High pressures for a corny kids store - Associate Manager Build-A-Bear Employee Review

2.0
Dec 2, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Easy work for the most part. Stuffing a bear doesn't take to much effort.

Cons

The cons of any retail job. Terrible hours, work weekends and holidays, higher ups breathing down your neck about hours, etc. Making numbers and focusing on metrics is huge a BBW. I understand it is a business, but don't say your focused on the customer and then push so freaken much to sell so much crap. Everything is super corny. They embed the word "bear" into everything, which is both annoying and stupid. Ex. instead of territory, it's "bearitory."

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