I have worked as a part-time cashier at Safeway for about a year now. At the beginning it was rough, but once they realized I wasn't some stupid kid like almost all of their newly hired part time employees are, they started to respect me. Granted, I had to prove myself, and it wasn't easy, but once I did they began to treat me very well. I'm surprised at all of the negative reviews I've heard and...

Safeway is the worst place ever to work. The management have very little training, no education and there focus is the corporate bonuses. If they cut a lot of hours so there is long line ups and no carts or baskets for shoppers they recieve a huge bonus for keeping salaries down, no there is a model for free enterprise. The managers in montgomery store in calgary stupid enough to follow this...

I was hired to work for head office. Was told I was "contract" but not told how long the contract would be. The person I was supposed to be replacing came back and wanted his old job back. Was moved into an obscure area and finally told I'd be let go mostly for reasons beyond my control. Was not listened to when I tried to explain these reasons to them. I called the HR dept the next day for info....

Going on 8 months at an Alberta store management is never around the store manager is to busy chasing cigarettes and the first assistant manager is hitting on anything that moves she is married with a third kid on the way very unprofessional

Does anybody work in the produce department at Capilano Mall? I never see anybody on the floor there ever. Customers are always asking me why you can never find any help there. I work in another department and I am on my feet all day. I have been told by many staff members that all these people do in hide at the back storage area and talk and goof off.

Nice work if you can get it.

I hated working at Safeway, but I am not bitter. The incompetent employees that I worked with are still there. They will spend their entire careers there. They cost this rotten company money (ie. top wages, overtime, health benefits) and they know how to work the union. I think these people are parasites but it is poetic justice. Bad companies deserve bad people.

I worked in the Calgary Head Office department for 3 years. The manager was rude, never accepted responsibility for her own mistakes yet expected unattainable superhuman perfection from her own staff. The pay was low for Calgary. Going above and beyond went unrewarded. People who wanted to advance were overlooked for no good reason. Since leaving the company my salary and vacation have doubled...

I have been working for Safeway 5 years. Also, a lot negative comments. Safeway is a good company to work for.Management are pretty nice and helpful. Another, everything is helpful except for Canada Safeway Human Resources. They barley help you especially when a store closes down. I think they should give us options on which stores we would like to go to.

Safeway is an awful place to work. The managers are very negative and critical. They rarely speak to you unless they want to criticize you. I would never work there again. It is impossible to please these people.

Woked in safeway for 30 years in a warehouse they suck now they give you one pen a month no supplies to end of month must buy own pen if you lose this one come on get a grip here they bully you all day long not allowed to talk only on breaks they this is worse than day care been 2 years since last contract they phone you on your days off constantly the harrasment level is unreal talked too union...

Safeway is an extremely negative work environment. They are always looking for what you didn't do never recognizing anything positive. Nothing you do is ever good enough for these people.

I worked for Safeway at the Gas bar for about six months. The management was immature and unreasonable. I was working there part time and was getting around 20 hours a week. I also worked a full time job for 40 hours per week. I'd be working evenings and they always had to find a problem with something. They don't tell you when you do good, but they sure tell you when you do bad. They had a...

Worked at safeway for 6.5 years, starting as a courtesy clerking, and slowly working my way through cashier, office, grocery, and being the PIC (in charge of closing the entire store, acting manager when he/she is gone) and to be honest...it sucked. Why? Where to begin...

A) supposed to get pay raise every 500 hours, usually doesnt kick in till about another 500-700 AFTER the intial amount.

B)...

Safeway is a terrible place to work. The managers have ice water in their veins. The pay is awful. I worked there for about a month. I was getting about 8 hours a week. The stores are pathetically understaffed. Their prices are such a rip-off, yet they will not provide new employees with decent hours or pay. I would only recommend Safeway to lazy people with terrible personalities and a...

I have worked for Safeway for 10 years now, and I have just recently got transferred to another store. I was my last Safeway for three years and I was quite comfortable and stable there. I was "Acting" Assistant deli manager for 7 months, and now I am an actual assistant manager at my new store. All good, but my new store sucks! It literally stinks too. The new store manager is an a$$! At my old...

