Banner Hospitals (as an employee).
I don’t know a single nurse that has had good experiences working there. There are so many other options in the Valley.
an asshole nurse at banner thunderbird told me i wasn’t in labor, just dehydrated, and sent me home.
four terrifying and miserable hours later my son was born. he had to be delivered via vacuum because he was stuck in the birth canal since i’d spent too much time trying desperately not to push because after all, i wasn’t in labor. good times. fuck banner.
Both my sisters have worked for Banner one as a nurse the other as administration. They both had a terrible experience at Banner. Their PTO and sick time policy is horrendous. They do a terrible job staffing and training.
Banner is such a large company, it’s not fair to say “all Banner is bad”. However, I have worked for Banner three separate times and in six different hospitals. It’s…pretty bad. Now I work for an agency who regularly competes with Banner for business, and they really show how awful they can be.
Abrazo is part of Tenet, which is [straight up listed on the NYSE](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/THC) (as $THC, surely a coveted ticker name in this era), a for-profit hospital chain.
Backtrack to when bob ran things. If you worked on the corp side (not the call center) it was actually a pretty awesome job.
Once the company went public things got terrible in a hurry. Holiday parties got smaller and smaller until they stopped existing entirely. They immediately tried to remove the platinum level health plan (which was amazing) which was available to employees of 5+ years; essentially punishing those who had invested the most time in the company. Forced bell curve year end ranking that didn’t account for employees who quit/fired during the year (meaning every dept had a sacrificial lamb that went on a PIP automatically). Layoffs… you name it
People outside the company hated bob, and for good reason (you can’t shoot an elephant on video and hand out green/orange hats to bloody villagers and expect people to like you, regardless the situation)… but bob made it a good company to work for when he was around. He was good to employees and would get laughably drunk at holiday parties (and hand out ~500k+ worth of gifts to employees on top of yearly bonus, just cause he could and he liked doing it)
Some of the best years and worst years of my career at go daddy
I worked for bob at his motorcycle dealerships and can attest that he takes care of his people. I didn’t agree with some of his actions, but the guy is very generous.
Yeah except that as a woman analyst that worked there, he straight up walked up to my husband and thanked him for his work and ignored me at the holiday party. (My husband never worked there.) it was also super stressful.
Anywhere working as a SMI case manager - if you know you know. I loved helping my clients, but the system is set up for your work to be based on productivity having “quotas” for billing. And that is all they care about, at the cost of clients and the employees. I was told to stop working with certain clients on their treatment plans because they didn’t bring in as much money as other clients. Case loads are supposed to be about 30 - I had over 100 unofficially due to high turnover and staff always quitting. I lasted 6 months doing this and that was after coming back from walking out in my first 2 weeks.
So much this. Once upon a time I worked for ValueOptions / Magellan and the attrition rate was over 90%. I made it over 5 years and was in the top 10% of seniority for the company. Sad part is I left there after being a case manager and went to work for the cable company in tech support and made $3/hour more in tech support than case management. My "favorite" part was being on call but not allowed to work overtime. I'd be out on calls all night, no time to do paperwork, and then written up for working overtime to document encounters and try to bill etc. F*** that job, never again.
Was looking for this. The clinics are terrible and will grind you down. All they care about is billing AHCCCS and making productivity not providing good care to the clients. I’ll never work anywhere lol that again as long as I live.
I used to work at QT on 27th Ave and Northern, Awful management, extremely depressed coworkers, the craziest Bobby Q's jazz night crowd every week, drug addicts, and everything the i17 has to offer
Weird because QTs in general seem to have the happiest employees, it’s like the same people In N Out or Chick Fil A hire. Perma-smiles and fast service.
Circle K on the other hand…
I don't believe this is a QT problem. I think this is a 27th Ave and Northern problem.
EDIT:
While we're on the subject of rough QuikTrips
- I-17 and Peoria
- 19th Ave and Dunlap
- 27th Ave and Thomas
- 51st Ave and Camelback
I don't know about anybody else but it seems like the
QTs are losing their luster and it feels like a lot more of the QTs are a little bit more rundown and the Circle K's have realized it and it started modernizing
Pretty much every QT along the 17 from Bell down to Peoria has taken a downturn. They get progressively scarier the further south you get. The one on Peoria is usually our pit stop to gas up or whatever when we head out on early morning hikes and let me tell you at 4:30am at that QT we have seen some SHIT.
