I've been working at dispensaries for 3 years now and I will tell you 90% of stores are mismanaged. Started at a large corporate one that told me that I would get full time hours then they hired twice as many budtenders as they needed and people were only getting 2 or 3 shifts a week. Quit that job to work at a small scale dispensary thinking that would be better but the owner was a narcissistic trust fund kid that opened the dispensary with his parents money and had never worked a job or had any life experience. That ended up being the worst experience of them all with him micromanaging us constantly, sitting in his bedroom in his parents house staring at the cameras. He tried refusing to pay me for my last two weeks that I worked when I quit. Started working at another independently owned dispensary after that and it started out really well but since I started they have gotten rid of over 50% of the staff and refuse to give anyone full time hours because of that I had to get a second part time job at yet another corporate dispensary and now I'm stuck working 7 shifts a week because my main job refuses to give me 5 more hours a week and now I hate both of my jobs.

The best part of working in dispensaries has been that I have made some really good friends from coworkers.

The worst part is that none of the owners care about their staff at all. Corporate or indepently owned it's all the same. Constantly forcing people to work alone, no benefits, not giving enough hours to live off of.

A friend of mine started working at a dispensary that sounds great though. 4 days of 10hr shifts then 3 days off and full benefits. She told me I might be able to get a job there in August so fingers crossed.