My brother worked there, apparently loved it but had some run-ins with the owner's son a few times who apparently is an ass. He chewed his ass out in front of some customers once for something stupid that he (the owner's son) was wrong about. From what my brother told us he had a good relationship with the owner and the owner asked him about the situation to get his side of the story and actually took my brother's side instead of his own son's once he got enough info from everyone that was working that day that witnessed it.
I do have 1 kind of "bad" story of my own but isn't nearly as bad as some have I am sure. I interned 2 summers for Hy-Vee's corporate IT department and I was in need of a part time job for the fall semester as I was taking just the minimum 12 credits to finish off my degree in 4.5 years with an additional fall semester. Was doing some work that summer before at the East Ames Hy-Vee and was chatting with the store director how I was living just a few blocks south of the store at the time and needed some part time work for my last semester and I had a really light class schedule that would allow me to take some daytime hours if needed too. I already had worked in the meat department at the largest store in West Des Moines for several years prior to this and had a great reputation there as they allowed me to come back and work holiday breaks and summers all through college. The store director liked that I had plenty of experience and meat department was always a place they needed good part time help so he hooked me up with the meat dept manager and we transferred my employment from the WDM store to his store for the fall semester including my current hourly rate I had at the WDM store. I was told I would get at least 20 hours a week, I got that to start then 20 hours started to dwindle down to 16, 12, then just 8. I had all this extra time to offer and work ethic has never been a problem for me so one night I pulled the assistant manager aside and asked him what was up because my hours kept getting cut and I wanted to know if it was because of something I was doing. He assured me he thought I was one of their best workers but the department manager tends to dish out hours based on how long you have worked there regardless if you were a good worker or not and that my hourly rate I brought over from the WDM store was probably higher than any of the guys they had on the part time roster so his "off the record" answer was I was the new guy and I cost more to pay than the other guys do. So I called down to my internship supervisor at the corporate office in WDM and asked if they had any work for me and it turned out they had a few clean up and side projects going on they needed some help with and could offer me some hours if I wanted to drive down 2 or 3 days a week. Well my intern rate with them was at least $5 more an hour than what I got working at the store and was worth the drive so I basically took my 8 hours at the store and supplemented it with at least 12 hours of afternoons at the corporate office. It probably was a blessing in disguise because I wound up working 40+ hours part time at the corporate offices for 5 months after graduation until I finally landed a full time job elsewhere.
