Depends on the manager you get - Bear Builder Build-A-Bear Employee Review

A lot of things. I got stuck with an inexperienced manager who's literally fresh out of high school. She gossiped about employees behind their backs constantly, openly, in front of customers even. And had enough nerve to set up a staff meeting to mainly talk about gossiping, when she does it more than anyone in the damn store. After her lectures at the meeting, she still continued to gossip. There was even a time when the store was packed and busy, she spent an HOUR talking to friends, ON THE SALES FLOOR. She constantly picks favorites and is judgemental. If she doesn't like you, you can tell! If she's speaking to one of her favorites, she's all bubbly and talks to them like a best friend, then she switches to you and her disposition and tonality will do a 180. It's obvious she doesn't like you. I often see her giving certain employees "dagger stares" It doesn't matter you have a strong work ethic, she judge you personally and treat you a lot differently than her faves if she doesn't like your personality or whatever triggers her. That being said, think you can move up? Even if you have management experience? Yeh right, she is likely to hire someone off the street than someone who already has BABW experience, great work ethic and management experience. She will try to force leads to step down. She just wants this place to be like her inner circle at high school/college. If you're introverted, a wall flower, or just plain quirky, she will not like you. She sucks the fun out of this job.