Fun at first - Bear Builder Build-A-Bear Employee Review

3.0
Oct 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Positive environment Gets you in a good mood Not many rude costumers Costumers love you Time flyes by (at first) All that mentioned above is true for most stores, but still the right management is needed. I've had the coolest manager, most uplifting, that worked with and listened to the whole team's ideas, very laid back,& we all loved challenging and competing with each other YET we would always be giving tips to the others to help the entire store. It was great team work, but after that manger left, we had a few bad ones that were very hard to work with.

Cons

-HOURS suck! -pay is minimum wage -hours are bad even for associate managers -You can't be super excited and happy all the time, you're human. This is supposed to be a happy place, and the over-excitement gets old and annoying. -some of your co-workers might be strange.

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