Scheels reviews

It's retail, and that means evenings, weekends, and holidays. Turnover is also high, but lower than the average retailer for FT'ers. I think the company hangs onto sub-par people too long and that affects the whole crew. Store management teams are large, so as in any work environment you have people of varying skill and ability there. 401(k) does exist, but is not matching, so what's the point? Any advancement requires you to really buy into the Scheels systems, and any corporate advancement requires you to live in Fargo, ND, and travel 80+ nights a year, and really be 'on the team.' Your co-workers end up being your only friends. Company board of directors are mostly 'old school' store managers who do a good job of adapting to the changing retail environment and guiding the company in a successful direction, and can produce numbers in their own stores, but are not effective managers. CEO and President are son and father, and are not very nice people. Retired store managers still receive significant bonuses from stores they led or managers they trained, which seems like a huge drain on profits. No vision plan, and health/dental are on the high side of price, regardless of what they say.

The management is a bunch of arrogant people. They talk down to you and treat you as if you are worse than them because you aren't a manager. They refuse to talk about pay raises and say that your discount is your raise. They have unrealistic expectations for employees and employees are constantly told what they are doing wrong and not to do something. The hours are awful too. If they make a mistake making the hours that you work, such as scheduling you when you requested time off, its too bad and you have to figure it out.