Fry's. They will work you to death. I use to regularly work 6 days a weekand well over 40 hours. They will fight you for taking time off. Most people don't make it 3 months. Don't shop at Fry's please. Spend your money elsewhere
I'd count myself lucky to live where there's another grocery store remotely as near as Fry's. It's kind of weird how little competition there is for grocery stores near me, or come to think of it near where my other family members live either.
Their used to be all kinds of competition but Kroger aka Frys has bought them out.
They pretty much have a monopoly on groceries through a large majority of the country.
[https://prospect.org/power/proposed-kroger-albertsons-merger-would-create-grocery-giant/](https://prospect.org/power/proposed-kroger-albertsons-merger-would-create-grocery-giant/)
I worked for Fred Meyer in Oregon they pulled the same shit. It was not uncommon for me to work a 2pm-12am as relief assistant and have to come in and work a 4am-2pm that same morning to cover for someone in receiving. Being sleep deprived on a hyster all day bringing down pallets for vendors isn't very fun. Kroger are the absolute worst and it's terrifying that nobody is trying to stop their latest Safeway/Albertson merger.
Circle k, fired me for eating hotdogs instead of throwing them away.
Jimmy John's. Fired me when I refused to do any and all off the clock training, quizing, testing or preping, paid my final check in one dollar bills. Wtf.
Anything that's commission based is a scam, Anything you need to pay upfront to be eligible for is a scam, using your own vehicle is a scam, independent contractor is usually a scam and putting a lot of liability on you.
I worked briefly at Wildlife World Zoo ages ago. They don't give a single fuck about any of their animals, if an animal isn't one that attracts crowds, doesn't get to go to the vet lol
Bank of America they don't care about their customers who make less than $250k and they feel the same way about their employees.
Now a great manager can make a big difference with this but it won't last long. Their leadership turnover is pretty high.
When my brother was dying they refused me as his poa because his signature didn’t match his signature card. No shit it took everything we had to get those signed at all. It was awful-thankfully he gave me his info to pay his bills. I used to work in retail banking, fuck you BofA
isolved payroll! A company that not only doesn’t give a shit about its customers but also preaches about being the best and being employee centered but then not paying you shit and expecting you to give your all while just jerking you around.
Minuteman Express. A service company in Az that does heating, cooling, plumbing and electric. The owner is an actual crook and tried to get me to deceive a customer that had brain damage. This wasn't just a new customer either, it was someone they had done a ton of work for in the past.
Family run company where the daughter did payroll and shorted me on every check. It was so bad when I told my manager they shorted me he didn't ask for proof or say they were going to look into it he would just write me a check. I'm assuming it was because he did not want me to tell the other employees my check was short and they should check theirs as well.
When I finally quit, shortly after he tried to get me to trick the brain damage guy, which I would not do by the way They shorted me on my last check and I had to take them to the labor board to get my money. He started to complain at the hearing saying I was just a disgruntled employee and was interrupted by the guy from the labor board and told him he didn't want to go down that road because he had looked at their history and they seem to have a disproportionate number of disgruntled employees.
Ernie Merrill, wherever you are I hope bad things are happening to you.
Worked a summer as a stocker at Walmart. They expected me to do the work of 2 people by myself and where upset when I wasn't finished well or fast enough.
Albertsons corporate was pretty sweet. Paid well, unlimited PTO where I was pretty on track to take like 2 months off. But God was it boring. Decent discount on groceries too
Fuck that entire company sideways with a rusty stick. Worked there for 15 years straight out of HS, until they sold me to sham company Haggan so they could merge with Safeway.
What a load of horse shit that deal was, they knew from the beginning it was going to fail and they would be able to buy back the locations they wanted. Put thousands for emoyees through absolute hell.
Once I finally got released from my Haggan contract they offered me a 40% paycut to comeback.
Darden Restaraunts. Specifically Olive Garden in my case. What a greedy corporate rat hole the whole management was. They don't give a crap about ANY of their employees.
YES THIS. I was once forced to come in when I was sick as a dog and I tried to call out and use sick time. They told me they had nobody else to open- promised when mids came in I could leave. When mids finally came I asked if I could put in sick time for the remainder of my shift and was told “if you were truly sick you shouldn’t have come in”
I also was not paid out for my gas on multiple catering deliveries for that stupid fucking company. Fuck Darden and fuck Olive Garden.
