Replenishment night team start times are between 1 am and 5 am. If you're a good worker, they will pressure you to do day shifts as floor associates/cashiers (again, very little training provided). It leads to burn out because replenishment employees need sleep just like other humans lol. We have employees who quit after being pressured to have an unrealistic sleep habits for minimum wage.
Schedules are made only a week in advance and constantly change the day before or day of. The managers constantly understaff for the week and demand we stay late past our completed tasks. Replenishment team is constantly pressured to say yes to extremely last minute changes to schedule (like coming in at midnight instead of 3 am or staying past your shift even after your daily tasks are done).
No training! My first day consisted of me working a truck shift without an introduction to warehouse rules, safety rules or even a basic explanation of what was what. Because of this - you will almost always be in trouble for doing something "incorrectly" with one of these people: Night Manager, Assistant Store Manager and Store Manager. They badmouth each other daily about how the others are wrong so it leaves the employees soaking in the sad truth that bad management can ruin a good job.
So, It's tough to feel valued at Michaels because disorganized management leads to stressed out employees who are trying their best to follow The Rule Of The Day.
I haven't requested time off yet but many employees say that even when requesting a day off 3 weeks in advance, the Store Manager has used these excuses routinely without approving the days off, "Oh I didn't see it" or "I forgot to approve it so just find a cover if you can, otherwise you will have to work the shift"
The other major con - since there is broken communication between the Night Manager and ASM/SM, I've noticed this happens often: The team spends the majority of the shift setting and stocking an aisle, and the ASM decides, an hour before the store opens, that actually it would be better to try something completely different. It means we wasted 5 hours and are now scrambling to complete a new goal in an absurdly unrealistic time frame with the new added pressure of staying late. Just... no.
