Holiday Retirement Employer Reviews

This is a great company to work for. I’ve read the bad reviews. I can’t speak to the past experiences of others, but my experience has been outstanding. It has been a great growth opportunity and an enjoyable working environment. The company employs many talented people and the new leadership that has recently come into the organization is exemplary, – more... especially the HR leadership. This company has a bright future. – less

I have been a contractor most of my career and took a chance with taking on a full time perm position and it was the best decision ever. I have a great group I work with every day and the best supervisor ever. Everyone here is genuine and cares about their fellow peers. I cannot say enough about Holiday home office and am glad to be part of a top recruiting – more... team in the NW. – less

A day of work will be 60% sales and marketing/Calls and office work.
Learn that we always have space for growth and knowledge.
Great management team and directors support.
Pleasant environment with co-workers, staff and residents.
The hardest part of the job is the daily interaction with some seniors facing challenging moments accepting/understanding – more... aging...
The most enjoyable is listening, learning from the seniors and how much they appreciate what we do for them. – less

Corporate office does not have a clue as to what is going on in the communities. Managers can do what ever they want, there is not accountability. It seems that the higher ups in the district are aware of poor management but will do nothing to change it. When you try to go above and beyond, your hand will be slapped for making everyone else look bad. – more... Endless conference calls that have no true value. Best part of working here is the residents. I truly came to love them, making it hard to leave. Do not work here. – less

The only thing you have with this company is job security, because they take forever to fire anyone, regardless of how terrible of a job they're doing!

The company expects way too much from their community managers...it's nowhere near independent living...the corporation does not care about their employees or the residents. When you do an amazing job, – more... you don't get any praise or recognition. I quit because I couldn't take being mistreated any longer. After about 4 weeks on the job as a new assistant (co-) manager, the managers of our building stopped coming to work. One faked a panic attack and was put on "stress leave" that was renewed every 2 weeks and the other convinced a doctor friend to continue writing notes that she had a "chronic sinus infection". These conditions lasted for over 7 months, yet the company allowed them to keep their jobs and their apartment in the community. Meanwhile, the other co-manager and I worked 24 hours a day, sometimes for 3 or more weeks at a time, with no relief. Though it was excruciating, that community ran better than it ever had with just us 2. And we received no extra compensation, no congratulations, no thanks, and not even a promotion when the managers were finally fired. A good company does not do that to their employees. We had to move across the country to finally be promoted to managers. – less

We worked at two different communities and was black balled due to I turned down an offer to be a sales leader from Co-Manager. Then we went to another state (LOUISIANA) and loved the residents and employees and they loved us yet the Community Managers got jealous of that and got with our supervisor and did everything they could to get us out of the – more... community. They made up cases and did just that. The residents are so upset they are moving out left and right. Then we was sexually harrassed by our Community Manager for 6 months and so was the employees and some residents yet the home office does not care. What would you call having to watch every day your community manager rub and scratch his crotch everyday for 6 months and we even told him this bothered us and was sexual harrassment. He got us out of HIS community. This is an un caring and unsafe company to work for. – less

i learned a lot about scratch cookin, my co workers and i were team player but the managment wasnt i enjoyed working for the residents

I learned all aspects of running a kitchen with a staff of 15 to 20 including servers.

The company works you extremely long hours, little time off. All they want is to sell, sell, sell. There is little care for the Residents. They want you to manage the budget for your community but they never let you have full control. They charge items to your budget and make you responsible. You have to report to the Regional Manager when you buy copy – more... paper for $50.00!
Micro-Managed by Regional Director to the extreme. Many managers have left when they find out what this company is all about.
Worse place I have ever worked. – less

Operations and marketing responsiblities being co mingled was very hard and stressful. There were changes all the time. Regional Management was not working together in support. Combined pressure with living space and salary tied together with no Job Security made this job a pressure cooker all the time. I had the best sales record for the year when – more... I was there and I was still treated like DIRT.

Could have done so much better with support. – less

As a Community Manager you have the opportunity to make a difference in someone's life everyday. That is what attracted my wife and I to Holiday Retirement and they pushed something they called the Holiday Touch. This was how we approached everyday, giving the Holiday Touch to our residents but also with the staff.

Unfortunately the company has shifted – more... its Philosophy and it all became about the money. To the point it was raising the rent yearly and one resident had her rent increased by over $500. At the same time they gave us less money to run the community. Very sad the senior residents (Average age 83) they deserve so much more. – less

Was a facility chef - worked hard everything made from scratch even dinner rolls daily. Cooked 2 meals for 120 residents by yourself. VERY FAST PACED - - had to cook and wash pots and scrub ovens. Budget for feeding a resident 3 meals a day was extremely LOW for the "elite" residents you were serving.

Typical daily activities consists of :
Reviewing daily tasks,
Teleconference with sales team,
Initial calls and follow up calls to prospective new tenents,
Data base reporting and management,
Provide tours to prospective new tenants-close them or plan their follow up task/event,
Send reports to sales team memebers,
Community outreach calls/follow-ups – more... and outside apointments,
Plan marketing events,
Complete end of day repots to sales team,
Outside networking events. – less

Managed 30 staff, hiring & firing, job performance reviews, raised quality of customer service through proper communication, aligned account receivable and payable with budget, payroll, resident relations and event planning, marketing, maintenance scheduling.
The most rewarding part of the job is enriching the lives of our seniors who look at each day – more... as their last. – less

Friendly homage. Acute malfunction.

A typical day was a Constance fan fare of several cooks putting together a meal. ? Interesting management concepts. I refreshed the status of batch cooking that you loss when you don't work . My co- workers were typically on a different page since there where several pages from management to offer. However managements – more... opinion of the day is what ever works. The hardest part of the job was the double headed management. The enjoyable part of the job was watching and listening to the dishwasher training every body to due my job. She should have been the owner. Its great to be hired to fill in . Not so great when your not needed. – less

GREAT COMPANY, GREAT PEOPLE, LARGE TURNOVER, I THRIVE ON PRESSURE, AND THIS FIT THE BILL.

I learned that work is first. You work the other thing in around work. I could not do that with my health, so I quit

I ran the office with spouse and enjoyed facilty and living on-site.
The pay was very low for work required. Is was supposed to be a facility for INDEPENDENT Seniors, but OUTSIDE MARKETERS were brought in to fill up units and people they admitted needed MEDICAL CARE, making it hard for on-site managers.

Long hours, it is a lifestyle change. Personally very rewarding in that you are helping wonderful people. The downside is that when I considered the long hours worked in reality we were only making $4.50 an hour and that does not include the emergency calls in the middle of the night when you go to assist a resident.

our pay is based on 48 hours a week but put in 70+ hours almost every week.