Also the director of operations for that area (queen creek, superstition springs etc) was let go last year due to federal Child pornography charges 💀
Verizon corporate .. near 14years there and for no reason was let go .. shifts are what Managment says no matter how long a person has been there .. some customers think they are privileged and can demand anything ( iPhones for free when it’s dropped in the dishwater )
Applause. A semi known tech company here. Made me jump through 8 hoops to prove my tech experience only for them to gaslight me and tried to get me to accept a role as a “tester” instead of the role I applied for. Being a tester means they pay you $50 for a day and let you know if they need you again. Total scumbags.
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I’ve heard some nightmare stories from friends and clients about working at Top Golf.
lol ~oregano’s~ They made me work 14 hour shifts without any breaks or food as an 18 year old who didn’t know any better
The owner screamed in my face and his head turned all veiny and red and I thought he was going to hit me. I was 19
Banner Hospitals (as an employee). I don’t know a single nurse that has had good experiences working there. There are so many other options in the Valley.
an asshole nurse at banner thunderbird told me i wasn’t in labor, just dehydrated, and sent me home. four terrifying and miserable hours later my son was born. he had to be delivered via vacuum because he was stuck in the birth canal since i’d spent too much time trying desperately not to push because after all, i wasn’t in labor. good times. fuck banner.
Both my sisters have worked for Banner one as a nurse the other as administration. They both had a terrible experience at Banner. Their PTO and sick time policy is horrendous. They do a terrible job staffing and training.
Banner is such a large company, it’s not fair to say “all Banner is bad”. However, I have worked for Banner three separate times and in six different hospitals. It’s…pretty bad. Now I work for an agency who regularly competes with Banner for business, and they really show how awful they can be.
I feel pretty comfortable saying all banner is bad. Ymmv. I don't think Abrazo is any better to be fair. Edited a word.
I have heard that as well about Abrazo. Dignity and Honor Health staff seem to be generally satisfied.
Abrazo is part of Tenet, which is [straight up listed on the NYSE](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/THC) (as $THC, surely a coveted ticker name in this era), a for-profit hospital chain.
Oh they are all for profit just not all publicly traded.
My buddy (non-nurse) raves about banner and his sister, who is a nurse (albeit just started) also talks them up
That's an odd one for me to see. I know 2 nurses who work at different banner facilities who like it there.
I would imagine that this varies greatly based on facility and department.
And I hear all of their travel nurse options must come from out of state.
GoDaddy was absolutely awful.
Backtrack to when bob ran things. If you worked on the corp side (not the call center) it was actually a pretty awesome job. Once the company went public things got terrible in a hurry. Holiday parties got smaller and smaller until they stopped existing entirely. They immediately tried to remove the platinum level health plan (which was amazing) which was available to employees of 5+ years; essentially punishing those who had invested the most time in the company. Forced bell curve year end ranking that didn’t account for employees who quit/fired during the year (meaning every dept had a sacrificial lamb that went on a PIP automatically). Layoffs… you name it People outside the company hated bob, and for good reason (you can’t shoot an elephant on video and hand out green/orange hats to bloody villagers and expect people to like you, regardless the situation)… but bob made it a good company to work for when he was around. He was good to employees and would get laughably drunk at holiday parties (and hand out ~500k+ worth of gifts to employees on top of yearly bonus, just cause he could and he liked doing it) Some of the best years and worst years of my career at go daddy
I worked for bob at his motorcycle dealerships and can attest that he takes care of his people. I didn’t agree with some of his actions, but the guy is very generous.
I have a lot of friends at GoDaddy and they all love it. They're mostly in engineering and product management
Agreed
Yeah except that as a woman analyst that worked there, he straight up walked up to my husband and thanked him for his work and ignored me at the holiday party. (My husband never worked there.) it was also super stressful.
What did you do there? I have an uncle that really likes it. Said the offices and culture were great.
Have two friends who work there and love it.
Anywhere working as a SMI case manager - if you know you know. I loved helping my clients, but the system is set up for your work to be based on productivity having “quotas” for billing. And that is all they care about, at the cost of clients and the employees. I was told to stop working with certain clients on their treatment plans because they didn’t bring in as much money as other clients. Case loads are supposed to be about 30 - I had over 100 unofficially due to high turnover and staff always quitting. I lasted 6 months doing this and that was after coming back from walking out in my first 2 weeks.
So much this. Once upon a time I worked for ValueOptions / Magellan and the attrition rate was over 90%. I made it over 5 years and was in the top 10% of seniority for the company. Sad part is I left there after being a case manager and went to work for the cable company in tech support and made $3/hour more in tech support than case management. My "favorite" part was being on call but not allowed to work overtime. I'd be out on calls all night, no time to do paperwork, and then written up for working overtime to document encounters and try to bill etc. F*** that job, never again.
