Menards reviews

- Benefits, while available to everyone (even part timers), are *very* expensive. - Head cashiers are considered management only when needed--and never when it will benefit them. - Corporate is WAY too focused on how people look (no facial hair? really?). - Corporate does not care about the small stores--they continually get old, used equipment when the other stores are getting brand new equipment that functions properly, crappy management is punished by being sent to small stores (thus punishing the employees by forcing them to put up with bad management), good managers are moved against their will. - Employees are forced to do stupid, embarrassing chants, greetings, and goodbyes to guests. - Little to no training on products--everything we learned was from experience, rather than actual training. Product training is optional. - Raises are 10 cents every 6 months, based on a test you take on your knowledge of obscure store policies, rather than actual merit. Small stores are unfairly punished because the policies aren't/can't be used (I had a question about where ours *lunch boxes* were supposed to be kept, which I couldn't answer properly because of our store set up). - Employees are punished or fired for the tiniest infractions--one manager missed the plane to seminars because his schedule was wrong and was immediately terminated, and another was punished by the new CEO because said CEO *thought* that he was sleeping when he was taking notes during a meeting. - Corporate is more worried about employee theft than customer theft and constantly spies on the employees via the store's security cameras.

The best way I can think to describe Menard's is that it is a very old school style of management- management through fear. This starts with the General Office in Wisconsin and works its way down to the store management level. There is a definite lack of respect when it comes to the way employees are treated. I had never heard of a company fining its employees before I started working here, but it could happen at any time whether it be for forgetting to put up a sale sign or to a yard manager for not pulling all the weeds in the parking lot. There is absolutely no room for creative thinking, either. Also, I have never seen micro-management like I have here. There are employees whose whole work day in Wisconsin consists of watching cameras from the various stores to make sure everybody is doing what they are supposed to do. It feels a lot like being on a kidnergarten field trip every day, except for the fact that a lot of those days last for 10 or more hours.