Do not believe the hype - Framer Hobby Lobby Employee Review

This is not a company to build a career with. There is no upward mobility. The management is terrible. Neoptism is rampant in this company. There is no future for young, educated professionals working with Hobby Lobby. Unless you are willing to brown nose and backstab your way up, count on never getting promoted. The company's motto seems to be "Do more with less". There are never enough employees to finish the work that must be done. Management treats everyone as though they were naughty kindergarteners, with vague disapproval and disappointment. There is no opportunity for discussion or compromise. No fear of firing, though. The company will do whatever it can to prevent having to pay out unemployment. "Dissenters" and "troublemakers" are simply demoted, their hours made as uncomfortable as possible, and given impossible tasks to complete until they get fed up and leave. There is never enough time to finish the work allotted. Company execs seem much more concerned with the image and appearance of the store (and whether customers might, god forbid, witness employees actually working on things) than in efficiency and productivity. Getting the proper tools and equipment to do the work properly is next to impossible. Mentioning that you cannot get the proper tools or enough time or enough people to do the job is labeled "complaining". Employees are treated as interchangeable cogs in the machine with no regard to their personal backgrounds, skills, or education. Employees are not allowed to make eye contact, speak with, or acknowledge company executives when they visit, or to page each other by name over the intercom when execs are in the store. Rules change constantly, often from day to day, over the most incredibly minuscule nit-picky details, though this is rarely communicated clearly by management. Upper management strives to create a culture of fear, where employees are frequently told they must work extra hard because an exec will be visiting. Nine times out of ten, the visit never occurs. "Motivation" consists of telling employees they are not working hard enough or fast enough, that they make too many mistakes or are not "team players". There is no incentive to try harder or do better. The best you can produce is never good enough. There is a constant feeling that management is waiting to catch you doing something wrong so they can justify the way they treat the people under them. "Training" consists of watching company-produced videos on how to catch people stealing at the till, whether you work the registers or not. There is no safety equipment to unload the trucks. Employees are not provided with proper footwear or gloves. The overall environment is designed to crush out any vestige of creativity or individuality for the sake of conformity. Do not be fooled by the "Christian company" line. It's a flat out lie. No true Christian would treat the people beneath them the way Hobby Lobby treats its employees. With the exception of a job where I very nearly filed a sexual harassment suit against my employer upon leaving, this is hands down one of the worst set of managers I have ever had to work with.