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Deli & Chef Service worker

Deli & Chef Member (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 18 July 2018

Reasonable hours
Customer service experience
Food handling skills
Team environment
Cleaning protocols
Sterilization training
Food preparation
Display management

Pros

Customer service

Cons

Smell of meat

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Fun and safe working environment

Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – London, ON – 12 July 2018

A good place to get your first job. Great employees. Easy to follow along and easy to get into. Does not require much skill to manage. Management is not too good.

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Worst Company ever to work for. there's absolutely no reconized for you work. Full lies and promisses. Take full advantage of good workers .

Produce Clerk (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 12 July 2018

I worked for this company is not company you wanna work .This company is great if you like slavery and treated like garbage. Work for free everyone full-time if you wanna work for free go ahead it's the company for you. They don't pay overtime .

Cons

Long hours

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Its for high school kids

Supervisor, Produce Clerk (Former Employee) – Nepean, ON – 30 June 2018

Farm Boy has a negative atmosphere, theres no way to get promoted especially if you're a POC and they have no real benefit from being there. The managers expect too much from their employees and they have too many micro bosses (managers, assistants, supervisors, and specialist) they all give you different instructions and its hard to decide to listen to.

Pros

job security

Cons

too much to list

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this is a high volume store with lots of challenges during the day

Produce Manager / Store Manager on Duty (Current Employee) – Barrhaven, ON – 25 June 2018

I work morning starting at 7 am till 4:30 , I am also paided by salary. I work Thursday night and Sundays as a MOD in charge of store operations. I have 21 employees in my department.

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Poor Management

Cashier (Former Employee) – Kitchener, ON – 14 June 2018

Overall working at Farm Boy was a pleasure. However, the poor management made it difficult to enjoy the job for long. Management treats staff quite poorly.

Cons

Management

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It was a fun place

CSR - Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – Kingston, ON – 28 May 2018

I loved working here. Only left because I moved and there was no Farm Boy where I moved to transfer to. Was a good environment and would go back in a heartbeat if one opened where I am now.

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Not bad

Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 23 May 2018

I found that they had a slightly too high expectation for the pay they were offering, I was always stressed at work. Also, they did not train me properly which was unfair given their high expectations. The department manager was amazing and was very kind and forgiving of mistakes

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It was a lot of busy and physically demanding work

Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 7 May 2018

It was my first job. The manager of my department was very nice and wanted me to learn qualities that will continue to help me moving forward. This place taught me what hard work is and that it pays off

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fast paced with lots of good people

Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 7 May 2018

Lots of work with a very positive and welcoming atmosphere, many chances to interact and engage with customers and help people have an enjoyable experience.

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Meh, not for me... Or you.

Supervisor (Former Employee) – Ottawa – 3 May 2018

The management is attrocious! They treat you like a machine. They will oftentimes put the costumer's experience ahead of the employee's well-being.
I worked there for a few years and watched the company go downwards a lot! It's a very stressful environment, managers are too busy gossiping and laughing together to help out their teams. They hardly ever own up to their mistakes. A lack of budgeting for schedules leads to poor coverage and tiresome shifts. I personally felt like walking out of there on the regular, that's how badly I was being treated.
Frequent visits from specialists (higher ups) make days more stressful. Most of them give you dirty looks and treat you like peasants.
People bend over backwards for promotions that are then given to someone unworthy of the position.
So to summarize, if people in management positions took the time to look around, help their team out and say hi to them, it wouldn't be so bad.

Pros

Nice view from the break room.

Cons

Long hours, lack of respect, poor cooperation

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Poor respect for employees but your co-workers are great

Butcher Assistant / Store Cleaner (Former Employee) – 3035 St Joseph Blvd, Orléans, ON K1C 7C2 – 30 April 2018

I had worked for a long time for Farm Boy. The people who work there are great and I truly enjoyed my time working there in the meat department. But when they moved me to maintenance, I was no longer treated with respect. I was on my hands and knees washer the floor of the General Manager office. As well the machine I used to clean the floor every morning did not work properly and needed new tires. I had made him aware and he shrugged it of and told me to deal with it with led me to have a back injury. All in all I did enjoy the experience working for them, and I must say I learnt a lot

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Enjoyable Work Enviroment

Produce Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 26 April 2018

Provided superior customer service and supported Farm Boy’s vision of the best fresh shopping experience.

Welcomed, greeted and offered customer assistance as required.

Packaged, stocked and rotated display counters ensuring that product was of high quality and finessed with correct signage.

Kept the work, storage and store areas clean and safe at all times by performing general “housekeeping” as required, including sweeping, mopping and dusting.

Performed designated opening and closing procedures and offered assistance to other team members as requested.

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Fun workplace

Cashier (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 24 April 2018

good management
very good with the type of hours you are looking for and very understanding (depending on the manager you have)
good work flow,great staff

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Terrible

Produce Clerk (Former Employee) – London, ON – 18 April 2018

Farm boy without a doubt was the worse retail job I ever had.
Store managers last about 4-6 months (London) there because of the upper managements militant ways. Specialists are just puppets for the directors.
If you want to be treated poorly and made to feel you did a bad job all the time then apply if not my advise is to look elsewhere.

Pros

Good coworkers

Cons

Everything else

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great place to work for students

Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – London, ON – 17 April 2018

farm boy was very flexible with their schedules. They were very understanding when it comes to exam seasons for students. Everyone there are very friendly and makes the environment really fun around.

Pros

good hours

Cons

short hours

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great people terrible management

Customer Service Representative (Current Employee) – Orleans, ON – 4 April 2018

Made great lifelong friends here, but had a terrible time dealing with management and store managers. store managers were relentless in micro managing and were constantly rude or unfair to their employees.

Pros

free samples

Cons

management, customers, store management.

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Worst place ive ever worked

Warehouse Worker (Current Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 29 March 2018

Terrible management very unorganized, hard to contact, they will ignore you for requests. Supervisors are quite rude. The only good thing about the whole place is the employees that works there other than that worst place I've ever worked.

Pros

None

Cons

Bad hours rude management terrible pay.

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good work place for students

Cashier/Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 24 March 2018

gave me a good work ethic as a student in high school for other placement in my future. Tooke many skills learned here and applied it to my everyday life.

Pros

nice environment, flexible hours

Cons

very fast pace

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good environment

Cashier (Current Employee) – Whitby, ON – 21 March 2018

good environment to work in, staff are treated well and most management are like family. Been working here for almost 4 years now and I continue to come back. Good work hours- very flexible and enable those with more than one job to still get sufficient hours.

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Great Place to Work

Supervisor (Former Employee) – Brantford, ON – 16 March 2018

Fantastic Company overall! offered a lot of room for growth and opportunities to work with an exceptional team of individuals that all made the experience a fantastic one.

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