The Top Ten Worst Companies To Work For In The U.S.

Applying for jobs? Thinking of starting a new career path? Ever wondered what are the worst companies to work for?

It’s often easy to find the best places to work, as can be seen on Scott Dobroski, a Glassdoor corporate communicator’s Twitter profile:

But what about the worst places? We have you covered…

10. Hertz

People who work at Hertz often complain of the low income, bad hours and the inconsistency in management.

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9. Kroger

There is an online forum that is dedicated to complaining about how hard it is to work at Krogers!

It supposedly pays just over minimum wage each hour – not too bad.

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8. The Children’s Place

None of the five areas of a Glassdoor review – work-life balance, compensation and benefits, culture and values, senior management and career opportunities – scored over a 2.5! Not a good sign…

And don’t even get me started on the leadership scores!

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7. TJX Companies

There’s nothing better than getting a bargain at TJ Maxx, however, that doesn’t mean the employees are treated right.

When reviewing the career opportunities and trust in senior leadership, TJX Companies got some of the worst ratings!

Apparently they only pay the lowest wages that they can get away with too…

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6. Walgreens

When reviewing the company, employees mentioned that some of the staff have promoted employees to avoid having to pay overtime. Meaning that employees earn less money each hour when compared with their competition!

Is that anyway to gain the trust of your employees? Something is telling me no…

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5. The Fresh Market

This company just scored over half on overall rating! In a 24/7 Wall St report, it is stated that only 26% of employees would recommend working there.

There is zero trust in senior leadership and this is the main reason why workers complain about the company. Senior management is supposedly always changing and they never know what they should and shouldn’t be doing.

There are drivers of long term changes within the company, but whether they will come to fruition or not is another question entirely.

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4. Texas Roadhouse

The CEO of this place is proud that they play annoyingly loud music inside and waiting staff are required to drop everything and do a country line dance when a certain song comes on – that sounds hellish!

One employee gave the company an overall rating of one star and told upper management:

‘It’s not my fault you’re 40 working at a restaurant’.

Now that’s what I’d call a burn!

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3. McDonald’s

The customers might be McLovin’ this company, but employees clearly aren’t – one girl wrote on her blog that the work environment smelled like:

“A combination of spoiled milk, fried food, sweat…”

Gross!

Employees are on their feet for over eight hours a day and can’t be paid more than minimum wage to do so! Rumour has it that they also don’t get any benefits.

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2. Family Dollar Store

On average employees gave this company a rating on Glassdoor of 2.6.

This is one of the worst companies to work for and even made the news because of it! Workers were forced to stay at the stores OVERNIGHT due to excessive hours – some employees had to work more than sixty hours each week. Which were UNPAID!

That’s no way to gain long term employee satisfaction…

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1. Kraft Heinz

Many employees of Kraft Heinz company give a Glassdoor rating of just 1! Ouch…

The main complaint from staff is the poor work life balance, with one employee stating that:

’11-hour days have become the norm’.

In regards to senior management, employee reviews on Glassdoor aren’t good either! Employees rate Bernardo Hees – the chief executive – a mediocre 36%! Luckily for the workers, Hees will be stepping down from the role on June 30th, 2019.

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