Hard to deal with sometimes - Replenishment Associate Michaels Employee Review

3.0
May 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working replenishment, you (usually) don't have to deal with those customers that give you your life story and you don't have to keep your work area neat. It's a fairly easy job if you don't mind early hours and heavy lifting.

Cons

Scheduling - How is someone supposed to survive off of 10 hours a week? Some people at my location are asked to come in early, stay late, work on their day off, etc., but when you ask for hours, there are none available. Yet, the minute you pick up a second job, you're scheduled 30 hours. Also, days are always being added to the schedule without notifying us. You quickly learn to check your schedule everyday. Time allotted to do work - When I first started, we were always given 7 hours to complete the truck. Now, we're given 4-5 hours (regardless off truck size) and we're constantly being told we're not working fast enough. Communication between managers - If one manager approves availability changes and another makes the schedule, it would probably be smart to make sure the scheduling manager is aware. Attendance and punctuality - People who are constantly 10-15 minutes late or call out because they missed their alarm should not be given four or five 8 hour shifts and the people who are constantly 10-15 minutes early and have perfect attendance should not be given one or two 5 hour shifts. Common courtesy - Managers should not be telling their employees on a daily basis that they are horrible at doing the job. It's rude and unprofessional.

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Pros

Benefits and the people there.

Cons

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2.0
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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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