American Greetings reviews

-Laid off after 18 years -Ridiculous expectations of how long -Job tasks take (not allocated adequate time to complete) And adding more tasks, Then if you go over time allowed You are reprimanded -Heavier boxes that fall apart and are awkward So more bending and picking up -Standing long hours on hard floors - Poor management - different stores all have different rules - rude receivers and back room staff - company is stupid with decisions ( take away good cards, send too many, And don’t change designs enough) - waste of paper, cellophane, and plastic Not getting recycled - customers complain all the time about prices on cards and they keep going up - they say I’ll go to dollar tree/and that was fine- as we did those stores with our cards but AG lost that account with new investment company that took over a once family owned company To GREED -

1. Workload - Too much for one person. Expect one merchandiser to manage whole store, and on top of that, assign other near stores, too. 2. Hours - They assign weekly jobs and hours for that. But it is impossible to complete the work within given hours. If you overwork and submit more hours, you'll get warning email. They don't pay for the overwork. And still demand to complete the work within given hours. You can request help from other store, but if you work with some one else, for example, two people worked for one hour, then both people should split the time and submit only 30 minutes. They are very nervous in over time, because they don't want to pay you more. But they maximize your duty, sending five to six boxes every week and give you only half amount of time than you really need. 3. Inefficiency - They send you boxes too often, so while you are working on some boxes, and place each single card packet to the assigned pocket, you will get new boxes for revision. Revision means discard current cards and replace with new card at new location, which makes your previous job useless. When revision, they don't discard just couple of cards, they throw away almost all cards displayed at the whole 4 inch cabinet. People always pick up a card and glance it and then misplace it other pocket. That happens every minute. Then you need to collect all misplaced cards, and then scan each of them and then put it its original place. If you find damaged cards or 'no location' scanned signs, you should scan all of them with 'negative adjusted' tab, which means scan for removal. Only after then, you can discard them, which requires another bunch of time. 4. Waste of overproduction - They are AMERICAN GREEDY. Too much overproduction. They send you too many boxes then they really can sell. You'll have hard time to put them up on the pocket, which is already packed tightly. Especially for seasonal cards, such as mother's day, father's day, and graduation, they send and send boxes until the last week of that days arrive. And then just the next morning of those holidays, they throw away whole cards, which will be several hundreds or more. They never recycle. Just throw away all. 5. In short - Don't recommend this job and this company to anyone.