(...)...scheduling sucks.

Out of touch pharmacy management in Calgary. Useless programs that get pulled quickly because they don't work or are just pointless and just a general disregard for their staff and their health. Its no wonder everyone is leaving and they can't get good help.

Safeway is a terrible company. The wages are very low. The hours are very few. There is no opportunity for advancement. The union is totally incompetent.

The managers are dishonest and unethical. There is too much nepotism which the union does nothing about.

Safeway treats its staff with contempt. Avoid this company like the plague.

I have only had less than 6 shifts here at Safeway and all I can say is.. it's a nightmare! I just do not get why there can ONLY be ONE person that does the closing in the deli. I believe there should be at least two people closing especially when it's busy!!!!!

I was recently hired to start working for Safeway, but after viewing the training tape and seeing their expectations towards their employees I immediately declined the position. There is no trust towards a employee who sits at a table with a receipt taped to their soda for proof of purchase. The store is beautiful but I found the employee washrooms gross. Safeway is one of those many employers...

Expectations were never made clear then I got fired for not meeting expectations. Terrible employer had issues with me but never told me these issues just up and fired me. They expect you to figure out on your own if they have a problem with you and what that problem is if they do. In short I had a better experience at a fast paced work for 10 hours with no break restaurant than Safeway. Their...

I worked for Canada Safeway for almost 30 years. Very disappointed to have to end a career on health and safety issues not being addressed properly in regards to ergonomics. Instead of working to make it better and do round tables to discuss concerns they force you out by demoting you for standing up for what you believe in. I was a loyal employee and customer who was very dedicated and in the...

Safeway is the worst company ever. The starting wage is about $10 an hour and they give you very poor hours and no respect at all.

However, opportunity for advancement is great if your daddy is a manager at Safeway.

Safeway managers love to make sleazy deals with other Safeway managers to get their spoiled, snotty children top wage, full time jobs while every one else works lousy shifts...

I started a few months ago, to save for University. I received a TON of call in shifts for the first 3 months, but now....hardly any shifts. They hired 7 new cashiers since I was hired, to cut costs. Benefits only apply after a year, or 1000 hours (whichever comes first). Again, they RELY on call ins, and they make you feel extremely guilty if you can't come in. If you are a cashier, like myself,...

Have worked as a casheir for 5 years. Were accomodating and flexible during my school years. Sometimes those new hires barely get any shifts unless you have open availability. In the last few years the moral of everyone has dropped alot and everyone is stressed and selfish. Management undermines you by creating policies but letting the customer always be right. The managers have alot of work to...

I was once a manager at Safeway. I still consider it to be my worst job experience ever. This company does not value honesty or integrity. The salary is also pretty bad for a job in which you are supposed to work 50 hours a week and on Saturday. Pathetic.

The good:

-Wage in the AB store was decent for entry lvl(12,13/h)

-Some co-workers are laid back

-Always hiring(you can guess why)

The bad:

-managment constantly telling you to work harder/faster and when you do there completly oblivious to it

-Co-workers gossip, snitch and are all around bitter they choose slaveway as there career

-Unconsistent hours

-Limited Advancment

-Benefits you...

I started working at Safeway cause I really needed a job and no one else was hiring. I have been a cashier for about five months now and I am going to quit soon. I find it extremely boring and they give me no hours. Making 9.75 an hour with about 6 hours a week is not even worth it. I can't wait for my new job. I would not recommend this job, all of these old ladies who have worked there since...

website said "no employer deserves a single start rating, review your rating"

Well, this one does. Managment is broken. Its derived from "work your way up the ladder" so you get all these people that have serious interpersonal issues running the place like it is their own empire. At the same time, they are harassed - yes harassed - by upper managment and this abuse spills over to the lower...

Im a student and if i didn't owe money for a macbook i bought i would quit right this second.... its awful........

I used to work at Safeway but I found a more rewarding career picking bottles out of garbage cans.

