Say goodbye to any sanity you have - Fresh Food Manager Wawa Employee Review

2.0
20 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Management Cycle is rewarding (if you can survive) Benefits (low costs on the anti-anxiety medications you'll be needing) Tuition reimbursement (nothing like having a 4 year degree and babysitting employees who can't spell cashier.. #truestory)

Cons

You are always on call, whether you are part time or the GM. Because the company is fast paced 24/7 nothing you do will ever satisfy the shift relieving you. Servant leadership is inspiring to low level employees, but frustrating to management because higher M-levels get paid 40k+ more to do the same job, but are less accountable. Even though pay is "competitive" almost all employees (including IMM & FFM need some type of financial assistance from the government. Living alone and making management hourly is rough, I can't imagine the stress my employees have making ends meet.

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5.0
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Pros

Good pay and good benefits

Cons

Micromanagement and long hours always

1.0
5 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

(Depending on your manager) you can take the tasks at your own pace and do what feels best, based on what you see. The position I'm in allows headphone use if you're not visible to customers.

Cons

Skeletal shifts are the norm, employee burnout is rampant and unaddressed. Manager turnover is very high at my store, which makes establishing consistency impossible. I get the impression that the conditions for employees vary greatly by store. That said, if you find yourself stuck at a rougher one, your options are to either take the toll to your physical and mental health, or to quit/transfer to a better store. I have personally experienced many legal violations at my place of employment. (keeping the store open and functioning when the workers don't have a bathroom [OSHA fixed that]) (and a few incidents where hours were not properly entered for employees, causing them to work without pay) I have worked here for 4 years without benefits, one year only missing the hour-cutoff for it by an average of 20 minutes. Consistent schedules are very uncommon for employees.

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