Build-A-Bear reviews

I suppose that most cons you encounter will depend on your management team. No one likes our chief and we get torn down a lot because she's unrealistic. Our store morale is unbelievably low - we have a huge turnover in staff every season so we don't even have a team feeling. There is no feedback and no follow up on anything. We made goals at a "training" (which turned out to be a meeting berating our store's performance) and the goals were never talked about again. Training for the new staff is minimal and takes a long time. None of our new bears were trained on how to close at night - so we bear builders are having to do it for them. Our bearitory leader has ridiculously high sales expectations and our store rarely makes them, so we're CONSTANTLY being told that we don't do well, need to work harder, etc. There is NO celebration of small successes thanks to our BL and our chief. We can't even have a get together as a staff unless we're celebrating a team goal because our BL has set that policy . On the corporate side, the hours given to our store, which is considered a high volume store, are ridiculously low. We rarely have enough people working on busy days. The company does an associate survey each year, but I've never seen anything change because of it. Our whole staff made the same comments last year and it's like we were completely ignored. Pay is increased in 40 cent increments, once a year - woo baby. There are bear builders who have worked in the store for less time than I have that make more than me because of the new minimum wage - they don't take inflation or the cost of living into account.

Not a lot of hours, Pay not that Great. Occasional problems with understaffing on the weekends when the store is packed. Hosting Birthday parties can be very stressful. Some parents try to take over the activities you do with the children. Sometime there are very difficult children to work with.