Altar'd State reviews

During the interview I was sold a dream. Beautiful new store, a chance to build my own team, and to advance quickly through the growing company. Everyone in the company I spoke too had such great things to say and everyone is new so it would be a great chance to grow and develop each other. The company is founded on Christian values and the work life balance is great. Lies. All lies. Everyone in the company is new because they treat their employees like garbage. Basically everyone is turn and burn. The store managers who moved up quickly stepped out or were demoted. There are always so many open positions because of how we are treated and not to mention paid. The payroll is slim to none. With a tiny payroll come barely any coverage and this opens the door to a lot of theft and an overwhelming workload on salaried employees. The expectations that are set by this company are for lack of a better word insane. Your work load never stops you will work like crazy for no reason. I never worked at Wal-Mart but I would imagine this is what it would be like. Typical week: Three pallets of shipment (allowed 10 payroll hours to complete) the shipment is not allowed to stay in the back and even if your floor is full you must find a spot. So this leads to you resetting your floor which is a never ending non stop job. Once you finally set your floor (which takes all your time and energy) here come the markdowns so guess what happens all over again. So when you speak out to your dm, there is no support no guidance just orders being barked at you. There is also some serious micromanaging. This was seriously the most backwards company I ever worked at. The company does not care about the store level they just care about growing way to quickly and making money. Do not fall for the values because they simply do not uphold them.

Unfortunately the only thing I learned from this company was how to show extreme amounts of grace. They require you to work 45 hours but only pay you for 40 and pressure you to work well over 50. It's impossible to make our customer a priority at all because of the mass load of work that is dumped on salary managers daily.