Not bad but not great - Anonymous employee Scholastic Employee Review

3.0
Feb 23, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The mission is great if you love kids and books. You get 15 minute reading breaks as well as your regular breaks. There are a lot of good, fun-loving people who work with this company. Management has a lot of policies in place (like reading breaks and surveys) to try to make things better for the warehouse employees.

Cons

Upper management isn't in touch with what's going on at the branches, and there is a lot of micro-management coming down from above, without much direction. The workload is always high, regardless of what position you work in. Depending on your position, the starting pay is much lower than it should be.

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