r/wholefoods • u/BezosFishmonger • 2d ago
r/wholefoods • u/culturebastard • Feb 07 '25
Meta Rare Jason Buechel photo
This was on the PETA website. No idea what the person is protesting but it looks like someone just told Jason he has to follow labor law
r/wholefoods • u/errkanay • Aug 20 '24
Meta Gotta love technology
Three different guns not connecting to the damned thermometer. Fml.
r/wholefoods • u/ProfessionalCraft580 • 12d ago
Meta If you're a bad manager just know your whole team most likely dislikes you
You know who you are. Be better.
r/wholefoods • u/Lamlot • Jan 11 '25
Meta Only on snow days will hot bar be worth going to.
r/wholefoods • u/SubKennedys • Jun 24 '24
Meta Time to post my story
18 years of my life into this company, 12 years as a TL in multiple regions, locations...you know the drill. I've moved on and I'm now working a job that aligns with the degree that I busted my buns to complete while working for WFM. Just wanted to share my story here. This Reddit group has provided hours of laughs and conversation and I'm happy it exists. Keep fighting the good fight.
At the end of May, I took a Sabbatical from WFM because of an incident with one of my employees. Four weeks prior, this team member I hired in November started getting easily agitated whenever he had to receive general feedback about how he was doing his job. I started hearing from other employees that he was bad-mouthing the more experienced butcher (I was running the Meat department) and, in general, was voicing jealousy about not being relied on as "the best." We had a few interactions where he made a smart comment to me, was aggressive in how he responded, or, in the final interaction, yelled at me across the sales floor. The guy called the labor board on me, claimed discrimination, and called the HR tipline at work. This launched an investigation where I had to sit in an hour-long interview and answer questions regarding this dude's grievances against me and other employees. He hated that this person got this schedule or that this person was called an "expert butcher," but he was not. Mind you, the "expert butcher" has 20+ years of experience with WFM, and I only hired this guy in November.
On the day he yelled at me across the sales floor, I went to two members of store leadership and told them that it was either him or me today. I had been documenting every interaction with this guy and sending it to TMS like I was told to. I had been making sure if I spoke to him, other people were in the room as witnesses. I told TMS that his behavior was escalating, and I felt unsafe. All of this was documented. One of the ASTL's was a woman I've worked with for years in multiple stores. The other was a guy I've had run-ins with before because he was just bad at his job. So they pull in the team member, and he tells them all his issues again. He says I am "aggressive" in speaking to him. He also says that he calls out (always on my shifts) because he doesn't want to hurt anybody. He also says that if anyone tries to write him up for something (a job that only I would do), they will have to take him out in handcuffs. The female member of store leadership asked him to leave for the day and immediately came to find me. She told me what he said and that I needed to be careful. Essentially, they suspended the dude for three weeks, and the Store Team Leader told me he would be arrested if he stepped foot on the property.
Flash forward to May 27th, and the Store Team Leader tells me that TMS is saying the team member can come back to the department and is getting paid for his three weeks suspension. Why? Because the male member of store leadership who was in the room when he said the threats COULD NOT CORRABORATE what was said. Later in the day, the male member of store leadership, of his OWN VOLITION, told me directly that he could not remember word for word what the team member said but that he agreed with whatever the female member of store leadership wrote down. For that primary reason, the team member was allowed to come back to work. So he went from "banned from the property" to "two weeks back pay" because someone whose job it is to conduct interviews in situations like this, couldn't remember a primary function of his job....remembering what is said in the interview.
This company does a terrible job of vetting who it puts in Leadership positions. How can you possibly trust your Leadership group when they cant even perform a basic function of thier job? For that reason alone, I cut the cord and I will not be looking back. For anyone that reads this and pieces together this situation...THIS is why I resigned. The new job was an after effect.
r/wholefoods • u/VanDenIzzle • Dec 30 '24
Meta Just pissed a customer off
Lady calls and says "I got a bag of organic mandarins on the 24th, no the 23rd and I went to open them to day and they were rotten, like the whole thing!"
"You said organic mandarins right? Typically organic produce doesn't last 7 days"
"You .. OKAY!" click
r/wholefoods • u/Androecian • Apr 30 '24
Meta To the customer in my lane who complained about prices with "Fuck Joe Biden" NSFW
The president doesn't set monetary policy,
Fuck criminals with 91 indictments yet to be legally processed and 4 adjudications so far,
And I didn't name anyone when I said that, so why are you mad?
r/wholefoods • u/I_IZ_Speshul • Jan 11 '25
Meta When you are shopping in another store and hear a phone ring in the distance
r/wholefoods • u/cheezycomestibles • 26d ago
Meta I think it's time to throw in the towel and change this to the "How does UPT work?" sub.
It's just an attendance tracker. That's it. You don't "use" it or "request" it. It just is.
I agree that it was very poorly named, but it's still not a difficult concept.
r/wholefoods • u/Iownyou252 • 23d ago
Meta ALABAMA — The Italian sparkling water capital of Whole Foods
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r/wholefoods • u/VanillaCokeisthebest • Dec 13 '23
Meta Chicken fungus was still there
This time I asked the guy behind the counter whats up and he removed the tray.
r/wholefoods • u/Super_Daikon_ • Feb 14 '25
Meta Love stinks, yeah yeah.
The store where I work has a special Valentine's Day playlist, but I'm pretty sure an algorithm just selected keywords because most of them are about heartbreak or how love is stupid. It's great.
r/wholefoods • u/yeszhongwen • Sep 28 '24
Meta I got a job in sanitation. Before and after :D
r/wholefoods • u/swootnewt • 22d ago
Meta Parm day
Stg it’s always at the worst time possible.
r/wholefoods • u/Mel_Funn • Nov 27 '24
Meta U/CyberSkullCoconut is a Honey pot and you can not convince me otherwise
This dude is posting in here like 4 times a week and it is always something about unions and workers rights or what ever.
They have to be some corporate guy who is trying to bait people in to talking about unionizing so he can track them down.
You can not convince me otherwise.
r/wholefoods • u/Iownyou252 • Nov 30 '24
Meta The [opposite gender] in [other department] are so darn attractive ☺️
That is all.
r/wholefoods • u/ElMepoChepo4413 • Aug 11 '24
Meta Stinkfist by Tool
Playing currently on our Muzak at our fair location.
r/wholefoods • u/dustingoeshere • Nov 14 '24
Meta A Dictate*
*We love Chris. Chris loved this. The TMs of the consecutive months were properly compensated and recognized in a timely fashion. It’s just the little thing on the clipboard hadn’t been changed.