Menards reviews

One of the biggest mistakes I have ever made was when I transferred out of a store which I loved into a store that clearly no one knows how to run. I was brought to the new store to fix the department. The plumbing dept I'm in now is in complete shambles. How do you fix something that is already broken? The I get so frustrated and the general managers laugh it off like its nothing. I came from a store that passed all their inventory audits. The store I'm in now the dept. has never passed one. are you kidding me??? Again the management laughs it off. How are you not getting in trouble for that? Then they are pressuring everyone to do at home training. All you get when you are done is a stupid piece of paper saying congrats oh and on top of that you don't get paid to do the training. Now from what I understand that any sort of work related training you have to get paid for it. I know it's just an option but I'm sorry I have better things to do with my time than to do training at home I mean come on seriously. I work 50-55hrs a week 4 days closing then be at work at 630 am yeah I'm exhausted. 10-12 hr shifts almost everyday.

No work/life balance, working every other weekend, no 401K match, high insurance premiums, raises are only $.10 cents every six months and you are required to pass a competency test to get them. When I started with Menards, our wages were very competitive with other companies, but now our starting wages are not even on par with fast food restaurants. This results in good, qualified employees leaving for better opportunities. The new hires that replace them (if they get replaced at all) are typically less qualified, less motivated and rarely last a month before they quit. Every department in the store is understaffed and messy. Freight piles up and customers don't get help. The payroll to sales ratio (which is dictated by corporate) is so unbalanced that most departments can't afford to have enough people working to take care of all the freight and other tasks and help customers. Team members that are scheduled to work until close are often forced to stay an hour or more after close to stock freight and clean up, even if they work early the next day or have class or another job in the morning. Lots of favoritism with scheduling. Some full time employees never close (even though company policy requires all full timers to close at least one day per week) and others close four to five nights per week. We get much more freight than we have room for, and are never given any direction from corporate on where to store it. This contributes to the overall messiness and disorganization of the store. When we get visitors from corporate, they ask why we have so much freight (like we can control that) and order us to clean it up without giving us any clear direction on how to accomplish this. Managers are so busy that they have no time to train employees, which results in untrained and unhappy employees, which results in dissatisfied customers. Corporate continues to require more with less, and can't seem to comprehend why stores are messy and understaffed.