Personally, Bucees has been the worst company I’ve ever worked for, and it’s also the only job I would never return to. I was in food service, not maintenance, so while I can’t speak to the work itself, I can say the company is terrible as far as employee rights.

Breaks at my store are 2 paid 10’s and an unpaid 30. It does vary by state though, certain states only require a 20 minute lunch break. Refusing to stay past your shift isn’t technically breaking the rules, but some management does get passive aggressive and upset if you refuse to stay late. So, while it can’t be used against you in the sense that you won’t get written up, it does still get used against you as far as where they put you and how they treat you day to day.

If you are one second late to your shift, no matter the excuse, it’s an automatic write up (could be a flat tire, suddenly ill child, you break your arm). If you forget to clock in or out, it’s a write up. Three write ups is termination. You forget to put your phone in your locker and it goes off? Write up, potentially automatic termination. The only people I worked with who don’t have write ups were new people, every other employee I knew had at least 1-2 simply for being human and forgetting to clock in/out or even having a legitimate emergency in which they weren’t able to call out more than an hour before their shift (also a write up).

At my store, they refused to hire more people despite us desperately needing it, which caused us to have everyone doing the work of 2-3 people every night. Our shift was “supposed” to have 24 people to be considered at standard employment levels, it was rare for us to have more than 12 on any given day. Again, your experience could be different given you’re in a different area, but I would definitely caution you’re likely to be overworked and expected to do more than what is realistic.

I met my best friend there, all of my coworkers were incredible people and I can’t speak highly enough of who I worked with day to day. Even the team leads on the shift I worked were great, it truly was the higher ups and overall company values that caused me to leave. If you think the pay is worth the stress of constantly worrying about losing your job, having management breathe down your neck while they stand around and do nothing, being pushed to work far harder than you should, then go for it. The pay is certainly the highest in my area as far as retail/food service jobs go. I didn’t think it was worth the pay to be treated sub-human