ARMY & AIRFORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE Employer Reviews

Eliminated $50k a month in VISA fines with my architecture.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with AAFES. The environment was very stable and advanced was encouraged.

I am a cashier and wait on customers, and handle lots of money.

Worked at a gas station on post. Enjoyed my managers, learned a lot. Very stringent/regulated, but that makes sense since the organization is so enmeshed with the military.

set up store for business, daily paperwork,
time-management,
team work

I work only fridays, saturdays, and sundays. I begin to work at 7:30 AM and finish at 3:30 PM. I learn continuosly each day about new task to realize. I have developed a very good and respect relationship vith my managers and coworkers. The hardest part of my job is the give with the shampoo vacum a shampoo for the carpet and to pass the brightller – more... machine over the floor that has not carpet. The most enjoy part of my job is to mup the floor, pass the vacum and clean the glass of the windows. – less

Extremely uneducated supervisors. Several can barely spell let alone put a sentence together .It s not what you know its who you know... Cliques are common. If you are in with the manager then you will treated special. I 'd lie to write more but to many details may be revealing. Very poor environment in every imaginable way possible. RUN! Turn over – more... rate is very high. unless you are lucky enough to have benefits which they no longer offer. okay for a short term job but will suck the life out of you for long term. – less

Very great work environment then hardest part of the job is seeing soldiers going on deployments

This is not a good place to work employees are not helpful and management is not helpful and dont care about their employees .

Our focus was always on the needs of the US Military and Department of Defense employees based in a foreign country.

Everything was about serving those who serve us, hard work, but a very rewarding job.

good company to work for. great hours and environment. they care about the workers.

Senior Management has no direction. Can get promoted quickly if you can provide results 6 months at a time. Nobody stays long enough at any one management level to really understand it fully before being promoted to the next level

Working with AFFES has been a pleasure I must say. I have learned the fundamentals of managing a team and working together to aquire a common goal. A normal day with this company consist of preparing orders for soldiers and their dependents. My co-workers and myself have grown such an amazing bond over time.

The bx is short staff so they would basically overwork you so you're be working in 3 departments.

Working with solders is very rewarding. Typical cashier job.

I met a lot of different people working here that gave me encouragement and knowledge about the military of all branches.

I cook for the lunch rush. I keep food hot and neat. Keep my area clean and organzined. Help others to get the job done. Fast paced and stressful most of the time. It's great when people come back and tell you how good your food was.

jobs aren't bad, policies are where thing can be complicated but they are there to protect everyone

A typical day at work can be very busy and I learned to be patient with customers. My manager and co-workers are friendly and care about you. The hardest part of the job is unruly customers who talk to you when you are trying to be nice to them. The most enjoyable part of the job is when you get customers who are respectful.

My typical day at work is to:

Use the 4 step process in processing documents. Scan, image, Index and extracting various documents. (Scanning & Indexing, Document Prep using 7550 DR Canon Scanner, Data Entry Expert Skills in Recordkeeping)

I keep a Excel spreadsheet of my daily production. I send this using an email attachement Outlook to my superior – more... at the end of the week.

I also do some mail sorting, pick up check the mailbox for my department distributing to co workers and their inboxes.

Researches the Walker System for Vendor Codes when needed.
When needed researches copies of documents for other co workers.

The most enjoyable part of this job is I can do it is a 1 person job. I can do it independently. I became an expert I was doing this for years.

Most of my co-workers and management can all be fun, outgoing, to be around cooperative. There are a few people with personalties that's incredibly challenging to deal with. Can interfere with work concentration creating a hostile work environment. You do the best you can to try to deal with it peacefully exhaust all options before drastic measures in resolving. For me this can be the hardest part of the job.

I have learned it does not matter how long you have been with a company or how good you are at the job you do. You can still loose your job. – less