Love the job but not the management - Assistant Manager Build-A-Bear Employee Review

3.0
Sep 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Fun to work with kids and make memories with families, very easy

Cons

My pay was equivalent to the local minimum wage. My manager gaslighted me the entire time I worked there. She avoided showing me how to do anything because she made up her mind she didn’t want me to become a manager. She never trained me as an assistant manager but constantly told me when I’m doing something wrong. Half of the time it wasn’t wrong she was just a control freak. She was jealous that I was doing better than her and never congratulated me on my successes or efforts which is literally part of the job. My manager did so many things not allowed by company standards and never corrected the employees. She blamed me if they showed up in improper uniform and I didn’t say anything (they had been there for years and were doing that before I started and she never sent them home because they were always understaffed). So many people didn’t even do the “bear minimum” and worked at my job for years…and she let them stay… I was also made to believe I would easily be promoted in a few months and I wasn’t so I left

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Cons

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Cons

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