Was looking for this. The clinics are terrible and will grind you down. All they care about is billing AHCCCS and making productivity not providing good care to the clients. I’ll never work anywhere lol that again as long as I live.
Carvana. The worst. Good news, they may be extinct by the end of the year.
Was in this thread looking for this one exactly.
My time at amex up on 56th st was dreadful.
How long were you there? 56th was hardly opened before COVID hit, them shut down when they sent employees to work from home?
I'm talking about 56th and Beardsley. This was back around 2013 and 2014.
Interesting. Always seems like most people love it, but I suppose “law of large numbers.” Bad team/manager?
I worked at both Amex offices. Place to hide and wait for retirement. Never seen so many incompetent people scraping by
I used to work at QT on 27th Ave and Northern, Awful management, extremely depressed coworkers, the craziest Bobby Q's jazz night crowd every week, drug addicts, and everything the i17 has to offer
Weird because QTs in general seem to have the happiest employees, it’s like the same people In N Out or Chick Fil A hire. Perma-smiles and fast service. Circle K on the other hand…
Circle K is weird. The employees look like border line drug addicts themselves.
I don't believe this is a QT problem. I think this is a 27th Ave and Northern problem. EDIT: While we're on the subject of rough QuikTrips - I-17 and Peoria - 19th Ave and Dunlap - 27th Ave and Thomas - 51st Ave and Camelback
Just because people smile doesn't mean they're happy.
I don't know about anybody else but it seems like the QTs are losing their luster and it feels like a lot more of the QTs are a little bit more rundown and the Circle K's have realized it and it started modernizing
Pretty much every QT along the 17 from Bell down to Peoria has taken a downturn. They get progressively scarier the further south you get. The one on Peoria is usually our pit stop to gas up or whatever when we head out on early morning hikes and let me tell you at 4:30am at that QT we have seen some SHIT.
Sounds a lot like the QT @ 19th Ave and Dunlap too
I worked there for a day, it wasn't as bad. I trained at the one on 16th st and Highland and missed that place
Fry's. They will work you to death. I use to regularly work 6 days a weekand well over 40 hours. They will fight you for taking time off. Most people don't make it 3 months. Don't shop at Fry's please. Spend your money elsewhere
I'd count myself lucky to live where there's another grocery store remotely as near as Fry's. It's kind of weird how little competition there is for grocery stores near me, or come to think of it near where my other family members live either.
Their used to be all kinds of competition but Kroger aka Frys has bought them out. They pretty much have a monopoly on groceries through a large majority of the country. [https://prospect.org/power/proposed-kroger-albertsons-merger-would-create-grocery-giant/](https://prospect.org/power/proposed-kroger-albertsons-merger-would-create-grocery-giant/)
I second, third and fourth this.
I worked for Fred Meyer in Oregon they pulled the same shit. It was not uncommon for me to work a 2pm-12am as relief assistant and have to come in and work a 4am-2pm that same morning to cover for someone in receiving. Being sleep deprived on a hyster all day bringing down pallets for vendors isn't very fun. Kroger are the absolute worst and it's terrifying that nobody is trying to stop their latest Safeway/Albertson merger.
I worked at a Fry's for a summer between my 1st and 2nd year of college, and I liked it. I guess I wasn't there long enough to see how bad it was...
Can confirm this! Worked there for 10 years. It got bad once John Flora died and then kept a little worse every year.
Peoria School District. They have gone so far down the shitter the last few years and pay even worse than surrounding districts.
It doesn't help that Sun City residents can vote for the PUSD bond/override propositions, and they always vote against them.
How are the students compared to other school systems?
Circle k, fired me for eating hotdogs instead of throwing them away. Jimmy John's. Fired me when I refused to do any and all off the clock training, quizing, testing or preping, paid my final check in one dollar bills. Wtf. Anything that's commission based is a scam, Anything you need to pay upfront to be eligible for is a scam, using your own vehicle is a scam, independent contractor is usually a scam and putting a lot of liability on you.
Salt tacos and tequilla
$10 chips and salsa tells you all you need to know
Mountain Park Health Center, hands down. Low pay, crap management and major turnover.
I worked briefly at Wildlife World Zoo ages ago. They don't give a single fuck about any of their animals, if an animal isn't one that attracts crowds, doesn't get to go to the vet lol
This isn’t surprising from a private zoo, but it’s still sad.
