How is management perceived at Plum Market?

Good coworkers, people you work with on the floor are nice and generally helpful

- The con is management. That is the con of this place. These stores are extremely poorly managed, and owned by a guy who spends all day pacing around the isles on his phone like a maniac. (If he’s not doing that, he’s complaining about the one item on the shelf that is half a centimeter crooked, very helpful, thanks so much Matt.) - Do not expect a promotion if you are not white, able-bodied, and “mean-enough,” (management has explicitly held promotions back from loyal employees because, quote, “they’re too nice.”) - Know that if you call into work sick, the manager Poppy will be incredibly passive aggressive and childishly rude for the rest of the time you stay at Plum. - They will not give you a raise, no, it does not matter how good you are at your job, or how long you have been there. You will never move up from the pathetic starting rate they offer. Also, benefits are nonexistent. Matt Jonah could not care an ounce less about the people who keep his pocket’s lined. - You could literally DIE at this job and nothing will be said of it, the company will help with nothing and still charge you full price for funeral flowers. Watched it happen. - watched the manager Poppy listen to a mother complaining about the fact that there are no accessible brail signs on the bathrooms, as is legally required, for absolutely nothing to change in over 6 months. You can’t even provide basic accessibility? No surprise from a company with managers who will gossip about how “difficult” it is to work with the few disabled employees this place hires. - Just don’t work here, I know sometimes a job offer is something to immediately jump on, but this place is not worth the peace it will take from you. You will feel used and abused every day, and it wears so visibly on everyone still working there. Stay away, take literally any other job!

- food discount - Meeting and befriending many cool people

- Rude customers -The CEO/his family is equally rude and you'll be expected to bend over backwards for them even though you don't know what they look like. They'll just come up and say that they are the brother/sister of the CEO - incompetent managers: They make more work for you than help you. I had to figure out how to fit a bunch of flowers into our side of the cooler and couldn't even go to the bathroom for a minute because the then manager couldn't figure out how to wrap flowers.

-Co workers. You trauma bond over the chaos the OCD owner creates.

Management. New management took over the store about a year or 2 ago, and they are some of the most toxic humans I’ve worked for in my life.

good co-workers, great merchandise, reasonable hours

terrible and cruel owners, who wouldn't acknowledge anyone who isn't management- yell at people in front of others.

Good coworkers, people you work with on the floor are nice and generally helpful

- The con is management. That is the con of this place. These stores are extremely poorly managed, and owned by a guy who spends all day pacing around the isles on his phone like a maniac. (If he’s not doing that, he’s complaining about the one item on the shelf that is half a centimeter crooked, very helpful, thanks so much Matt.) - Do not expect a promotion if you are not white, able-bodied, and “mean-enough,” (management has explicitly held promotions back from loyal employees because, quote, “they’re too nice.”) - Know that if you call into work sick, the manager Poppy will be incredibly passive aggressive and childishly rude for the rest of the time you stay at Plum. - They will not give you a raise, no, it does not matter how good you are at your job, or how long you have been there. You will never move up from the pathetic starting rate they offer. Also, benefits are nonexistent. Matt Jonah could not care an ounce less about the people who keep his pocket’s lined. - You could literally DIE at this job and nothing will be said of it, the company will help with nothing and still charge you full price for funeral flowers. Watched it happen. - watched the manager Poppy listen to a mother complaining about the fact that there are no accessible brail signs on the bathrooms, as is legally required, for absolutely nothing to change in over 6 months. You can’t even provide basic accessibility? No surprise from a company with managers who will gossip about how “difficult” it is to work with the few disabled employees this place hires. - Just don’t work here, I know sometimes a job offer is something to immediately jump on, but this place is not worth the peace it will take from you. You will feel used and abused every day, and it wears so visibly on everyone still working there. Stay away, take literally any other job!

Going home, not being disrespected on my days off

Literally everything. Management is terrible, racist, and has known predators working for them.

Better work experience and pay than other grocery stores. Management is very involved in the day-to-day; they are always walking the floor. They can be very helpful at times and provide good support when a team is short-staffed or rushed. Most of the other employees are nice and easy to work with, but they can be a bit cliquey.

Management is very involved in the day-to-day, and they are always walking the floor. They can be incredibly critical and punishing for small issues. Beneath the guise of being a "family," competitiveness is often encouraged, especially among team leaders. Management often plays favorites, strongly reprimanding some for things outside of their control, while being overly forgiving of others for genuine issues. Team leaders are also given much more responsibility than at larger retail stores, for only slightly better pay. I often felt overworked and underappreciated. The holiday bonus is a gift card to the store, the value of which is subtracted from your paycheck for that week. The CEO is a bad leader; senior management often criticizes his choices behind his back, and he can be very retaliatory. It is a quality he passes down through the company, prioritizing loyalists over good businesspeople.

Coworkers are typically very friendly. The boss is all for practicality, and is a pretty nice person— but the actual Jonna’s are insane. A 20% discount on products and a 50% lunch.

The pay is absurd. The job is boring, as are all of them, and you have to be very disney-like to meet Plum’s standards of customer service. Some people just don’t do their job.

I liked most of my coworkers as people and a number of them have become close friends. Good middle management as well. The people I reported to directly over the years were always very supportive, professional, and humane towards me.

Your quality of life there steadily gets worse and worse because the owner is constantly coming up with ways of tweaking the company's image at the employee's expense (deciding not to allow tips, etc.) He will go years without fixing the cash registers because he knows the front end will have no choice but deal with it, even if the technical difficulties make it much harder for the team to function. Two excellent managers in front end got fired without warning because they made an earnest effort to work around a long term technical problem in a way he didn't like. Image obsessed in a way that's extremely selfish and ungrounded. The music will drive you insane over time. Very demoralizing place to work. I could go on and on.

They have good products and benefits

Disorganized management and unfair practices