12 years a slave - ASM- Assistant Store Manager Michaels Employee Review

1.0
Jan 9, 2019
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Pros

Trained some great people along the way

Cons

Dedicated 12 years to a company that allowed a mentally and emotionally unstable store manager to deem someone not qualified for a job when I knew way more than that manager and worked harder. District manager was a joke to work with and I can say Ive worked with a total of 8 with 2 of them competent. "Support center" aka corporate treats employees like slaves expecting large workloads to be completed with little to no payroll and the veiled threat of if you can't do the impossible then we will replace you with no hesitation. Hourly paid managers are expected to move mountains while lazy store managers sweetheart their hours and time to be home at night with their families while the rest of us lose that time. Benefits are crap. They put so many hurdles to use them. Pay: your better off going to Walmart or a grocery store as they try to pay as close to minimum wage as possible.

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Cons

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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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