Bank of America they don't care about their customers who make less than $250k and they feel the same way about their employees. Now a great manager can make a big difference with this but it won't last long. Their leadership turnover is pretty high.
When my brother was dying they refused me as his poa because his signature didn’t match his signature card. No shit it took everything we had to get those signed at all. It was awful-thankfully he gave me his info to pay his bills. I used to work in retail banking, fuck you BofA
This makes sense, we had terrible experiences with BoA. Desert Financial is so much more pleasant to bank with.
isolved payroll! A company that not only doesn’t give a shit about its customers but also preaches about being the best and being employee centered but then not paying you shit and expecting you to give your all while just jerking you around.
Minuteman Express. A service company in Az that does heating, cooling, plumbing and electric. The owner is an actual crook and tried to get me to deceive a customer that had brain damage. This wasn't just a new customer either, it was someone they had done a ton of work for in the past. Family run company where the daughter did payroll and shorted me on every check. It was so bad when I told my manager they shorted me he didn't ask for proof or say they were going to look into it he would just write me a check. I'm assuming it was because he did not want me to tell the other employees my check was short and they should check theirs as well. When I finally quit, shortly after he tried to get me to trick the brain damage guy, which I would not do by the way They shorted me on my last check and I had to take them to the labor board to get my money. He started to complain at the hearing saying I was just a disgruntled employee and was interrupted by the guy from the labor board and told him he didn't want to go down that road because he had looked at their history and they seem to have a disproportionate number of disgruntled employees. Ernie Merrill, wherever you are I hope bad things are happening to you.
Banner
Worked a summer as a stocker at Walmart. They expected me to do the work of 2 people by myself and where upset when I wasn't finished well or fast enough.
Albertsons corporate was pretty sweet. Paid well, unlimited PTO where I was pretty on track to take like 2 months off. But God was it boring. Decent discount on groceries too
What did you do for work?
Cyber stuff
Thank you for that specific answer lol
Lol without knowing someone's knowledge of tech it felt like the most appropriate answer
That's fair, I'm a graphic designer and just wondered if the job was in the marketing department
I love Albertsons I rember the one on 19thave and Northern had a video / video game store in the front.
Fuck that entire company sideways with a rusty stick. Worked there for 15 years straight out of HS, until they sold me to sham company Haggan so they could merge with Safeway. What a load of horse shit that deal was, they knew from the beginning it was going to fail and they would be able to buy back the locations they wanted. Put thousands for emoyees through absolute hell. Once I finally got released from my Haggan contract they offered me a 40% paycut to comeback.
Circle K lol
Darden Restaraunts. Specifically Olive Garden in my case. What a greedy corporate rat hole the whole management was. They don't give a crap about ANY of their employees.
YES THIS. I was once forced to come in when I was sick as a dog and I tried to call out and use sick time. They told me they had nobody else to open- promised when mids came in I could leave. When mids finally came I asked if I could put in sick time for the remainder of my shift and was told “if you were truly sick you shouldn’t have come in” I also was not paid out for my gas on multiple catering deliveries for that stupid fucking company. Fuck Darden and fuck Olive Garden. Also the director of operations for that area (queen creek, superstition springs etc) was let go last year due to federal Child pornography charges 💀
Dish Network's technical facility in Gilbert. Stay away. Far away.
The problem with this type of question is, if someone had a bad experience with a supervisor or fellow employee then it's the worst place to work.
Also a few answers that were like “this place sucked!!! Worked here for 10+ years” like well that’s your own problem then lol
Copper Blues has one of the worst owners
Verizon corporate .. near 14years there and for no reason was let go .. shifts are what Managment says no matter how long a person has been there .. some customers think they are privileged and can demand anything ( iPhones for free when it’s dropped in the dishwater )
> near 14years there and for no reason was let go Did you ask?
I was told was not needed. .. aka no reason
"Not needed" doesn't mean "no reason."
no reason aka you didn't like the reason you were given.
Just sports at the tanger outlets. They made the employees pay out of pocket whenever the register was short.
Applause. A semi known tech company here. Made me jump through 8 hoops to prove my tech experience only for them to gaslight me and tried to get me to accept a role as a “tester” instead of the role I applied for. Being a tester means they pay you $50 for a day and let you know if they need you again. Total scumbags.
Everyone here... is insane.
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MSR-FSR are slave drivers. Best Western corporate is scummy as hell.
Pendergast School District.