Great place to occupy your time for 8 hours per day!
Pros
You are responsible for your own work: Productivity is based on how you dictate the work being done, you're not held responsible for how fast or hard others work. Very efficient: Management makes efforts to ensure an 8 hour day or less as the week progresses, but almost never under 40 hours/ week. Monday through Friday work schedule in the Distribution Center! Only on a couple of occasions have their been opportunities to work on a Sunday to prepare for Monday (due to heavier than usual workload). Awesome employee discount! Product can be purchased at cost plus 10% plus tax. Remote control airplanes, cars and trucks, trains, toys ect. The list goes on and on it's like working in a toy box! Upside-down management profile means the management serves you! I've never had confidential information shared with any management that I've spoken with, and have almost always felt that my opinion or idea was valued when shared. Most of the team leads in the DC are phenomenal at helping you meet job requirements and help you to get to the next level wherever that might be. Nearly endless potential to advance or change paths. Positions within the company are filled from the inside out always and as the business grows, there is always potential to move on to something bigger and better. Low turn-over rate: This is driven by the employees and their eagerness to help one another out. I asked for tips to help me meet rate when I first arrived here and almost everyone was more than accommodating to help the "new guy" to learn the ropes. Personal Development Plan: A very personal performance review, very holistic and fair. The amount and quality of work invested really pays off! Horizon Hobby doesn't want 'paycheck employees.' If you're just looking to collect a paycheck, look elsewhere, hard work and being yourself finally pays off at Horizon Hobby.
Cons
Tedious work: Not too much diversity in the tasks that you're asked to do, which to some makes it easy to adapt to the task you're asked to do. At least however you always know what you're supposed to be doing without having too much directives from leadership. Consistently changing the way they do business: Plans to switch to a warehouse management system, means efficiency first, but this will potentially force one person to do a job that two people typically would do without the system. Gossip: Word travels fast when employees catch wind of someone moving or something happening within the company. I'm sure it happens everywhere, but sometimes it seems like people are playing the telephone game because the facts are typically skewed by the time the truth comes out.
