Pros
I loved working here at Menards. I was a cashier and the work was simple enough, greet guests, help them find items, scan them, return items that were returned at the end of the night. Nothing too glamorous but co-workers were very nice. The pay was nice too, starting at the bottom of the barrel, but every 6 months you'd qualify for a dime raise, and a quarter if you learned how to handle the service desk, or propane refilling. They even did a yearly profit sharing bonus, the longer you've been there, the bigger the bonus, and it wasn't chump change either. My first year was $180 in bonus and my second year I was looking closer to $300. Menards is the only company I know of that offers that kind of bonus. Added with the extra $2.50 on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) and you got a pretty decent paying job, for not a lot of effort.
Cons
If you didn't have an open schedule (any times, any availability) you would not be able to move up to the sales floor, or managers. I watched many co workers pass me by, one who had been hired for only three months, when I had been there for ten by that point. I had tired asking to move up, but my managers would either dodge the question, or give me a blanket statement of: "We'll look into it." I wanted to give more to the company, and being a cashier for two years was getting tedious, but I feel that my personality clashed with a lot of upper management, (Bubbly and sometimes obnoxious, but I was positive, and hard working.) I would've thought that my work ethic would've come through, but instead I felt that management thought I was stupid or something. It was very disheartening. If you don't mind moving up, and don't care what people think of you, then you can very easily stay where you are, keep getting the monthly raises, and yearly bonuses, but it wasn't enough for me.
