be a robot, get paid immigrant wages - Anonymous employee Jimmy John's Employee Review

2.0
9 Jul 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

well, if your a driver i guess one of the only pros is days you get real nice tips, and meeting a bunch of people if you are outgoing. And rocking out to to music would be one if it wasnt the same songs evvedrryydaayy you come into work! Most of the people youll work with are nice too.

Cons

breaks are discouraged even after an eight hour shift, which is how long you have to work to get your only type of benefit, a free sub. haha. If you deliver, its not even worth it. After paying for your own gas, paying off unavoidable parking tickets because if you park legally anywhere in the city its going to cost you money, and your tips are only going to pay off your parking. Anyway after all that nonsense, you make like 5 extra dollars a shift. All that for running around in the heat, tearing your car up to make speedy fast deliveries that half your customers dont tip for, dealing with your manager harrassing you over your delivery time, its there job because the jimmy john's corporation likes to pretend that they pay you this amazing wage to put up with all their nonsense audits and total bull. Also, your in a downtown area with NOWHERE to park, elevators to go up, people to track down, cops giving you tickets, bums haggling you, messed up customer info so your at the totally wrong place, streets with no sreet signs, customers yelling at you, its not worth it AT ALL. find a different job.

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Pros

Good pay, if there aren't too many drivers, and you're at a good place for lunch, you can expect to make around $50 in tips per day or more, and get reimbursed for mileage. The people there can be hit or miss, some people can be very fun to work with and responsible.

Cons

The upper management can be lead with too many sensitive women, who don't know how to diagnose situations properly, and take the side of the immature employees who get offended way too easily. The co-workers can be very young and irresponsible, but this is par for the course for food places if you don't have strong leadership.

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