No Hours - Bear Builder Build-A-Bear Employee Review

2.0
Jul 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Staff is friendly and easy to work with. It's fun working with all the kids who are so excited about making their bears.

Cons

NO HOURS! You are lucky to get 4-8 hours a week, this is not enough to cover gas back and forth yet alone help pay your bills. It is not enjoyable when you know you are doing you job and you are being watched by the managers to make sure you are trying to up sell items to a 4 year old child. Managers go as far as pretending to clean the shelves right next to the stuffing machine so they can ease drop on your conversations with the customers.

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