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Terrible management - Bookseller Half Price Books Employee Review

1.0
Apr 11, 2015
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Pros

The discount is pretty good, but the place still sucks the job itself is really really easy but the managers make it unbearable with their poor decisions, micromanaging but barely doing any work themselves, plus constantly running the store understaffed wears everyone down. Worst Managemet team I've seen it worked for in my entire life

Cons

Dismal wages Almost no bonus anymore Poor leadership Asked to take on managerial responsibilities without any promotion or pay increase Never do you reviews Give raises late or never at all Irregular schedule Physically stressful because they run understaffed most of the time Unhappy customers all the time Worst micro managing from certain managers and corporate More concerned about petty rules like wearing a name badge than you helping a customer who has just asked you specifically to help them

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Cons

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