Store Manager in Training - Store Manager In Training Michaels Employee Review

1.0
Aug 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and appears to have a solid company culture of caring for there employees. I can't think of anything else so I added this to complete the 20 words!

Cons

Where do I start! While I was hired as Store Manager in Training I was provided very little training on Michaels practices and I was supposedly lucky to have been assigned to a MCX (Michaels Center of Excellence) to learn from there version of a top notch GM. This was a newly promoted GM (previous ASM) and all this GM did was sit down and assign all labor intensive tasks to myself and another fellow SMIT. GM didn't even wear a name tag! This was what was shown to myself and this GM was the face of Michaels. I was immediately turned off by there practices. Being someone that has over 15 years in retail management including support roles at regional levels I am used to a certain level of professionalism from every level of an organization. My DM questioned my loyalty several times and went as far as to tell me he didn't want to bring me on board! Way to build a new relationship (shows me how committed he was to me). Once I heard this I started actively looking for another job all the while myself and me fellow SMIT where assigned to a remodel per the DM. This had to be the worst work I have ever done this includes being a regular employee when I first started in retail. GM and ASM claimed DM was concerned the store was falling behind so they attempted to squeeze myself and my fellow SMIT till we both walked out and quit at the same exact time. Run from this place if you have options! If not use them like they'll use you

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5.0
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Pros

Benefits and the people there.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Some great co-workers, employee discount, on site office benefits including a gym and cafe for breakfast/lunch, full suite of employee benefits at reasonable prices

Cons

Ridiculous amount of stress. Retail in general is often stressful but the amount of stress at Michaels is unnecessary and over the top. Constant last-minute changes by leadership to creative, promotions, products, and any other kind of changes. Things will be finalized and signed off on and delivered, and somebody will make a change at the last minute and things are constantly having to be redone. People are worn down and worn out. It’s the highest turnover rate of any place I’ve worked in retail at the corporate office. I’ve seen people take jobs and be gone within weeks. Leadership in some departments are extremely micromanaging and controlling even with employees that are tenured and have multiple years of experience. The stress level for both tenured and new employees is very high. Projects get discussed over and over and over again, decisions are made and then revisited again after decisions were made making delivery late and causing people to work unnecessarily in order to fix things that could’ve been done correctly the first time. The company tries really hard to make the workplace fun and offer activities, motivation, and incentives. Unfortunately they don’t offset what the environment is like working inside with some of the teams and expectations to actually deliver the work. Would not recommend.

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