and it will not be pleasant. Seen it to much where people say it is a bad place to work and such. 95% of the time the person that says that has a sense of entitlement that they have not earned. Your employer is not there to make sure your personal needs of your private life are accommodated as you see fit, you are getting paid to do a job.

Shifts vary from morning to night but full time hours at retail stores is 35 hours per week.

Some of the corporate way of doing advancement is to sterile and does not take Into account the individual at all. This has held back good people and I would leave for a company that looks at what the person has done for them.

Yes, a criminal background check, they do it for you, you just have to stick around and wait until they do that

Very noisy and negative

3~4 months to seat at your cubicle.

The pace is fairly slow in the beginning of the week but it definitely picks up. The pace of work is also chaotic because no one is where they should be, people ignore pages to come to the front for the cashier or to receive product in the warehouse. Staff that has been jaded from being there too long, will haphazardly stock products and over stock items or put them in the wrong spot, which messes with Inventory Audits.

It's just a terrible company to work for. The salary is very low in comparison to industry standards for the same role, but they'll sell you on the fact that the Benefits are worth it. Which isn't always the case, to be honest. The benefits are great, but the work itself isn't worth the salary at all. People that stay here are usually lifers and the high rating this company gets is 99% from head office where they get 1 day off extra per month, work monday to friday, have a cafeteria and gym in their building and right now, get to work from home and have no understanding of how the store are run or the challenges we face. That is where the high ratings come from, that's not opinion, that's fact.

Hiring managers, supervisors and personnel's choose to hire their relatives and friends exactly no competition in the hiring process...

Yes if you are a student or have another job. The hours vary. MAKE SURE YOU APPLY TO A MULTIPLE STORE RECALL. YOU WILL HARDLY GET ANY HOURS AT A SINGLE STORE RECALL.