I worked for Slaveway for 10 years. Starting as a Courtest Clerk and finishing as an Assistant Manager. All I can say is, if you are a white male, good luck trying to get into their RLD program. What a blatent example of reverse discrimination! If you are female, of colour and/or a complete retard, then feel free to expect to admitted into the program. If you are like me, white, long...

I worked for a competator for several years and when I was hired, I was happy to have a job where respect wasn't something demanded while licking dog shit off the ground. Due to the economy, getting a full time job anywhere is nearly impossible, and Safeway is no exception. I quit my job because they did not respect my availability and that is my only issue with them. I was expected to have a...

A lot of negative comments, I have worked at Safeway a little over a year and I was promoted, not as quickly as promised but their hands were tied, I just had to put in my time. I had an amazing Store Manager, who cared not only about me, but also wanted to get me the job and the pay rate I deserved. Yes there are some not so nice Managers out there, but if you work hard, follow the rules, show...

Basically, my manager threatened to fire me for being too slow (which I wasn't), even though it was my first day. I can argue there were many others who were just as slow as me and they worked longer than me. Well, time to look for another job.

In case people are wondering, it's $9.75/hr to start in BC, but they give very little hours to employees with recent hire dates. Getting F/T there will...

I've been at safeway for over 25 years and the moral is the worst it has ever been and there's no sign of that letting up......management plays too much favouritism and there's alot of bad feelings in every department....its actually sad I used to have pride working there but I got that "S" finally slapped off my forhead. So it has come to most of the employees including me shopping elsewhere...

Run away from Safeway.

I work at Safeway Starbucks 127 which is at Arbutus Mall for two straight years I was the only guy working there, until last december when several people were fired all of a sudden and my current assistant manager is a bitch she doesn't do anything and she waltz's in late almost for every shift and of course the Safeway managers don't do anything about it.

Safeway is a terrible company. The pay is awful. The managers do not

care at all about the workers. You will work at every weekend for the

rest of your like. Nepotism is King at Safeway

Read the ratings. Look elsewhere for a job!

Lost ability to value employees and listen. Needs to change DM role and current individuals that hold that position. Need to reassess technology currently in the work place.

Safeway is an awful place to work. Intimidation and harassment are typical management strategies. I would never work there again. What a stressful negative place!

Would like company to finish installing the punch clocks like the rest of the other provinces.

Worked in Oakridge Produce for 3 years, with working hours going up and down. I only ask for one Sunday off since I start with Safeway but my manager refuse to give it to me becasue he and his second don't want to work on Sunday. Also like today, he cut my shift to 6 hours and he still demand me to finish everything as a 8 hours shift. Then he told the store manager to try to give me shit. ...

I've worked in the floral department for close to two years now, and recently was demoted from assistant floral manager for the floral manager's close friend. I was told this two days before the new woman started. The management is a joke. I've caught one of the part time girls bouncing a ball on the counter while I was helping customers, told the store manager, and nothing was done.

The sales...

I've worked in the Starbucks at Safeway for two years now and it is a really crappy job (they make my former employment at McDonalds look like the Golden Years). Senior management does not treat employees with respect and they feel that they are above doing certain duties. For example, I was told to leave my kiosk unattended in the middle of the day to go outside and clean up trash that was...

Nuff Said

Working with Safeway was a roller coaster ride- sometimes, it would be fine, others, horrific. The management screwed around with hours as much as possible- to the point where I'd have no shifts in some weeks, and full time in another. Management was completely inept- average store sales (for a week) fell $300000 in the time I worked for the store. After quitting, have not received due vacation...

This company cannot compete with Superstore, WalMart Supercentres. The prices have always been higher although I would say customer service is better). Ironically, Corporate seems to think the responsibility to get people into the store rests on the shoulders of people making $11.oo per hour who are already grossly overworked. Yep, cut back on staff, expect just as much production out of your...

Safeway is not that bad as far as a large corporation of its size goes. It's not a bad Plan B until somthing better comes along

Safeway is one of the worst employer one can ever imagine...not a good place to work..

