Menards reviews

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.

As I said before this is a great COLLEGE JOB and I never considered working there full time or being a department managers for the following reasons. The company takes complete advantage of all of there department managers in every way possible. First, the company makes there managers work very long and stressful weekend hours every other weekend if there are only two managers in the department. Second, the company deducts money from each of the department managers yearly bonus amounts, but never provides a complete breakdown or reasons why money was taken away from there bonus. Third, the health benefits that they provide is pitiful and expensive! The company is really cheap when it comes to health benefits because they expect their full time and management employees to pay a large portion of there health benefits while the company contributes a tiny percentage for medical coverage. Fourth, the hours are horrible! You are working days, nights and weekends. This maybe fine for a college student but once you finish school and are looking to have a life outside of work it makes it hard.