Vantaggi
While in your training store: Light responsibilities, busy work, minimal supervisory role. The days go by fast, and the pay seems more in line with the hours you're working.
Svantaggi
Phase I managing your own store: Opposite of everything in the Pros category. While in training, you will work at a clean, well organized store with properly trained employees. Then you get assigned your own store, and then you find out that little detail your training coordinator forgot to mention…most speedway stores are complete wrecks. It may not look like it from the customer view, but the majority of stores don't meet the standards set by corporate. As an LPP you will most likely be thrown into a store in complete chaos, and be expected to turn it completely around within the first month. You will have employees that don't know their full job responsibilities, a store with food bins growing mold, and a cooler with so much product behind the shelves you can barely move. You will be told you have support from your DM and training coordinator, but when you call them they either don't answer or tell you to "figure it out." Oh and kiss your personal life goodbye. You will be told you work a 50 hour week, usually 5am-3pm. WRONG!!! Your training coordinator and DM will expect you to devote your entire life to getting that store running properly. If that means 70+ hours per week, so be it. They will tell you they don't want you working over 65 hours, but they also expect results quickly. You can read between the lines. LPP salary is between 45-50k/year. With the hours you work it will break down to about $13/hr. You will also get calls all hours of the night. I dreaded going to sleep because almost every other night I'd get a call at 10:05pm saying that third shift didn't show up. Your minimum wage employees working 2nd shift will definitely not help and stay, so you have to work quickly to find someone to cover or as the store manager, you get to work third shift….after putting in a 12-15 hour day already. Don't bother calling other stores to see if they have someone to work third shift. Those managers are in the same boat you are. If your third shift does show up, they will call you at 2am cause they want to know if they are allowed to give a cup of ice to a customer. What else is there…oh as a trainee you are not eligible for any bonus, yet you have to pass REA/FQI audits. If you are wondering what made me leave this company(I hope you have figured it out by now) is the idea of proceeding through the program, being relocated 3000 miles from my current town, and being assigned a district of 12-14 stores all like the one I was put in. You may think that I'm just whining or that I couldn't hack it, but talk to other store managers before you seriously consider applying for this position. Most of the time when other managers came to my store they would complain about how horrible Speedway has become to work for. Very last thing, they will tell you in interviews that you do 3 months training in a store and then manage a store for 3 months. That is soooo wrong. They will keep you in the store you are managing until they think you are good enough(some LPPs have been in store for 8 months or more) or kick you out. When I was hired, just in the ohio region they hired 22 other LPPs. Think about it, there can't be that many districts available, so where are they going to keep you in the mean time.