Michaels reviews

Where do I start! While I was hired as Store Manager in Training I was provided very little training on Michaels practices and I was supposedly lucky to have been assigned to a MCX (Michaels Center of Excellence) to learn from there version of a top notch GM. This was a newly promoted GM (previous ASM) and all this GM did was sit down and assign all labor intensive tasks to myself and another fellow SMIT. GM didn't even wear a name tag! This was what was shown to myself and this GM was the face of Michaels. I was immediately turned off by there practices. Being someone that has over 15 years in retail management including support roles at regional levels I am used to a certain level of professionalism from every level of an organization. My DM questioned my loyalty several times and went as far as to tell me he didn't want to bring me on board! Way to build a new relationship (shows me how committed he was to me). Once I heard this I started actively looking for another job all the while myself and me fellow SMIT where assigned to a remodel per the DM. This had to be the worst work I have ever done this includes being a regular employee when I first started in retail. GM and ASM claimed DM was concerned the store was falling behind so they attempted to squeeze myself and my fellow SMIT till we both walked out and quit at the same exact time. Run from this place if you have options! If not use them like they'll use you

Upper management only cares about results and numbers and you can tell even tho they pretend to care. Workload is statistically higher than payroll allocated to accomplish. You will almost never be praised for your good work but always be critized for poor performance. They care about what you can DO for them and once you stop or don't play politics they'll put you somewhere you don't want to be or attempt to drive you out.