Why can't management see whats going on in their on stores? - Merch Manager At Home Employee Review

1.0
Aug 25, 2010
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Pros

I guess the pro of working at Garden Ridge would have to be it's a secure job. I am not sure what you would have to do as far as bad job preformance to get fired.

Cons

management and corp. doesn't care one bit about the employees. They have know idea which employees do the work and whichones don't. They let certain employees (friends ) run amuck. Told merch managers they would make 24,000.00 a year. that was a 50 hour week with a hour a day paid lunch. so, average was a little over 11.00 a hour. Then they decided to make us hourly. cutting our pay to a bit over 9.00 hr. and piled more work on us. so we work over 46 hours and are checks pathetic. Don't be sick or have a emergency with out personal time to cover it. There is no unpaid time off. You just lose your job.

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Pros

Great Customers and coworkers. The products we affordable and great quality and I loved doing the visual Merchandising changes for the wall decor and home organizations. We really had a great team we provided great customer service and the local real estate loved coming in for assistance

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The miscommunication between the upper management and the store level management wavered. We went over 8 months without a Store Director. High labor demands and lack of support led to a high turnover rate and a toxic work environment. Pay isn't commensurate with responsibilities.

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