Fun Job, Terrible Management - Anonymous employee Build-A-Bear Employee Review

1.0
Jun 16, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you like being around kids, this is a good job because there are swarms of kids here all day long. Pretty easy going job.

Cons

Management is unorganized and inconsiderate. Often schedules you the next day without telling you, makes you stay late w/o asking. Demands that you push people to buy more expensive things. After letting them know I was quitting, they told me I "couldn't quit" because I wasn't at my new job as long and they had me first, and that they would take it out on other employees if I quit. I lived far away and they knew this, yet would constantly send me home after only two hours of work because we were slow.

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