Don't work here - Cashier/Barista HMSHost Employee Review

1.0
11 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

you'll get to work in the airport and meet lots of people

Cons

- Poor management - management vs employees - they will insist to take you 30mins even though you just started 2hrs on your 8 hour shift and they won't give you the 15mins break which we supposed to have. - they don't care if you're tired, they only care about is the business. I heard a supervisor said that "it will be good for the business" to my co-worker when she argued about the breaks. - unfair treatment, favoritism and nationality discrimination in the workplace among workers; in this location, they were a lot of the same nationality esp. Punj.. and if you're not among them, even though you didn't do anything wrong, they will complain to the manager or supervisor with the same nationality as them and will do everything to get you in trouble. So many connections among them that even though they're not qualified to the job position, the manager with the same nationality will either hire or promote them. - In my 14 years of living in Canada, I've never experience such an unfair and traumatic experience just by working with that the specific nationality in this company. - poor health safety: broken dishwasher and smelly sinks for over a year, cockroaches found on sinks and flies all over the store. No proper cleaning of the stores

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5.0
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Pros

Free coffee Free meals on shift

Cons

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1.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free meal every shift, solid pay and tips.

Cons

There was one coworker in particular who was terrible. Management did nothing about this person. Me being the adult tried to handle the situation but this person kept pushing my buttons. They were clearly trying to start drama and I wasn’t having it. To this day this was probably one of the worst people I’ve worked with in my life. Crab in a bucket mentality at its finest. Incredibly immature, just awful to be around and brought others down around them. It was a mix of jealousy and insecurity. The thing is a boss needs to handle that and they didn’t. So I quit, I wasn’t going to stay in a place around someone so awful if the boss couldn’t rein them in.

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