Meijer Poor Employee Conditions Ann Arbor, Michigan

I accepted a job from Meijer in 2010. They told me the job was planagram. I am unable to lift, or be on my feet for any extended period of time. After the first night working, I had to quit. Big communication problem. I was hired for days, first shift was 10pm til 7 am. Not what I was told I would be working. Job entailed stocking and building shelves. Something I cannot do. Guess I shoud have pushed for a more detailed job description.

Pay there is nothing you can live on even at 40 hrs. especially after they make you pay for a locker, work shirts that are deducted from your pay, require pants and shoes in a certain color,union dues and Insurance benifits. Then you are told no paycheck, only options are a Meijer pay card that you can use at their store or get direct deposit into chase bank. (It's the bank in their lobby.)Was told no calling off if you did you were fired.

All employees, regardless of experiance or education start at minium wage. Was told several different things during the 3 interview process concerning wages, benefits and job itself. This company does not know how to treat it's employees.Every employee seems like they are just struggling to be there and now I realize why,They are. Fair wage for fair work. HHHMMM. I don't think so.

I do not know who this employee is. I work at the Meijer store in Ypsilanti. I do not know what the motives of this person are, or if the events actually happened. However, I do know that the address that they gave is incorrect. There is only one Meijer store in Ann Arbor: Meijer #64, on Saline Road.

We employees have enough problems with incompetent management, customers who are rude, inconsiderate and/or complain about things that are out of our control and company policies designed to keep us in our place. To have someone report incidents that never happened and represent themselves as an employee only hurts us more, not help.

Does Meijer treat their customers and employees unethicaly? Yes, but then so does just about every corporation in this country. Does it help for the customers to complain to the corporate headquarters? No. In fact it just makes the situation worse for the employees, since everyone knows that the CEOs in this country are gods who can do no wrong. That means that whatever the problem is it must be the employees fault. Unless of course you go public. Then they will fix the problem, but only for that one incident.

What about the unions? They are paper tigers owned by the companies to make the employees feel good. Unfortunately, no one has ever considered that the unions need competition to perform ethically. Oh wait. Corporations are in competition with each other and they dont perform ethically.

And then there are groups like Ripoff Report. You have been around how long? You provide a place for people to vent, but what else have you done to improve or fix things? How many companies have you had complaints about and you still havent detected the pattern of corporate dishonesty and insensitivity of all the major corporations? And you people still think that what happens to you is just an isolated incident?

Most of the corporate leaders in this country only care about one thing: How can they make money for themselves. It is all about image. People have to look past the glamor and get laws passed without loopholes. Lawyers need to take up the cause of the workers and customers against big businesses like Meijer. Until then, nothing will change.

Certainly writing bogus reports will do nothing to change anything for the better.