I worked at store level for 10 yeas and during that time I seen the good, the bad and the ugly of Safeway. I was there in 97 walking the line, there in 2001 with great celebrations of "Because We Care" and I have to say working at store level brought me a lot of good times. It also brought me stress and heartache. The in-store management make it sound like they can make a difference but they...

Had a good defined benefit pension, now changed to a defined contribution which is crap, change was required to take money from hard working employees to keep paying their bloated, uneducated executive. Most executive education, like the preseident and most all directors other than pharmacy, have no formal education. They've put beans on shelves for 10 years and moved up through the...

I am pretty sure people come to this website mainly to vent, therefore we only hear the "bad". There is always good and bad at any job. I am an assistant Deli Manager. I started as a part time deli worker 9 months ago knowing fair well I could not afford to live on the starting wage of $9.75/hr. so I busted my ass to move up the ladder and after 3 months I was promoted. I know make close to...

Safeway is a good place for a pharmacist to work. Good benefits package, scheduling, and organization in the pharmacy. THe bad is they are somewhat stingy on some things (ie they don't pay for BCPhA membership) Get EVERYTHING in writing if it is important to you before you start.

There needs to be a house cleaning on a corporate scale, starting 2nd from the top.

Horrible

I hate this company . I worked as a pharmacist for 4 years and they suck!

I quit after 6 weeks. The specter of undercover Safeway employees checking to make sure I said "how are you today" and "would you like help with you bags" proved to be too much. Bitter old hags who have no one to blame for their predicament except themselves vigorously take out their frustrations on the young. Crappy place to work. Crappy hours. Crappy pay.

I would only recommend this job for University students who do not need a large amount of shifts during the school year. Otherwise, it is an incredibly useless job. In MB, the wages are very low to start, and it is increasingly difficult to get a raise. The hours are few, and unless you do plan to work at Safeway for a number of years, the pay and work are just not worth it.

Management expects...

Safeway is probably the worst employer I have worked for. Wages are horrible, and working conditions just aren't great at all. Would not recommend anyone work for Safeway.

Management has high expectations for good service despite the lack of staff and pressures the workers to do more than is needed. (eg. help a customer on your break/lunch!) The wages are poor and benefits are only provided if you meet a certain number of hours a week (22). One should expect to be frequently called in to replace those who have called in sick or because they underscheduled staff....

The Union has no backbone when issues come up between the employer and an employee. They have no education when it comes to a strike vote. The company has done there best over the years to replace the top wage employees with benefits, along with the help of the union. If you want a job that pays little, disrespects you as a human being, and you pay union dues that get you nothing, think again....

I work in logistics and distribution. This is what one can expect from Safeway

The good:

- A consistent schedule.

- Above average wage.

- A unionized environment.

- Opportunity for overtime.

- No pressure to work unwanted overtime.

- No need to go "above-and-beyond," just do your job as described.

The bad:

- There's a poorly engineered productivity system. The CALM system is a...

Employer has been actively recruiting with promises of providing a great work environment. But my experience has been, that even though they agreed to be flexible since the position is part time and I am a student, they pressure you to work many shifts. Also, require you to wear certain clothing for work and it comes out of your pay.

The only I stayed at Safeway is because I have a union...if we didnt I would have left a long time ago. I like enjoy the benefits and my vacation entitlement. Safeway should appreciate the employees that have stayed and who continue to carry the weight of the lack of employees -- which they cant hire because of the inadiquate wages

They lied to us in 1993, they tried to take again in 1997 and we fought back and now in this economy they have pushed us to another strike vote again ---- they have obviously forgotten how the 97 stier affected thir business -- WELL I GUESS WE MAY HAVE TO REMIND THEM !!!!Because I am not settling for a 50cent raise a year when the economy in this province has shot through the roof!! shame on them

Not very nice place

Found an atmosphere of mild hostility amongst the ranks. Communications were not relayed effectively to employees, nor was feedback (some management even keeping records of issues for weeks before telling an employee). Requires you put the company's business requirements before your own personal life.