Great first job terrible work environment - Hardware Associate Menards Employee Review

1.0
Jul 23, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work for your first job with plenty of work needed and great starting wage, but that is really it

Cons

Culture is toxic and it always starts with management. The GM there is terrible. He does not acknowledge you at all and will treat you like you are just a number not a human being. I get that its a business and you want to make money but have a little sympathy. Most of the people you have employed are high school students trying to figure out life and need some guidance on how to navigate things. His poor management only leads to all the rest of management to be terrible, and the good managers leave right away for good reason!

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40+ Hours per week of work guaranteed.

Cons

A toxic work environment can lead to termination without warning. Senior management prioritizes their interests and the company’s well-being, often disregarding employees’ rights and legal obligations. HR’s role is to protect senior management and the company, potentially at the expense of employees’ rights. Senior management continually chooses to a blind eye to wrong doing of favored employees, while knowingly prioritizing punishment of lower employees using fabricated policies that aren’t actually within store policy and procedures. Lack of accountability, lack of transparency, and lack of integrity run rampant with in the store and company. Unethical hiring practices, and weaponized incompetence to justify the out right gaslighting of your financial income and incentives. Pay deductions common place.

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