"In the beginning of august I started at lions choice. I was promised full time hours, the opportunity to get my servsafe, etc, etc.. it was a lie. They shut down the store BEFORE THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS. They told us “Pick a store and you’ll get a schedule there” it’s been THREE WEEKS since I have worked. Where’s my grocery money, where’s money for my bills coming from? My money tree??? They sold the store to a bank and instead of offering any employees some type of severance, bonus, or anything for sticking it out at the store. Nothing. MEANWHILE CO’s and district managers closed the store without doing any groundwork or organizing where employees are going to go. LEAVING MANAGERS of OTHER stores wondering who is even supposed to be going to their store or not. FURTHER holding up the process of getting good employees back to work. Totally unprofessional in my six years of working for the food industry I have NEVER seen this. I was also told they expected most of the employees from the store to “JUST QUIT”. In this economy it is not as easy to find a job and nothing is guaranteed. No I didn’t have a back up and I wasn’t expecting anything until they told us nearly a week before the store was closing. AND, after the store is closed the people responsible are on PAID VACATION while their hardworking employees go unpaid and worried about their finances. even though we weren’t fired we did our jobs right and that means we are supposed to get schedules at another store. They should have told their employees months before the store closed instead of dragging them along and lying to them. General managers SHOULD NOT be wondering who and when is coming to their store. Lions choice district manager, ceo, etc. should have done the groundwork before selling the store to a bank. LIKE MAKING SURE YOUR EMPLOYEES ARE EMPLOYED. I called the store I was supposed to and did everything right and still, the general manager at bridgeton is wondering if I’m even supposed to be there. This is just the tip of the iceberg, during a corporate meeting apparently the ceo told management that the reason this company doesn’t have commercials is because they aren’t perfect like McDonald’s or Taco Bell. That’s right, the heads at lions choice are not perfect, they aren’t even good. This is infuriating."
