Let me start this by saying that I'm sure some locations might be different, but mine was horrible. I walked out on my FIRST day on the floor. The interview was annoying, and very unorganized while constantly interrupted. That was my first red flag. Management was friendly despite their unorganized practices, but all of the company talk is just "talk". They say what they have to say but do not follow through with actions.
I was told my pay would be adjusted according to my experience and education (I have a degree and almost 6 years of customer service), and got a whopping thirty extra cents! Woohoo! 8.40 an hour to try to pay my bills and raise my son.
My first day on the floor I was not given much instruction, just tossed from person to person. I was not assigned a locker, told how breaks worked, etc. A manager brought me to nutrition and gave me some tags to work on. The section was completely unorganized and almost everything was out of place. When I asked how to use numbers on the tags to find the items, she told me she wasn't sure what they meant and that I would just have to "find" most of them. After hours of this, I was introduced to the department manager, who was constantly talking to her friends, cursing and complaining a majority of the time. I was stocking items from the skids (doing most of it because I was new I suppose), while literally being laughed at if I asked questions or "opened boxes weird". Mind you, I have retail experience and none of this stuff was new to me.
The people were so rude, and only a couple actually introduced themselves to me. I found myself lost in the back room, and people were constantly running into me and I just felt like I did not belong in this "crowd". I felt extremely isolated and out of place.
No matter how much I need a job, I will not bust my back and be disrespected for 8.40 an hour and not even be able to pay my bills. The turnover here speaks for itself.
